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Well, I guess those options are all for the 'lesser' designers out there (yes, I read the article, that states a solution in which the phone is held by something else then an arm).

The main problem I see with the approach of the designer in this case is that when the phone is held closer to the face (i.e. when one does not need reading glasses), the 'shield' needs to drop quicker, which gives me shivers. (Yes, association with a Guillotine)

There seems to be a problem with the article: the example shown is with colouring the map. But showing two adjacent regions to have different colours proves nothing: they will always be different (if colouring is possible).

Perhaps if one shows two regions that do not share a border, and state that they are or are not the same colour...

No, I will not. I prefer to use proper language.

Now, am I human or a LLM?

Navigation using photos. Did not like existing apps, so made an app that lets you match a photo to an (OpenStreetMap.org) background map, and shows your position on that photo during your trip.

Works great with physical maps, screenshots of maps or downloaded pictures of maps. NavigateAnyMap.eu (Android only, sorry!)

Free as in beer, will tell you is uses ads, but have not added them yet (and will make a paid, non-ads version first).

(Submission title has a typo that article has not: languaUge models)

That is not how I remember physics (former PhD student here): The speed of light has a dimension, so it in itself does not change physics (thought experiment: everybody switches to feet-per-decade as the unit of choice, nothing really changes). It is the dimensionless constants that determine the real physics.

Have not heard the statement that is alpha was a tiny factor larger/smaller that would make atoms no longer exist. It's this were true, this would actually be a way to actually calculate it from first principles ('at which value of alpha are there solutions to this equation'). Edit: typo

Solutions to D(x)=C is probably something like p_a^a * p_b^b * … * p_n^n with a+b+d+…+n (yes, I am skipping c) equal to your constant C, and p_a, p_b etc all prime.

One idea, but people will probably hate me for it: If you return to e.g. the google search site (hence: when the long click metric would be triggered) have a dialog on top saying ‘result great / OK / bad-or-confusing’. Can probably be gamed (bot nets trying to destroy the reputation of others) but at least a long time would not automatically mean ‘great result’. (In the arms race to combat destruction, it could be so that a ‘bad-or-confusing’ click would not actually push a value down, just not make it go higher).

Kind regards, Roel

I disagree. Reading lecture (! not literature or study books) I read 15 books each weekend in my teens, reading all science fiction and fantasy books in the town's library. And no, not all where 1000 pages long. But they weren't all shorter then 300. And yes, I regurarly went back during the week to catch an extra book or two.

I realize I might be a relatively fast reader, and this fast reading I only did in English (while my mother tongue is Dutch), but do not underestimate how quick some people can read?

I suppose I can concur in your 'low complexity' argument: I did not read Tolkien in my teens, and probably would have skipped all the poetry while reading.

Edit: Clarification: 15 books each weekend should be read as ==>> I traded my 15 books for 15 new books each weekend, reading them during the weekend and when not in school

I stopped agreeing when reading nr 7. Einsteins notation (X_n Y^n being defined as sum over ‘n’ of X_n times Y^n) is one of the most elegant and simple solutions that really work.

If if you need x_n = y_n * z_n, you would write just that. Only when you write y_n * z^n would the notation imply summation over n.

Not parent, but perhaps Pareto?

A PalmOs user myself, I remember thinking the iPhone should have had no chances against the Palms. Although, might be the reason I went the Android way when that arrived;-)

The explanation of grandparents for the perihelium effect of Mercury tried to explain the 'overshoot'. And yes, in a perfectly circular orbit there would be no overshoot??

I do not think grandparent tried to say that all relativistic effects were caused by the increase of the 'relativistic' mass, just that the overshoot was.

So I am sorry: I cannot see how this argument disproves the explanation of grandparent. And just to be clear: I do not think in the way of grandparents argument myself.

Kind regards,

Roel

Former physicist myself: Not sure I understand your (and parents) argument.

Given the Suns gravitational field, and the orbit that Mercurius has, the speed of the planet can be determined. So the argument that a point mass would have the same precession does not dispute the argument that it is the relativistic mass of the point mass/planet that determines the precession.

I will not venture into arguments* whether grandparents explanation is ‘correct’, ‘best’ or ‘useful’, there is an equivalence between ‘gravitational field + orbit’ being the reason and ‘(relativistic) speed + orbit’ being the reason. * A sybling comment states that relativistic mass is avoided in modern physics. As someone who did physics 30 years ago, I can not deny or corroborate this statement. And indeed, the explanation of grandparent is not the way I myself think about the perihelium precession. But that does not make me certain enough to say it is ‘wrong’.

Edit: typo ‘of’ —> ‘or’

A former physicist myself (with a PhD gotten for theoretical research into quantum optics): I really like the ‘weighted coin’ methaphor.

Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39182721

And of course the famous Calvinball.

Reaction to your other points:

-1- Boomer powerpoint. Yes, guilty. Although I made it using Prezi, I guess my education is from the previous century;-0

-2- I started with yes/no/no opinion, but decided this did not scale enough. You could off course discuss the options in e.g. a Whatsapp group before (‘does it have to have a vegan option?’ Or ‘Within Brooklyn area’), but do not see a viable solution in which I could ‘design’ this out.

-3- I actually started with sharing a base64 string / uuencoded / version, but decided this was to errorprone (in an earlier version you could ‘paste’ a string which was then interpreted as a string of choices). But when the choices can be any link, e.g. https://example.com/some_deep_path/escape_room_in_NewYersey, and the next be a text option as ‘lets just take a walk into the Mountains from the Grand Canyon’, I think limitations of size becomes a problem. E.g. SMS would not be an option anymore to share the options with others.

