Paedor

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by Paedor 23d ago
It's becoming obvious that essentially every public-facing organization needs to change. Short story, poetry, essay submissions, comments, reviews, conference paper and journal submissions, polling, job apps, etc. At this point, I thin
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Show HN: A General Purpose KMC Crystal Growth Simulator in Rust-WASM(amdson.github.io)
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by Paedor 7mo ago
20000 moles of length 45 nucleotides is 306 metric tons? Spread out over millions of years, that does seem completely feasible.
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by Paedor 9mo ago
This only really applies in a world of complete information. Pesticide side effects were an enormous externality, which only the company was aware of. And they obviously worked hard to keep that information out of the public consciousness.
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by Paedor 10mo ago
The second objective is easier than the first. It may be easier to find any M1 and M2 that collide, than to find an M2 that collides with a specific M1.
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by Paedor 1y ago
Hey cool! I once hacked together a serverless game like this using firebase as an intermediary. https://github.com/amdson/rtcpvp / https://amdson.github.io/rtcpvp . I remember wishing this existed,
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by Paedor 4y ago
For 1) The asymptotic best for sorting is O(n log n), if you're only allowed to compare the size of elements. If you allow operations like array indexing with elements, which is possible for integers, it gets as good as O(n) with radix
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by Paedor 4y ago
Pretty nice satire once you realize it's a joke. My favorite quote is definitely "(where by curiosity," of course, we do not mean to imply that anthropomorphic categories or judgements should be applied to machines, but merel
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by Paedor 4y ago
Is there a physical difference between using the resistance device, and just breathing through a narrow straw? It seems a lot cheaper to just jury-rig something.
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by Paedor 4y ago
It can, admittedly, be a bit of a problem when you need 5 pistachios per second to survive and you're tripping over the shells trying to collect them fast enough.
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by Paedor 4y ago
I'm doing a comp-bio PhD right now, and the more I learn about the process of playing with genes, the further I think we are from expanding intelligence with them. In the current state of the field, we simply don't know how cells
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by Paedor 4y ago
Conceptually, every step of applying a Kalman filter in the simplest case is just updating a Gaussian prior representing position with a new datapoint sampled with (assumed) Gaussian error. The result is equivalent to convolving a Gaussian
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by Paedor 4y ago
The best tradeoffs for humans are also different from the best for plants. Even fully domesticated ones like wheat still have to put energy into completely regrowing themselves every year, fighting pathogens, reproduction machinery... I&#x2
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by Paedor 4y ago
Wow, it's uncanny how well this post mirrored my own thoughts, down to the phrase "consciousness is observer independent". I ended up rejecting the conclusion though, for the roughly same reason Maxwell's demon doesn&#x2
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by Paedor 4y ago
In fairness, we only run the AI in response to further input, so it's not even really powered on while waiting for the rest of a conversation. It would only be able to be lonely (if that were possible) while thinking about its response
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by Paedor 5y ago
Fun fact, when you consider the bits required to contain p, this is equivalent to bucket sort with a bucket size of 1.
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by Paedor 5y ago
Aren't you measuring glucose instead of insulin though? I might expect a spike in insulin after a spike in glucose, but the other way around doesn't seem as likely.
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by Paedor 5y ago
You don't necessarily need gravity to make something tilt, it can happen naturally during rotation. For instance, imagine spinning something that distorts asymmetrically, like a pencil with some silly putty attached to one side. Altern
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by Paedor 5y ago
My, completely unverified, thought, is that under those conditions of stress and focus, we turn off our digestive system to some extent and literally absorb less calories. It fits well with other factoids I have, like getting sudden stomach
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by Paedor 5y ago
A neuron in the brain is subject to orders of magnitude more noise, from chaotic factors like blood oxygenation, signaling molecules, aging... For our actual conscious experience though, there's some evidence that we're very noise
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by Paedor 5y ago
There's a great episode by planet money on the difference between Amazon and physical stores, the transcript is here: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/697060225 . They mention two key differences. The first is just