The best understanding of matter is in the form of quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is always formulated with some background metric (geometry) of spacetime as an input. One idea is that the metric (geometry, gravity)…
> The excellent VimTeX plugin is the reason to use Vim over another LaTeX editor. I agree that the plugin is best-in-class. Whenever I write LaTeX in Vim without the plugin installed I feel incredibly handicapped. (Also…
Reminds me of the "lumiroses" from Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. Although the roses are not integral to the books, the general theme of the series is taking bioengineering one step too far.
What kind of features are not covered by the current implementation of profiles? <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...>
This is correct as long as you restrict your point of view only to sets. Even in pure mathematics one is usually interested in sets with additional structures. For instance, even though one speaks of the "set of real…
Indeed. We can only hope this is an intentional self-referential joke.
#! /bin/bash pdf_one="$1" pdf_two="$2" text_one=$(mktemp) text_two=$(mktemp) pdftotext "$pdf_one" "$text_one" pdftotext "$pdf_two" "$text_two" diff "$text_one" "$text_two"
> Ability to change order of accounts in UI I was always perplexed when I had to change the ordering of my accounts and still had to do it manually by editing the configuration after all these years. A big improvement…
While I agree that the article should have mentioned black hole evaporation, I would like to point out that "dA/dt > 0" is commonly referred to as "Hawking's area theorem" as a quick online search can verify and Stephen…
There are other forms of coercion than bribery.
You are right, there is no difference. As a matter of fact, many physicists work with a signature of (+,-,-,-) to describe the spacetime of our universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_convention#Relativity
Another book by Greg Egan exploring different metrics of spacetime is Dichronauts. In Orthogonal the metric signature explored is (+,+,+,+). In Dicronauts the metric signature explored is (-,-,+,+). (We live in a…
> The website is protected with Google Recaptcha Which website? The Plausible register page uses hCaptcha (https://plausible.io/register).
> I too stumbled upon Classic Tetris through the Youtube algorithm. To me this aspect was the most fascinating point about this article. I cannot shake the feeling that the algorithm "decided" for many individuals how…
> A targeted system would hide such ads. Note that usage of (modern) psychology might actually make your example exactly the result of a targeted system.
As far as I know the "brain patterns" (as measured by EEG) during sleep are quite distinct. The article mentions somebody confirming that the subject was actually sleep.
I was quite surprised to hear Jim Keller talking about lucid dreaming on a recent episode of the Lex Fridman podcast. [0] If I recall correctly, Keller uses dreaming as a productivity tool. [0]…
"That Harvard Astronomer" is Avi Loeb. Loeb was recently a guest on the Lex Fridman podcast where he talked about Oumuamua amongst other things. [0] I found his view on the subject fascinating and his perspective on…
Brian Kernighan talked about his love of awk on the Lex Fridman podcast [0]. [0] https://lexfridman.com/brian-kernighan/
This feels different from censorship on Twitter and Facebook to me. I guess the business model of Mailchimp is more transparent and I can appreciate that a company may choose who to do business with.
Grant Sanderson, the creator of Manim, talked about Manim on the Lex Fridman podcast[0]. He emphasized that he is no software engineer and did not plan on making Manim publicly available when he started. [0]…
The best understanding of matter is in the form of quantum field theory (QFT). QFT is always formulated with some background metric (geometry) of spacetime as an input. One idea is that the metric (geometry, gravity)…
> The excellent VimTeX plugin is the reason to use Vim over another LaTeX editor. I agree that the plugin is best-in-class. Whenever I write LaTeX in Vim without the plugin installed I feel incredibly handicapped. (Also…
Reminds me of the "lumiroses" from Margaret Atwood's dystopian MaddAddam trilogy. Although the roses are not integral to the books, the general theme of the series is taking bioengineering one step too far.
What kind of features are not covered by the current implementation of profiles? <https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...>
This is correct as long as you restrict your point of view only to sets. Even in pure mathematics one is usually interested in sets with additional structures. For instance, even though one speaks of the "set of real…
Indeed. We can only hope this is an intentional self-referential joke.
#! /bin/bash pdf_one="$1" pdf_two="$2" text_one=$(mktemp) text_two=$(mktemp) pdftotext "$pdf_one" "$text_one" pdftotext "$pdf_two" "$text_two" diff "$text_one" "$text_two"
> Ability to change order of accounts in UI I was always perplexed when I had to change the ordering of my accounts and still had to do it manually by editing the configuration after all these years. A big improvement…
While I agree that the article should have mentioned black hole evaporation, I would like to point out that "dA/dt > 0" is commonly referred to as "Hawking's area theorem" as a quick online search can verify and Stephen…
There are other forms of coercion than bribery.
You are right, there is no difference. As a matter of fact, many physicists work with a signature of (+,-,-,-) to describe the spacetime of our universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_convention#Relativity
Another book by Greg Egan exploring different metrics of spacetime is Dichronauts. In Orthogonal the metric signature explored is (+,+,+,+). In Dicronauts the metric signature explored is (-,-,+,+). (We live in a…
> The website is protected with Google Recaptcha Which website? The Plausible register page uses hCaptcha (https://plausible.io/register).
> I too stumbled upon Classic Tetris through the Youtube algorithm. To me this aspect was the most fascinating point about this article. I cannot shake the feeling that the algorithm "decided" for many individuals how…
> A targeted system would hide such ads. Note that usage of (modern) psychology might actually make your example exactly the result of a targeted system.
As far as I know the "brain patterns" (as measured by EEG) during sleep are quite distinct. The article mentions somebody confirming that the subject was actually sleep.
I was quite surprised to hear Jim Keller talking about lucid dreaming on a recent episode of the Lex Fridman podcast. [0] If I recall correctly, Keller uses dreaming as a productivity tool. [0]…
"That Harvard Astronomer" is Avi Loeb. Loeb was recently a guest on the Lex Fridman podcast where he talked about Oumuamua amongst other things. [0] I found his view on the subject fascinating and his perspective on…
Brian Kernighan talked about his love of awk on the Lex Fridman podcast [0]. [0] https://lexfridman.com/brian-kernighan/
This feels different from censorship on Twitter and Facebook to me. I guess the business model of Mailchimp is more transparent and I can appreciate that a company may choose who to do business with.
Grant Sanderson, the creator of Manim, talked about Manim on the Lex Fridman podcast[0]. He emphasized that he is no software engineer and did not plan on making Manim publicly available when he started. [0]…