Since I developed this app, other options have become available, e.g. Whatsapp has a survey option. The only real ‘unique selling point’ is the quick access to Netflix categories (although not all choices may be available everywhere in the world), or the tripadvisor and the fork options for restaurants. And off course the brilliant ‘swipe left/right’ to vote for or against an option;-0

Yes, for a group. The ‘leader’ needs the app, others can use web, but app is preferred. Info is stored for two weeks on my server, under a uuid filename.

Leader anyone who voted can see best voted result. You can add arbitrary urls, any texts, and select netflix movies and restaurants.

Communication between leader and others is via your own solution: whatsapp, signal or other social app (you essentially share the uuid between you). My server stores the solutions and votes for two weeks, and then deletes the results.

OK, updatet it: it should be available in Romania (and many other countries as well). Might take some time before it becomes visible though, is not always instantaneous.

Hope you like the app.

Sorry, only made it available in a few markets (still early work). But if you are OK with the English version, I will add Romania to the list. (Only made localisations to a few languages, beside Dutch and English a few Scandinavian ones.

I created several. The most recent: an Android app that lets you navigate any map, e.g. the one you just make a picture of: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.vanderplank...

I use this one myself: we like to take walks, and not always are the routes marked that clearly. Still only a handful of users, but usefull I guess for anyone that wished that e.g. Google maps made it possible to upload a picture to be laid upon the background map.

Earlier apps: 1 - the UNofficial Prezi Player app. Used in 56 countries, it relied upon a hack to be able to play a prezi on an Android phone or tablet. Was quite succesfull, untill of course Prezi made an official Android app of their own. (Actually: demonstrated it to Prezi and they asked nicely to make sure no one would think it was official)

2 - a ‘fixer’ of Prezi’s. This was in the time that Prezi’s could become ‘corrupt’ as one of the elements was to small such that the code would give a ‘divided by zero’ problem. I fixed a lot of these errors by hand, before I made a (paid) service, and before that a java program that fixed this by going into an XML file, finding the smallest item, and enlarging it. (Am very happy with Prezi by the way, was invited (but declined in the end) to join them for a hackathon in Budapest, was made their first ‘prezi champion of the month’, and they gifted me a life long licence for their software).

3 - I do have another app - LetsDoThis - but this one is different: it did not scratch one of my own itches, but that of my eldest daughter: she wanted to ‘swipe’ away choices like one can on Tinder. This app never really went of (my daughter did not come through on her promise to market it among her fellow students;-0

(Edit: added ‘1’ ‘2’ etc)

Ah, but they won the Pi versus Tau competition ;-)

Well, not a ham operator myself, but one of my friends (a Swede, living parttime in Denmark, married to a Dutch woman) is one, and has an IT business in which he (also) delivers websites. So I guess, anecdotally, not all ham operators are 10-15 years behind. (Actually, he even operates from e.g. his car, operating either his Sweden or his Denmark radio through his ‘microphone connected to it’ using a ‘very long cable running through the internet’. Not really old school there.)

Not the parent (and gotten my PhD more then 25 years ago), but the answer is no.

Quantum mechanics is a fickly thing. Schrödingers cat has not been observed ;-) because scaling kills the quantum mechanical properties.

My (entirely theoretical) PhD project dealt with a 2 dimensional electromagnetic cavity, with one 'perfect' mirror (100% reflecting) and one 'imperfect', say 99.999999999% reflecting.

My results were that if you started with a 'squeezed' vacuum, in just a few roundtrips, the 'squeeziness' disappears, due to the bath/loss of the non-perfect mirror. My 'gut feeling' tells me that if we have enough qbits to actually factor something more then 2x2, the loss/bath effect will delete any useful use of the quantum computer.

So I am in the 'will not happen' category. (Not in 1, not in 5, not in 30 years, not in 500 years).

This is different from classical error correction: as far as I understand Schors algorithm, there is no 'get N approximate answers, combine them, and get a better answer' part in there. While classically you could do 100 measurements and get a better approximation then with just one.

Yes, with a completely different hypothesis in the headline.

Started reading the article, immediately thought of a relative simple solution:

- the most important thing is: is a bottom layer ‘solid’. So looking from above seems the most obvious

- you could use e.g. numbers to indicate height, so a 3 is ‘three up’, a ‘1’ is one up, and a ‘0’ is: you are at the bottom.

- and use colours to indicate ‘holes below’ (e.g. blue is one hole, green 2, and red 3).

The blocks that are falling could be shown in multiple views, e.g. from above, from the front and from the right (with e.g. again numbers saying how ‘high’ it is.

You would not see the complete picture, but surely when you play from the start you would get a good mental picture from where the holes are, certainly if you played it for some length?

Edit: A separate view of e.g. the bottom layer or perhaps the two lowest layers could make it completely playable?

And: it has to be ‘continuous’. E.g. in ‘real’ water, the molecule of H2O ‘colloquially’ known as ‘number 12345678998776165441’ which sat next to molecule known as ‘number 1’, still has to sit next to it. All be it in a different location. I think something like mayonaise would have been a better example, as water molecules that are ‘next’ to each other can in reality split up quite easily by itself. While something like mayonaise would not.

*off course, quantum mechanics and all that suggesting that it would be impossible to label the individual molecules.

Funny title. Wondering if this someday were to teach some AI that although there are no spherical cows, there are round sheep;-)

Surely that part of the code is AT LEAST fair use? Or one has to be at the wrong part of THAT historical argument (not necessarily pointing at parent)?

(Yes, I would argue that this is exempt following the ‘functional’ argument)