dkural

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by dkural 6d ago
Copper is a well known antimicrobial and copper paint is used on ship hulls as an anti-fouling layer.
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by dkural 2mo ago
"every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal" is not at all true. AI companies hype any novel result as proof that AI is good for mathematics, but professional mathematicians write tens of thousands of papers every yea
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by dkural 2mo ago
Most fields, in the aggregate, produce a lot of pointless work, but if you judge mathematics by its best examples, as judged by the field itself, and also by the outside intellectual community, it is a coherent body of work (& brillian
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by dkural 3mo ago
There's actually a lot of math trying to describe the types of space you mention - non quantized, non 'granular', they're not made of points, or distances (metrics). One deep idea is to define space through which symmetr
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by dkural 3mo ago
Spot on! Love Diaspora. This is honestly such a gem of a comment. To some extent, if the AI ever gets "so far ahead" of humans, the most productive aspect will be the frontier visible to humans. We're focused on translat
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by dkural 3mo ago
Your example of the Italian school is well taken, although most of their results were later proven to be correct in the right setting. Severi's example is particularly egregious and I think a major reason this became a thing is Severi&
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by dkural 5mo ago
Some of the Istanbul earthquakes felt like that for me.
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by dkural 5mo ago
This part: Let's now adjust for inflation so you can see the budget squeeze. $19.2 billion in 2016 dollars is worth $26.4 billion and change, once adjusted for inflation, in March 2026. Feel free to do it yourself. Magic of compoundin
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by dkural 5mo ago
I agree with you - I was saying that members of the military & their families have treaty-defined standards of being in the country & thus required to behave a certain way, whereas a regular visitor or student visa comes with a diff
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by dkural 5mo ago
Different rules apply to members of the military stationed on a treaty-based foreign military base. However, as a thought experiment, let's go with your flawed analogy: Even then, this person was acting like a guest -- it is a long-ch
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by dkural 5mo ago
One of the attractions of a country for scientists and scholars, and visitors generally, is an atmosphere of freedom. The right to protest is a constitutionally protected right. He was well within his rights. The current administration is p
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by dkural 6mo ago
"The area is so remote that, since no regular marine or air traffic routes are within 400 kilometres (250 mi), sometimes the closest human beings are astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it passes overhead.[23][24] &q
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by dkural 7mo ago
You realize that is far too recent to show up in cancer death rates for under-40 year olds right? It takes 10-15 years for a change-in-behavior to show up in incidence and even longer for deaths. As a classic example, see the shift (i.e. t
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by dkural 7mo ago
How much of the rise do the listed later on (endurance athletes, obesity, sugary drinks, sedentary lifestyle) explain the relative youth rise? After all, some of this was an issue in 2006 as it is in 2026. Does it explain most of the relat
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by dkural 8mo ago
I don't doubt translators face massive job losses. I hate this "personal interest" style anecdotal news stories though, because it gives me no actual sense/data on how fast/slow this transition is, how widespread e
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by dkural 9mo ago
A lot of viruses insert themselves into your DNA, they may mess up the 3D structure, or during DNA repair result in misrepair / duplications, or simply insert somewhere and break something important. All of these are ways that can con
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by dkural 9mo ago
I've really seen both I suppose. A lot of devs don't take accountability / responsibility for their code, especially if they haven't done anything that actually got shipped and used, or in general haven't done much
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by dkural 9mo ago
Look up Jevons Paradox, when something becomes more efficient, consumption can goes up, often due to price elasticity. Think of like this: Imagine car prices go from $200,000 to $$20,000 - you wouldn't sell 10x the amount of cars, you&
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by dkural 10mo ago
Only about 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long.
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by dkural 10mo ago
I agree with all of what you're saying. I think the biggest lever is completely overhauling healthcare. The USA is very inefficient, and for subpar outcomes. In practice, the federal government already pays for the neediest of patients
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by dkural 10mo ago
Global datacenter spending across all categories (ML + everything else) is roughly 0.9 - 1.2 trillion dollars for the last three years combined, I was initially going to go for "quarter of the federal budget", but picked somethi
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by dkural 10mo ago
I agree with you 100%! Any additional surplus will be extracted as rents, when housing is restricted. I am for passing laws that make it much easier for people to obtain permits to build housing where there is demand. Too much of residenti
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by dkural 10mo ago
Anthropologists measure how civilized a tribe or society was by looking if they took care of the elderly, and what the child survival rates were. USA leads to developed world in child poverty, child homelessness, and highest rate of child d
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by dkural 10mo ago
[ This comment I'm making is USA centric. ]. I agree with the idea of making our society better and more equitable - reducing homelessness, hunger, poverty, especially for our children. However, I think redirecting this to AI datacen
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by dkural 10mo ago
Do you know of some tools with a parameter that asks it to be "weird" and increase diversity of outputs?
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by dkural 11mo ago
I am arguing against Searle's Chinese Room argument, I am not positing that LLMs are minds. I am specifically refuting that your brain and the Chinese room can be both subject to the same reductionist argument Searle uses - if we accep
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by dkural 11mo ago
The Chinese Room experiment applies equally well to our own brains - in which neuron does the "thinking" reside exactly? Searle's argument has been successfully argued against in many different ways. At the end of the day -
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by dkural 11mo ago
Growing hazelnuts is labor-intensive, back-breaking work in Turkey's northern (Black Sea) coast. It's also a key part of the rural economy of the region.
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by dkural 11mo ago
You're selling only 10%, you still get to see the other 90% go up in value, but that 10% you sold protects you from a wipe-out.
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by dkural 11mo ago
Taking some time off to travel when you're young is much more than a beach vacation. You meet people (sometimes you meet your future wife), that can become lifelong friends. You learn what you like and don't like; and that the wo

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