LPTS

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by LPTS 18y ago
No. TV is making people stupid.
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by LPTS 18y ago
No my friend you have it all wrong. The badge updates are a fine solution for now. Everything is fine, my friend. I'm a bit concerned with your tone. It's almost as if you don't have faith that the Steve will do what is right. Has he no
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by LPTS 18y ago
I'm not sure I agree. If your side project is really important to you, and this event derails it considerably, then you risk your memories of your friend being tainted with resentment. If it is a matter of a couple days, that is different.
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by LPTS 18y ago
I second this, and want to add to it. This is particularly important if you feel like you might have conflicted emotions. For example, it will be almost impossible for you to process your emotions, if you are actually feeling anger (for hi
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by LPTS 18y ago
Dvorak felt like that trying to topple qwerty.
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by LPTS 18y ago
No. I only have about 75% confidence. But, I do have 100% confidence that Dr. Gupta of CNN news has no good reasons to think it does, and that, if it does, the mechanism is unknown.
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by LPTS 18y ago
I think gifts like brain surgery comes more from the heretics that dug up corpses in defiance of the church then from god.
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by LPTS 18y ago
"Gupta is a neurosurgeon like the other two doctors quoted; what field could possibly be better for a story about cell phones and brain cancers?" How about a 10th grade science student who understands what nonionizing radiation means. "And
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by LPTS 18y ago
Thats a great link. Thanks! I think GEB is still going to be a classic 100 years from now, one of those works way ahead of it's time.
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by LPTS 18y ago
OK. You are quite right about that definition. There has been an ongoing discussions over at Haque's HBP site about this for a couple months now, so I was operating under the definition that his discussions were operating under. Then I pu
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by LPTS 18y ago
For me the brick wall was social, not related to the math, and I hit it in geometry class in 10th grade. Our teacher was an idiot, and had trouble solving the more difficult proofs at the end of the homework. Day after day I would go up t
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The Y Combinator Problem
1 points by LPTS 18y ago|2 comments
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by LPTS 18y ago
Well, that's exactly the point. I cribbed that line from a poem I wrote: Trying to find / the explanation of why we are conscious / in patterns in the brain / is like / trying to find / the last digit of pi / in the circuitry of a sc
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by LPTS 18y ago
I didn't mean to imply anything about my beliefs. I have a more general atheoretic attitude towards it. My belief could be formalized "For any person with a set of beliefs about consciousness, their beliefs are wrong, and they are not jus
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by LPTS 18y ago
I got a 15 in MacBook Pro and am getting a 24 or 26 in HD TV to put in my music studio/office space to double as a second monitor (with the first being my laptop screen).
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by LPTS 18y ago
Even if your brain is ruled by Bayesian statistics, that doesn't make YOU a bayesian neural network, or even tell us much about identity at all (that would be to confuse the hard and easy problems of consciousness). But your point about a
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by LPTS 18y ago
Allow me to spare you all from reading this drivel by summarizing it. "Using Macs will make how mediocre everything else in your business stand out the same way a clean spot on a grimy floor will make it obvious how bad the floor is. It's
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by LPTS 18y ago
"I think the evidence is pretty strong that this flexibility in the space of priors over language only lasts a for small precious window until we become adults, and then we're all stuck with lame accents." I think this is true for most peop
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by LPTS 18y ago
With the exception of a few close friends, having someone dropped by unannounced shakes my concentration for at least a couple hours. The kind of work I do is like holding a house of cards in my head. I am glad to see the social convention
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by LPTS 18y ago
If the brain uses bayesian inference, could emotions and intuitions perhaps be functionally equivalent to the approximations needed to do the impossible computations you are talking about?
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by LPTS 18y ago
I think any similarities between the uncertainty principle in physics and limits of what we can know about our minds is poetic or formal. There might be some rule which the uncertainty principle, the mind problem, and Godel's incompletenes
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by LPTS 18y ago
I wasn't insulting the intelligence of the guy reaching out for help, I was insulting the intelligence of the fraction of the YC membership that thinks autodidactic is pretentious.
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by LPTS 18y ago
You obviously know more about the science and math here than I do. So I'm offering these thoughts deferentially. I'm coming at this as a jack of all trades type who did a ton of philosophy of mind and cognitive science stuff in college bu
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by LPTS 18y ago
Correlation is causality if the best science has mechanisms that explain the causal relationship. Here, correlation is causality.
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by LPTS 18y ago
People here don't really like the word autodidactic. Try and keep it to a fifth grade level. Just a heads up.
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by LPTS 18y ago
Because it's an expression of your personality and you're an introvert? (That's how I feel about it.)
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by LPTS 18y ago
Of course there is that. No one wants to have their porn habits exposed to great aunt Hilda because she started typing popcapgames.com and they like to watch poppingcherries.com or something. Or diseases they might research, or gifts. But
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by LPTS 18y ago
I loathe when people touch my MacBook Pro or iPhone. This does not surprise me. Because the UI on Mac is so much better its easier for it to seem like part of your body. This is the same thing that happens to people who feel pain when thei
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Anyone Else at the Six Hour Start Up Conference In Seattle today?
1 points by LPTS 18y ago|0 comments
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by LPTS 18y ago
Top Ten New BS catchphrases to look for over and over again with amorphous meanings. Nice.

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