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- Comment on Hope you like math 22 hours ago:
Not only for any number of fucks there is a corresponding complex number, but the basic operations (+, -, x, /) work in the same way for fucks and complex numbers
Overall, if two things are isomorphic you can consider them « the same »
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 day ago:
My family hogs age old chairs. I don’t get it. So uncomfortable! “But great grandma sat on it!” Still uncomfortable (and falling apart)
- Comment on Thinheritance 1 day ago:
That sucks, I’m sorry to hear it…
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 2 days ago:
One would hope…
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 days ago:
I agree: a university is a workplace for a lot of people, and work is expected to take place during working hours, by definition in our society that means 9-5. I never even heard this discussion being brought up, honestly
- Comment on It would get old fast 2 days ago:
Care to elaborate?
- Comment on How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through? 3 days ago:
That’s not the time travel I like because it doesn’t create any fun paradoxes!
I support the “unique universe” idea, with all the paradoxes that that can generate. So, you send the ball back to 1969. Has the ball then been bouncing up and down the room since then? You should have seen it when you threw your “new” ball, then!
Or the same ball cannot exist twice at the same time, then somehow the 1969 ball stopped existing when the now-ball got created. And you will never get your ball back because it disappeared in the past.
Or the universe fixes itself, then when your ball disappeared in the time portal, the 1969 version somehow reappeared in the room, but that is the paradox that needs the most “fixing”, so I don’t prefer it
- Comment on Be nice 3 days ago:
Indeed very interesting. Honestly, it still seems that the reason for inflation is “not backed by real good and something else we don’t quite understand”, in particular considering the examples of bills of credit in North America
- Comment on Be nice 5 days ago:
The assumed reason for inflation, as I understand it, is that on one hand things devalue over time and on the other we build our system around infinite growth and rewarding innovation (many asterisks here…)
During the Middle Ages, neither statements were considered true, the world was considered stagnant and there was virtually no inflation. That was before the banking system - so with 0% inflation i would expect the banks to collapse…
And then… I don’t know! Stuff is hard and economics harder…
- Comment on Be nice 5 days ago:
Judgemental stare
- Comment on Done with being the one in charge of maintaining friendships 6 days ago:
Overall, I disagree.
I have a good friend that never contacts me first. But if I start the conversation, they engage, often propose extra plans and are great to hang out with. They just postpone reaching out.
I have friends that often beat me to the punch, and initiate the conversation first way more often than I do. I am grateful and we then have nice chats. Only sometimes we end up making plans, but I always thank them for reaching out.
I have vague acquaintances with which I exchange birthday wishes every year. If by chance we were meeting up again, we would have a pleasant surface level conversation. They used to be friends, but we live far away now and the friendship dwindled. Still going to send birthday wishes to minimally keep in touch. That’s fine too.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
How are the two on the same level?
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
Production is absolutely not the bottleneck, here. We are producing too much, constantly.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
Most of the world is far from replacement levels of population and the global trend is a decrease in fertility. Overall, we are at 2.4 kids per woman, the replacement level being estimated between 2.1 and 2.3 (depending how likely you think it is to die from wars). This data has been (mostly) decreasing since the 60s.
- Comment on Resources 1 week ago:
This is already happening, but i don’t think it’s fast enough: with the exceeded life expectancy, we are first seeing an increase and aging of population. Only after the wave of now 50-60 year olds will be dead will we see a stable degrowth. Is that soon enough? Sure it’s preferable to extermination?
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
Obviously, it’s the man doing science and the woman interested in clothes
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
Yes :) since the topic was coming back in another thread, I felt more explanation was nice
- Comment on hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 2 weeks ago:
Just to built on this and give some more unasked for info:
All of AI is a fancy dancy interpolation algorithm. Mostly, too fancy for us to understand how it works.
LLMs use that interpolation to predict next words in sentences. With enough complexity you get ChatGPT.
Other AIs still just interpolate from known data, so they point to reasonable conclusions from known data. Then those hypotheses still need to be studied and tested.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
Bubbles can move freely once created, so they have more freedom than cookies that are stick in place. Thus, bubbles will look for optimal volume to boundary ratio with less constraints
- Comment on Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life? 1 year ago:
One day, I understood that my then-boyfriend was the real thing.
Before him, I had a couple of good relationships. I was happy, but always wondered if I would have been better off on my own. The thought would pop up every couple of days, I would seriously consider it for a bit, then decide I was happier with them than in my own. Then my now husband showed up and we started dating.
One day, some three-four months into this new relationship, I realized I never had that old thought. It just never crossed my mind for months that I should evaluate the relationship. We clicked on so many levels, he made me a better person because it made me want to be better.
We got married “fast” for some external reasons and I never doubted that was the right choice. Since then, i don’t have to think about it: I know my life is so much better with him in it.
- Comment on Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Amazon's Union-Busting Training Video 1 year ago:
This cartoon is literally and metaphorically cartoonishly evil