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Maybe it helps to consider all 4 possibilities for the sign of the gravitational mass of antimatter, and the sign of the inertial mass of antimatter? (-,-): antimatter would fall d…

We do know that the real world is richer than the simulated world, since it holds a computer that runs the simulated world. Therefore if you exist, then it's more likely that you'r…

I'll answer the energetic question. Splitting water produces oxygen and hydrogen, so with our oxygen we have the choice between burning hydrogen or burning Titan's hydrocarbons. Bu…

When you said > With consciousness, the emergentists are not capable of pointing at the first principle, or building block. ...it sounded like there were no plausible candidates. I…

Consciousness is a computation, and neurons are certainly capable of elementary computation. So the building block has been pointed at (neurons), and its property given (computatio…

Sorry, I reformulated the findings for easy consumption. Why is it confusing and not an improvement? Ask 10 people what speed is 89% slower than 100 mph. See how many give the arti…

The paper Mind the Gap: Analyzing the Performance of WebAssembly vs. Native Code reports that, on average, WebAssembly is running at 67% of native speed in Firefox and 53% of nativ…

I'm not sure what you computed. The interesting question is to pick a recessive trait from one of the parents and ask for the chance of it being passed on. The probability that it'…

Indeed. Subway cars move forward without any horse pulling them, how is this miracle possible? What turned out to work was the steam engine, and now electromagnetism, explained by …

The qualifier "dwarf" doesn't mean that the celestial body is too small to be considered a planet, it means that it hasn't cleared the neighborhood around its orbit. (Blame the IAU…

Faster WebAssembly isn't listed on the roadmap, so you are disappointed, right? Wasm is currently considered "around half as fast as native"[0]. The Wasm design, Emscripten compile…

Did you interpret the table backwards? Swiss French is considered simpler: 1. (most complex) 19. French 33. Swiss French 69. (simplest)

Your easy proof is completely wrong. There's discrimination against white men if the hiring bar is higher for them. To check this using workforce statistics you'd need to compare t…

Those of you who tried WebAssembly, what kind of performance are you getting compared to native? In my application, execution time is about 200% of native, which is quite bad compa…

I'm sorry I still don't see it. Your linked article says at the very top "There is as yet no unambiguous detection of an IMBH". Concerning gravitational waves, reference [7] says "…

I mean, where did you get this 1000x figure as what "we're finding a lot of"?

Where did you get this 1000x stellar mass figure from? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_obs... so far the observed merger components were betwe…

YouTube is partly to blame for this. Since YouTube reported the average stars, if you saw a 4-star video and thought that it should be 3-star, then the optimal strategy was to vote…

I don't see why you call it "operator tweaking" even if the computations were determined in advance. You're asking for the poker bot to be scripted to log into the Pittsburgh Super…

Subjective experience is an emergent property of fundamental physics. It is not fundamental in itself and it doesn't seem to require any new fundamental physics. If you think that …

All I meant by "special case" was that "mod 30" isn't the whole story -- more like the most significant correction on top of what the OP said, with other smaller corrections possib…

Are you contesting it, or just curious? You already know that my observation explains the "3 followed by 9" bias. You already know that the mathematicians call the conjecture "a mu…

Why the downmods? Everyone can easily verify that there are similar biases if you replace "isPrime(n)" with "random() < 0.1" in the various code snippets floating in the thread. Th…

No I don't. The article continues: > The primes' preferences about the final digits of the primes that follow them can be explained, Soundararajan and Lemke Oliver found, using a m…

Ok so the random model "1,3,7,9 mod 10" doesn't fully work, but let's look at what happens mod 30. Large primes have the following possible remainders mod 30: 1, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19,…