pfortuny

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Comment · 29 days ago
That is the joke, indeed.
Comment · 29 days ago
The Jacobian Conjecture settles the "solve a math problem" and is controversy-free.
Comment · 1 month ago
The basic idea of EA is the same many people have (especially those not used to the idea of nonlinear orders): quantifying everything, even "goodness" or "utility".

Not everything is quantifiable, and even more, not any family of things (investments, in this case) admits a linear ordering (they may even not admit a total order).

There can be incomparable outcomes from actions, and they may be maximal in their suborder.

This is difficult until you stop measuring everything and dedicate a minute to think of ordered trees.

Comment · 1 month ago
Right now, "The Lord", by Romano Guardini, a large collection of homilies covering the whole life of Christ. Obviously, this is a Catholic text.

Also, "Heaven on Earh", by Emma Wells, about nine or ten Gothic Cathedrals (mostly the history of their building and preservation). A bit too plain for my taste but includes interesting facts and anecdotes.

Finished recently:

-Flowers for Algernon, which I liked a lot.

-Piranesi, by Susanna Clarke, so beautiful and surprising.

-The Great Gatsby, which I had not read yet and which I have loved reading.

Comment · 1 month ago
Are you from a main Spanish city? Because the chargers are being set up but not so fast, and parking is not exactly an easy thing to find for most people.
Comment · 1 month ago
The father-mother-child-donkey conundrum. Its only solution is: to hell with anyone's thoughts, we'll act as we prefer.
Comment · 1 month ago
Because egress firewalls have existed since way before "ai" and are very easy to set up.
Comment · 1 month ago
And memorizing. Rote learning makes the brain.
Comment · 1 month ago
[un]believable. Thank you.
Comment · 1 month ago
Sorry what? Honest question.
Comment · 1 month ago
That is exactly what "training AI" needs: labeled data.
Comment · 1 month ago
It might be that the velocity at the spiraling axis is not infinity (i.e. there is no blow-up in finite time). Viscosity is a bitch.
Comment · 1 month ago
That has another name but I forget. Essentially contour plotting in high res.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yep: the problem with IP is exactly the "Property". The texts are economically (even if only for leisure) valuable, so the producer deserves a fair comoensation unless he has explicitly dismissed it.

So paying a price for an intelectual product is reasonable. Nothing to do (per se) with property.

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