davidivadavid

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by davidivadavid 1mo ago
Mediocre literally means middling, which may or may not be good enough depending on requirements.
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by davidivadavid 1mo ago
My intuitive understanding is that deriving new theorem from existing concepts is "new math" insofar as it conclusively proves whether existing conjectures are in fact true or not by deriving proofs within an existing formal &quot
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by davidivadavid 2mo ago
I gave up the belief he could abstain from that after he ruined Return.
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by davidivadavid 2mo ago
Oh and if you really love that dumb, sophomoric ending, you can also get Return to Monkey Island, which is yet another game Gilbert ruined with this tired trope. And that's why Curse of Monkey Island is and will always remain the best
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by davidivadavid 2mo ago
Having working in that area a little bit, simple heuristics to know if someone has dumb ideas about advertising are whether they: a) think it's some kind of magical MK-Ultra-level mind control technology, b) think the business that pay
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by davidivadavid 2mo ago
And you ask Claude to read it for you. No way I'm reading past a couple sentences of that level of slop.
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
I think what it boils down to is that in my experience physics education lacks a clear historical component about how the current state of the art is a gradual process of proposing new models and rejecting old ones and figuring out the gaps
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
Also, physics (the discipline) is also a construction by and for humans.
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
My point is precisely that I was often taught physics as if it was mathematics, where there is in fact a profound ontological difference between the two.
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
Lagrangian / Hamiltonian mechanics, the principle of least action, always seemed neat, in L&L and other places I encountered it, until I tried doing exactly what you're saying: gaining an intuitive understanding. At that point
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
More than twenty years ago, I quit a program that taught math/cs/physics (the notorious French "classes préparatoires") ~almost precisely over this: I felt like I was being taught physics like it was an axiomatic system
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
True, though those things don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
2 inches / sec * 60 sec = 120 inches = 10 ft ? It also doesn't seem like it scans your head from what I've seen.
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
That's definitely an important point to consider, in fact something I think everyone in these conversations should be cognizant of, and also why it makes me believe the actual conversation should move to whether the device improves fal
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by davidivadavid 3mo ago
That's basically the only thing I'm interested in reading about this. Based on my complete lack of radiology knowledge, I'd say the images look... a bit blurry or something? So, what would be an example of something this woul
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by davidivadavid 4mo ago
That book cover goes so hard.
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by davidivadavid 4mo ago
"There are more subsets of a set than elements."
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by davidivadavid 4mo ago
Right. Because something is reducible, modulo a bunch of stuff you're not looking at, to a simplistic model, doesn't make it "just" that. Use of the word "just" is often a good tell you're about to read so
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by davidivadavid 4mo ago
Fun book that covers part of that, Machine Decision is Not Final: China and the History and Future of Artificial Intelligence . [0] [0] https://www.urbanomic.com/book/machine-decision-is-not-final...
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by davidivadavid 4mo ago
A similar confusion exists in French, but we have an extra locution, "en huit", to clarify when necessary. It's far from widely followed, however. Too bad, I would love it if "next" could just mean "next."
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by davidivadavid 6mo ago
French and English are roughly on par for how terrible they are at this. Relevant concept here is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthographic_depth Source: native French speaker and professional translator.
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by davidivadavid 7mo ago
If you want something a bit more "serious" on this, check out The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet by Bogna Konior. [0] [0] https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=the-dark-fo...
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by davidivadavid 7mo ago
Looking at Youtube videos of Barbican apartment visits for 15 minutes will tell you this poster is projecting quite a bit.
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
The number of tech or tech-adjacent people that have completely torched their reputation in the last few weeks is staggering. I hope they get publicly shamed.
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
"Bible of design" might be a bit excessive. It's a good design 101 book. Definitely longer than it should be, and kind of fumbles the explanation of "affordances", which the author had to clarify later. It's re
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
It is sophistry because that's not the point. Of course there are things that matter more than awards. But pretending like there's some world where we're trading the integrity of awards to solve important problems is a laugha
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
Works now! Another free suggestion: when you drag a bit fast, since the animation is a bit slow, sometimes the boundary between before/after will barely move before your cursor makes it to the edge and reset to the middle, which is a b
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
It is sophistry. Common problem around here is that a lot of tech people are too busy thinking they're incredibly smart and always need to be playing 5D chess instead of being decent human beings. I hate to blame Paul Graham for that,
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
Concept seems fun, and I'm expecting we'll see a bunch of those in the next few weeks/months. UX of that specific page seems broken, however, as the container for the explanation of each "function" doesn't scro
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by davidivadavid 8mo ago
I'm not intimately familiar with the UI/UX principles behind Liquid Glass so I could be wrong, but the main difference I see here is that in the second screenshot, on the Reeder app on the left, the "floating" section is

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