hyperthesis

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by hyperthesis 2y ago
A parallel processor is you!
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
There'a a story that when someone wrote up a famous mathematician's work (Euler?), he found many errors, some quite serious. But all the theorems were true anyway. Sounds like Tao's third stage, of informed intuition.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Consider whaling, by killer apes.
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Coding Adventure: Rendering Fluids [Sebastian Lague] [video](youtube.com)
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Mathematical Potential Has a Limit, but It's Likely Higher Than You Think(justinmath.com)
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
This beats TFA. Interesting relation between cumulativeness and distribution ("Yule process"). But how does this explain variation is how quickly children pick up maths - would you argue it's due to prior exposure e.g. parent
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Being more precise: I like Spivak not defining addition, multiplication or number. I just want the other steps explicit, like equality transitivity, enough to implement it (for a computer without "mathematical maturity".) I fee
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at those late chapters. The algebra is my main interest, that happens to be in a calculus text. 0a = 0 is proven later in ch 1, it's just the ordering. By "something I could code", I mean impleme
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
TBF Binet's formula is astonishing
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Ask HN: Axiomatic algebra, like ch 1 Spivak's Calculus?
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Knuthing it.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
This is like when Joel said git stores diffs.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Read of a study years ago that had postmenopausal wpmen do weight training - giving a dramatic 40% increase in bone density in 6 weeks IIRC the details. It's not that frail people need to be inactive, but that inactivity causes frailty
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Can't read without an account. Also "working memory" is short-term storage, like registers, the details of what you're thinking about right now. Not memory of past events, like your wedding day.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
"Giving the world a solution" vs. "showing the world how flawlessly smart they are" reminds me of being "visited" by a genius (muse, inspiration). You now have the gift to share, but it doesn't show you&#x
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
The climate change created land bridges. https://xkcd.com/552
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Though famous as the first lunar lander game, the impressive part was the specific numerical techniques used.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Also the high-quality amateur scientist webpages. e.g. measurements on radiation heat loss to the sky when camping. OTOH... we now have sci-hub.se with high-quality professional scientist papers.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Don't they (traditionally) also have a much higher meat intake than average, which supplies vitamin D?
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
I was curious: they all have two-syllable names except for Doc (leader).
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Engineering often precedes Science. It's just more data.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Complexity signals innovation: an invention that is merely a "workshop improvement" won't get patented. Complexity signals non-obviousness. Too easy -> easily copied -> and no long-term competitive advantgage. Complexit
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
"There's no bragging rights to your software, because it's too simple to use", a developer criticized my product. This reduced its viral spread, though managers liked it.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
The solution to a problem can be simple. But now we want other things. e.g. car=transport, then: speed, efficiency, style, non-polluting, safety, price, a/c, touchscreens, self-driving etc. The boundless complexity of human desire.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
oblig. perverse incentive https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
"[A]ll the low hanging fruit have been plucked" from these trees. In a complex, highly multi-dimensional space, yes, there's always a hill to incrementally climb. There are other hills. Incrementalism gets you necessary dat
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
Can anyone give a sense of how much fitter 3.5 mL/kg/min is, in practical terms? e.g. distance cycled/how out of breath? > For every 1-MET (3.5 mL/kg/min) higher level of CRF, we identified substantial reduction
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
There's still real-time ray-tracing. Cosmetic physics can eat up more, but as a gameplay mechanic, user interaction with realistic physics are too unpredictable (beyond a gimmick). Of course, we could then get actual computer sports.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
It will eventually become as chess is now: AI will check and evaluate human translation to and from English.
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by hyperthesis 2y ago
There's an automatic conformity within us, which is useful for communication, learning, trade, custom and law. e.g. It's helpful that we try to use the same words for the same things. But we can't think outside our framework

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