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vcg3rd commented on "Jewish Mathematics"? mathenchant.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/jamespropp

sigseg1v · 2 years ago

I did it like this:

7 1/4 - 3/4

= 7.25 - 0.75

= 6.5

= 6 and 1/2

I would have assumed that most people would do it this way when they see a fraction that can be expressed as an easy floating point but maybe not!

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

I just subtracted 1 and added a 1/4, barely giving it any thought. The example given is too simple for comparing methods.

vcg3rd commented on Feathers are one of evolution's cleverest inventions scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

freedomben · 2 years ago

> You can't conclude that. Evolution is noisy and random.

You're correct that you can't conclude that evolution is perfection/optimized, but it's also not correct to say it is random. The genetic variation is random, but natural selection is very much not random[1][2].

[1]: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/misconceptions-about-natural-...

[2]: See Number 7. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat01.html

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

Regardless, it doesn't have agency and isn't clever. Personally I belive in a Designer, but since middle school I've been bewildered by the way evolution is almost always presented, outside of rigorous scientific literature, as if there is agency, intelligence and intent behind it.

I don't have a problem with that, but materialists don't have that luxury and use language in bad faith when do it.

vcg3rd commented on Marc Andreessen: I regret not doing more to support and defend Brendan Eich twitter.com/pmarca/status... · Posted by u/becausepc

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2024/04/the-anti-...

vcg3rd commented on A simple 3-body problem simulator quxiaowei.github.io/3-bod... · Posted by u/seanqu

defrost · 2 years ago

One of the streaming services has released a TV series called the 3-Body Problem based on a Chinese authors book series that features the name (as a book or series title).

The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet).

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

> The TV series poses a four body problem early on (three suns and a single planet).

That's the same as the book except the book explains eventually that there were originally 7? 9? planets. The others had been ripped apart or consumed by the 3 stars, and the last one would be eventually.

vcg3rd commented on My Ideal Libre Computer+Phone mpeyton.com/posts/my_idea... · Posted by u/mpeyton

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

The weak link of a sound system is typically the speakers/headphones. Speaking for myself the weak link for computing was monitors until about a decade ago, about the time everything was getting smaller.

I should switch to just a phone because the lack of multitasking (not in the cpu sense but the ordinary sense), the small screen, and the onscreen keyboard with no easy way to edit would make me use a computer about 95% less.

You can have my dual 27 inch 4k monitors, and my real keyboard with tons of customized shortcuts, my virtual desktops, and my EMACS 29 with lots of modes when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

vcg3rd commented on Ask HN: What's the simplest static website generator? · Posted by u/_kush

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

https://blot.im/ is the one that finally made it possible for me to use one without configuration of both a web server and a site generator (neither of which I can do) and keep my files "local" in a synced Dropbox folder.

vcg3rd commented on Gemini is a dual-screen e-reader and is coming out soon [video] youtube.com/watch?v=FfFaz... · Posted by u/teleforce

Solvency · 2 years ago

do people in tech just straight up ignore the fact that they're all using the same names? is it ignorance? hubris? indifference? why would you ever use the name gemini not that google has co-opted it?

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

Never hear of meebok in comment above yours. Even a name like that has a .org and .com [1] neither of which, as far as I can tell, have anything to do with the e-reader.

[1] Danish, I think, and kept timing out.

vcg3rd commented on Weird new electron behaviour in stacked graphene thrills physicists nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

Anyone feel like explaining it to me like I'm 5? High School physics was over 40 years ago, and while I like reading "layman's" science this one only made me think about the discussion of diminsions in 3 Body Problem, which also confused me. Frankly I've never figured out why people write of dimensions as if Time isn't one (e.g. isn't the 2D material discussed actually 3D?) Is it just understood that Time is a given one doesn't have to name?

TIA

vcg3rd commented on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses wbaltv.com/article/baltim... · Posted by u/tbihl

kossTKR · 2 years ago

It seems traffic has stopped in the last moments before the hit?

Also looks like it's emergency vehicles in standstill that are falling, i can't discern any moving cars at collapse?

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

The ship's mayday gave them enough time to stop most, but not all, traffic, according to the MD Governor.

vcg3rd commented on "AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T 12challenges.substack.com... · Posted by u/louisbarclay

bambax · 2 years ago

> You’re going to see ads whether you like it or not.

That is not true. Avoiding all ads on the web today is not only easy, but free.

It seems quite unlikely the people who can't be bothered to install uBlock Origin or use Brave, will suddenly decide to browse the web by means of ChatGPT, or ask it to rewrite web pages to get rid of marketing fluff before they access them.

vcg3rd · 2 years ago

I couldn't believe I had yo scroll almost to the bottom to find what I thought would probably be the 1st or 2nd comment. I was just about to give up and write it myself.

Between pihole, extensions and userscripts I never see ads. Ads wouldn't bother me in the least and I wouldn't block them if they were static like in a newspaper. It's the tracking I won't tolerate.

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