vingt_regards

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   by vingt_regards 2y ago

   > the distance from the earth to the sun, at least not with better precision than about a light week The sun is eight light minutes away.
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   by vingt_regards 3y ago

   > I would almost bet that the two functions are not the same, even in the limit as it becomes a Poisson distribution plus whatever the last rows do. A Gaussian distribution, I think. But they're certaintly not the same function, and
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   by vingt_regards 3y ago

   There are also perspective issues: the relative sizes of the foreground (the people sitting at the café) and the background (the market) are incoherent. Same with the "snowy Tokyo with cherry blossoms" video.
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   by vingt_regards 3y ago

   Graphite
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   by vingt_regards 3y ago

   The more "useful" you PoW algorithm is, the cheaper 51% attacks on your chain will be. To be maximally secure, a PoW algorithm should only generate useless data.
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   by vingt_regards 3y ago

   > There's no such thing as "one" in nature: there's not "one" apple. An apple is a monstrously complex collection of cells and dynamic chemical processes, it's not "one". > The concept of n