I’ve heard arguments about mathematical criteria various voting systems satisfy.
I think this misses the mark. I endorse approval voting because I think it fundamentally *depolarizes society*.
Candidate effort goes to gaining policy support instead of villainizing opponents.
@EskilSteenberg This mirrors the mathematical puzzle about optimizing arithmetic to use additions and subtractions since multiplications and especially divisions are expensive.
It comes from a different time.
Let the OS manage memory. It’s gotten good at it. Just stop pointer chasing so much.
@prof_g The service people you see regularly can be some of the best friends you can make.
I’ve heard that those that never work service jobs are never forced to fully develop their capacity to be human.
The corollary is that those in service the longest are the most human among us.
@ScienceClic Black holes really are multi-valued complex logarithms?
This was my intuition, but I think this model requires a new orthogonal spatial direction, not just a change in metric.
It means falling in points a new direction in space, it doesn’t just trade space for time?
@iam_mjk@3blue1brown The latter fact helps us understand why neural networks work so well. Adding just one neuron (one dimension) adds space to encode exponentially more nearly independent concepts instead of just one new concept, so bang for the buck is way better than linear.
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@iam_mjk@3blue1brown I would need to rewatch, but I believe that the error correcting code idea in 24D is a distinct concept from the fact that random directions in high dimensions are likely nearly orthogonal, and neither concept is about compression.
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Prediction: the most obvious immediate effect of the new presidency will be that self driving cars hit the roads quickly because regulatory ‘red tape’ has been removed.
This will hurt many early adopters and bystanders, and simultaneously advance self driving tech very quickly.
Happy to see the rhombic dodecahedron exposed as a tesseract projection, with the front and the back indicated by a choice of which four distorted cubic faces to visualize!
For space tiling intuition: it is a checkerboard of every other cube, inflated to fill the gaps.
New video: Why 4d geometry makes me sad
As I say in the intro, if you even remotely like math, I can almost guarantee that you will be delighted by the solutions to the puzzles here.
https://t.co/Adqhkx39AG
@martinmbauer Not sure what a donut universe implies, but there is a very distinct second choice for how to put two basis vectors on the surface of a donut…
@miniapeur It’s related to “I’m not racist, but…”
Both are specific instances of a more general form where you know in advance that the specifics are about to communicate nothing, despite knowing nothing specific about the specifics!
@ryanyang0 Strong disagree. They would briefly have gotten pissed off at the pervasive misguided communities before forging their own paths devoid of community.
The modern world crushes ‘average’ excellence with abandon. But the modern world would not have crushed the minds in question.
@PhysInHistory “If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it”
- Richard Feynman
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I’m certain my quote is misattributed, but I’m just as confident that it aligns way better with Feynman’s real life philosophy than your quote.
@Aella_Girl Women and men are both picky about looks… for short term hookups and dating app matches.
We can argue about which gender is pickier, but looks for both genders become less important after getting to know the person.