iamcurious

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by iamcurious 1y ago
Newton was a smart guy and he devoted a lot of time to his occult research. I bet that a lot of that occult research inspired the physics. The fact that his occult research remains, occult from the public, well that is natural aint it?
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by iamcurious 2y ago
I have never felt closer yet farther away from y'all. Thank you, I need to cry, and revaluate my social habits.
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by iamcurious 2y ago
If you depend on that brand and following for your livelihood and they arbitrarily ban you, what rights do you have?
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by iamcurious 2y ago
I really liked the list, probably cause my resume kinda fits and as a true generalist, my resume rarely fits anything. It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is
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by iamcurious 3y ago
> Eugene Wigner once wrote an article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” I don’t know what he wrote in the article, but it is certainly a fact that, up to now, especially in the domain of fund
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by iamcurious 3y ago
They are taking steps in that direction with Windows subsystem for Linux
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by iamcurious 3y ago
On the surface: The world would be premises and stories would be proofs. Linear Logic for Non-Linear Storytelling by Anne-Gwenn Bosser and Marc Cavazza and Ronan Champagnat has an example. Then generating proofs means generating valid stori
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What Is Backward Error?(nhigham.com)
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by iamcurious 3y ago
I liked the bit about the hobbit, even if it was a bit out of the blue. those interested in the link between math and literature might be interested in the link between narratives and linear logic.
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by iamcurious 3y ago
I appreciate measuring productive when profit is the objective. Still, there exists code that does resonate and evoke emotional response. Quines, code golf, adding a paradigms to a lisp in a few lines of code, categorical haskell or the Doo
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by iamcurious 3y ago
Well, the comic did say it would take 5 years.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Should YouTubers hop on board of this? Or is the safest bet to assume Google will cancel it?
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by iamcurious 4y ago
I'm glad I read this comment. I had conversations with people who used "skin in the game" and "intellectual yet idiot" constantly, but I always had other books on my to-read list. The added context sheds some light.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
>Even amongst doctors I know, most woes are pinned down to the NHS's modern addiction to statistics to judge everything. Yes, statistics are never a substitute for knowledge, no matter how much SVs insists that it is.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Yup, it seems a side effect of data driven approach is that Windows no longer cares about its own reputation.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
You still have the problem of two famous persons named the same. It would be better to have separate checks. Have a check that means "this person showed us their passport" and another that says "this account is owned by the f
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Interesting, that definition of "prequel" creates a strange conceptual symmetry with the word "sequel". Both "prequel of A" and "sequel of A" imply "published later than A but set in the same uni
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Luckily those that respond strong to external incentives go straight to industry.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Seeing how smoking cigarettes went from being popular to being rare in a lots of places I would say: 1 - make it uncool (no more james bond smoking in cinemas, packaging that reminds of diseases) 2 - make it expensive (tax the hell out of i
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by iamcurious 4y ago
>Ask yourself: How does Elon Musk work 80/90/100 hours per week in his early 50s My guess is that he is exaggerating, he has a track record of doing that. Or that what he means by "work" is actually way more layback t
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Thank you, this is great information
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Sounds heavenly, are they hiring?
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by iamcurious 4y ago
What is the name?
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Seems like an obvious optimization though. Is that enough to grant a patent?
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by iamcurious 4y ago
To make it more tractable, 1% daily growth, means doubling in about 70 days.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
I rarely find any of those things. I mean, it does crash, but once every six months, which I don't see as constant. Hehe, we are on the same boat about not using other browsers. I have been use firefox for the last 18 years, I will con
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Which ones? On principle, I never use chrome on android. Am I missing some killer feature?
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by iamcurious 4y ago
He is part of the public, he falls to ads just as we do too.
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by iamcurious 4y ago
If only parents could exert some sort of influence or authority over others harming their children. We could call it "sueing".
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by iamcurious 4y ago
Exactly, why don't they take responsibility for making an addictive product? Why do they need to be sued to recognise their negative impact on other people?

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