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I find your last sentence puzzling.

There are people STILL TODAY who make a decent living as Mark Twain impersonators - imagine how well the original one could do if he went BACK on the live public speaking circuit! Mark Twain would also do great on Twitter or as a comedy TV writer. I expect that either Hemingway or Twain would be astounded at modern conveniences (starting with dentistry and showers) and would find no trouble amusing themselves in the new world. And here's the secret thing about reality television: if it DOES make you miserable you don't have to watch it!

(though come to think of it, Hemingway would be an interesting pick as a writer or script consultant for a long-form episodic TV show set in a suitable historical period. The same era that brought us reality TV ALSO brought us stuff like Breaking Bad and Downton Abbey.)
if the stopwatch uses base 10, the last digit will be in the range [0, 9], making n >=10 irrelevant. in this range, 0 and 1 appear 3 times; 2 and 3 appear 2 times.

if the stopwatch uses hex, then 0-3 will appear equally often in this case
> The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia.

I've been working on something along these lines for quite a while now. I've temporarily taken down the landing page while I get all the ducks in a row and put up the new one, but if you send an email to contact@loggur.com, I'll make sure to contact you when Loggur launches.

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It's a weird market for political reasons, including the chinese government's attempt to grow domestic software and industries. Partly due to this, they're not really part of the same internet market as anyone else -- notice how all of china's big internet companies are home grown. So I don't think it's really proof of much.

Is this not the case?
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> and I don't really get how it's not a bigger operation yet.

Overpriced insurance policy based on pseudoscience implemented by a shady industry. What is not to like.
you forgot some 12 "if"s on your comment.
Good idea - I did that sometimes and it worked. Will remember that.
The second digits on my digital watches extend to 59, and if a precocious youngster were to correctly object that a limit of 59 produces a bias, I would extend the range by multiplying the minute digit by 60 and adding it to the seconds (thus reducing the bias). We are, after all, most likely using a calculator to produce the result.

> if the stopwatch uses hex ...

I think we're safely in the red herring zone now. :)

EDIT: Yes, of course -- when confronted by a correct and reasoned reply, downvote it to discourage any such mistakes in the future.
Not quite true. I connected to my village and and spend around two months there every year.

1. The Zamaindari (Zamin = Land ZaminDar = Big Land Owner ZaminDari = A system of exploitation set-up by British now dismantled.) system is over. Period. There are some big land wonders left but I am not going into it.
2. Poor borrow from money lenders who may or may not be big land owners. But in almost all the cases these money lenders are local muscle men, like everywhere else in the world. This is how parallel money lending works all over the world. The local moneylender lends money. Charges exorbitant rates. In case of non payment the life is made hell for the debtor. In many cases the debtor borrows money and spends it on gambling and alcohol and ends up loosing all his wealth to the money lender. BTW the money lender also accepts deposits. But they don't usually pay interest on the deposits. Many times these deposits work in an interesting way - what is called a "committee" in some parts of the country. Lets say there are 1000 contributors in the "committee" each depositing Rs 500 every month. Let's say duration of the committee is 2 years. Each month a lottery is conducted with one winner. The winner gets Rs 24 x 500 = 12,000 and stops contributing. The remaining members keep contributing. At the end of 24 months each remaining member gets 12,000 each. If a member misses a payment his/her contribution till date is forfeited. These moneylenders also accept deposits for safekeeping. Usually no interest is paid. Government's scheme plans to break this.
3. Government owned banks lend billions of Rupees every year to poor farmers and other economically/socially weaker sections. These loans were usually waived off by the Central (Federal) government. Populism over economics.
4. Opening of bank accounts is first step towards financial inclusion.
5. The number 15 million should be taken with a pinch of salt. Some banks like Bank Of Baroda were opening zero balance accounts and many who already had accounts opened another one with such banks. Branches were given targets and many opened accounts for family and friends who already had bank accounts.
"Last digit" only goes to 9, so you end up with 0 & 1 more represented than 2 & 3
The last digit on the clock can only be 0 through 9. If you truncate your chart accordingly, 0 and 1 are represented more than 2 and 3. Or do you mean “the entire seconds value” (for which this idea would work with four children) instead of “the last digit”?
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Things like this keep me wondering if eventually we will reach a point where we are unable to distinguish theories about our own past due to lacking the energy necessary to experiment with those conditions thanks to entropy.
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I don't think I've ever seen any of this before... Probably a testament to how little I and my friends use G+. Has anyone else ever seen one of these? What do they look like?
i think you're confused on what a 'last digit' is. the seconds digits (plural) contain two digits, which range from 0-59; the last digit (singular) ranges from 0-9
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Yeah, I was joking. The point is that either way you get a non-uniform distribution for n children unless n divides 10. I think the part you are misunderstanding in your responses is that the last digit of a clock has only ten options: 0 through 9. In the tables you have posted, children 0 and 1 each win 30% of the time, while children 2 and 3 each win only 20% of the time.

