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That’s a good point. The psychiatrist (who has power) is sworn to secrecy but the patient (who is vulnerable) isn’t.
The Trolley Problem
Where’s my magic sword?
Thanks. I forgot to spellcheck this post before posting it. I fixed the other spellings that aren’t words.
Cool!
The first eats the second, yes. Do note that the second could eat (antivenom, 0 weapons, 0 armor, 0 speed) whereas the first cannot.
No. Venom/antivenom merely takes priority over weapons+armor.
If one species has venom and the other lacks antivenom then weapons+armor doesn’t matter. The venomous species becomes the predator.
If either species has antivenom or neither species has venom then weapons+armor determines whether predation occurs.
Either way, once the predator-prey relationship is established (if it is established), the predator must have higher speed too in order to catch it’s prey.
That wasn’t necessary evidence for me. The secrecy + “charting/debugging” + “the only organization with a plan that could possibly work, and the only real shot at saving the world” is (if true) adequate to label the organization a cult (in the colloquial sense). This are all ideas/systems/technologies that are consistently and systematically used by manipulative organizations to break a person’s ability to think straight. Any two of these might be okay if used extremely carefully (psychiatry uses secrecy + debugging) but having all three brings it solidly into cult territory. Also, psychiatry has lots of rules to prevent abuse, including public, well-established ethical standards.
Are Leverage’s standard operating procedures auditable knowledge to outsiders? If not, this is the mother of all red flags and we should default to “cult”.
Modern telescopes contain automatic mechanisms that continuously change the shape of the mirror to compensate for the shimmering of the Earth’s atmosphere.
Source? I’ve never heard of such a telescope. All the modern telescopes I’ve ever used have solid, fixed mirrors. I thought the way to get around atmospheric distortions is to put your telescope in orbit.
That appears to be Windows related. I don’t know how to fix it properly. But the error looks like it’s limited to graphing. The code might work if you disable all the matplotlib graphing and do everything via text instead.
How do you say “this a cult” without literally saying the words “this is a cult”? (In the common colloquial sense of the word “cult”, as opposed the historical academic sense of the word.)
I’ve never heard of this organization until now and I’d be happy never to hear about them in the future. (This isn’t a criticism of OP.)
I like your line “[a]nd none of this pansy using a tool to extract the fat nonsense.” It gives hyenas their due. Lions get may be royalty but hyenas are monsters. A lion will kill you and then eat you. A hyena does it the other way around. Often they don’t even even bother to finish the job.
This pattern reflects much of the criticism leveled at Harari’s works by scholars. He exaggerates and oversimplifies, but rarely does he get things completely wrong.
When I tried reading Sapiens, I felt like Harari drew conclusions beyond the available evidence and attempted to pass them off as unqualified fact. He’d make a claim about non-human hominids’ behavior and I’d think to myself, “Really? How do you know? I thought we lacked archaeological/paleontological evidence on that subject. There are alternative possibilities.”
You’re right. I’m wrong. Good spotting! This behavior wasn’t intended but I’m keeping it because it’s interesting and makes some biological sense.
On my Linux machine it opens a plot window that has UI to save the image.
Announcement
Spencer Pearson noticed a bug that increased the variance by letting only half of the animals reproduce and causing the other half to reproduce twice. I have fixed it.
[W]here does the script save the data / graphs when running it?
It doesn’t. The project should have a persistent memoization system but I didn’t implement one. The way to save the data is to pipe your output into a file. The way I save the graphs is to click “Save the figure” on your graph.
Is the (hard-to-parse) text scrolling by all that I’ll get at the end of a run?
Yup. If anyone wants to improve the system I am happy to accept merge requests.
That would be nice. Alas, implementing a web interface would (with my set of skills) double (or more) the amount of work this project takes.
I have added code that raises an exception when an organism is spawned somewhere it can’t survive.
Bret Devereaux is awesome. “Hard times make tough men”[1] was a cached thought I had even though I read The Fremen Mirage. Thanks for bringing it to my attention for elimination. I failed to generalize that far from The Fremen Mirage.
This is deliberately gendered. ↩︎