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russ_watters reacted to Baluncore's post in the thread B Question about pressure of a liquid with
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There is a high upward force on the red surface, but there is no immediate volume of liquid available to accelerate that surface... -
russ_watters replied to the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed.It's really not, unless someone is over-interpreting the concept of freedom of speech, as I described before: it doesn't exist outside...
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russ_watters reacted to collinsmark's post in the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed with Like.
But you must agree that even outside of law enforcement/government, "rules of society" dictate that words and actions do have...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed.It is frequently misunderstood (in the US anyway) to be both absolute and universal. It's a cultural quirk.
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russ_watters reacted to Rive's post in the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed with Like.
Those 'rules of society' also has something to say about responsibility (and occasionally: consequences too). Why it is always only...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed.Freedom of speech is a government guaranteed right, to prevent government suppression of dissenting ideas. It has nothing to do with...
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russ_watters reacted to Hornbein's post in the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed with Like.
I bet the popular social media get a billion posts a day. Automated censorship is the only possibility. YouTube bans 45% of comments...
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russ_watters replied to the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed.Topic restriction does help, and over time we've narrowed the focus, eliminating politics, philosophy, "theory development" and...
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russ_watters reacted to TensorCalculus's post in the thread Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed with Like.
There are definitely products out there aiming to "fix" social media: One such tool is Topaz, developed by an old acquaintance of mine...
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russ_watters reacted to kuruman's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
I think that the first manned Moon landing in 1969 was a spectacular solution to the 3-body problem. I scrimped and saved for three...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
It is interesting to know that the first computers (e.g. the ENIAC) were built specifically to conveniently calculate non-analytical...
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
PS the ancient Greeks were obsessed by rational numbers and didn't like it when irrational numbers starting popping up. We know that no...
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
The problem is that there are hardly any standard functions: polynomials, trig functions, exponential and logs. That's about it. There...
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russ_watters reacted to Dale's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
It is already solved. The solution is just not analytic.
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russ_watters reacted to PeroK's post in the thread B Why is the 3 body problem unsolvable? And what will happen if someone solves it? with Like.
I once heard the analogy that studying systems with analytic solutions is a bit like studying a single animal, like the elephant. And...