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> stochastic simulation .. approximating the universe

your education is showing.. perhaps you have a different definition of mathematics

among many definitions you can define mathematics as an abstract science or as what those abstractions are studying

but holding the first definition is insufficient evidence for the inexistence of the second

i'm unclear what you think intractable equations.. whether easy or difficult to form and what the definitions of easy and hard are or why they are of consequence.. say of mathematics

a computer is a system literally built as an electrical manifestation of mathematics, albeit a subset, and in its case suffers limitations of intractability but the mathematics underlying its structure still remain

can you defend the position that the limitations of a nand gate somehow disproves quantity(o)?

also, I think Godel would be distressed to have heard the incompleteness theorems being used to deny the existence of mathematics

incompleteness is intended to show mathematics exists beyond the scope of proof

for me incompleteness does go beyond its intentions but as proof of paradox such as the existence mathematics

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity

> This lack of direction can be disorienting at first... But it very quickly turned into a liberating sensation.

Tevis Thompson needs more credit for identifying with astute precision the ills inherent in the direction Zeldas were going

would we have breath of the wild without this essay: http://tevisthompson.com/saving-zelda/ ; I honestly wonder

I happen to agree with your first para, but I think indifference and dislike are separate

I am indifferent to warhols work because I already agree with the inherent message and find little beyond that message

You can even dislike Warhol for other reasons, but it still remains that disliking the work for its mass production qualities means you are responding as intended

As for your second para.. you seem to be an adherent of a dull and unskillful ideology

I think all art takes skill, of varying types of skill, but more specifically a lot of modern art(o) consists of paintings that inarguably required a lot of skill to paint

You seem to be arguing something other than modern art

Personally I think it's dangerous to apply limitations on how others can express thaemself

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_art

Warhol is one of the few artists that if you hate thaer work you should accept the fact that you really love it

Warhol hated mass production and expressed those feelings, oddly, by participating in it

If you look at a piece by Warhol and think, 'this is unimaginative clutter produced in such a scale that bars any kind of creativity or intimacy of expression' then Warhol just managed to have you speak the opinion that the art was produced in response to

Now you have the opinion and can use it to examine elements of your own life, beyond warhol's work

who will look at a room filled with campbells soup can paintings and think, 'such care and consideration went into each one.. theses are all individually such good paintings'?

then go home afterward and look at a cabinet full of campbell's soup cans think 'good soup'

But to say a collection is 'all I possess' and then expect your audience to come to your work with the knowledge that we all possess intangibles beyond the scope of the things the artist is saying are the only things the artist possesses muddles the piece

Perhaps some abstract objects could have been standins for abstract concepts: this apple represents the love of knowledge I possess; but in their finitude we'd still have the editorialised issue

It is a stated art installation which to me begs to be discussed and so I was discussing what thoughts the installation caused me to have through exposure

My opinions apply to this curated list of items stead some ad hominem of the artist

The items and their aesthetic homogeneity suggests to me a lack of intellectual curiosity but the artist may yet possess more than what is being displayed in this installation

fair, but if I have a storage unit do I 'possess' those things? If asked would you tell people you 'have in your life' thousands of books because you have access to a library in your community

i also think it unnecessary for someone to have access to junked capacitors

it was mentioned in response to the phrasing utilising 'all' which to me implied a preference for fewer things.. too many things would render the exercise of documenting it 'all' improbable.. and I was trying to express my own opinion of content stead numerosity when living in a comfortable yet clutter free environment

also, i failed to see a bank statement or a pile of cash or stacks of gold bullion, so this all feels editorialised anyway

I am all for removing clutter from one's life.. i lived out of a backpack for more than seven years.. but honestly what I see is a lack of intellectual curiosity

I have more capacitors I salvaged from street trash than 'all this person posses'

I see a unfortunate homogeneity of subject matter

There is a wide breadth of cultures and forms of knowledge and expression in the world

I hope to involve as much of it in my life as possible

Look to the problems and limitations of nueral networks

Local minima'maxima and the unyeildy nature of large numbers of nuerons are both currently being dealt with utilising probabilistic methods

the mind functions on electrical signals and should be able to be understood through modeling

This is the case regardless of where you stand on dualism

Speculation of currently unknown theory leading to circular thinking to follow:

