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Does a Rock Implement Every Finite-State Automaton?(consc.net)
2 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
I would suggest that if one label is singular (the world) and the other is plural (the totality of facts) and you explain how the latter combine to form the former then the observation should be especially informative. In general pointing o
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Types of empiricism and the indispensability of doing science from an armchair(mynamelowercase.com)
1 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
A good place to start with understanding the context for Tractatus is reading about Bertrand Russell’s logical atomism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-atomism/
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
In this critique have you considered that a way that that X can be logically determined by Y is by X just being Y.
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Hidden Subsidies for Cars(bayes.net)
4 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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My experience doing a part-time philosophy degree alongside a full-time job(mynamelowercase.com)
2 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|1 comments
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
Under one very theoretical framing[1], it turns out (maybe unsurprisingly) that spreadsheets are more powerful as a model of computation[2] than Turing Machines[3]. Mostly because of excel’s “drag down” feature[4]. In particular, a Turing m
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Microsoft Excel is not just Turing complete. It is in fact a halting oracle(twitter.com)
3 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|2 comments
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
How many of the city’s challenges are technical versus policy problems?
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
You could, for example, show all front page users a random selection of new posts alongside top content.
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
I wasn’t sure if paypal-corp was a legit webpage for paypal. Here’s a Reuters article confirming the story https://www.reuters.com/technology/paypal-launches-stablecoi...
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by Gormisdomai 3y ago
I was browsing an old thread about this, and this comment from 2010 put it very well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076422 which is where I got the phrasing of the title from
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Are top stories biased towards the preferences of those who browse the new page?
1 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|4 comments
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Accelerate SF: an AI hackathon to build solutions for public sector challenges(twitter.com)
2 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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Falsehoods Data Engineers Believe About Data (2022)(mynamelowercase.com)
2 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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Elevated Computing(bayes.net)
1 points by Gormisdomai 3y ago|0 comments
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Computer Science and Philosophy(philocomp.net)
3 points by Gormisdomai 4y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 4y ago
What are the 3-5 books you have in mind?
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Beyond Micromarriages(thinkingcomplete.blogspot.com)
2 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
One reason I'd love one of these (or a generally cheap low power linux PC) is just so I could e.g. muck around with e.g. code golf or advetnt-of-code programming puzzles on my commute.
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
What is "shared randomness" in the context of this article? When I google it I find papers on quantum computing - is that a prerequisite for this implementation?
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
I found the content of the article interesting but am also fascinated by how this kind of clickbait gets published and produced in the first place. I did a whois lookup for history101.com (partially because I was half wondering if this came
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Ask HN: Hacker News for Space Science?
6 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|2 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
If we grant that the right kind of blog could make the aesthetics of this work I still think users with cheaper internet might like to be able to click to load the original full-res versions of the images.
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
The paper studies trades made on financial market indexes, so over the periods of time measured I wonder if the random strategy they used is about the same as investing in index tracker funds and spreading your buys / sells out in orde
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Ask HN: What would you do with $1 million tax free, no strings attached?
5 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|11 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
> At Gratipay, we believe that companies want to pay for open source, and will pay for open source if it’s easy enough—bureaucratically, technically, and socially. I think this is the right insight, but clicking around the links on their
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Advising Software Says Philosophy Majors Have Two Career Options(dailynous.com)
1 points by Gormisdomai 5y ago|0 comments
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by Gormisdomai 5y ago
I'm curious why it successfully rotates some emoji but not others. E.g. stars and hearts get rotated but sunglasses do not (EDIT: rewrote my example to use words because HN doesn't render emoji, duh)

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