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Comment · 1 year ago
Not sure that’s quite equivalent;

Megacorp scraping the entire internet vs individuals sharing knowledge on a platform are a completely different scale.

Comment · 2 years ago
What’s more, if you need to compute F_n, you can do the matrix power by exponentiation by squaring. It can speed up the calculation quite a bit.
Comment · 2 years ago
When did society previously embrace difference?
Comment · 2 years ago
Vast sprawling suburban wastelands with no services is not the solution. Just build houses is easily said but it’s not necessarily where people want to live.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don’t fear AI, I fear capitalism.
Comment · 3 years ago
Electric vehicles are a failure lol.
Comment · 3 years ago
Wow editing files and navigating directories, that sounds so fun these days /s

Build a redstone computer in minecraft

Comment · 3 years ago
Switching to EV is an infrastructure problem just like public transport. Guess it’s doomed because it’s not driven by profit.
Comment · 3 years ago
I don’t want cities to build stupid EV charging crap everywhere. They could invest that in public transport instead. EVs have all the same social problems as cars.
Comment · 4 years ago
Use a programming that is decoupled from stateful manipulations and control flow?

Programming does not need to involve itself with the hardware, that’s just a tool for evaluation. A program is an idea expressed in a language. It’s some formal statement of intent. Sometimes we can evaluate it to produce an output. Sometimes these statements are muddied by underlying representations.

The length of a declarative program seems a pretty good rough measure of complexity in the way you are talking about. Operational complexity of course, in the number of steps to actually evaluate it is a bit different, based on what you are using.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why are there so many water from x devices from MIT. Water from air, water from salt water etc. Is this all they do lol? Is there a group of people responsible?
Comment · 4 years ago
The whole point of Algebraic Geometry is to describe geometry using algebra. It’s is a very deep, successful and important subject in modern mathematics. I wouldn’t say it needs to recover it’s geometric routes, it’s sort of the whole point. To describe something geometric you actually just need to describe algebras of functions on that object. It’s a very rich subject.

What happens at school and early uni however is a different story. Classical algebraic geometry could definitely be taught to undergrads or high schoolers but there is some weird insistence on only calculus being important. If anything the categorical and algebraic ideas expressed in lots of algebraic geometry follow through into all sorts of other areas of mathematics. I think there are even connections to modern physics. Id say it’s probably one of the more important areas, but it’s relegated to later stages.

Comment · 4 years ago
Why does it have to be so siloed? What if I want documents with a slight bit of inactivity? Why must I go through two different protocols? What if I want to read a paper next to the Juyter notebook that made it? I think it should be the clients job to take whatever slice of a richer universe it wants. This also stops duplication of effort, why maintain separate protocols and clients etc. It’s just a search issue, there are plenty of text websites out there. Protocols like Gemini I think are a waste of time.

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