Stead a direct link between qm and consciousness, as in protein strands exhibiting superposition, I think both utilise, and thus are consequence of, the same, or similar, underlying mathematics

There are flaws in both that require probability for us to even get a glimpse of what is happening

it is my intendeded inference that with a new mathematical model that solves high dimensional problem spaces we will understand both more

For me qm and consciousness are intuitive evidence that p=np, but we will only be able to show that indirect relation when we have proven the math

maybe I should have included the whole quote, but this is regarding the double slit experiment stead delayed choice quantum eraser experiments, where you measure over here but seem to affect over there

> If we place a detector inside or just behind one slit, we can find out whether any given particle goes through it or not. In that case, however, the interference vanishes. Simply by observing a particle's path – even if that observation should not disturb the particle's motion – we change the outcome.

when we place an observer at one of the slits we lose the previously ambiguous diffraction and instead get a clump pattern, but we are definitely probing where it is

> even if that observation should not disturb the particle's motion

this claim has always frustrated me

can someone who agrees with it defend it from first principles?

Ha, yeah

your video is an example of a blind race.. where the people playing are completely unaware of what the level will entail

One of my favourite videogame videos is this blind race(o)

it is such a cool format.. some players create levels for others to race blind in teams of four, switching every death it creates opportunity for so many great moments

i love how the level designers are there to comment, then afterward they race some of the hardest levels in mario maker(i)

your link is of one of the original hacks which was designed to be just totally brutal, but Mario maker has a more inviting difficulty curve

what's really fascinating is the history(o) of this subculture and how it was already fully formed long before mario maker

it almost feels like mario maker was released specifically for this group of super fans, or in response to them

it all started in the mid aughties when a person hacked a ROM so thae could make thaer own levels to torture thaer friends with

More and more people got exposed to this insane idea of hard, though beatable, mario as people kept passing around the hacked rom

it eventual gained legend status and a following

10 years later it basically defines mario maker

that, to me, is remarkable

(o) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uskPV4KCjn8

(i) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OmwL6CyNReI

(ii) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaizo_Mario_World

i once had a friend, of whom english was a second language, ask me, 'what is the purpose of nerd?' after someone called me a nerd in front of her

i still hold to my answer, 'a nerd is someone who cares a lot about something you care little for'

are you familiar with mario maker? amazing and wonderful things happen when nintendo gives their audience access to their tools

the kaizo and puzzle communities are remarkable.. both in consistently high quality levels and the people are warm and welcoming

both kaizo and world record attempts at puzzles are exercises in optimisation

and the puzzles(o) feel like spaces for interacting with algorithms and data structures

(o) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08vhGZZ1FEY#t=17m30s

i agree, and i like your 'see who who are'

i say the same when people cite the taxi cab number(o) story and suggest some kind of intuition or magic

ramanujan simply had worked with cubes enough to recognise the number, still very impressive, but anyone could do it with the kind of interest ramanujan had for number theory

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_number

i'd argue the opposite.. i mean, i think you're referring to malloc when you cite premature optimisation, but this seems more of an issue of failing to optimise for the future or generalise beyond the initial needs of the developer

yeah, you'd have to have a visual cue.. even an option for displaying a commit message alongside the message

allow respeak an immutable quality, keep the respeak as is and have a flag signaling the original underwent an edit

the interest is in more clarity and transparency

git style version control would be ideal: retain the old but allow for minds to change; goog's cloud office suite already does it

personally i find the editing almost as important as the content(o)

seeing what people change and when can illuminate context that would be hidden from a first thought best thought adherence

(o) http://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/figures/yal.00049.001_...

from 1984, chapter 5:

It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it. .. the other table swallowed it fanatically, passionately, with a furious desire to track down, denounce, and vaporize anyone who should suggest that last week the ration had been thirty grammes. Syme, too-in some more complex way, involving doublethink, Syme swallowed it. Was he, then, alone in the possession of a memory? .. http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html

it happens so often that san francisco has a policy of dropping all arrest charges.. in the courts, on the court date you are required to attend, unfortunately.. when said arrests occurred during protests

i know from experience and talking directly with the arresting officers, and my assigned defense attorney, and the judge that dropped mine and a number of other identical charges in the room

> A protester at the NC General Assembly invites her arresting officer to Christmas dinner. She was one of several arrested while protesting a power grab by Republican legislators during a surprise special session.

