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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish I was as bold as these authors.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and for people unfamiliar with the field it has always been a term synonymous with AGI.

  Gamers screaming about the AI of bots/NPCs making them mad beg to differ

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol what? How did you conclude that if 9x = 5 then x = 1? Surely you didn’t pass algebra in high school, otherwise you could see that getting x from 9x = 5 requires dividing both sides by 9, which yields x = 5/9, i.e. 0.555… = 5/9.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just cited myself.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi isn’t a fraction – it’s an irrational number, i.e. a number with no fractional form in integer bases. Furthermore, it’s a transendental number, meaning it’s never a solution to f(x) = 0, where f(x) is a non-zero finite-degree polynomial expression with rational coefficients. That’s like, literally part of the definition. They cannot be compared to rational numbers like integer ratios/fractions.

  Since |r|<1 => ∑[n=1, ∞] arⁿ = ar/(1-r), and 0.999… is that sum with a = 9 and r = 1/10 (visually, 0.999… = 9(0.1) + 9(0.01) + 9(0.001) + …), it’s easy to see after plugging in, 0.999… = 9(1/10) / (1 - 1/10) = 0.9/0.9 = 1). This was a proof in Euler’s Elements of Algebra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Later, losers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not gonna be active on Discord tonight. I’m meeting a girl (a real one) in half an hour(wouldn’t expect a lot of you to understand anyway) so please don’t DM me asking me where I am (im with the girl, ok) you’ll most likely get aired because ill be with the girl (again I don’t expect you to understand) shes actually really interested in me and its not a situation i can pass up for some meaningless Discord degenerates (because ill be meeting a girl, not that you really are going to understand) this is my life now. Meeting women and not wasting my precious time online, I have to move on from such simple things and branch out (you wouldnt understand) @everyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk man conservatives in recent history have a pretty consistent track record of assassinations and assassination attemps on liberal and leftist politicians in the US based on their politics. Tommy Burks was outright killed by his Republican opponent less than a month before the election (Burks was one of the most conservative Democrats at the time, but he was certainly killed by a lot more conservative Republican), Clementa Pinckney (targetted in a white supremacist shooting at a primarily black church that he was the pastor of), Gabby Giffords (shot in the head by an anti-government right-wing conspiracy theory consumer).

  When Republican politicians are killed now, it’s pretty much only by personal enemies/drama that is unrelated to liberal or leftist politics, or by schizophrenic/criminally insane people who also weren’t doing it over politics. Like Linda Collins (her friend killed her after being confronted for stealing money), Mike McLelland (he was killed by a former lawyer who’s theft case he prosecuted). Hell, even Ronald Reagan was shot over a woman, not over the guy’s personal political views. Ironically, Republican John Roll was killed by the right-wing terrorist targetting Gabby Giffords, he was caught in the cross-fire. I don’t think there’s even an in-office conservative Republican politician that was assassinated by a Democratic rival this century, or even a single instance of a conservative Republican being assassinated by a liberal over politics in that time period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean I can cut down all the trees I want so I’m not sure that’s true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine denying other living and breathing lifeforms agency to thrive amd change lol lol lol⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fetuses aren’t living and don’t breathe. They can’t live on their own and all their chemicals come from another human being (via the umbilical cord).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheating might be way worse if you’re not completely estranged from your spouse. Depends on the situation. In this, divorce would clearly be the nuclear option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Divorce means you possibly get murdered, Walter’s a psychopathic drug kingpin who for all she knows has probably gotten a lot of people killed already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  breaking bad ended over a decade ago…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How can you tell that they’re not a 2D slice of life anime protagonist living in the real world with real world problems? You the NSA or somethin’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Social jet lag? Isn’t that just delayed circadian rhythm?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean ADHD, Autism, Dyspraxia, etc. have a specific set of symptoms and specific treatments, and a large part of the population has those (as well as other mental disabilities like MDD, Bipolar, etc.). Many psychology researchers tackling the subject find that ADHD is severely underdiagnosed in the population (despite popular uneducated belief being that ADHD is overdiagnosed due to misinformation being widely spread on TV shows in the 2000s), with around 20% of people likely meeting the criteria for an ADHD diagnosis.

  It’s postulated that the high occurence of ADHD in many populations comes from our days as hunter-gatherers – then, many of the behaviours of ADHD would have been extremely helpful, such as high alertness/awareness of changes in the environment such as sound cues and slight visual changes, and impulsiveness/drive to be active to seek out berries and prey and such, making a small portion of members of a group having ADHD be a net benefit. But most of those useful effects have become quite useless in modern society, and many of the symptoms (like dysfunctional working memory & inattentiveness) have become a massive detriment in capitalistic society.

