Double_Cast

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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Biologists hypothesize that Mantis shrimps perceive 12 primary colors. Do you expect a sea creature the size of my fist to share art and literature about its inner experience?
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
> Well according to wikipedia it means knowledge independent of experience not "dependent on logic". wikipedia: > Thus, the two kinds of knowledge, justification, or argument, may be glossed: > A priori knowledge or ju
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
All words have framing. Don't make me link Zizek. More seriously. My takeaway is not "I wish Patreon hadn't issued an apology", but to beware promises without binding contracts or strong signals of fidelity.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
You probably think I'm being pedantic. But the point of the article is to conceptually distinguish color from wavelength. If we're going to distiniguish them, we might as go all the way. There's no reason to bind yellow (and
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
2% of the population perceive a 4th primary color. Do you know what it looks like? Can you imagine what it looks like? Can Maxwell's equations predict what it looks like?
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Suppose I have a coffee machine. I can weigh it, clean it, measure titration. But is the machine edible? No, because the machine isn't coffee per se. Similarly, suppose scientists discover a neural-structure (or chemical-interaction, e
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Nature has already engineered a dedicated yellow-detector. And it qualitatively differs from what us normies think of as "yellow". Pseudo-yellow is bimodal in the same way that purple is bimodal, while true-yellow is monomodal. Su
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Yellow, cyan, and magenta don't correspond to particular wavelengths. They each correspond to a combination of two particular, adjacent wavelengths. E.g. a "yellow" wavelength is only as bright as its decomposition into red a
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
A priori means derived from logic rather than perceptions and experience. Not "more fundamental".
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Unfair. We also lack cones for yellow and cyan. (Except for the tetrachromatic 2%, who experience a 4th primary color where "yellow" ought to be.)
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
> Error! Problem, or Page Not Found > Sorry, the page you were looking for does not exist. Link is broken. From browsing, I believe the correct link is https://numenta.com/papers-videos-and-more/resources/lay
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Buildings snap to a grid. Units take up space according to a hitbox. Hitbox size varies according to each type of unit (E.g. Thors are huge). This becomes important when dealing with AoE. Consider a group of mutalisks. If you select-all and
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
It's possible you're referring to the tradeoff between exploration vs exploitation.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Skill is often divided into 3 components: macro-management; micro-management; and mechanics. Macro refers to decisions regarding economy. It includes finances, build order, counters, etc. Macro is mostly strategic. Micro refers to decisions
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
According to Wikipedia [0], the most efficient radix is Euler's Number. But what would it even mean to construct a numeral-system with a non-integral radix? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_economy
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Since I learned programming, my personal notes draw a distinction between "=" (defines set of coordinates) and ":=" (assignment). cf. f(x) = x^2 + 1 x := 2 f(2) = 5
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
citizens labeled illegals: 1,000,000 illegals labeled citizens: 0.01
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
I don't remember my personal source. Wikipedia citation [15] seems pretty comprehensive. [15] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-07-11/at-sears-... > Plagued by the realities threatening ma
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
You might wanna check out the story of Edward Lampert (the CEO of Sears). Ayn Rand inspired him to pit departments against one another. Sears devolved into a battle royale and profits dropped like a rock.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
I'd always wondered about the trope "if someone sees my panties I have to marry them". That Quora explanation really put it in context.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
One reason is that Social Security transfers wealth from the young to the old. The shift in demographics may strain the program.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
This happened in Eve Online. Some guy acted as a defacto bank, built trust over several years, then blew all the credits on a flagship. Held legally accountable? Lmao. Guile is part of the game and all your credits belong to Eve.
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
I memorize chord progressions in terms of interval-number. E.g. {F# m; B dom7; E Maj} becomes {ii; V7; I}. I've memorized which intervals are major chords and which intervals are minor chords. So if I can figure out the tonic, then I c
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
One advantage of the 5-Line Staff is use of both lines and spaces. It's compact, easy to print, and easy to stack notes vertically. Another advantage: each note of a diatonic scale is mapped injectively. Cf. representing each line (or
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
.beware("could not open file");
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Seasoned gamblers count "outs" (winning outcomes), convert to "hand odds" (out:loss ratio), then weigh hand odds against "pot odds" (weigh expected profit vs investment).
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
You two are speaking past each other. CydeWes is using EV in the "first moment" sense. Amalcon is using EV in the "expected utility" sense. E.g. consider rock-paper-scissors. The expected utility of rock is 1/2. But
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Given Tao's rotating frame: * For each M-mass, the centrifugal-vector lies along the x-axis. * For each m-mass, the centrifugal-vector lies along the z-axis. * For each centrifugal-vector, the magnitude is proportional to "the poi
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by Double_Cast 9y ago
Fror a high-level overview of linear algebra, 3Blue1Brown's youtube series I cannot recommend highly enough. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjBOesZCoqc&list=PLZHQObOWTQ...
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by Double_Cast 10y ago
I don't understand the article's comment about the "big difference" between Roman artifacts vs Byzantine artifacts. Did she mean Roman artifacts are well-studied enough that archaeologists find them uninteresting? Or was

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