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by 613style 9mo ago
They're saying you can't find a ruler accurate enough to be sure the number you measure is sqrt(2) and not sqrt(2) for the first 1000 digits then something else. And eventually, as you build better and better rulers, it will turn
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by 613style 9mo ago
Non-physicst here. Hopefully someone can correct me or elaborate. My understanding is that what's being described is smaller scale decoherence inside the proton. Normally, the universe only asks protons the question: "are you a pr
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by 613style 9mo ago
He's not making it up and there's no reason for that tone. Strings are more straightforward to isolate compared to vocals/horns/etc because they produce a near-perfect harmonic series in parallel lines in a spectrogram.
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by 613style 1y ago
Agreed. My experience is GPT5 is significantly better at large-scale planning & architecture (at least for the kind of stuff I care about which is strongly typed functional systems), and then Sonnet is much better at executing the plan.
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by 613style 1y ago
Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?
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by 613style 1y ago
These models still have guardrails. Even locally they won't tell you how to make bombs or write pornographic short stories.
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by 613style 1y ago
Bell's Theorem (1964) describes an inequality that should hold if quantum mechanics' randomness can be explained by certain types of hidden variables. In the time since, we've repeatedly observed that inequality violated in l
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by 613style 1y ago
I believe that those who justify cruelty with rhetoric and spread hate will one day look into the mirror and be horrified at what they see.
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by 613style 1y ago
The sharpest cries of, "that's not thinking!" always seem to have an air of desperation about them. It's as if I'm special, and I think, and maybe thinking is what makes me special, so if LLMs think then I'm le
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by 613style 1y ago
> Part of this problem is also because courses have (in my experience) rarely rewarded actual knowledge or understanding It doesn't matter. There is literally no assignment you can give students that they won't cheat on. In an
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by 613style 2y ago
megaparsec (1 million parsecs)
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by 613style 2y ago
This is exactly what I got wrong when I started learning jazz piano as an adult. My wife is a lifelong musician and I got to the annoying point where I'd be playing and she'd walk by and go "that third chord sounds wrong.&quo
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by 613style 2y ago
Yet it remains true that not having magic evil talismans in my house makes it very unlikely that my family or I get cursed by accident.
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by 613style 2y ago
I didn't say and don't believe those things.
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by 613style 2y ago
> changing how you in particular perceive the world does not actually change the world that you are a part of It's impossible to change yourself without changing the world, because those two things are not separate. Further, much of
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by 613style 2y ago
What is this "statement" you speak of? (if (= 2 2) :OK :nope)
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by 613style 2y ago
> otherwise it wouldn't be possible to have so much done inside such a small volume, with such small amounts of energy That's interesting. Could you share your source?
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by 613style 2y ago
This feels a lot like a standard line of muddy thinking we see in youtube videos about consciousness (for example): "we don't understand brains, and we don't understand quantum mechanics, so they're probably related.&quo
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by 613style 2y ago
Like all writing, proofs have a target audience. If you don't know what a Galois group or a modular form is, it's not the author's job to teach you. Formal verification is getting more mainstream, but it's not there yet.
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by 613style 2y ago
> That's a pretty extreme interpretation. Anyone who downloads the IDE can create and publish a game. If kids are using the tool, making fun games, and sharing them with other people, than I think that's a good thing. It sounds
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by 613style 2y ago
I think this is correct. I play Go at a strong amateur level, and on the 19x19 board, I can often fully recall 200+ move games against "normal" opponents, because the moves tell a story that makes sense. But if I play someone much
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by 613style 3y ago
Here's Mike Battaglia playing a cover of "House of the Rising Sun" on a 31 EDO synth setup which I always loved: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlZv13YZzSM
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by 613style 3y ago
I'm not sure if you intend this as a helpful analogy for an undergrad or as an argument in favor of groups/homomorphisms being created to match reality, but I don't think it applies very well to either. (Though it is very int
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by 613style 3y ago
Definitions are created to be useful or interesting or both, and sometimes those specifiers overlap with physical reality. But that doesn't mean they're created to match reality or to tell you anything about it. I remember struggl
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by 613style 3y ago
Mathematicians don't "believe" in real numbers. They're part of an abstract logical framework, not a statement about the nature of reality. Mathematical objects arise from definitions, not measurements and observations.
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by 613style 3y ago
It's audible in the sense that it exists completely in an audio modality. But it's not audible in the sense that human ears can't discern it.
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by 613style 3y ago
It sounds like you might disagree that the room I'm in right now is filled with air or that my cup is full of tea. This article is trying to help laypeople have better intuition about things from the quantum point of view. It's fu
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by 613style 3y ago
>The electron cloud on it's own is an empty volume except where the electrons are at any given moment. The article specifically rejects this way of thinking and makes the point that the electrons are not in the cloud. The electrons
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by 613style 4y ago
It's also nice to get an error when you `recur` from a non-tail position rather than the function just quietly becoming truly recursive.
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by 613style 4y ago
The simple point is that the fundraising banner is intentionally misleading. People believe they are donating to the cause of keeping Wikipedia online and significantly less than half of their money is going to that.

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