With a single generation, you can't uniformly choose from a set of n options with a random number generator that outputs m options, unless n divides m.
Why are you posting examples in base 16? 4 divides 16 evenly, but I bet most people operate in base 10.

Say I have 7 children and I get a number 0-9. If the result is 8, how does doing 8 mod 7 help me at all?
What this experiment shows is there is no such thing as a perfect vision without knowing spheres and cubes. Or at least without knowing curved surfaces and corners
I think knowing that at the end of the month you are going to have some money (in bank) is a revolutionary change. It converts your own perception of being a day-labor to a salaried person without actually doing much. Whether it brings positive change or negative is still to be seen but a change in perception of self is definitely a drastic step towards removing poverty.
I've noticed this with bike sharing. It finds the nearest station by crow-flies distance, then finds a walking route to it, leading to absurd situations like https://citymapper.com/london/superrouter?start=51.498377681...
> Why are you posting examples in base 16?

I invite you to locate where I posted an example in base 16.

> Say I have 7 children and I get a number 0-9. If the result is 8, how does doing 8 mod 7 help me at all?

Use both digital watch digits that tally seconds, as in my example.
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To avoid confusion, I used the expression "last digits".
Ah yes my bad, I mislabeled the money lender people as zamindars. Thats just the old school name. I do agree with most of what you have to say, and guess its a good thing with all the bank accounts opening. It should somewhat curb the absolute chaos the rural India economy is in.

The thing you talk about are also knows as BC (or the link) and its quite common even in metros. There is also a variation of it run by jewellers (and gold traders) where one pays a fixed amount every month which is invested in gold.

If you don't mind me asking, which village? My roots are from a small town in UP which I have only visited once. But I am deeply intrigued by rural India and it always blows my mind when I realize most of the country's population is in rural India.
Maybe the Russian "Basmanny" court. Don't tell me that bullshit about "we really need hard evidence". It's obvious that you're a pro-Putin shill, who can only deny, deny, deny no matter how obvious it is. No evidence will ever be enough for you. How do I know this? Because you completely ignored the other 2 links. It's practically an admission of guilt straight from the horses mouth and you're acting like none of that happened.
Every DBA knows that there is no point in doing backup if you can't do the restore. Have they revived anyone yet?

Even more to the point, why would they revive you? You already paid them.
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What does entropy have to do with anything?
> I still expect to see exact times

You realise that there is some lag in the system, right?

A small lag in data collection and transmission, a small lag in publishing the data via the feed (this is stated as 30s) and TfL cache the data points for 30s. Then you have the ingestion and processing lag that Citymapper introduce before they get it to you and display it on your screen.

You can estimate a lag of greater than 1 minute, pushing 2 minutes if you were unlucky that another CityMapper user nearby potentially requested the same data just before you and you're now seeing TfL's cache.

If you have a bus frequency of 7 minutes we're actually talking a lag of around 28% of the worst case wait time for that bus.

This experience would vary so greatly in different parts of the city (density of CityMapper users), that it would corrode your trust of the info.

Until that lag can be almost eliminated I think they're doing the right thing by choosing values based on average frequency and average wait time. The consistency means that almost everyone is treated to a similar experience, and though it is not highly accurate it is highly consistent. People can, and do, trust a highly consistent experience.

And yes, I live in London and use CityMapper a lot, and I've also played with those TfL feeds and experienced the real world lag in the data for bus/train arrivals, and bike hire data. Those data streams, when you walk out onto the street... they are only an approximation of what you really see outside.
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I'd call back the phone number the call supposedly came from and see who answered. I would Google the business if it was a business and if they had a contact number call that number as well. Go to the alleged scene and ask if anyone in neighboring businesses had herd gun shots.

