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arctanthrope

@ arctanthrope @lemmy.world

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  • I do that and I have a BS in mathematics. and in 4th grade I literally used to write "I hate math" at the top of my math homework. as much as primary education systems want it to be, computation speed is not mathematical aptitude. you can memorize multiplication tables up to 20, that's not gonna help you understand Cantor's theorem

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  • This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years

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  • this isn't new, "making smaller marks on a rock" has been mankind's method for expanding data storage for thousands of years

    edit - hmm, needs workshopping I guess. maybe something like: "over thousands of years, humans have refined data storage from its most primitive beginnings as marks on rocks, to its most advanced novelty, different marks on different rocks"

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  • he's canonically a track athlete iirc

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    Asking the right questions...

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  • exactly, the real Luddites weren't opposed to technology, they were opposed to wealthy factory owners using technology in a way that eliminated or cheapened their labor to extract more profit. what Sanders and most others are citing as threats posed by "ai" are actually perfectly in line with the Luddites, but they're not allowed to say so because the actual history of the Luddites has been smeared and propagandized to make them look like unreasonable morons who are scared of things they can't comprehend

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  • the square-cube law is the fact that a larger object has a lower ratio of surface area to volume than a similarly-shaped smaller object; i.e. as the scale of an object increases linearly, its surface area increases as a square function, and its volume increases as a cubic function.

    thermodynamically, this means an object twice the size has 4 times the heat transfer (which occurs at the outer surface), but 8 times the heat capacity (since heat is stored throughout the volume). so it's heat loss is by raw numbers greater, but lower as a percentage of the total, i.e. the internal temperature is more stable