ookdatnog

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by ookdatnog 9mo ago
> one that every practicing biologist would agree with Where are you getting this from? As far as I'm aware biologists, practicing or not, are not particularly concerned with the study of human behavior.
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by ookdatnog 9mo ago
It depends on what you're working on. If you're doing real algorithmic work, often the algorithm is a lot more complex than its spec because it needs to be fast. Take sorting a list for example. The spec is quite short. - for all
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by ookdatnog 11mo ago
The article does go into cache coherency which is very much intertwined with multicore parallellism: > The cache coherency protocol is one of the hardest parts of a modern CPU to make both fast and correct. Most of the complexity involve
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by ookdatnog 11mo ago
You are coming to a wrong conclusion due to a misunderstanding of what the separation of powers means. I will first try to illustrate with a thought experiment, after which I believe you will agree that there is something wrong in your reas
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by ookdatnog 11mo ago
Your statement is wrong in two distinct ways: - Fundamentalists never hijacked the FSF, they founded it: Stallman is about as fundamentalist as possible about free software. - In the case of the FSF, the fundamentalists are absolutely walki
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by ookdatnog 11mo ago
> most lived at subsistence levels with starvation always at their doorstep Genuine question: is this something we know from evidence, or an assumption? I vaguely recall having read that comparison between skeletal remains of early farme
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
I don't think it was a primary motivation, but at least the slowness of mtl is mentioned as one of the motivations for the existence of the library. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/effectful#what-about-mtl
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
AFAIK the first somewhat widely-known language to do this was Haskell (through libraries). I'm not 100% clear on the entire history, but I think it goes something like: 1. Initially there was no way to do effects in Haskell, everything
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
That's not providing material support. It's just speech.
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
Especially the set example is also just confusing for 7th grade kids (or anyone who doesn't already understand sets, really). It's technically correct to say that you can store the unique ingredients of a recipe in a set, but that
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
I think the primary positive feature of democracy is simply that we have regular peaceful transitions of power. I'm not sure that the fact that the people choose their own leaders by itself leads to higher quality leadership, or even
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
That would be a crime. Khalil was not charged with any crime. The only conceivable reason to not charge him at this point, is because there is no evidence of him committing a crime.
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
> The government is not prosecuting for speech, which is what the free speech protections can and should guarantee. This has absolutely started happening, albeit not yet on a large-scale, systematic basis. Mahmoud Khalil [0] resided in t
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
It's not undemocratic. The behavior of the parliament reflects the reality that only a tiny minority of the population care at all about this issue. One might be tempted to blame a lack of media attention, but I don't think that&#
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
I watched this video years ago and found it interesting. It's a talk by Kevin Buzzard, a pure mathematician who got really interested in theorem proving software, and he explains his motivation. https://youtu.be/Dp-mQ3H
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
I'll re-order a bit based on perceived importance. > That's a good point. One thing though is that our actions today can't impact people in the past. So from an ethics point of view, we don't need to worry about the p
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
> I'm not making up this boundary. This is the scientific definition of an organism. To begin with, you did not volunteer a definition for the term "organism"; you limited yourself to attempting defining "human".
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
> I think there's a clear biological difference between an entity receiving nutrition, and 2 entities, each with half of a set of DNA, coming together to make a single entity with a full set of DNA. The difference is "clear&quo
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
> One way to define a human is any living entity that is either an adult human, or will/would grow into an adult human as long as no problem has happened or will happen to the entity. A few posts back you complained about "tail
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
> If we were to survey those biologists, what would they say? Same regarding an infertile person, and cancer. I think scientists have already resolved the questions you're posing. If a definition exists that avoids all these edge ca
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
That does not resolve your problem, it only shuffles it around. You are defending the case that personhood begins at conception, and your argument supporting this case is "It's a unique living organism. A life. Different from a sk
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
Would you consider a chimera resulting from the fusion of two embryos as two people? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
In this context it seems pretty wild to assume that OP was intentionally deceptive instead of just writing from memory and making a mistake.
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
Learning primarily through listening and talking only works if you have an enormous amount of high quality data, ie, the situation you're in as a baby when you're surrounded by native speakers who are producing speech for hours ev
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
I don't think it's simply a stylistic matter: it seems reasonable to assume that text in books tends to have higher information density, and contains longer and more complicated arguments (when compared to text obtained from socia
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
If the competition boils down to who has access to the largest amount of high quality data, it's hard to see how anyone but Google could win in the end: through Google Books they have scans of tens of millions of books, and published b
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
If there is one thing AI is currently shockingly bad at, it's updating its assumptions when it is confronted with evidence that they are incorrect. It will tirelessly spin its wheels (seemingly) forever laboring under a false assumptio
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
As I understand it (also neither a mathematician nor French), it's a parody on a certain type of math paper, I'm guessing in abstract algebra, where the author does nothing but present a theory that is a "generalization"
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
The author teaches a college-level writing class. Are you suggesting that, if you voluntarily take a writing class, it's unreasonable if the professor expects you to do some writing outside of class?
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by ookdatnog 1y ago
Suppose I gave Provost 5% chance of winning the papal election. Then I would have been more accurate than Polymarket. But I wouldn't call betting on what I perceive as 5% chance of winning "making free money"; from my perspec

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