misterman0

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by misterman0 7y ago
I'm fascinated by Chaitin's Constant and his use of the word "elegance". His ideas challenge my current belief system. From the article: >> [what is] the probability that a randomly constructed program will halt [?
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> His precise theorem is this: Define "LISP program-size complexity" to be the size of a LISP subroutine that examines a proof, determines whether it is correct, and returns either the theorem established by the proof (if t
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> there’s no time to recall Why do you think that? A Boltzmann brain will immediately start to degrade but that does not mean there is zero time for thought. If I were a Boltzmann brain, I would spend most if not all of my existence
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by misterman0 7y ago
OT, but his style is so dense in that book. Why did he write it like that? I've never been able to finish it. I find it almost impenetrable. The Hobbit I read with joy and ease even as a young child. In LOTR, sometimes after reading a
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by misterman0 7y ago
I feel your bro science makes a lot of sense. I'm someone who's been identified as being bipolar and put on Lithium, which I quickly dropped (because it made me feel suicidal) and I instead turn to illegally acquired cannabis, whi
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by misterman0 7y ago
No one is more influential than Google. - Google
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by misterman0 7y ago
Sean Carroll's solo podcast where he explains how the plank lenght is relative and how we should arrive at quantum gravity through the means of quantum physics, not by quantizing relativity. Blew my mind several times over. https:&#x2
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by misterman0 7y ago
At my day job, the meme that won and now dominate is "the percieved performance of a SPA is greater than that of a non-SPA". My calls for making our backend more performant are ignored (and probably ridiculed, because of how out-o
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by misterman0 7y ago
The progress academics continuously make in NLP take us closer and closer to a local maxima that, when we reach it will be the mark of the longest and coldest AI winter ever experienced by man, because of how far we are from a global maxima
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by misterman0 7y ago
Can we also have some sort of a scrumish gathering, ASAP, to declare the correct use of the word "definition", because sometimes it seems we use this word arbitrarily.
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by misterman0 7y ago
But is the parent really needed here? This discussion seems to have become "how dare you take a stance in this issue that we cannot fully understand"? How about, while hungry they are sickened by the cruelty involved in producing
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by misterman0 7y ago
Or, instead of porting Lucene, just take its main concepts such as analysis, tokenization, an in-memory trie or binary search tree, query parser, term, query and collector and implement them the way _you_ would and using whatever bit maps a
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by misterman0 7y ago
I used to use Lucene back in the 1.x days when a fuzzy search was a complete table scan. It was quite a surprise to see how your single term fuzzy query was interpreted as one term query for each fuzzy hit OR-ed together. The Lucene team so
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by misterman0 7y ago
I think it's wrong to celebrate a company that claims 80% of what it is to be you, even when other companies claim even more. I question the reason behind us devoting ourselves to these undemocratic structures.
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by misterman0 7y ago
I'm people too, just not a in the middle if the bell curve people. I'm curious, why do you go to a in the middle of the bell curve type of service to find fringe material? It's not served from there.
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> idioms and homophobes Did you mean idiots?
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by misterman0 7y ago
Customer support, when we applied the latest upstream patch we notice E=MC^2+0.001. Please advice.
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by misterman0 7y ago
The myth that Sharepoint really, truly stinks and you should not use it even when your choices are dire, is as real and true as a dumpster fire.
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by misterman0 7y ago
You're not buying apples, though. You're buying "apples+X". That's a different from "apples". If your seller is upfront about that then I and people who want just an apple can go somewhere else for fruit.
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by misterman0 7y ago
"mamma mia mamma mia mamma mia figaro" I'll be damned. I know every word.
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> What a useless beast! Mostly but not entirely. There are cases where you need a tree but you don't care about order, e.g. when order depends on a state that is unknown at time of writing or when all you want to encode are rel
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> Back pain is thought to be mostly psychological Do you have a credibility source to back that up?
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by misterman0 7y ago
My whole life I thought it was spelled "midevil" due to this time period being especially evil. Every day you learn something new.
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by misterman0 7y ago
To state that one is not a part of the hive on one of the biggest hive sites in the world, is humorous. You're a bee, dawg.
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by misterman0 7y ago
Good news everyone,this site has a 1996 mode you can activate in order to get to their content without becoming their product. No pics through,so maybe more like a 1993 mode.
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> items w/ low coverage but high precision Newbie NLP dev here. What's this concept of coverage vs precision that you speak of? It sounds intriguing.
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Personal Letter to [Future_employee](medium.com)
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by misterman0 7y ago
>> There needs to be the luxury of time and the space to fail, two things we don't have. But once we have those, won't they be considered not luxurious, instead, standard? And won't the argument still be that we lack th
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by misterman0 7y ago
Ah, you mean a Unsolvable Maze: https://www.sickchirpse.com/janitor-creates-completely-unsol...
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by misterman0 7y ago
Jeopardy this: Only then can you realize, there is no maze.

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