Sniffnoy

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by Sniffnoy 6d ago
The article mentions at the end the problem of coloring graphs on other surfaces. It's worth noting, it's known, for every surface, what the maximum chromatic number is of a graph on that surface: https://en.wikipedia.
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From Hookswitch to Grave(computer.rip)
41 points by Sniffnoy 13d ago|4 comments
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by Sniffnoy 15d ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
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by Sniffnoy 18d ago
Responding to something from the linked Patreon post: > Blackboard (as well as Epic and SharePoint) are classic examples of software where the user and the purchaser are different and the purchaser basically doesn’t care about the user,
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by Sniffnoy 18d ago
That's not what the term "backfire effect" refers to. The term "backfire effect" refers specifically to one specific consequence of this; namely, it refers to the idea that presenting evidence against something c
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by Sniffnoy 24d ago
I expect the name is more of a joke, not a tease of some result they've yet to reveal.
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by Sniffnoy 29d ago
It's kind of buried in the article, but it's worth noting that this vest is meant only to guard against solar storms, not cosmic rays; those remain a significant problem. > The vest, though, does nearly nothing against galactic
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
Do you know until when?
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
I think what's going on here is that you've misunderstood the theorem's hypothesis. The hypothesis isn't that no three of the points are collinear; rather, it's the weaker statement that there isn't any one
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by Sniffnoy 1mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
You can, in fact, predict the effect of an atomic bomb without detonating it. Sure, you can't have the same certainty as if you'd detonated it -- empiricism is important; they tested the Fat Man design for a reason. But you may
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
> History may be written by the victors, but the losers still get to dictate theory. I feel like Tanner Greer's old post "History is written by the losers" is relevant here: https://scholars-stage.org/histo
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
I was confused at first when you asked if the 8-flow is relevant, when like, the 8-flow is a key input that the cycle double cover is built out of. Then I realized, oh, I guess technically they're not using the 8-flow, they're us
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
I think "importance" here is just being rated as 1 to 4 stars. So it's not "second-most important" but rather "one of the top 5 most important". That doesn't change much, but FWIW.
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
People don't talk about the cycle double cover conjecture here because this isn't a math website. Its lack of mention here is therefore poor evidence.
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by Sniffnoy 2mo ago
Based on the title, I was expecting this to be about the idea of power transmission via microwave (as seen in e.g. SimCity), but actually it's about microwave communications links used by electrical companies.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
This is guest post by Cynthia Dwork; that's Dwork's writing, not Aaronson's.
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I feel like you ought to be go lower than 17, down to 9, by not counting the 3 generations of fermions as distinct (so you've just got up-type quark, down-type quark, electron-type particle, and neutrino). After all, if they can mix w
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
(2020)
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I like this explanation of cricket for Americans: https://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/baseball.html
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
The blog post mentions a draft of a manuscript though. I was expecting something like a preprint. He's not willing to post that draft yet?
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by Sniffnoy 3mo ago
I put in my name, and four boxes popped up -- one for "American mathematician", one for "spelling bee contestant", one for "American poker player", and one for "fitness industry entrepreneur". In fact
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
Location: New York City Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: If it's on the east coast, yeah maybe Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, C, Haskell, Solidity, C#, MUMPS Resume: https://haltman.neocities.org/resu
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
I don't understand what you're trying to imply here. Yes, he co-authored a report. What is supposed to be dangerous or suspicious about this? What does your statement about "reputational consequences" have to do with
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
Yes, I was surprised he never discussed the idea that such exponentials are typically made of stacked sigmoids. That said... if the exponential is made of stacked sigmoids, it's still an exponential on the whole! The fact that it&#x27
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
> He's taken a side. Yes, that's called "having an opinion". Typically people writing argumentative pieces are doing so because they have a belief about the matter. I'm not sure what exactly you expect here. &g
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
> FYI: The author has predicted that "AGI" will be here in 1-2 years and has staked his public reputation on it. He is personally invested in trendlines being lindy rather than sigmoid. I mean, that's called "having a
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
Oy, the title mangler mangled the title. Any chance the title could be fixed here? It's supposed to be "Extremely Low Frequencies".
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Low Frequencies(computer.rip)
8 points by Sniffnoy 4mo ago|1 comments
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by Sniffnoy 4mo ago
Facebook does, I'm not sure why it didn't in your case. It adds an "fbclid" parameter that is quite long. I just tried it to confirm. Edit: Perhaps it only mangles links for logged-in users? That raises the possibilit

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