orbillius

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by orbillius 2y ago
Note the difference between what you said: "here's a different way of doing a thing that you're already doing, and don't mind doing, and understand the reasong for doing" ...and the thing that I said: "here&#x2
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by orbillius 2y ago
> a matter of conditioning I remember, it must have been in the late '90s, when Windows added the ability to get "important security updates" via the internet and a lot of people were turning it off. I remember a comment o
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by orbillius 2y ago
> Why would Windows systems be anywhere near critical infra ? This is just a guess, but maybe the client machines are windows. So maybe there are servers connected to phone lines or medical equipment, but the doctors and EMS are looking
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by orbillius 2y ago
> Try to identify the circular part of the argument. I did. Should I repeat it?
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by orbillius 2y ago
> Your "counterexample" is not a normal number in any sense, most obviously because it isn't irrational, but only slightly less obviously because, as you note yourself, the sequences "321", "654", and &
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by orbillius 2y ago
> A normal number would mean that every finite sequence of digits is contained within the number. Is that true? I don't see how that could be true. The sequence 0-9 repeated infinitely is, by definition, a normal number (in that the
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by orbillius 2y ago
> they will still be marking the ticket as used in their backend. I assume that's true, but it makes me wonder how their scanners are connected to the server. I mean, if 10,000 people showing up to an event with smartphones overwhel
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by orbillius 2y ago
That's a good summary of it. Thank you. > If Penrose is right then neural networks implemented on regular computers will never think. I disagree that that is necessarily an implication, though. As I said before, all that it implies
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by orbillius 2y ago
> however the brain thinks must be describable by math Roger Penrose believes that some portion of the work brains are doing is making use of quantum processes. The claim isn't too far-fetched - similar claims have been made about p