mishellaneous

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by mishellaneous 6d ago
> It's amazing to me that the fact of them doing it isn't well-known (there is plenty of research and evidence) and assumed, but still a question even on HN. Bring it up to most people and they will ostracize/ridicule you
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by mishellaneous 7d ago
yeah, it looks like i don't have enough knowledge of this subject to discuss this. but i'd be interested in reading what more knowledgeable people have to say about it -- Tristan's work, how different from others' it was
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by mishellaneous 8d ago
if you assume the choice of route is a uniformly distributed random variable, yes. but this assumption does not seem consistent with "Almost nobody else I know of was working on it", from Tristan's quote. nor with "It is
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by mishellaneous 8d ago
i don't know if i understand what you're saying. but i'm no mathematician. here's the full statement in question once again: > The route to the Clay problem through a smooth force, options c and d in Fefferman’s state
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by mishellaneous 8d ago
yes, this is ultimately nothing but a claim. Buckmaster did also mention, for example, that a team of people was employed to solve the problem, which supports this claim. but that is another claim whose veracity could also be questioned. bu
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by mishellaneous 8d ago
i'm no mathematician/physicist but i think this question is one of the reasons why the original question (possibility of singularities) is interesting. in these cases the equations most likely fail to accurately model reality, and
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by mishellaneous 8d ago
> An AI model could independently choose the same path route as Luis and Diego, without access to Buckmaster and Alpöge’s work. the post you were replying to quotes Buckmaster specifically denying this: "It is not the direction one
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by mishellaneous 19d ago
> you did not understand correctly if your eyes read "cheap currency" and your mind read "cheap labor". i actually read "expensive consumer goods for their populations" and concluded "cheap labor",
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by mishellaneous 19d ago
> And I agree that sort of proof is impossible to acquire. Like, there is no way to prove conclusively that anyone else is conscious. Like, there is no way to prove conclusively that anyone else is conscious. But that's why we inste
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by mishellaneous 19d ago
can you provide an example of a claim in the subject being discussed, or any subject outside of mathematics, that manages to reach the level of proof?
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by mishellaneous 29d ago
it looks from the article that some cancers are notably correlated with radiation exposure, and these were the ones they looked for. they also mention excluding lung cancer because it's also correlated with smoking.
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by mishellaneous 29d ago
from the point of view of the judge and society, i guess, what matters, ultimately, is whether the arguments presented for a case hold, not where did they come from -- so it shouldn't matter if ChatGPT was the one that came up with the
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by mishellaneous 29d ago
re: "you either have strong currency or strong exports" if i understood correctly, you are stating that the only way to have strong exports is by having cheaper labor ("... losing jobs and industries to those nations that are
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by mishellaneous 1mo ago
where i come from, university admissions are determined exclusively by performance on an exam you take after high school. it's meritocratic, and the work it involves is much more sensible IMO: no leadership/well-roundedness/w
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by mishellaneous 1mo ago
interesting concept. you get a letter of recommendation of sorts from every professor. this makes me think how education could be better if it were more individualized (smaller student/teacher ratio). maybe that'd be a good use of
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
odd not to mention resistance heating in what otherwise seems like a thorough review of the question
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
couldn't this argument could be made against a lot of scientific research? i bet it took a long time for the average consumer to benefit from the discovery of the double helix structure of the DNA. and the government funds that kind of
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
> The number of Medicare funded residency slots are limited by law. why don't hospitals fund residencies themselves? from what i hear, residents are poorly paid (they make less than nurses) and work long hours (almost like they &quo
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
dangit, some time ago it seemed like every week there was another ridiculous study claiming another absurd benefit from these new weight loss drugs, but this one takes the cake. the real surprise is that this comes from a Harvard professor
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
whoa, TIL. i knew that it made orgasms impossible when using, but i had never heard that the effects could last so long.
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
i think instead of asking the best way of dividing the costs, we should ask why does it cost so much. we've managed to bring down immensely the cost of technology over the past decades everywhere else.
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
> It just is? I used to get notifications that said something like “$partner is likely to be irritable for the next 2 days”, so I could be extra careful not to piss her off. to be clear, you think getting a notification about an incoming
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
> Sharing with your partner is a big one. how is that even 10% more convenient than simply speaking? nevermind being worth giving away private data.
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
i agree that wisdom / an independent thinking spirit is an important factor to prevent manipulation and that it's not something easily taught. but i also believe that in fact knowledge is another very important factor in resisting
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
> if things pay off anyway, why should should tax payers fund it? i believe the idea is that when someone is educated, it's not themselves alone that benefits from it, but rather everyone else around them. thus the interest in fundi
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
another possibility to combat grifting would be to have competition. another university comes up and provides the same service as the wasteful university at a smaller cost, and thus displaces the wasteful university. the advantage is that w
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
i like your framing of "holes" in political systems. one way to put it is that a political system has "holes" if the ideal/desired outcome is not a Nash equilibrium. however, my understanding (though i can't sp
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
this is a good point. > It seems more fruitful to approach things from the perspective of monopolies, competition, corporate governance etc in general where to go to learn more about these topics?
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by mishellaneous 2mo ago
i guess in that case the question would be if one should be as worried about the biological effects of PFAS as much as these two other forever chemicals you cite
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by mishellaneous 3mo ago
for me, the moral of the story is that it's easier to promise things than to deliver them. or, engineering was the bottleneck. in my experience, this is not particular to start-ups, or even software engineering. why does this happen th

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