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I'm fascinated by Chaitin's Constant and his use of the word "elegance". His ideas challenge my current belief system. From the article: >> [what is] the probability that a randoml…

>> His precise theorem is this: Define "LISP program-size complexity" to be the size of a LISP subroutine that examines a proof, determines whether it is correct, and returns eithe…

>> there’s no time to recall Why do you think that? A Boltzmann brain will immediately start to degrade but that does not mean there is zero time for thought. If I were a Boltzmann…

OT, but his style is so dense in that book. Why did he write it like that? I've never been able to finish it. I find it almost impenetrable. The Hobbit I read with joy and ease eve…

I feel your bro science makes a lot of sense. I'm someone who's been identified as being bipolar and put on Lithium, which I quickly dropped (because it made me feel suicidal) and …

No one is more influential than Google. - Google

>> they never admitted guilt >> they did settle >> that counts as an admition Oh how good you look in those rose tinted glasses of yours. Edit to self: never try to change HN. It's…

Sean Carroll's solo podcast where he explains how the plank lenght is relative and how we should arrive at quantum gravity through the means of quantum physics, not by quantizing r…

At my day job, the meme that won and now dominate is "the percieved performance of a SPA is greater than that of a non-SPA". My calls for making our backend more performant are ign…

The progress academics continuously make in NLP take us closer and closer to a local maxima that, when we reach it will be the mark of the longest and coldest AI winter ever experi…

Can we also have some sort of a scrumish gathering, ASAP, to declare the correct use of the word "definition", because sometimes it seems we use this word arbitrarily.

But is the parent really needed here? This discussion seems to have become "how dare you take a stance in this issue that we cannot fully understand"? How about, while hungry they …

Or, instead of porting Lucene, just take its main concepts such as analysis, tokenization, an in-memory trie or binary search tree, query parser, term, query and collector and impl…

I used to use Lucene back in the 1.x days when a fuzzy search was a complete table scan. It was quite a surprise to see how your single term fuzzy query was interpreted as one term…

I think it's wrong to celebrate a company that claims 80% of what it is to be you, even when other companies claim even more. I question the reason behind us devoting ourselves to …

I'm people too, just not a in the middle if the bell curve people. I'm curious, why do you go to a in the middle of the bell curve type of service to find fringe material? It's not…

>> idioms and homophobes Did you mean idiots?

Customer support, when we applied the latest upstream patch we notice E=MC^2+0.001. Please advice.

The myth that Sharepoint really, truly stinks and you should not use it even when your choices are dire, is as real and true as a dumpster fire.

You're not buying apples, though. You're buying "apples+X". That's a different from "apples". If your seller is upfront about that then I and people who want just an apple can go s…

"mamma mia mamma mia mamma mia figaro" I'll be damned. I know every word.

>> What a useless beast! Mostly but not entirely. There are cases where you need a tree but you don't care about order, e.g. when order depends on a state that is unknown at time o…

>> Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological Do you have a credibility source to back that up?

My whole life I thought it was spelled "midevil" due to this time period being especially evil. Every day you learn something new.

To state that one is not a part of the hive on one of the biggest hive sites in the world, is humorous. You're a bee, dawg.