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I knew the solution. To me it looks like a data structure problem with a singly linked list. Each box has a known address and holds the value of the next address, the pointer to another box, but the pointers were randomly scrambled. This wasn't illustrated well in the veritasium video. One...

I think it would be healthy if people lived their dreary lives as usual but had access to a simulation for 2 hours every day. They could continue to try and mostly fail to improve their hopeless situation in the real world, but have a dream world to fall back to. Nothing stops the simulation...

If you're going to reject masculine domination of culture then you have to reject all religion, including hinduism. Women had no input into writing what was included in the sacred texts. Kali - a violent goddess, was certainly conceived by a male storyteller, though it is fitting that a male...

@Cognisant That's the point - humans are strongly typed. Only true and false work, but furries want "any text" to work. That's just overturning the norms and all kinds of despicable. We know that Javascript is an untyped(weakly typed) abomination for web development that lets you do shit like...

The difference is fundamental, they're two different types of objects. If we try to describe this using types from programming. Traditionally, people's gender can be described with two boolean values, gender and orientation. Your gender being 1 makes you female, let's say. Your orientation...

Let's say meta-ironically that I'm really keen on ruling the galaxy, seriously, I'd love to be the god-emperor of mankind. I think I have the necessary knowledge and vision. Where else am I going to be able to become the god-emperor of mankind if not in a simulation? Is my dream too grandiose...

@Cognisant You have a histerical tendency to blow things out of proportion. Escpecially when it comes to the things on the progressive and SJW end. You're criticizing the least visible, least pretentious LGBT+ group and use "Furries" as comparison. Most trans people who aren't drag queen do...

90% of people will never be able to own a farm where they could live a simple idyllic life close to nature surrounded by a group of friends. Even if that's their dream life the best that they're going to be able to afford is a very life-like simulation of a farm in a game. For many people...

I get it that life can be fun to level up and offers a lot of enjoyment, but games can also offer enjoyment and experiences and don't have to be single player. One can do all these things with other players or friends and build a set of shared memories. I'm a big fan of board games and they help...

My criterion for qualifying a person as homophobic or transphobic is very simple. If you don't feel comfortable; around gay or trans people and if you don't feel comfortable in a society where there is trans marriage and trans adoption, where trans people are making out in front of you, when you...

We should start questioning the MAD doctrine in a literal sense. I think it's a political scheme and the population doesn't understand what it entails. This is especially relevant in the futuristic context where the illusion of MAD will be questioned and debunked. I can't be bothered to link...

@Puffy Environment is the main factor, there are other factors like mental health et al. Mental health is also affected by the environment, internal state and many other factors. So the environment has strong direct influence AND indirect effect through environment-dependent factors. That's...

There's no "inactivity epidemic" going on in the developed world. Modern man hasn't suddenly changed their habits to cause obesity. It's way simpler than that. People used to work in the fields, do grueling physical jobs that made them fit and they prepared their own cheap plant based food that...

I don't exactly get the "not fully developed" idea. Some of the things I do in my life right now are things that I knew I should be doing when I was 7 years old, but had not had the power or control to execute. Was I a particularly driven kid who knew what I wanted? Don't think so. It's true...

1. Major conventional "world" wars are very unlikely. Wars used to be unpredictable, with almost no information about the forces and resources available to both sides. Now wars are turning into perfect information games more resembling chess, except not symmetric. It will always be the case that...

I know the difference between DE's and various distros. MX Linux (a linux distro) has good DE (desktop environment) out of the box - Xfce that is going to be quite familiar to windows users. Because MX Linux comes with a graphical configuration tool (MX Tools), moving the taskbar to the bottom...

So recently I played around with Linux on a virtual machine and found that it offers better user experience than Windows. I was surprised, last time when I did anything on Linux during my uni years I was using a clunky version (distro) that didn't have a decent UI, didn't have good enough code...

@Puffy @BurnedOut I love it :applause:. I was aware of the Indian Shruti 22-tone system, mentioned it in another thread. Can you recommend some classical Indian experimentalists to listen to? I really love the idea that ragas are improvised but also have written and unwritten rules. If I...

Lol this thread is too edgy for me :D How is love difficult to understand? How are you able to create a false dichotomy out of Love vs Reason? Also wow, hate being pure and productive, lol. And happiness can't be productive? In the end all emotions serve some role. If I'm angry and spend the...

Fun game. It's basically dwarf fortress in 1st person when you only command one squad and tell it to dig into adamantine veins or hostile cave civs :p

It's good if you have a team and someone does the marketing and research. As a small dev they could make the app and test it, but they don't have the millions of dollars to market something like this and they would have to get external investors on board and that means they lose direction over...

I have a video game prototype that does everything. Doing thosands of little calculations per one skillcheck doesn't bring down the performance, skillchecks are quite rare, most of the time the player just stares at the screen trying to interpret the game world and decide what to do next. So why...

Mother Of Learning handled experience pretty well. MC was never gaining discrete chunks of exp, but every fight and every challenge taught him something new or increased the efficiency of what he knew. Also he didn't gain anything from doing things that he already solved (aside from stopping...

I have 3 cats. 2 of them were adopted. Most cats around here that don't have a home just roam as feral strays and beg for food or sometimes hunt. Average life expectancy of strays is 5 years, this increases to 12 years for house cats and cats in really good homes with healthy genes live more...