  Fun fact, there was a study done on prison populations in Estonia and it was determined that 40% of prisoners had undiagnosed ADHD – the symptoms of ADHD are kind of contrary to the core principles of being a capitalist worker, often with it being mistaken for “laziness” or “lack of motivation”, so they have a much higher likelihood of falling behind in life without proper treatment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're all a little crazy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Split brain experiment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New federal rule would bar 'noncompete' agreements for most employees⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive win for worker’s rights

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨geoengineering⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it speaks to how little nuance people are willing to tolerate before they throw a person in the “on my side” or “not on my side” category. And it speaks to how little people actually know about the science behind the activism they’re apparently a part of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨geoengineering⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong at all, humans won’t go extinct. The alarming thing is all the other things which will go extinct or be reduced in number, and the change in water/soil/weather sources. Biodiversity and not having your neighbourhood turned into a desert are pretty important things to like, not have life suck. Plus you know, having access to clean water… in 50 years we’ll all be living like poor African children are now*

  *I am not a climate scientist, nor do I have much actual knowledge on climate science

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon encounters a Switch owner⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The durability system is just extremely tedious in both BotW and ToTK. It takes a lot of fun out of the game imo. Especially since items have such little durability, they break far too quickly.

  I also think the same about ACNH. I have a similar view (probably controversial) about Minecraft, except I think it’d be fine if the tools didn’t permanently break and you could just repair them afterwards. Only if you fix anvils/repairing tho, it’s been totally broken forever, although I guess mending exists as a bandaid. But really I prefer something like Terraria where there’s just no durability period.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon awakens⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  BPD is borderline personality disorder

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah Ryujinx is a C# Unity game so it has its limits. They wrote Yuzu mostly in C++ so while it tended to be buggy it performed way better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s very far from “banned”. That’s the point. Plenty of things are very disfavored legally, but it’s absurd to call them banned. Communism is one of them. There’s a whole list of openly socialist&/communist mayors in the US on Wikipedia, even. I can openly be extremely communist and the government won’t do anything about it. I can even attend a communist protest and that’s as legal as any other protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A majority of the countries that voted with China on that resolution were/are extremely tied to China and heavily economically reliant on China, and upsetting China enough means a potential economic crisis.

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  (note that Venezuela actually imported more from China than the US in 2020 according to some sources)

  It only makes sense for them to not vote against China, no matter their actual crimes, it would be biting the hand that feeds them. It’s a similar reason as to why almost no country officially recognizes Taiwan as its own country separate from PRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally an argument against anything that exists at all. That’s kind of how laws work, linguistics is complicated so everyone’s interpretation is different. But as it stands, communist parties are not banned. What you speak of is a big “what if”, and currently you saying communism as a whole is banned is simply wrong, even as an oversimplification.

  It is a big stretch to turn “Parties other than the two largest ones in the country have considerable cultural, legal, and logistical obstacles to being able to participate in high-level American politics, and an unenforced law from 70 years ago banned one specific communist party before most of the provisions being repealed by congress and thr law being overturned in state courts as unconstitutional” into “Communism is banned in the United States”. There is no legal way to criminally prosecute someone on the basis of them being a communist in the modern day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Who makes that distinction?

  … literally anyone who thinks about it? The US Communist Party is one party, there are plenty of other parties that identify as communist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Communist Party” and “Communism” are not equivalent concepts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨oWo⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You both have a point and have a not point at the same time. LGBT is benefitted by more visibility, because it being denormalized harms people who are gay/trans/etc. In the 90s, gay marriage was illegal, participating in gay culture with other gay people means risking getting arrested with bullshit charges, and someone’s kid being gay was every parent’s worst nightmare (it still is for some people nowadays unfortunately). More visibility and pushing for more rights and the same integration into society that the “in-group” has naturally means that people who are higher in the hierarchy will throw a tantrum and start committing hate crimes and attacking the group. But making others angry is necessary if you want a disprivileged group to have the same accessibility and rights as the ruling group.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English, old⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I only speak German as a second language, so I can’t verify this, but I see a lot of German+English speakers say that some of Old English and earlier Middle English texts are actually quite readible for them. I imagine something similar would apply to people literate in Icelandic, but I haven’t seen that yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English, old⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to clarify that Chaucer is Late Middle English, and English standards were in large part based on his writing, so his writing is generally understandable for most English readers. Early & Middle Middle English, though, not so much…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to open a textbook⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  as far as i can tell, the ones that do that are usually just programming courses with “computer science” slapped onto the title. but i havent exactly gone to many colleges so i don’t have the experience to say so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to open a textbook⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In general, a lot of the stuff computer science shares with data science uses calculus, a lot of the statistics too, but also visuals and modelling other sciences (e.g. simulations) use calculus heavily. I recall utilising vector calc a decent amount when working with Vulkan, for example