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Comment #37380171
> ‘Sometimes you need to do that to get the results for things you think are essential.’
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Comment #37361273
I'd like to point out the existence of Chris Staecker's Youtube Channel, mainly focused on old analoguous devices used to compute and measure things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
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Comment #37361170
Then make sure nobody from Eglin Air Force Base posts on here. https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackout2015/comments/4ylml3/reddit...
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Comment #37348410
Academia selects for conformism first closely followed by cognitive abilities ([paste link to paper here]). But who cares ? I certainly don't I'm more interested in the groundbreak…
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Comment #37336289
I think it matters a great deal too, and not just for typing code but for reading it too, and this goes beyond simply typing fast but also writing short concise code, especially fo…
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Comment #37319785
https://www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/implementing-inte...
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Comment #37319668
> "additional data available to the Department of Defense" which I assume is classified. Spot on > The 2014 meteor was originally identified as an interstellar object by Siraj in 2…
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Comment #37281351
"The pyramids give us the dimensions of our planet on a scale defined by the planet itself." - Hancock It's a bit as if we had never seen a poem and stumble upon some text that har…
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Comment #37280415
write a program to prove your point. I'm not saying this with sarcasm. Maybe you could take over my attempts at coming up with a custom set of equations for a pyramid, or any other…
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Comment #37278180
You can get to the absolute dimensions of the pyramid from the crackpot equations though: https://pasteboard.co/cIMzn8KktEZy.png https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/m…
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Comment #37276459
http://homework.uoregon.edu/pub/emj/121/lectures/tycho121.ht... > Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) proposed an experiment that would determine whether or not the earth goes around the sun. …
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Comment #37274281
> harmful and pathological Don't forget "toxic" too !
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Comment #37260952
https://thequantuminsider.com/2023/08/22/tqi-exclusive-bob-c...
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Comment #37260888
For the first time with GPT4, OpenAI as been able to predict model progress with accuracy: > A large focus of the GPT-4 project has been building a deep learning stack that scales …
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Comment #37243497
noooooooo
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Comment #37207643
You can also recursively define fib as a lazy sequence that is the pairwise sum of fib and fib shifted by one. (Clojure, from Rosetta Code). (def fib (lazy-cat [0 1] (map + fib (re…
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Comment #37189061
> Birds are susceptible to a respiratory condition called "teflon toxicity" or "PTFE poisoning/toxicosis." Deaths can result from this condition, which is due to the noxious fumes …
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Comment #37187016
Could it be explained by lack of isolation ? Like a feather not isolated from air's resistance ?
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Comment #37162196
We're cornered by McKinsey
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Comment #37162109
You will be the judge. I was tasked of enabling us to backtrack on our decision of building a microservice rather than a library. The service was using postgres, and was connected …
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Comment #37161503
A type system is for internal consistency though. Facts are about external consistency with real world data. And even then facts are always a social augmentation in that they are a…
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Comment #37161367
Indeed but people who are confidently wrong in good faith so to speak don't make up science paper titles.
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Comment #37161182
I don't get your argument about the frame problem. Maybe it's like squeezing a big pillow inside a small bag. A bulge forms that won't fit. It's the frame problem. Turn the pillow …
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Comment #37160727
I've been categorized as such for having the audacity of writing a tree traversal function.