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He was 7 years old, so it was impossible for him to give consent for anything. His parents gave consent on his behalf.

I didn't see that in the document. What page is it on?

There are probably hundreds of people on this site who had the same enthusiasm for math and time dedication as Terence Tao, but lacked his extreme outlier fluid intelligence, proce…

You are saying something interesting but too esoteric. Can you explain for beginners?

Title: "California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves" Actual fact: California’s New Bill Requires that 3D Printers Get DOJ Approval as Firearm-…

Hmm, how many bits has the space of all positive integers? That's not what the (clumsily written) article is about. It's not about sampling the integers to choose an integer, it's …

Here's an intuitive description of the entropy, [log(log(n)) -sum(log(p_i) log(log(p_i)))]: The entropy of a random integer N is the volume of the gap between how much space N take…

This is a very unenlightening exposition that could discourage people from studying this beautiful problem. A much better way to analyze it geometrically. The 6D problem has 2D tri…

HN as a population skews heavily away from "real-world peer-scheduled activities"

Submitted blog post is from Lichess user (rated ~2150 on Lichess), not Lichess organization itself.

Typos could be automatically discovered and indexed one word at a time by watching users search the wrong word (wrong input method) and then search again with the correct input met…

It's essentially impossible to deploy a non trivial NodeJS (including NextJS, Vercel, React, etc) project without critical vulnerabilities that npm will warn explicitly warn you ab…

He appears to be a regretful atheist who yearns for a natural replacement for the power of the supernatural God some religious people believe in. See also the Singularity Rationali…

Avi Loeb's career is focused on the idea that it's not 100% possible for contactable alien intelligence to exist, and he dedicates his career to finding it, and bends all news to t…

The person you were replying to is not a native speaker either, and also is not knowledgeable about the core ideas of logical systems (as other commenters have already explained).

> Going fully circle I wonder what would happen if you got LLM's to define the ontology.... http://neal.fun/infinite-craft

> > Thank you to the Phillips Exeter Academy Science Department for supporting this project. This is what can happen when you live on a campus and don’t waste your life commuting.

It's not wrong. It's just casually presented and not perfectly precise. the Chapter is about applting geometry in the real world, not idealized mathematical models. It is standard …

It's not a complaint, it's a safety warning.

No, because the article is about sacrificing quality by using less energy. But the quality is already bad for non-toy purposes, so there is plenty of demand for higher-energy highe…

Google respected rate limits. Reddit wanted the crawl.

I "could" make "up to" $1M/year.

Revenue isn't a meaningful measure. Margin is.

Spanner and Postgres both support both SQL and NoSQL

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