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Genuinely curious as to what are the practical uses of this theorem?


They're described in the "usage" section.


I can also recommend the new Annie Jacobsen book, Nuclear War: A Scenario for a horrific experience that would scar you for a few days :)


The Annie Jacobsen book didn't have quite the same visceral impact of despair for me as watching Threads. But it was still disturbing for two reasons: the cascade which leads to war is remarkably believable with its grab bag of technical limitations, forced decisions with flawed data and dramatic consequences, and that it was written "now". It's not something which can be tidied away into a past era which we'd like to thing we emerged from never to return.


I read that a few weeks ago. Quiet good.

A similar subject is:

The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States by Jeffrey Lewis

Note this explicitly features President Trump and various real-life politicians and portrays Trump negatively. So if you are a fan of his probably avoid.


(2023)


Acoup blog recently did some analysis related to Pyrrhus worth reading as well: https://acoup.blog/2024/03/08/collections-phalanxs-twilight-...



I tend to lean more into the Valhalla crowd chanting <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ_VFJn2kJM>


"Valhalla, Deliverance Why've you ever forgotten me"

Some say they are still chanting to this day.


Not to mention that most of the times it’s just slower than literally using bang(!) searches on a browser like duckduckgo.


> I went back to Borders, I picked up Deliverance by Opeth expecting it to sound like Damnation

I went through the opposite experience at college, I picked Damnation expecting it to sound like Deliverance.

You have to love bands that have records that you hate upon first impression then end up loving them after years.


Funnily enough A Fair Judgement fit perfectly with the Damnation material — it was the rest I wasn't quite ready for.


My son loves this app and he’s 7. Thanks!

A small gripe, I’m unsure whats the api refresh rate and my kid continues closing and opening the app and then it sporadically gets time outs on the API. That being said, I much appreciate taking the time to release it and blog about it.


That's awesome, glad he liked it!

Very fair - the OpenSky API has no SLO, so it will sporadically fail to reload. I'm working on better retry logic in V2, and potentially the ability to login with your own OpenSky account (http basic auth)


This; its really hard to discern nuance when you do not understand a specific field. The value of procedural text generators is higher when you as an individual with the knowledge, understand when the AI is hallucinating or spewing nonsense versus when you are rubber duckying your way into solutions.


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