mnemonicsloth

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by mnemonicsloth 3mo ago
I love this: a DSL that makes clocks out of birds and math. Really, this is a glorious little project. The thing I bounced off isn't the high-concept art, or the abstract math. It’s the combination of the two without enough bridge betw
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by mnemonicsloth 2y ago
Verizon competes with T-Mobile and AT&T. Comcast competes with a different arm of AT&T, Google Fiber, various older satellite internet services and now Starlink. Outside the US, broadband providers are still huge but differences in
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by mnemonicsloth 2y ago
McDonald's. Disney. Walmart. Kroger. Comcast. Verizon. And many more who sell crops, chemicals, power, machine parts, cars, concrete... Many companies have billions of customers and no trace of lock-in or virality at all. You m
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Ask HN: What do you need to know to be good at the Unix Command Line?
17 points by mnemonicsloth 2y ago|12 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
No, it really isn't a good idea to base your theories of psychiatric medicine on a satirical half-hour cartoon show about swearing construction-paper children. It is true that there are some corners of the internet where probably-healt
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
The estimates I've seen suggest maybe just Mercury. Which is good, because Mercury is mostly metal, whereas e.g. Mars is mostly rock and thus not useful for this kind of work
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
You're misinformed here. The biggest per-student spender on education in the developed world is the US: > In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
If you want to learn about symbolic AI, there are a lot of more recent sources than PAIP (you could try the first half of AI: A Modern Approach by Russel and Norvig), and this has been true for a while. If you read PAIP today, the most l
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
So I'm a long-time Emacs user who tried Vim for a year a while back. What do you like about Neovim?
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
It isn't. VS Code's goal is to get the low-effort 30% of devs who want something that will just work right out of the box, while providing enough functionality/customization to attract a significant fraction of the remaining
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
Examples please?
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
Michio Kaku is a smart guy, but I wouldn't call him a "Top Physicist"
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
> Economics isn’t science, it’s politics hiding behind math. That's the kind of thing people say when math tells them what they want is not feasible. Surely the math must be wrong!
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by mnemonicsloth 3y ago
I am not going to say that this is wrong, because I haven't read the study. But it was produced by the Berkeley economics department, which could well be the most left-leaning in the country. Significant parts of it are outright Marx
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by mnemonicsloth 4y ago
Did you even read what I wrote?
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by mnemonicsloth 4y ago
You’re being pedantic. I’m with you that “imbalance” sounds a little new-agey and imprecise, but I’ve talked to a lot of scientific and medical people about BiPD and I haven’t met one yet who didn’t understand what was actually being said:
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by mnemonicsloth 4y ago
> Even so, treatment breakthroughs have lagged and the drug often prescribed for the condition, lithium, was first used nearly 75 years ago. This is false. I don’t know what this author was doing. Even reading Wikipedia would give you a
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by mnemonicsloth 4y ago
Dude, bipolar disorder can be just about cured in some people by dosing them with ground-up rocks. Lithium is a chemical element. If it isn’t inducing some kind of chemical change, what is it doing?
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US 4-star General says Russia will lose next year(youtube.com)
11 points by mnemonicsloth 4y ago|5 comments
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by mnemonicsloth 4y ago
Or just remember that, on the timescale of the universe, 50 years is almost as brief as five minutes. Soon you'll be dead, and everyone you love, everyone you know. And everyone who knows them, and everyone who knows them, and so on o
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
This is an awesome idea! The problem is that it only covers half of what you need to know in linear algebra. What about the Spectral Theorem? What about positive definite matrices?
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Agreed that the reviews are not in-depth. But sometimes inclusion on the list is enough. I saw enough books on the list that I recognized and benefited from to convince me that the author has some idea of what they're talking about.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
If you want to learn a little bit about lisp, you might try some of Paul Graham's writing on the subject. http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html One thing you'll learn there is that it's possible to define a
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
You have a lot to work with: English. Computer and internet access. You seem smart. Your income gives you time to work and will let you travel to make connections. You're still young enough to learn. Maybe this is doable. Let&#x27
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Right. Except for all the times he's claimed credit for others' work. And his wikipedia page has been thoroughly whitewashed, which suggests he is not content with the reputation he deserves.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
Significantly less than digging up millions of tons of coal. Note also that coal is somewhat radioactive too, and there is a lot more of it, so the radiation difference is small and might even favor nuclear
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
The same way politicians build bridges and operate air traffic control systems: by hiring experts to do it.
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
It's a bad idea to romanticize the lives of paleolithic peoples. They may have had cozy beds, but it's likely these people were: - thirsty (no tech for carrying water) - hot (no air conditioning) - hungry (hunter gatherers don&#x
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
I'm not avoiding mathematics. I used to be a mathematician. The math is the whole point. In the mechanics library that comes with the book (which I'm building on in my own work), functions can take either numerical or symbolic v
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by mnemonicsloth 6y ago
He pretty much agrees with this and his solution is for people to learn it all. I thought 't Hooft was saying you have to learn all of this stuff. But it sounds like you're saying you can do good work in physics without some of

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