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Horffupolde··on Is artificial consciousness achievable? Lessons from the human brain
The opposite. Laws are just conceptual representations of underlying intractable processes.
Horffupolde··on Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones
Why can’t it be reinstalled?
Horffupolde··on A teacher did all he could to keep kids off phones
By say he means think. It’s a figure of speech.
Horffupolde··on Veo
Google is the new Kodak.
Horffupolde··on Brain Uses Quantum Effects, New Study Finds [video]
Given that the brain is a physical object subject to all quantum effects, wouldn’t the novelty be that it doesn't use quantum effects? That it does sounds obvious.
Horffupolde··on Berlin Tesla activists say civil disobedience is only option
Your conclusion does not follow from your assumptions. You clearly twisted your reasoning to provide an anti-Semitic argument.
Horffupolde··on Building a rocket engine from scratch
English is great for technical writing.
Horffupolde··on Search.chatgpt.com domain and SSL cert have been created
I don’t know. ChatGPT has sticked.
Horffupolde··on Alice's adventures in a differentiable wonderland
Well, I’d argue that could also be a bit enlightening. It’s like taking a moment to appreciate that forests are composed of single trees. It takes a certain level of insight to appreciate systems at various depths.
Horffupolde··on A canonical Hamiltonian formulation of the Navier–Stokes problem
That’s a correct usage of the factorial.
Horffupolde··on Features I wish PostgreSQL had as a developer
You can, but you have to play towers of Hanoi.
Horffupolde··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
This is actually quite reasonable and sensible. It’s the future of warfare. People are not willing to fight in trenches anymore.
Horffupolde··on Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M
It’s not random. It’s called the Crentist effect or nominative determinism.
Horffupolde··on Dali owner file petition to cap liability in Baltimore bridge collapse at $43.7M
Up to the point where it’s considered criminal negligence by the executives.
Horffupolde··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
It’s the arrogance that kills. Not the spring.
Horffupolde··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
Famous last words.
Horffupolde··on How I replaced deadly garage door torsion springs (2002)
It’s like for an elevator. The motor is there for the friction but the potential energy of the system is approximately constant.
Horffupolde··on Brain waves appear to wash out waste during sleep in mice
You just need one clinic there that offers it. Why is the relative number relevant?
Horffupolde··on Building Meta's GenAI infrastructure
The general public doesn’t care. Only developers.
Horffupolde··on Sweden Is a NATO Member
So paradoxically, by NATO increasing in members, its non-MAD strength decreases.
Horffupolde··on Realtime telemetry from ISS internal components
I assume it’s calculated from the propulsion positioning system.
Horffupolde··on Singapore Airlines Concorde
Because not boarding the plane is much worse than waiting at the airport.
Horffupolde··on Singapore Airlines Concorde
It’s not about the mode but the max.
Horffupolde··on Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
That’s called moral hazard.
Horffupolde··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
It’s the Jonah paradox.
Horffupolde··on Study suggests a 'dark mirror' universe within ours where atoms failed to form
Bananas have a mass distribution so they aren’t comparable as a ratio. There’s no “banana.”
Horffupolde··on Everything is a linear model
Not all functions have a trivial transformation.
Horffupolde··on My notes on Gitlab's Postgres schema design (2022)
Yes sure but now you have to handle two ids and guaranteeing uniqueness across machines or clusters becomes hard.
Horffupolde··on Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi
What do you mean shift to x86?
Horffupolde··on Nvidia is now more valuable than Amazon and Google
Could you please share any links or pointers for that? Sounds interesting.
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