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hughperman t1_jc5ytmo wrote

Reply to comment by Psychonominaut in A philosophical dive into “Everything Everywhere All at Once” by Azmisov

>What if our brains can implicitly understand and mediate quantum states?

Sorry but this is sci-fi brain thinking. We understand the brain plenty well enough to answer this specific idea. The brain is a physical object, based in reality like every other object. We understand its molecular, cellular function very well. It is composed of particles like every other object, which have quantum superpositions like every other particle in the universe. The complex emergent behavior of the brain is difficult to understand, yes, but that is not a license to apply quantum physics concepts at macroscopic levels.

If you want to allow some spooky quantum navigation by a "soul" of some sort, we need to acknowledge that we are not talking about any physics or scientific knowledge.

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hughperman t1_j1hlnn6 wrote

Reply to comment by cpt_ppppp in "BLOOD SPORT: The Bondi Gay Murders" (2009) - the tale of the Bondi Beach murders. Lasting for over 10 years, with 30 to 90 victims, the organized hunt for gay men remains one of Australia's darkest secrets. Most of the identified culprits, including a major sports star, remain untouched. [00:54:19] by BurtGummer1911

Good call. In weird phrasing cases, I usually just break it into smaller sentences. "Scott Morrison is the ex-prime minister. His father was..."

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hughperman t1_j0h1m8t wrote

Reply to [P] XetHub: We scaled Git to support 1 TB repos by rajatarya

I'd have big concerns around the areas of data protection laws, governance and storage. No on-prem/self-managed use cases? Data regions & localization? Anyone outside US region will be doing cross-region transfers, which have GDPR and other considerations.
I'd hoped this was "Lake FS, but with actual diffing". It sounds conceptually very cool, but as far as I can tell, the implementation is not ready for any serious data storage that relates to people.

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hughperman t1_ix99r3d wrote

Reply to comment by JustAPerspective in The famous Butterfly Dream of Taoist Philosophy and how it recommends a radical openness to judging right from wrong by CaptainOfTheKeys

Sure, I was mostly just dicking around with your phrasing with the non-exclusive-or answer to "X or Y". Just didn't expect it to be noticed much.
I'm not much for flowery language, so question about a caterpillar mourning? Nope, caterpillars do not know about cocoons or their meaning.
As a question about perspective, sure. But I'll double down and throw it back to you - the perspective of the unknowing caterpillar is just as good a metaphor as the knowing caterpillar. The dream of the butterfly as an allegory of unknown transitions into or out of unimaginable, inaccessible states is just as easily described by the caterpillar who doesn't know what a cocoon is. We don't know what the events, objects, environmental queues are that will be transformative in our lives, or what the signs are that someone has transitioned in a similar way. It's only with hindsight that we see the key elements, such as getting in our cocoon, that lead to our butterfly transformation. At the time, we had no idea what a cocoon was, even as we were building it.

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hughperman t1_ivqd886 wrote

Reply to comment by bluuerp in [D] Is there an advantage in learning when taking the average Gradient compared to the Gradient of just one point by CPOOCPOS

Consider though, in a linear scheme, taking each gradient step separately is equal the sum of the gradients. Taking the average is equal to the sum of the gradients divided by the number of steps. So you are only adjusting the step by a scale factor of 1/N, nothing more mathemagical.

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