Even just from the perspective of the safety of the SWAT team it is colossally stupid to send them into a building based on a single source unverified tip like that without doing a cursory investigation of the circumstances first.
It actually doesn't matter how many options are in your random number generator. You only get a normal distribution if the number of children you have divides the number of options in your generator. Even if you're using the seconds of a clock, it doesn't work for 7 children.
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> It isn't supposed to be a test of whether you know the modulo operator but in practice it works out that way.

Yep. And at HN, actually knowing this or anything else assures that you will be downvoted with a probability of 1.

> I use the modulus operator almost daily so it seems obvious to me but I realize that everyone has different experiences or things they are ignorant about.

I see the modulo operator applied to a common undergraduate math question -- if a given date lands on a Tuesday, and if you add 500 days, what day of the week does the result land on?
I agree but I wouldn't take it too literally. The coin flip isn't binding but it can be fascinatingly revealing about your own opinions.

I see it as a way to actualise the consequences of the choice and cut through layers of intellectual abstraction. In some respects its a tool to let you engage emotional thinking to help make better decisions. On the flip, it can suddenly trigger a feeling of loss and regret. Our fundamental beliefs can be strangely out of reach when we think too hard.

A similar tool is just explaining your decision to another. I can get a flush of emotion e.g. embarrassment or shame, that you don't get when you just cogitate alone. Pretty useful for tough design decisions e.g. midway through explaining a particularly clever idea I find myself apologising... its time to rethink things!
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Not sure what you mean. It's not pseudoscience or shady. Still, that's the problem! It's probably physically possible, but we're not making much scientific progress towards making it happen.

When I mention cryonics people tend to respond very negatively without engaging rationally. More so than with most anything else. It's sad that it's something you can't say even here on hn.
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I'm not sure how you can call it "pseudoscience," unless they're making false guarantees about current technology, or if it can be proven that current freezing doesn't prevent information-theoretical death.
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> It actually doesn't matter how many options are in your random number generator.

It certainly does -- the larger the random number, the fairer the outcome is.

> Even if you're using the seconds of a clock, it doesn't work for 7 children.

For a digits range of 0 - 59? Plus the fallback in the face of a precocious child of adding the number of minutes * 60?
Entropy = the inverse of available energy to do anything at all.

EDIT: Look -- if you don't understand physics, don't compound your ignorance by downvoting the posts of people who do. Instead, post a written objection, and I will explain why you're wrong.
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The first article reports the "copious" justification given by other sources.
Please show me the denunciation and demonization in NYT or WP articles regarding MH17. It's also rather different since the culpable party owned up to the tragedy rather than trying to blame the other party. And this after celebrating the (mistaken) kill on social media...
> Climate change illustrates this well, because despite overwhelming evidence of anthropogenic influence,

It's less and less overwhelming based on what we have learnt over the past 2-3 years about the impact of the Sun on climate. But hey, when you start an article just to destroy the "libertarian ideology", you don't bother about facts.
Yes, i see your point. I did read the Armstong book many years ago and played with erlang and was blown over by its feature set.

This definitely bled into some of my current work along with the zeromq book by Pieter Hintjens. This led me to my current work where i fully reimplemented a couple of existing commercial solutions my client had purchased for $millions in licensing fees and simply boiled it down in to a series of steps which were then implemented in single threaded processes (except for one!) in python communicating as above. With almost no magic the throughput and timliness of the data increased 10 fold. Then these processes were individually rewritten in c++ & one particular one in java and the throughput increased massively again.

My point being this whole divide and conquer thing is totally legit :)
It's thought this practice is a common knowledge, strange that it's "news". I have been using this for years.
I'm pretty sure entropy isn't what's stopping us from probing high energy levels.
> It's probably physically possible

Says who ? Just like it may be physically possible to create immortal humans, but it's extremely unlikely we find a way to make it happen anytime soon, and in the meantime your frozen body will be left to rot over time faster than science progresses in that field.
Thanks for the chart. That really hammered the complexity home to me.
> I'm not sure how you can call it "pseudoscience," unless they're making false guarantees about current technology ...

The term "pseudoscience" can be applied to a true result as well as a false one. The term refers, not to the result, but to how it was acquired.

An astrologer may predict that you will have a nice day. If you then have a nice day, does that make astrology science?
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It's apt to compare Tcl to Node.JS because of the similar I/O-model.

Tcl is slower than Node.JS (a broad statement, but e.g., it's not JITed), and the last time I checked Tcl's event loop was select-based and not epoll/kqueue-based. Looking at the code for 8.6.2, it appears to be like that still.

