Readit Newsnarcraft commented on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard? quantamagazine.org/is-par... · Posted by u/mellosouls
Flash memory (quantum tunneling), lasers (stimulated emission), transistors (band theory), MRI machines (nuclear spin), GPS (atomic transition), LED's (band gap), digital cameras (photoelectric effect), ...the list does, in fact, go on, and on, and on.
Did you intentionally list things that are clearly not essential to day-to-day life?
Which OF creator?
narcraft commented on 'Source available' is not open source, and that's okay dri.es/source-available-i... · Posted by u/geerlingguy
Why haven't anyone randomly generate a bunch of code of various kinds, use LLM to create some summary of it and dump them to github with a restrictive license? The patent office isn't here to enforce anything.
It'd be like copyright trolling the Library of Babel. The set of useful programs would be totally eclipsed by incoherent gibberish (even if there were a means to ensure that the randomly generated code were syntactically correct). In other words, the signal to noise ratio would be microscopic and running this scheme in finite time would effectively result in zero valuable code being successfully squatted.
My custom poker study tools:
https://poker-study.onrender.com/
I really like the range memorization tool from GTO Wizard, but want to be able to put in custom/arbitrary ranges to test. I also want to be able to import and simplify ranges from other sites. Work in progress, but every scenario is url encoded (warning: subject to future breaking changes) and I use those urls in for links in my Anki decks.
One of the big things I've been wondering about the decision of the Anglosphere to all switch to a service economy: why would you do that when your population is both smaller and dumber than the populations of other countries?
The UK (nor the US) has no advantage in providing services, all it can do is demand that other people be prevented from providing them.
You're the smartest, most clever, most physically fit, but why does nobody else seem to realize it?
narcraft commented on Amazon hopes to replace 600k US workers with robots theverge.com/news/803257/... · Posted by u/pwthornton
narcraft commented on The Fourth Quadrant of Knowledge lyonhe.art/the-fourth-qua... · Posted by u/speckx
Not according to the people that coined the phrase "radical ignorance".
"While there are different types of knowledge and many ways to make it visible, there are also several types of ignorance and different ways in which it might escape the subject's consciousness. For example, while many instances of ignorance fall into the category of unknown unknowns, where an agent is not only ignorant about something but also about her/his state of ignorance, other instances of ignorance fall into the category of ignorance in disguise, where an agent is not only ignorant about her/his ignorance, but also mistakes his/her misbeliefs for valid knowledge, i.e. the ignorance is disguised by misbeliefs accounted as knowledge. Radical ignorance is exactly a phenomenon of this last type. It is very difficult to explore radical ignorance; nevertheless, the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning 1999) is an example of how such a phenomenon might manifest itself in everyday life."
One of us experiencing irony...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342250736_A_working...
It appears that the phrase has multiple uses/meanings, with priority of definition going to Dunning & Kruger as far as I can find.
This is the earliest clear definition in the sense I was recalling that I can dig up:
"In its place would be substituted the concept of partial radical ignorance. The adjective “radical” is here meant to distinguish this kind of ignorance from the neoclassical concept of rational ignorance, which refers to a state of affairs in which knowledge exists that would improve our situation but that the expected cost of acquiring it exceeds the expected benefit. We thus choose not to know what is not in our interests to know. In contrast, radical ignorance refers to our unawareness of even the existence of relevant knowledge that we could know at zero cost."
https://departments.gmu.edu/rae/archives/VOL16_1_2003/4_Iked... (digital reader page 5)
I'll concede that this usage is highly niche and lesser known, but I'll have you know that I'm wholly incapable of appreciating irony and will never fully acknowledge my error.
narcraft commented on The Fourth Quadrant of Knowledge lyonhe.art/the-fourth-qua... · Posted by u/speckx
“'There are unknown unknowns', and while the idea has been around a while, it doesn’t seem to have a name."
There is a name for it. It's called "radical ignorance".