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/state-p...

they just showed a pov of a pod moving through the hyperloop

it was cool to see the tires on the pod spinning as they made contact at the beginning and the end of the loop but be still while moving through the loop

if you leave a cow to cow it will cow for 20 years

dairy industry cows only live for four

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_cattle

this is great, yeah i investigated the create a lace after i wrote the comment, generalising that effort would seem to save you some server resources!

honestly, i think you should consider working on some indirect educational material

it seems your shoelace site encourages appreciation for mathematical abstractions in both those that study them and those unaware

you've created one of those rare works wherein anyone who encounters it speaks highly of it

great work on the site!

do you eat meat?

alterations to follow:

~Not having had meat in the house for over 8 years now, I was reintroduced to the world of eating meat during our holidays when we went away for a month and stayed with friends who were avid meat eaters.

~Been that long since I had eaten meat, and I was astounded at the how banal and low brow most meat options are these days. I seem to remember a time when meat meals were clever and creative, but the ones I kept eating with monotonous regularity were nothing more than quick bites causing people to go buy junk or eat more crap.

~Everything was really disjointed and jarring to me - I actually came across a couple of meals that I wanted to eat, but they never seemed to get started - every few minutes there was an interruption telling me what else I "couldn't miss" eating, which are just more meals that will in turn have interruptions to eat other meals. Oddly, my friends who eat meat didn't seem to see a problem.

~Really makes me wonder if meat eaters these days are just conditioned to have such a short attention span and are used to being forced fed suggestions like this. Or perhaps they are so hardened to it that advertising companies have to just blast short messages to them with all the subtlety of a drone strike?

~Time for humanity to take control back over their health and environment, otherwise it will just be "You're vegetarians, who cares what you do?" (o)...

i think steak is gross now and i have friends who have said the idea that they could start to dislike meat, if they stopped eating it, was reason to keep eating it

reminds me of rush, "What you say about his company, Is what you say about society"(i)

(o) https://youtu.be/xkR2XEYEFgk

(i) https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk

(i/2) lyrics: http://www.rush.com/songs/tom-sawyer/

> Unix v6 was released in 1975. “It was roughly 9,000 lines of code,”

has anyone perused it? 9k is tiny.. is there any value, either direct or extrapolated, in lending it the mindshare?

this site comes up often and it usually sparks conversations about shoelaces, but i want to see the algorithms(o) and database schema

the consistency in the images, and the seemingly exhaustive quantity, implies they were algorithmically generated

i would love if each image had a build array that documented how to draw the laces using a minimalist(i) notation representing connections and nodes

this paired with simple client side code could have the images created dynamically with less work for the server and less data being sent across wire.. a random photo(ii) from the 'dis' method(iii) was 2.7K

instead it seems the server either stores or creates html with the images hard coded and serves up the images associated with the method, though the image file names are encouraging of a meticulously normalised underlying abstraction

i think an appreciation, either conscious or unconscious, for this underlying abstraction is part of the attraction to this project

(o) http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/2trillionmethods.htm

(i) http://www.fieggen.com/software/info.htm

(ii) http://www.fieggen.com/la/ya-d+.png

(iii) http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/displayshoelacing.htm

exactly, i saw a similar complaint as to the gp's in a thread about working with classical computing to simulate quantum computing

my argument then was 'imagine prototyping on a machine that needs to be kept at 17millikelvin'

here the argument is 'imagine prototyping on a two ton missile traveling at lethal speeds through highly populated areas'

interesting comparison but it is a bit disingenuous

there is more going on than just input in that reaction time figure

8fps fails to assume a reaction time of 0.125s for the same reason that the human eye's ~220fps.. now this is a mental stretch of the true underlying mechanisms but i'll make it for sake of consistency of argument(o).. fails to imply a reaction time of .00454545s

i guess i assumed autonomous vehicles sensor data would be measured in hertz, but now am intrigued by what framerate the computer vision system works

(o) http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm

> artificially slowed to 8FPS

i'm sure this is to offer relief to the nn but does this further simulate 'reality'?

are our autonomous vehicles seeing at 8 frames per second?

i went back and found this old entry from my university days and it turns out i only used the three works: shakespeare, chaucer and boccaccio; as basis for comparison in the paper, stead all four