melonrusk

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by melonrusk 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Uaeza
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by melonrusk 4y ago
It produces neutrons and exploding atoms, so it has already turned out shit.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
I have no idea what this article is talking about, but if there are two plausible representations for the whatever-it-is, why not allow it to be represented both ways ?
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by melonrusk 4y ago
> if Russia somehow gets a successor, he (or she) would stop the war, blame everything on Putin, beg for lifting of sanction and resuming the trade. If the war stops, deliveries will resume through the overland pipelines, so Nordstream i
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Gatekeeper ? https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper/wiki
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by melonrusk 4y ago
https://archive.ph/imxwA
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by melonrusk 4y ago
> In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters Hang on, just let me check the goalset.... Nope, nothing in there about what temperature the paperclips should be.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Maybe they're referring to increased migration from the Global South ?
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by melonrusk 4y ago
New UK houses would all be cavity-wall so is there a reason the inside of the exterior wall isn't being used as the source ?
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Late addition: It's actually worse than that. If we take a population with only median and maximum talents, the probabilities for each event are: halving: p=0.5, doubling because median-or-above talent: p=0.5*0.6. Meaning that in 80%
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Garbage model, garbage methodology. Their model has a set of agents with a 'talent' normally distributed between 0 and 1 (mean 0.6, SD 0.1). Each agent gets a random series of doubling and halving events. The doubling is applied
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by melonrusk 4y ago
> 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members 80:20 The Pareto Principle at work. All these figures show is that universities have the usual distribution of quality.
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The other “deadliest stretch of water”. The Chicago canal carp barrier(youtube.com)
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by melonrusk 4y ago
In a later video he goes back and checks with a better sonar, and gets the same results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDskXBfyNes
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Actually, it's about 35 fathoms.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
As others have pointed out, the computations are currently infeasable. The rest of the plan works though, it would just need to be done with actual atoms.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
"A human being should be mediocre at everything" Great advice there.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Are there any plans to remove threading from python ? A year or two ago I read up on the various efforts to make a fast, more parallel CPython, and one of the core underlying problems seemed to be the use of machine threads, resulting in a
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Adding "LARPing as evolution" to the list...
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Some kind of priesthood based around tinned food and geiger counters.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Corporations don't have rights.
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Next up, New International to King James. Bonus Butlerian Jihad: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Speaking of such, during a rousing game of backgammon I did have occasion to refer to my opponent as a "Paddy", but I cannot believe that my use of "That Gaming Term" could cause such consternation as to precipitate my
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Ask VHN: I have recently been ejected from my Gentleman's club without explanation. I am neither a scofflaw nor a charlatan. Do I have any recourse ?
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Will 1863 be the year of Linux on the desktop ?
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Use of hydrogen on a train is a bit stupid though - trains are the the one mobile power use where there's no real benefit to being able to dump the ash into the environment. You may as well just supply good primary battery reactants, s
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by melonrusk 4y ago
Wasn't that the way OOP was supposed to work, back before people who didn't get it got their hands on it ? Isolated objects, messaging only, no notion of where the object resided. Just add idempotency guarantees and implicit paral
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by melonrusk 4y ago
"It's difficult to determine what really happened to them because their entire cultural memeplex was lethally irradiated."
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by melonrusk 4y ago
A summary of the incident: https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/why-keffals-really-took...
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by melonrusk 4y ago
As a person who lived through Gamergate, my base assumption here is that the attacks Kiwifarms are alleged to have made are entirely fictional. This is something that I (and you) could possibly check if there was some kind of Archive of the

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