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To me "learning" means understanding, not memorization on flashcards. Knowing stuff is part of it, but for me, the knowing comes from the understanding. > people dislike questions …

In A Fire Upon the Deep , the Skroderiders' cargo was a one-time pad.

Sounds like depletion of something , perhaps in the energy metabolism pathway, such as thyroxine.

> The PS5's SSD can supply data at 5.5 GB/s. The RAM runs at 448 GB/s, 81 times faster . https://www.anandtech.com/show/15848/storage-matters-xbox-ps... SSD is compressed (by "Krak…

"SSD as RAM" is a good way to reason about it. It means you have a lot more RAM, e.g. thus, PS5 has 825GB of RAM. RAM in the TB, soon. Would a couple of orders of magnitude make a …

Ratchet & Clank is the only demo with new gameplay based on the SSD. But it's overused, giving each game world less weight. The technological imperative, preoccupied with whether t…

For covid19, some countries didn't take it seriously until they saw what happened in Italy. This could happen for global climate change, if we have dozens of Earths.

> early birds looked very much like infantile or even embryonic raptors Sounds like neoteny, the retention of juvenile characteristics in adulthood. See: domesticated foxes, dogs (…

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Sweden's economy, which relies heavily on exports, is expected to shrink 7% in 2020 [neighbours] dropping mutual border controls but would keep Sweden out Sometimes it's better to …

geometry and visual proofs

From a VC's point of view, for early startups, only pre-chasm matters. If many don't cross, well, it's a numbers game.

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> A similar mystery is why DNA chose a base64 nucleic coding system for 21 amino acids and a few punctuations. This implies a kind of Cambrian explosion of coding systems for natur…

Clash of ecosystems? At interfaces: ARM is far more customizable than x86 - but on chip. And at targets: ecosystem revolves around low-power. e.g. (21 TOPS) Xavier NX is for device…

I meant in math. BTW, pedantry: -2 * -2 = 4 too

Can we say the difference between imperative and declarative is ordering or associativity?

Is f(g(x)) imperative? There's an ordering... and it works in terms of mappings, not outputs...

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Dual licensing: for an open source library that some businesses will want to distribute with their closed source product, use GPL 2 which doesn't allow that. Then businesses will p…