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Comment · 10 months ago
Comparison I made before raises a good question. Should we deliberately force ourselves to move faster towards the future? Or let things unfold at their own pace like Europeans do i.e. leisurely?
Comment · 10 months ago
What did you get done last week?
Comment · 10 months ago
It's generally called as pressure release valve. Talk about something adnauseum that it becomes so commonplace that it doesn't evoke strong feelings at all.
Comment · 11 months ago
"Your thumbs will learn" is a famous Steve Jobs quote from the 2007 iPhone launch.
Comment · 11 months ago
Sir, this is AI prose. Wendy's doesn't allow AI prose.
Comment · 11 months ago
N-SPHERES

https://youtu.be/BDERfRP2GI0

N-SPHERES ist the most complex Oscilloscope Music work by Jerobeam Fenderson & Hansi3D and took six years to make.

Since it is almost entirely created with parametric functions, it is possible to store only these functions in an executable program and let the program create the audio and video output on the fly. The storage space required for such a program is just a fraction of an audio or video file, so that it's possible to store the executables for the entire audiovisual EP all on one 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk.The first 500 orders will receive the initial numbered edition with pen-plotted artwork

Comment · 11 months ago
when you sleep under clear skies in the night, these questions are normal.
Comment · 11 months ago
Null set as 0 and then successor method of defining new numbers.

But your way of putting it is like these successor function could be considered as edges of graphs or references or signposts

Imagine a number system with 3 distinct types of Null Sets and they meet at number P after applying successor function for 10, 42, 135 times respectively.

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When I was 10 years old, I asked my maternal grandfather, "why does anything exist at all?"

My grandpa explained it in layman terms which even I could understand. He said, "If nothing should exist because it is simpler state to be in for everything, a sort of Primordial Law. Then what is the mechanism by which this law is enforced. Who or what is ensuring that Law is implemented everywhere for eternity. If we assume that such a mechanism must exist, then we have just proved that something must exist."

Comment · 11 months ago
3blue1brown proves your point.

The saying, "What one fool can do, another can," is a motto from Silvanus P. Thompson's book Calculus Made Easy. It suggests that a task someone without great intelligence can accomplish must be relatively simple, implying that anyone can learn to do it if they put in the effort. The phrase is often used to encourage someone, demystify a complex subject, and downplay the difficulty of a task.

Comment · 11 months ago
this is my horror as well. I don't mind my youtube account to be blocked but what about all the recommendations that I have curated to my liking. It will be huge chunk of lost time to rebuild and insert my preferences into the algorithm. increasingly "our preferences shaped by time and influences and encounters both digital and offline" are as much about us as we are physically.
Comment · 11 months ago
It's good we are building all this excess capacity which will be used for applications in other fields or research or open up new fields.

I think the dilemma I see with building so much data centers so fast is exactly like whether I should buy latest iPhone now or should wait few years when the specs or form factor improves later on. The thing is we have proven tech with current AI models so waiting for better tech to develop on small scale before scaling up is a bad strategy.

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