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It produces neutrons and exploding atoms, so it has already turned out shit.

I have no idea what this article is talking about, but if there are two plausible representations for the whatever-it-is, why not allow it to be represented both ways ?

> if Russia somehow gets a successor, he (or she) would stop the war, blame everything on Putin, beg for lifting of sanction and resuming the trade.

If the war stops, deliveries will resume through the overland pipelines, so Nordstream is largely irrelevant so far as Putin's rivals are concerned.

Gatekeeper ?

https://github.com/AltraMayor/gatekeeper/wiki

> In the End, Climate Change Is the Only Story That Matters

Hang on, just let me check the goalset....

Nope, nothing in there about what temperature the paperclips should be.

Maybe they're referring to increased migration from the Global South ?

New UK houses would all be cavity-wall so is there a reason the inside of the exterior wall isn't being used as the source ?

Late addition:

It's actually worse than that. If we take a population with only median and maximum talents, the probabilities for each event are: halving: p=0.5, doubling because median-or-above talent: p=0.5*0.6. Meaning that in 80% of the events for a given actor the talent is not considered at all.

So the result that luck plays a larger part isn't an emergent property of the model, it was explicitly baked into the model from the start.

It wouldn't be unfair to call this paper fraudulent.

DOI: 10.1142/S0219525918500145

Garbage model, garbage methodology.

Their model has a set of agents with a 'talent' normally distributed between 0 and 1 (mean 0.6, SD 0.1). Each agent gets a random series of doubling and halving events. The doubling is applied with probability = 'talent'.

The lengths of the series of events have an exponentially decreasing distribution (four longer is x10 less probable, approximately). The application of these series of events to the agent is supposed to simulate a life history of random opportunities, exploited according to talent.

BUT...

Half the events are losses, half the events are possible (P<1) gains. So for an agent with average luck (which is every agent in the long term), their capital decreases with time. The simulation has been rigged so agents can only win with luck.

DOI: 10.1142/S0219525918500145

> 20% of PhD-granting institutions in the United States supplied 80% of tenure-track faculty members

80:20

The Pareto Principle at work. All these figures show is that universities have the usual distribution of quality.

In a later video he goes back and checks with a better sonar, and gets the same results.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDskXBfyNes

Actually, it's about 35 fathoms.

As others have pointed out, the computations are currently infeasable. The rest of the plan works though, it would just need to be done with actual atoms.

"A human being should be mediocre at everything"

Great advice there.

Are there any plans to remove threading from python ?

A year or two ago I read up on the various efforts to make a fast, more parallel CPython, and one of the core underlying problems seemed to be the use of machine threads, resulting in a very high locking load as the large (potentially unlimited) number of threads attempted to defend against each other.

Letting an operating system run random fragments of your code at random times is very much a self-inflicted wound, so I was wondering if the python community has any plans to not do that any more ?

Adding "LARPing as evolution" to the list...

Some kind of priesthood based around tinned food and geiger counters.

Corporations don't have rights.

Next up, New International to King James.

Bonus Butlerian Jihad:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...

Speaking of such, during a rousing game of backgammon I did have occasion to refer to my opponent as a "Paddy", but I cannot believe that my use of "That Gaming Term" could cause such consternation as to precipitate my removal.

Ask VHN: I have recently been ejected from my Gentleman's club without explanation. I am neither a scofflaw nor a charlatan. Do I have any recourse ?

Will 1863 be the year of Linux on the desktop ?

Use of hydrogen on a train is a bit stupid though - trains are the the one mobile power use where there's no real benefit to being able to dump the ash into the environment. You may as well just supply good primary battery reactants, such as zinc, or sodium and sulfur, which can be efficiently be recharged somewhere away from the train.

Wasn't that the way OOP was supposed to work, back before people who didn't get it got their hands on it ? Isolated objects, messaging only, no notion of where the object resided. Just add idempotency guarantees and implicit parallelism for loops, and off you go. I can't think of any language that's actually like this though, so maybe it's harder than it looks.

"It's difficult to determine what really happened to them because their entire cultural memeplex was lethally irradiated."

A summary of the incident:

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/why-keffals-really-took...

As a person who lived through Gamergate, my base assumption here is that the attacks Kiwifarms are alleged to have made are entirely fictional. This is something that I (and you) could possibly check if there was some kind of Archive of the Internet, but apparently that evidence was just destroyed for reasons which are not suspicious at all.