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Can I ask you how old are you? Or who do you work?

Most of people in tech do not use Mathematica but I would put a lot of chips on a bet that most heard of it. That's why I'm courious

Even worse, I've seen a lot of people that where convinced the derivative of f(x)=e^7 is e^7

It's on a plane. Circumference goes up lineary

The problem with that tradeoff is that you only compare the performance with the 'top layer of abstraction' that is already implemented and not with the baseline.

Death by thousand cuts

I think that in this case it might just be a case of 'selective breeding' rather than 'evolution' sensu stricto.

Those with large tusks are shot dead and thus only tuskless remain. Not much different with breeding dogs for specific traits which is way faster process than evolution to adapt a species to the environment

Yup, same exact problems as with App Store on iOS, I think you got it!

Can you sell it on myWidgetAppStore? Can someone install myWidgetAppStore that sells apps? (the way I can visit myWidget.com if I don't want to use Walmart.com, because Safari doesn't block other websites but iOS blocks other appstores)

What does contemporary mean in this context? i.e. what's not considered 'contemporary'

Well, if you mean Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire with the Constantinople as a capitol) then absolutely massive amount of things shared it's time with it because it has fallen in 1453, even Columbus shared the planet with it.

But at this point, maybe incorrectly but surely, 'Roman Empire' is synonymous with antiquity so the republic and early empire, I think that even if year 495 counts here then it's borderline

I agree, I only wanted to point out that they can I they want to. I didn't say they have to

Edit: I'm being downvoted so I want to explain - the internet is a huge mishmash of different cultures and all I wanted to say is that it is allowed to swear because I though that maybe, in their local one, it is not and they think it's universal

Both of you are allowed to swear on the internet

Oh I have done this many times, when I said I've been studying this clip I really meant it because I truly want to hear it. LambdaComplex also mentioned tapping foot and counting and suddenly the count should change.

The result of my many experiments is that it is super hard to count 1 2 3 4 when they only clap twice. Most of the times, within seconds, I'm 'rhythmically' counting claps. Be it 'one three one three' or whatever numbers I chose, but the number only changes with the next clap so, well, that won't work because the audience doesn't change how they clap and I'm only using two different numbers.

I'm forcing myself hard to count to 4, basically saying another number in-between claps and if it works for an extended period of time I'm so focused on keeping my own momentum and keeping the 4-count going that I don't even hear the music just the claps and I try to remember to say the other number in between 1 and 3. That also absolutely fails because I'm already checked out of whatever I'm trying to hear

I also did experiments with my friends and some of them just hear when it happens without any counting or whatever. So I tried that as well - I would listen to this with my eyes closed and mark the point when I thought the clapping has changed. I think the results were statistically as good as my internal approximation of how long 40second is until I learned to hear the exact part of music I have to hear before I say 'yeah, it's that' - but it has nothing to do with my understanding of it.

I agree, that's what I told my friends, to just keep learning because if I could why wouldn't you. The point of my post is that I have realized how unhelpful that comment is because if someone told me that about music today... all I see is an insurmountable mountain ahead even though I've read quite a bit about it already

Mind you it's different with for example fluid dynamics or functional programming or even chemistry or biology, I have zero knowledge of it (nor interest) and all I know is that it's hard... but I know that if I spend years learning it I will succeed. I don't know how to explain this feeling I have with music - it's just foreign on another level

This article, and the comments, made me realize why some friends that I tried to teach coding just couldn't grasp it yet for me it seems kinda obvious.

I don't understand music one bit, none, zero. I can read descriptions and even understand what different notes are, and the symbols for them but it's a very dry knowledge. Nothing I do make it 'click' for me and it feels so disjointed and foreign that I just got overwhelmed and I know it will never make any sense to me

I can read a math paper, and even though I might not understand it at first, at least I know that if I just take a book that explains the terminology then I'll be able to grasp it. With music it's a complete opposite - nothing no matter what I do will make it understandable for me

Edit: To give you and example, I have been studying the famous clip [0] about the rhythmic displacement. I have watched it thousands times, read tons of analysis etc. and I know exactly what was done and when. I just don't hear it being done - I know people aren't lying to me but I just cannot hear whatever happened at that famous point and what changed after

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UinRq_29jPk

> and units of different measures (e.g. length: m, time: s)

A nitpick but those are also related by a simple scalar factor (the speed of light)

If you ever find this one[0], buy it, it's the greatest. My local stores in the UK have this company's mustards in stock but not this particular (and superior) variant

[0] https://smakpol-doncaster.co.uk/110-thickbox_default/kamis-m...

