robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
@mark it's well formed insofar we've built an abstraction (probability distributions) and declared that this is what picking a random number means.
I think you can make some statements about computability of functions that map between probability distributions, but I don't see how to get around defining some way of picking things axiomatically.
@mark I don't understand what mathematical object you want to prove the existence of.
@mark what do you mean by "choose"? Defining a probability distribution over reals where each interval has nonzero probability doesn't require AoC.
@munin can you give some pointers? A very quick search yielded only articles about grok's behaviour, and I have failed to find anything about them blaming an intern.
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OK that's a nice framing of multi-party computation application. Exchanging otherwise classified information about vessel discovery (radar fingerprints) between allied states. https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/1590.pdf
@cstross Do not confuse with Rodwell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodriguez_well).
Czy wiesz jak częste jest niepoprawne rozpoznanie braku oddechu?
So this is something like half of a 1d waveguide?
Can one cause the extremum of the refraction index to be somewhere in the middle of a column of liquid (perhaps by having two different dissolved substances?)?
@azonenberg I wonder whether people use custom clients that pretend to be WhatsApp on both ends to avoid the great firewall.
@azonenberg Oh, I am surprised to see WhatsApp and Signal treated differently.
What about Signal? signal-desktop doesn't need periodic reauthentication ttbomk.
@azonenberg I would sometime use ntfy.sh for such things.
I didn't read much of Baxter (I recall Voyage/Titan/Moonseed). Is there a point in time when his writing changed, or is it that it was always like that to some extent?
(In case I caused confusion, the two books I mentioned are by Greg Egan and not Baxter. The society described in Clockwork Rocket does contain various malicious parties, but it IMO shows an optimistic view of how society can change.)
posted too soon... Clockwork Rocket takes place in a world where spacetime interval is x^2+y^2+z^2+t^2 and Dichronauts takes place in a world with spacetime interval of x^2+y^2-z^2-t^2
Did you mean to suggest that the speed is related to how strong electromagnets (E: not magnets) are?
I suspect you'd enjoy reading The Clockwork Rocket, where speed of light in vacuum is frequency-dependent.
I'm somewhat surprised. I thought that I'm pretty typical in this regard and I hate ranting to people who don't care, and find ranting to/with people who care both helpful for my mood (probably because this reconfirms that people care) and sometimes productive (because we find something productive to do about the problem, or because we end up figuring out some part of what makes people not care about this formulation of the problem). Is it common that people rant to ones who don't care without hating the activity so much that they don't do it ever again?
The density ratio is larger (in favor of non-blue) in the fovea, and outside of it there are still fewer blue ones.
The other part to it is that we infer edges and generally higher-resolution information about blue from other colors. ~Purely blue features (blue on black or yellow on white) are blurry for everyone. Ones that have sufficiently large red-green component have edges in blue inferred from red-green so should be roughly as sharp as red-green ones.
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How large a fraction of catheter insertions are for pacemaker leads?
Do you mean that it's UB, that the result is an undefined value, or that the result is implementation-defined (and potentially not consistent across multiple different calls to offsetof)?
Did you check for ringing voltage with no phone or any other load connected? I assume you didn't check for ringing voltage on the VoIP box side when connected to the old wiring?
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
