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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Good news for Bitcoin, as long as SHA-256 remains secure forever.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
The halting problem is only one example of what we would today call an RE-complete problem. Another example, which is equivalent in strength to the halting problem, is mathematical theorem proving, which is precisely the topic of this very
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
I would be much happier with something like an Apple Surface.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Tangentially related, but I have often thought that we need to update how we explain some of these classic, 20th century computer science ideas (Gödel's incompleteness theorems, the halting problem, the P vs NP problem, etc) to 21st ce
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
How can you be sure that your numerical algorithm gives the right answer? There are pairs of constructible numbers that are arbitrarily close to one another.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Some have asked how this is different from what an impulse response convolution plugin can do. The simple answer is that IR convolution is a linear, time-invariant system. It can adjust the amplitudes and phases of different frequencies, bu
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
You are correct and further in the thread someone suggests basically an O(n log² n) algorithm which does basically what you say. The statement that no faster algorithm exists is false. The Python devs, in response, redirect users to a diffe
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Did Game of Thrones bother you in this way?
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
These are often called "upper structure triads." Great way to think of harmony.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Good lord, would someone just mass produce one of these already? I have seen so many of these DIY models recently. I don't have a 3D printer and I don't want to spend hours soldering components. Can't someone just make a kit
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Yes, using a purely mechanical process every quintic can be solved in closed form this way. The usual method isn't all that different from the way the quartic is solved. You do a change of variables to eliminate the x⁴ term, and then a
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
I thought this was interesting so I literally pasted the entire thing into OpenAI's playground and asked DaVinci to write a rebuttal of your argument. Here is what it said: --- There are a few problems with LukeV's argument. First
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
"...we’ve let the forces of government and big business slowly nullify every mitigation we’ve tried" Who is "we?" The Pakistani government is unilaterally doing this. Surely you don't mean the Pakistani people?
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
This is one reason why I wish there were more interest in FPGAs.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
I guess going forward all of that super annoying Buzzfeed-speak is now going to be associated with "millennial." Well, whatever.
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
"Starting degree 5 it is proven that no analytical solution can exist and we must rely on trial and error methods." Not quite. No solution exists that uses a very restricted set of functions deemed "closed-form", in part
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
There is a much easier way to grasp what is happening here. Often in finance, securities are assumed to follow something like a geometric Brownian pattern. This is the idea behind the Black-Scholes model, for instance. This means that you v
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
"Mammalian brains are the only things in the universe that we currently recognize as capable of sentience" - mm hmm. Poor birds. Anyway, language is clearly not necessary for sentience, nor is it sufficient. I think it's just
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
"When you start reading about AI safety, it’s striking how there are two separate communities—the one mostly worried about machine learning perpetuating racial and gender biases, and the one mostly worried about superhuman AI turning t
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by ComplexSystems 4y ago
You know what, <form> was a mistake. Let's replace it with something like <div style="display: form; action: url(/process.php); -x-form-method: get"><span style=" display:textbox; -x-form-name: userna
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by ComplexSystems 5y ago
This is very interesting! I write VSTs as a hobby (usually in JUCE). Does this make it easier for load them into Python, or to create new ones, or...? How do you envision this being used?
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
What does the differential operator do and how does it relate to geometric algebra?
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
Purple telepathic space dolphins?? Can you elaborate?
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
As a mundane note, what is the reason that the audio quality in this video is so poor? It sounds like they're using walkie talkies from the 1970s. How can the US military, which spends more money than anyone else, have Navy pilots us
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
Wow. Looks like all five manufacturers pled guilty in the original US case. Given that the suit from last year is ongoing, this seems to be a real problem in this industry.
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
Well, according to this paper, ML can't do too well, unless you can use ML to solve NP-complete problems.
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by ComplexSystems 7y ago
Interesting. Could this perform even faster if you (for large files) took a random sample of bytes before doing the search, to get the best distribution? Or just update the distribution as the search progresses.
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by ComplexSystems 8y ago
How do the results change if you use multiplicative error rather than additive error? That is, rather than |x-p/q|, you use max(x/(p/q), (p/q)/x). This is sometimes useful when trying to approximate rationals.
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Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989)(longnow.org)
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