No worries. Your contribution and participation is absolutely welcome in any way shape or form :) Chatting with you is really enjoyable. I wanted to post a general explanation of music theory behind the standard tuning and microtonal tunings maybe later. I feel like any topic demands a huge book...

More irregular tracks to bombard you with :p

This is one of the most mundane tracks he's got :) If you look at the tuning it's a 14 equal temperament (denoted as 14-ET or 14 EDO), so evenly spaced tones. Chromatic scale has 12, so it isn't that big of a strain on the ears. A quick rule is that depending on the tuning, the more tones in the...

@Hadoblado "Interhemispheric inhibition" piqued my interest. Do you have any books to recommend if I'd like to understand the functioning of the brain on an academic level? I'm most interested in parallel processing and modularity of the brain. To my untrained intuition it seems like the brain...

You've adapted to Jazz. Jazz, especially Jazz avant-garde, is in itself a huge departure from popular and classical music, because it discards the structure, favors improvisation, solos and even does stuff like mimicking human speech, animals, noises and ambient sounds with instruments to create...

You're the second person I know who's at least open to listening Sevish and I tried quite a few people so you're definitely an experimentalist :D

Super useful, thanks Hado :) I struggle with scientific literacy and only recently made a habit of doing step 1. Reading the following steps is very helpful with making and improving my own systematic approach.

Ebooks cost 4 times less than paperbacks around here. I mostly read from my phone. You don't need a kindle for that, a tablet or a phone is good enough. Some websites/services let you read everything in their library as long as you pay a monthly subscription which can be a nice deal. Find a...

Try finding another Frank Zappa in any genre :D, he is unique. The issue with "IDM" or "EDM" is that a lot of it isn't going to be like Zappa or Mahavishnu because they are at some level a form of dance music with a clearly defined, repetitive beat and structure. This is going to limit the...

Is that Terry Crews' voice? 2/10 this song could work if it had more effort put in it. There's only one way to counter right wing music and it's with this healthy song :D

Just found an absolute banger, seems like kpop has potential as a genre

It has to be said, the actor playing 'emperor' is really good. He's carrying this shitty plot with his wholesome voice and charisma. The bit with delaying the explosion for 3 minutes was hilarious :D Got another laugh when the boy kept both of his hands in emperor's hold for an eternity like a...

This is great! Boris Brejcha is interesting. Metaprog is the best Goa Trance I've ever heard. 'My name is hardstyle' is the kind of hardstyle I was looking for. ANJ is really good too. Will listen to the rest later, thanks :)

Autechre sounds percussion dense, high tempo and slightly psychedelic. What kind of jazz fusion are we talking? Try this first and let me know if it's the right thing:

Probably Faust by Goethe, this book is a rich amalgam of the whole of western thought from classical Greece until 19th century philosophy. It sets the stage for Nietzsche, the 20th century nihilism and modernism. It's an interesting balance of rationality and spirituality that helps explain the...

Cool, it's in D minor scale right? Starting chords are D minor - C - Bb, I think. I like the latter part more when you drone on the D chord and make a solid groove. Overall sounds post rocky, melancholic with a prog rock / punk ballad vibes. I haven't played guitar much, though I have over a...

A good article isn't challenging and it isn't supposed to be a struggle to read. An ideal article explains important topics in simple terms without oversimplifying. Check https://sci-hub.se/ It's an non-profit site with a lot of pirated and stolen scientific papers. It operates on the...

Cool recent finds, some synthwave, dnb stuff

What is this, tech support? You have a pretty weak PC to be running modern video games my dude. Your CPU or GPU is overheating and shuts down before it gets seriously damaged. That's why you can play for a bit before it goes down. Solutions: Upgrade your PC, get better cooling, monitor...

I've seen hundreds of movies and almost none of them were any good. There's a lot of things I would do differently in each of them and the characters are almost never portrayed the way I'd want them to be. Bad script-writing and bad soundtrack ruins every film and tv show for me. Anyway top 5...

It's something I picked up from computer science because it applies well to many domains of life. Any problem is a search space and in this search space there are hills and valleys (if it's a very simple low dimensional space like a 3d space or 3d+time), some hills are taller than others, you...

To be precise we don't know the average/median/dominant/mode amount of messages these people send. I generally disregard the average and dominant values, mode tells you a lot more about the most frequent value or amount of actions taken by the group measured. Same with income, average is skewed...

This thread was frustrating to read. Too many words and too little definitions. @Hadoblado @dr froyd Props to you for staying so constructive and explaining probability. One major problem with this thread was that probability and events weren't properly defined. Some rules first: 1. Probability...

I get that it's a thought experiment and you're trying to make a feature list for an ideal app. My main question is why a dating app. Why not a general meeting app that would facilitate 1 on 1 and group meetings helping people socialize and find common interests. This will not only help...

XD I plot the same variable on X and Y axis. X/Y is always 1. Red line above blue means "stupid" and below blue line means "smart". Sample size 8 billion people. Dunning–Kruger effect replicated right there folks. Can I get a 5 million$ research grant? Thanks

MC G is here with da truth for y'all. The original Dunning–Kruger graph is wrong and misleading. It's possible to get the Dunning-Kruger effect without gathering any data at all. Just random noise results and assuming everyone has equal confidence. Here's an article explaining why the effect...