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terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I kind of addressed this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31966228
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I can't really tell to what extent you're not computing previous digits (or doing work that could quickly be used to come up with these previous digits) with this algorithm but O(n^2) seems quite heavy compared to O(1) (I expect) to get the n'th digit of op's number.

Maybe I should rephrase it:

My assumption is: If there is an O(1) algorithm to determine the n-th digit of an irrational number x then the number is still "of a different class" than the likes of pi and there OP might not be able to induce things from this "lesser class of irrational numbers"

However, it's just an intuition
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
I narrowed down "algorithm" to a specific sort of algorithm in the original reply.
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
What I meant is:

Describe the n-th digit of an irrational number without calculating all previous positions of the number.

If pi were a sequence of digits, there is no algorithm to calculate it other than by calculating pi but there is one for op's number. The very fact that he could show the algorithm for creating the sequence of numbers in his post is indicative of that.

For pi such an algorithm doesn't exist (other than calculating pi itself).

I wanted to emphasize this by talking about the "sequence of digits" in my original reply but apparently I failed at explaining this well.
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
So here's a bet:

I give you the 10^100th digit of the above algorithm and you give me the 10^100th digit of pi.

Whoever fails owes the other side 10 BTC.
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
The difference might be:

For your example there is an algorithm to describe the sequence of digits and for Pi there isn't.

EDIT + Clarification: There is an algorithm to calculate the digits of your number without calculating all previous digits. But for pi there isn't.
terranstyler
·4 वर्ष पहले·discuss
Bold claim in terms of IT (there exists currently no self-aware system in IT) but of course it contains all the info needed to build a human.

I'd rather say it contains the code to generate itself which should be much easier (= earlier) to find.
terranstyler
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terranstyler
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A fried of mine reported scientific misconduct (p-hacking) and, together with a few colleagues, left the research group, due to moral harassment by the head of that group.

The university removed all of them from the research group and said they could continue working on the data because it belongs to the university.

3 months later:

- investigations of scientific fraud against the people leaving (neglecting authorship because the data could after all not be used and the head wanted a say in the articles, i.e., change them completely). Also some random other allegations that didn't stick.

- police investigation of defamation (because they reported the scientific misconduct and some other misleading statements used by the head in sales for a research-related product)

- the university now expects them to contact the head of the ex-research group to clarify questions of authorship

- the head meanwhile continues as before