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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Stanford Neuroscience Lectures. Dr. Spoolansky. Free online on Youtube. Forgot which lecture covered it. The whole class is worth a watch. Including the forbidden lecture if you can find it (lets just say it ruffles some feathers by noting
902.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Skinners box my dude. A probabilistic reward is a greater dopamine spike than straight up cocaine use.
903.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
You start by taking recordings of their ultra sonic squeaks, in particular the mating calls. Then you play these recordings back over loud speaker. As the conga line of horny rats waltzes in, BAM! Guillotine.
904.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Once again proving which agons are the bestagons.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
In what sense is computer science a science?
906.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Heisenberg did a lot of important work obviously, but that doesn't excuse him from making a real argument. Does he have anything to justify his assertion beyond personal feeling and intuition?
907.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Well I've got great news for you (1/4)
908.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I predict this platform of yours will still be up and running in a year from now.
909.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I've heard anecdotally Twitter is going through a bit of a tumultuous period right now. I'm not personally on it but best of luck to them!
910.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
In the most technical sense possible, they were in fact objectifying women.
911.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Yes this is true you caught me. That's the one thing that doesn't quite fit the story when you move from my abstract graph / node story to diff eqs. That said, I'm pretty sure you still get "value collisions" i
912.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
If you want to see the folly of RK4, give it something like a ball bouncing and watch as it bounces slightly higher each time. Subtle at first, but trust me its there. The comment above you is right. If you have conservation of energy and w
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Quick intro for those who don't know Chaos theory or what a strange attractor is. In the most general abstract sense suppose you have a system which is in some state and there is a deterministic rule which updates it to the next state.
914.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
"Why yes. I'm a big fan of slipping LSD into people's drinks and then interrogating them for hours. Say, have you tried the punch bowl yet?"
915.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Legitimacy is more often a spectrum than a binary thing. Rule of law, by which I mean the law itself is the ruler and not the person enforcing it, is a necessary but not sufficient condition. The essence of what we are calling legitimacy is
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
>Is it still a cult if it gets big enough? To draw an analogy, if a street gang gets big enough and controls enough territory, is it a government? The obvious follow up question is that if these phenomena only differ in size of membershi
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Its not just any old dumb rule. Say I wanted to make something really unlikely to be divisible. Well, let's try taking something very large and very evenly divisible, and then add or subtract a 1 so that it's always just a tiny fr
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
There needs to be at least one person in the thread reminding us about pg's submarine essay.
919.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
full disclosure, this pet theory is entirely based on observations of people on LSD. High frequency spatial patterns consistently get distorted in colorful ways.
920.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Depending on how you feel about recursion, I have a fairly elegant definition of self. "You are whatever you get in return when you ask yourself who you are." In the most syntactically literal sense of tracing back referent object
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I have a pet theory that certain high spatial frequencies bleed into being perceived a colors anyway. The reason being that the red, green, and blue cones in the retina each have a different amount of space between them but are otherwise or
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm personally partial to 3 bit and sometimes 4 bit color because it can be easily implemented on an RGB LED and will be instantly recognizable to people as "subway map colors". The 4th bit variant just introduces "half
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm going to relay a story. For a short period in my life, I had a roommate whom I wasn't sure if he was real for the first two weeks I knew him. At first it was just we agreed unreasonably well about our view on the world. Like I
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
Also, you don't need feedback per se. Just a rotating field will do. This is how ION traps work.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
The original experimentalist (Michelson) gave perhaps the best lay mans description in terms of an analogy with a swimmer crossing a fast moving river. Long story short, an interferometer detects the difference between two swimmers in their
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
This reads like the psychedelic equivalent of "true Communism has never been tried." You're saying psychedelics always have whatever emotional effect, and if they seemingly don't well its your fault for putting up a defe
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm not denying that its possible to lose all concept of a "face" or even know what "is" is and to only be left with pain, suffering, spinning and eternity. On the contrary, I find it to be an immensely scientifical
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I used to feel like this, but I fear I've burnt out the circuit. I'm numb to stress now. The stakes are never high enough.
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by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm not trying to dismiss your experience here, in fact I'm sure its all accurate, but I must make the curious observation that I don't seem to get the distortion of emotional state so many others seem to have on psychedelics
930.
by IIAOPSW 4y ago
I'm invoking the first ever telegraph message both to highlight the parallels of having a civilization changing technology whose implications are not yet grasped, and to highlight the telegraph as the start of encoding information digi

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