It helps me in the sense that if some object is moving (I can artificially make it move for the sake of the argument) then I just change it's coordinates instead o how it 'would look like to m eyes', I don't know, that makes me sleep easier

Oh they are very spike-y, well, my point in the above post is to just solve the eq but easier 'visualization' would be [0]

By the way, this is a similar phenomena to the 'curse of dimensionality' [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceaM2_zQd8

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality

The way I think about higher dimensions is just by looking what a sphere of radius r looks like in cartesian coordinates

x^2 + y^2 = r^2 in 2D

x^2 + y^2 + z^2 = r^2 in 3D

x^2 + y^2 + z^2 + t^2 = r^2 in 4D

If that leads to some weird behaviors (spheres are very 'spike-y') then so be it, I don't understand why intuition from 3D is important

Things gets 'weirder' in higher dim manifolds but not really, it's only hard if you want to 'see' it in 3d Euclidean

Ah, couchsurfing. It truly was a paradise and a fantastic community. I have a lot of fond memories when I would just hitchhike whole summer throughout europe and beyond. Meeting all sort of people with every background imaginable. I don't think there is a way for me to recreate that kind of freedom anymore. And the community was really trusting to the point of ridiculousness - I remember one host in Italy had some emergency and had to go out of town for a day while I was about to appear and he just texted me where he left the keys lol

Tangential but, Sourceforge, that's a name I haven't heard in a long time... How are they doing?

rvz asked me to elaborate on it in a sibling comment

In my opinion public exit has been twisted 180 degrees. The reason for a company going public is to raise capital that individuals do not have to expand the business - build new factories, hire or whatever. After all there is much more money distributed in the public than few individuals have and in exchange you get shares in the company.

I don't think GitLab is in need of that, what a lot of companies are doing now when they go public is just a method of 'cashing out'. When you have a great product as a private company your income comes from the users and you tailor and improve your product for their needs. When you go public in the above sense you're cashing out and suddenly the users shift to a product and shareholders are now what you cater for while trying to milk your 'users' as much as possible without them quitting.

It is good for GitLab, what a shame for GitLab's users

His posts are very hit or miss and the one linked in this thread is unfortunately a huge miss. He describes nondeterministic automata (and pretends he doesn't) and gives them way too much significance. Even the 'computational paradigm' he's saying it replaces is only a paradigm in Wolfram's mind

The 'applications' section at the end is just ramblings at best and borderline crankpotty at worst. Which is weird since he is undeniably smart and educated, maybe an overflow?

I know this might seem like a joke answer but I love it because it's the truest answer.

The 'speed of light' is nothing but a coefficient between seconds and meters (or in general, between units of time and units of distance and is equal to 1 in any sensible measurement system) since the spacetime in GR is unified

Besides the whole 9/11 thing, if you have 'showdead' set, you see the spam 'bot' in this thread. I always wonder if it's really a bot or someone with a lot of time to waste but let's assume it's someone real... do you know what their end game is? It can't be propaganda because it's clearly a spam and no one read those. Also, not many people respond to spam so I don't think 'dopamine hit' is a part of it.

Confusing

With the exception of Poland I think but we might be a bit biased due to the whole independence thing (however brief it was). People aren't disillusioned and the shit that happened isn't necessarily ignored but the overall sentiment is very positive I would say. He's even explicitly mentioned in the second verse of our anthem

Slightly different take on this - there is a dude[0] who attempts to cross countries (Wales, Norway) on foot in a straight line. His videos are highly entertaining

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoWizard