pretendscholar

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Comment · 7 days ago
Probably not. They rebalance their portfolios after retirement to be in safer assets.
Comment · 15 days ago
? moving to youtube in order to be a math communicator
Comment · 26 days ago
c) degrade the previous prestige form of chess (classical with adjournments) and maybe improve the opening repertoire of gms
Comment · 26 days ago
Ask it to move one system over?
Comment · 1 month ago
What kind of applications are people building that involve 250k loc a week? Genuinely trying to understand this.
Comment · 1 month ago
Interesting how mafia dons can go to prison due to being in the same organization as someone who commits a crime but the CEOs of these organizations who let hacking bots (with teams of cybersecurity researchers improving their capability) loose on the internet face no criminal charges.
Comment · 1 month ago
Using a shovel means you give it credit for the hole?
Comment · 3 months ago
Why do that when steel is lighter, easier to clean, easier to maintain?
Comment · 2 years ago
It’s funny though you can learn to visualize in chess through solving puzzles. I couldn’t do it at all at first but after awhile it clicked and I could just move pieces in my head.
Comment · 2 years ago
Let me just spin up a nuclear powerplant on my laptop here
Comment · 2 years ago
They should call it non-translating-to-protein-but-probably-has-some-function DNA
Comment · 2 years ago
Okay yes so not really having an artists vocabulary I couldn't compress it as well as someone who has a better understanding of Starry Night. An artist that understands what makes Starry Night great could create a work that evokes similar feelings and emotions. I know this because Van Gogh created many similar works playing with the same techniques, colors, and subjects such as Cypresses in Starry Night and Starry Night over the Rhone. He was clearly working from a concise set of ideas and techniques which I would argue is understanding/compression.
Comment · 2 years ago
When we say life on earth we mean human life and civilization. Prokaryotes, while alive, are not really what people mean. Yes they would survive asteroids, nukes, possibly nanobot swarms.
Comment · 2 years ago
They are in 0g environments presumably having 1-6th isn't as bad and there might be ways to prevent/mitigate those issues.
Comment · 2 years ago
That wouldn't prevent one off extinction type events like asteroids. We can improve our understanding of ecology by trying to design such systems for lunar colony artificial biospheres.

I do agree that we should better manage our impact on the only system that we know works.

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