I like Tcl, but I wouldn't use it for high-concurrency tasks (I would use Go for that). It's nice when you need a DSL to extend your application, or if you want to glue C libraries together, but there are better tools for network code.
> Even more to the point, why would they revive you? You already paid them.

Agree, there's not much incentive. Plus let's say you wake up as an old man 100 years from now, who is going to take care of your daily needs ? Your immediate family will be long gone, your descendants probably won't care about you, and your skills from 100 years ago will be irrelevant. What a life!
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“Now, I can think of three really good reasons why you shouldn’t do something like that, George.”

1. The process to revive a person after freezing does not exist. Current speculations about how it would work are so mired and poisoned by wishful thinking that it is essentially impossible to know whether it will ever exist.

2. Even if the process will some day exist, it will be too late for you if you were not frozen correctly. It’s like writing a zip/compress program and speculating that someone in the future might one day invent unzip/uncompress – if unzip or uncompress eventually does appear, it is extremely likely to show bugs in the implementation and/or specification of the original zip or compress program, making all data previously thought to be “compressed” instead utterly corrupt and worthless.

3. The incentives are all wrong for the actual truth to surface. The incentive for a company in this business is to imply that the science is (or will soon be) much farther along than it currently is, and a customer has the incentive to believe this, since the alternative is death. To paraphrase: It is difficult to get someone to understand something, when their life depends upon them not understanding it.
I believe the point is that the neural net will still have preconceptions -- but the random wiring just means you've chosen to not see what they are.
but I'd recommend it if you'd prefer not to die.

This appears to assume that your physical body will be enough for you to come back to 'life'.
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We're already spending vast amounts of money on high-energy experiment, and building ever-larger particle smashers seems to have limited payoff from here on out.

I don't know how to figure out quantum gravity. I don't even know how to do an experiment which could distinguish between different models of quantum gravity. But I do know there's plenty of other interesting stuff (much of which is actually useful) we don't know about physics at other scales which we can spend our time and money on.
>I for one would like to see a greater portion of funding going towards experimental physics.

What do you imagine the current portion is? Most funding does go to experimental physics.
I don't like that definition.

I like to consider ∆S the result of a smoothing operation over energy differentials.

You can put work into a system to reestablish an energy differential. It just necessitates obtaining that other energy differential with which to do the work.
> So like a love hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_hotel), but sans coupling. Or like a capsule hotel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_hotel), but with attached shower.

To be fair, they say Japanese love hotels allow single guests (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Japan#Love_hotels) and capsule hotels have showers (https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Japan#Capsule_hotels).

I don't doubt, though, that even in Japan there's a niche for specifically targeted establishments of the kind described by grandparent.
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Plus what companies from 50 years ago are still around?
Whatever the eventual chance of being revived, you have to have some respect for those who just refuse to give up.
Perhaps Keurig should print their logo onto the cups with said special ink, and the machine should identify the logo with an image matching algorithm. If I understand trademark law correctly, competitors wouldn't be able to reproduce the Keurig logo without the strong possibility of facing repercussions for trademark infringement. I mean in reality it wouldn't work well at all and just make consumers pissed, but I wonder what the legal situation would be if they could pull it off.
I was actually just trying to work out what you thought I had meant. I can be pretty childish, but I wasn't doing anything other than stating what I meant by that sentence. You don't have to tell me what you thought I had meant but it would be nice.
True. If you count heads, there seems to be an equal number of theoretical and experimental physicists. But if you tally budgets and compare the cost of an accelerator versus the cost of a blackboard, experimental physics has a much higher cost.
it's an industry that's based on a bet that the damage caused by current day cryogenics will be repairable in the future, compounded with the bet that the problem which instantiated the use of cryogenics for the individual in the first place will have also been solved.

I could also sell coal to people that would hope to use it in their 3D printers in the near future to construct their own diamonds, or flight goggles for our futures' flying cars.

It's not pseudo-science, but not because it's trust-worthy; it's not pseudo-science because Alcor is very careful with their image and wording so as to flank that issue entirely.
True. My point is that it's not pseudoscience unless they're claiming that an unfreezing process already exists (that's just lying), or if they're claiming an unfreezing process existing in the future is possible and you can show that it's not possible.
And what if your brain can still feel stuff and you're in a state of extreme discomfort for the next 100 years and since you're frozen you can't make it stop.
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