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Re:New math book rescues landmark topology proof on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:43AM (#28478781)
Since these 3 results are so similar are they a subset of a more general concept?
Aren't large neural network already black boxes we don't understand built by machines we understand?
Reasonable healthcare, parental leave and vacation minimums were not acquired in the countries that have them by "the magic of a functional government" but by people organising in big enough groups to matter and bargaining with the government and employers.
Like Wikipedia but a Forum?
Re:Facebook agrees to pay France €106M in back taxes on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @03:08AM (#24268805)
In France, they can also take it from your salary.
Re:Math Overflow users resolve PhD thesis crisis on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @03:35AM (#24058201)
My math teacher used to only have a tiny piece of paper with the thing he had to talk about during the lecture; since we had to prove everything we learned during this class, more often than once he couldn't remember how to prove some thing and usually happily sent a student to the blackboard to think together about how to prove the proposition. I thought that was a great way of teaching maths.
Superdeterminism isn't supposed to be an alternative to QM, usually it's an alternative interpretation of QM which allows hidden variables from what i've gathered.
Re:SETI@home shuts down after 21 years on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @09:02AM (#22483792)
This is probably where GAI would be really useful.
Re:Democrats Declined DHS Offer to Test Caucus App on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:36AM (#22237580)
Reagan could
Re:Let's remove quaternions from every 3D engine (2018) on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:05AM (#22223761)
Remember, wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a textbook
Re:Entropy in the Universe on Monday January 27, 2020 @10:15AM (#22160011)
The entropy in the various particles (photos, neutrinos, gravitons etc) the stars are emitting from being formed probably is more than the entropy lost from the gas clouds ordering themselves into stars would be my guess.
Re:Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:52AM (#21813402)
> Free will and determinism aren't necessarily incompatible.

How?

Re:Things to Read to Become a Better Human and Developer on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @11:15AM (#21753804)
To be fair wikipedia is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not a textbook.
Re:The unending quest to explain consciousness on Friday December 06, 2019 @06:53AM (#21721003)
That's circular logic with a dubious interpretation of quantum physics. The idea that consciousness could somehow be the cause of the collapse of the wave function is anthropocentrism and shows a poor understanding of what measurement is.
Re:Hyperbolic Cellular Automata Simulator on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:19AM (#21703464)
Does the area grow less than quadratically with the radius on the surface of a shpere?