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  1. Re:Information wants to be free on Tokyo Demands YouTube Play Fair · · Score: 1

    You say "the energy required to contain information scales very much logarithmically with respect to the size of the group that receives". Do you perhaps mean exponentially? The following is an example of logarithmic scaling: Group size = 10 -> energy required=1 Group size = 100 -> energy required=2 Group size = 1000 -> energy required=3 ... Group size 10,000,000 -> energy required=7

  2. Re:Ah, Units on What is the Best Bug-as-a-Feature? · · Score: 1

    This is nonsensical, since equality *is* an equivalence relation.

  3. Re:Math != Science on Dark Energy May Be Changing · · Score: 1

    It's clear that you're not a mathematician. Mathematics - as practiced - is not just about deduction and logic. It's only the final write-up that makes it appear so. In fact when you practice mathematics you're guessing, making assumptions and - yes - hypotheses, and testing things out. Intuition is *so* much more important than logic. Maybe you had in mind the mickey-mouse mathematics that is indeed used as a tool of physics.

  4. Re:That's a pretty bold statement... on Dark Energy May Be Changing · · Score: 1

    "That the way science works..." Don't forget about the grant money to be had from making things up.

  5. Finds the meaning? on Morfik and Rapid Development of Modern Web Apps · · Score: 1

    The claim that morfik can "compile" any source code in any language, extract the "meaning", and replicate it is not very credible. For example, if the meaning of my code is "Halt", then they've solved the Halting problem.