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  • You know what all those methods have in common? FUCKING evaluation of smooth continuous functions based on a limited number of samples.

    REAL MEN WRITE REAL PROOFS. They don’t use God damned computational methods which completely IGNORE non-converging regions.

    I used opus to generate this lean-verifiable proof that you in particular are full of shit!

    import Mathlib
    open Real
    
    noncomputable def f (x : ℝ) : ℝ := sin* x) * exp (-x^2)
    
    lemma f_smooth : ContDiff ℝ ⊤ f :=
      (contDiff_sin.comp (contDiff_const.mul contDiff_id)).mul
        (contDiff_exp.comp (contDiff_id.pow 2).neg)
    
    lemma f_zero_on_ints : ∀ n : ℤ, f n = 0 := by
      intro n
      show sin* (n : ℝ)) * exp (-((n : ℝ))^2) = 0
      rw [mul_comm π (n : ℝ), sin_int_mul_pi, zero_mul]
    
    lemma f_ne_zero : f ≠ 0 := fun h => by
      have h₁ : f (1/2) = 0 := congrFun h (1/2)
      have h₂ : f (1/2) = exp (-(1/2)^2) := by
        show sin* (1/2)) * exp (-(1/2)^2) = exp (-(1/2)^2)
        rw [show π * (1/2) = π/2 from by ring, sin_pi_div_two, one_mul]
      exact (exp_pos _).ne' (h₂ ▸ h₁)
    
    theorem sampling_is_a_lie :
        ∃ f : ℝ → ℝ,
          ContDiff ℝ ⊤ f ∧
          (∀ n : ℤ, f n = 0) ∧
          f ≠ 0 :=
      ⟨f, f_smooth, f_zero_on_ints, f_ne_zero⟩
    

  • The number of self-driving cars and trucks has been roughly doubling year over year, there are around 5000 right now.

    FWIW, I don’t think we will ever see safe in all driving conditions, there are plenty of driving conditions where it is fundamentally unsafe for cars and no man nor machine should be driving in them, so in your particular case, you get to wait for self driving cars for the rest of your life.

    I think in 5 years people will be complaining about a lack of available open-source and self-hosted self-driving cars, but safe in all weather? Probably not.





  • I guess we’ll have to learn how to do that.

    For a lot of people, education is “we will hold a gun to your head until you pass the exam”. For a lot of people, education is seminary school, and in many circles the priests are the best educated folks around.

    If I don’t send my kids to school, a nice lady with a uniform and a gun comes around, and this is ‘civilization’?

    It sounds like you’re worried education will, ‘become Bible school at the point of a gun’, but where I am it already is, and these aren’t the new models I’m talking about.

    I’m talking about free access and communication as the pillars of education.



  • I agree with you on both points, and the third (these people are idiots), but I’m happy to debate you anyways.

    I think that we must actively dismantle traditional forms of knowledge (copyrights, private libraries, most of education) in favor of developing new completely open archives and internet based methods of organizing, developing, and interacting with knowledge.

    Does that do it for you?






  • Not central, just suspicious, but… this is ‘house’ as in astrological house as in the first part of the word ‘horoscope’, not house like a house you live in.

    My background in linguistics consists of a couple chompsky soft-science books and a love of tolkien, but if you actually know something and wanna chat I’d honestly love to dig in on this seriously. DM me.


  • BenevolentOne@infosec.pubtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldClock logic
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    My pet theory is (circa 10000 BCE) that ‘houses’ and ‘hours’ are related words, the 12 hour clock matched the zodiac, each hour/house was 1 Assyrian ‘watch’ and they had no trouble day or night (constellations at night, sundial during the day), they were easy to build, easy to communicate, easy to understand and efficient.

    Then the Egyptians stole the technology (Circa 6000BCE) said ‘12 hours in a day? I got you bro’, fucked it up and it all went downhill from there.

    Feel free to quote me in your prize winning scientific paper.