qboltz

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by qboltz 4y ago
They do, I run GNU Guix but you have to buy a wifi card that's free software compatible, which must be bought somewhere else. https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/wireless-n-dual-band-...
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by qboltz 4y ago
> We can, but none of that is verifiable. We can come up with hypotheses and test them. We can look at literature which observed things in the past or make truth claims and evaluate them based on evidence. Verifiability isn't really
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by qboltz 4y ago
"Why stop there? Why not say we even know that there are billions of years? Why not thousands?" My questions above are only to point out what I think is the conclusion to your line of questioning. Only the ignorant would suggest t
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by qboltz 5y ago
I don't think was specific enough, I guess what I'm looking for is something that we can describe with language that doesn't have at least some sort of parameterization in regards to physics. So take the original reaction of
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by qboltz 5y ago
Could you cite some specific examples? I'm finding the deeper I study biology, the more certain I am that complex models with both classical and quantum parameters will eventually be able to predict the overwhelming majority of macromo
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by qboltz 5y ago
I'd be interested to hear your opinion defending professional sports taking itself as seriously as it does then. From my perspective, the only thing that makes it serious is the amount of money and advertising involved. Sure the techno
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by qboltz 5y ago
I don't think it's too negative. The actual complexity is high for the modeling, but very few of the abstractions are any worse than other many body simulations, unless you're studying specifically black holes or other theore
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by qboltz 5y ago
Level of theory as it relates to an-initio QM calculations usually indicates Hartee Fock, MP2 and so on, then the basis set gets specified after. I also agree that QM doesn't provide much for the cost at this scale, I just wish the ter
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by qboltz 5y ago
All simulations have to make the Born-Oppenheimer approximation, nuclei have to be treated as frozen, otherwise electrons don't have a reference point. There will never be true knowledge of both a particle's location and momentum
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by qboltz 5y ago
Not if you're going off of ab initio theory such as Hartee Fock, MP2, CC, etc. We're talking amounts of matrix multiplication that wouldn't be enough to finish calculating this decade, even if you had parallel access to all t
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by qboltz 5y ago
When you say ab initio calculations, could you cite the level of theory? I think there could be some ambiguity given differences in scope.
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by qboltz 5y ago
I'm very optimistic about RISCV adoption, I'd wager this is the year the major distributions start preparing to host stable releases for it, or at least Fedora. There's a Guix developer making pretty decent progress on the po
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by qboltz 5y ago
What's your broader economic framework for this analysis? From your comment history georgist/LVT adjacent. But the responses seem very well connected and elaborate beyond that with which I'm familiar with. On top of a name fo