hnax

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by hnax 12d ago
National debt is a public millstone, and war makes it heavier; but just as a reminder, it was the US that has prevented Iran from having nuclear ballistic missiles on short notice (the acquisition of which would have instantly endangered th
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by hnax 3mo ago
Paul Krugman is an Economist, but the world is Multi-Dimensional. By using ideologically aligned proxies, Iran was well on its way to subjugate the Middle East and the World to its radical Islamism - the extend of its weapon capabilities un
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by hnax 6mo ago
100%
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by hnax 1y ago
Midnight Express sounds like machine programmed. The real thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pA2tXOjDto&list=PLxh03o1BpV...
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by hnax 1y ago
The best funk band: early Earth, Wind and Fire (before 1976 when they lost themselves into disco). Their funk was harmonically rich and rhythmically complex: A blend of jazz, soul, funk and R&B. Listen to their live double record Gratit
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by hnax 1y ago
"if you look back at Thomas Aquinas's writings on the soul with a modern bio understanding, [...] his conception of the "soul" is just his attempt at understanding metabolism without any solid physics or chemistry. [...]
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by hnax 1y ago
How does Scallop compare to PyReason ( https://neurosymbolic.asu.edu/pyreason/ )? Are they by and large the same, or tailored towards different use cases?
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by hnax 2y ago
Me too!
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by hnax 2y ago
FYI: The Old (or Skew) Jan Cathedral in Delft, Netherlands ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oude_Kerk_(Delft) ) is off by slightly less than 2 meters. As it was built adjacent to a canal, and pile-driving technology didn&
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by hnax 2y ago
I'm afraid you're overlooking the fact that, since AI scales linearly with constraints and exponentially with compute, the importance of knowledge (i.e. constraints) dominates over data (i.e. compute) for AI to be useful.
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by hnax 2y ago
"... science tells us that we are incidental, accidental." And nonetheless, every second, when not sleeping, the author is trying hard to make sense (... notice how close to "science") of his actual space and time. Throu
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by hnax 2y ago
This may be helpful ("The 3 Parts of Man—Spirit, Soul, and Body") to unravel some of the soul's mystery: https://blog.biblesforeurope.org/the-three-parts-of-man-spir...
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by hnax 2y ago
Where it's nowadays standard practice in science to conceive of time as the dimension along which events are tagged, I would suggest the opposite: process, as a sequence of events, induces time. But also in the modern conception, time
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by hnax 2y ago
Will they put her with Sam Bankman-Fried in the same prison cell?
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by hnax 2y ago
This 'crackpot physicist' is still alive and kicking and, indeed, as per the (analytical) induction requirement to make the case, his work deserves a careful reading to assume the geometric algebraic understanding of QM (for the &
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by hnax 2y ago
Always, as a good hedger Zuck, anticipating regime change in the White House by November, is minimizing the potential fallout of his treacherous behavior. Hold him accountable.
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by hnax 2y ago
I switched off at paragraph two: "Prokaryotes emerged 3.5 billion years ago, their gene networks acting like rudimentary brains. These networks controlled chemical reactions and cellular processes, laying the foundation for complexity.
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by hnax 2y ago
lua-classy ( https://github.com/siffiejoe/lua-classy ) works like gem and is fast!
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by hnax 2y ago
Very good (and concise) explanation. Thanks!
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by hnax 3y ago
Why is XMake not mentioned in the list of build systems whereas XRepo is mentioned in the list of package managers? (subjective: XMake is a great tool if you like Lua).
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by hnax 3y ago
Although you mention XRepo in the list of package managers, you don't mention XMake in the list of build systems.
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by hnax 3y ago
Man's greatest advantage over (Generative) AI is his creativity, originality, ingenuity, spirituality and commonsense. Our defeat is sealed once we become more impressed with statistically produces results (including the obvious halluc
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by hnax 3y ago
It's a bit rich having the whole case hung up to the fact that YAML interprets numbers as numbers and not as strings. What when your go version moves to 1.20.1 ...? You'll have to stringify it. Iow version members should always be
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by hnax 3y ago
Yes, I have the same :-(London)