Rohit Patnaik @quanticle

Just another worker in the information mill quanticle.net A cold place. Joined March 2009

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Rohit Patnaik @quanticle

a day ago

@Scholars_Stage Most of my peers had the opposite experience. Linear algebra, for them, was a logical extension to high-school algebra and calculus, while discrete math was alien technology.

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a day ago

@Scholars_Stage I'm just weird. I found discrete math to be fun puzzles, and linear algebra to be the exactly the same sort of make-work drudgery that was high-school calculus.

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4 days ago

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5 days ago

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5 days ago

@WB_Baskerville Maybe it's a good thing that we don't have an entire intellectual class of glorified tarot card readers for China, as we did for the Soviet Union.

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@WB_Baskerville Did that industry actually accomplish anything? My understanding is that, when American scholars actually accessed Soviet archives (during the brief time they were open) they found that most Kremlinology was hilariously wrong.

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6 days ago

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a month ago

@moklasen Okay, but real talk, haven't Russian warbloggers been collectively losing their shit since the first videos were posted of Russian armor formations getting obliterated around Borova in March of 2022? What makes this different?

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Rohit Patnaik @quanticle

2 months ago

@jd_pressman The chess example is especially funny because, as AlphaZero proved, typing the command prompt "make whatever moves you think are best" actually works incredibly well! Well enough to beat Stockfish, the product of over a decade of careful hand tuning, 88-12 in a 100 game match.

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2 months ago

@Tim23541 @thdxr We threw away twenty years, our entire manufacturing base, and the prosperity of countless communities pretending that the Chinese were interested in cooperation rather than dominance. No more.

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2 months ago

@Tim23541 @thdxr China never stopped viewing America through a Cold War lens. It was America's end-of-history delusion in the 2000s that caused us to think that China would become a "normal" member of the international order.

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2 months ago

@thdxr How does selling Nvidia into China prevent self sufficiency? It's not like if we impose restrictions at some future date, the Nvidia chips we've already sent in vanish. All we're doing is allowing China to buy compute more efficiently.

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2 months ago

@jimcollura @scottlincicome The people your members are overcharging aren't family businesses, they're families.

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2 months ago

@RhettButlerDMV @Malinowski @ChrisRMcGuire I do not understand what the point is of the argument that the US should keep China "hooked" on its stack, when all that does is enable Chinese companies to run closer to US ones.

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2 months ago

@RhettButlerDMV @Malinowski @ChrisRMcGuire So then what's the point Jensen going China? If what you're saying is true, why should the Chinese allow US chip imports?

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2 months ago

@TundraSkat @JacquiHeinrich How about we bring home all the troops and equipment that have been deployed to Iran under the Trump Regime?

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2 months ago

@MadCarew @kunley_drukpa Coca Cola chose to leave because Indian tariff regulations at the time mandated a certain amount of local ownership. Pepsi was willing to play ball. Coke wasn't, so they left. Even today, India is one of the few markets where Pepsi has more market share. tl;dr: socialism sucks

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2 months ago

You're vacuuming your house when you encounter a tortoise. You put the tortoise on a flowerpot. The tortoise lays there, its shell baking in the hot sun, trying to get down, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Leon?