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by Retra 7y ago
You think, so you know you exist. That doesn't mean you know what you are, only that you are.
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by Retra 7y ago
If the only reason Wolfram is writing about Feigenbaum in the first place is because it promotes his product, that makes it seem even more self-serving.
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by Retra 7y ago
Out of all the ways he could get his point across, you think he just landed within a hamming distance of 2 of a misleading one on accident? >But then I can't imagine a layperson having any idea what almost any of the sentence you qu
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by Retra 7y ago
I'm not even arguing with you, let alone constructing a straw man to argue with. I'm simply explaining why an explanation that justifies a belief is appropriate here. I don't care what you believe, I care why you believe it.
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by Retra 7y ago
Labradors usually have a genetic disorder that causes them to gorge themselves, so they are highly prone to obesity. They are also very popular breeds in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador_Retriever#Inherite
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by Retra 7y ago
It's a bit incongruous to talk about "all humans" when you haven't experienced them all. Asking for a citation is asking for a justification for this generalization, not for a citation about the experience itself. I mean
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by Retra 7y ago
Not being wrong doesn't absolve you from being deceptive. ("Save up to $1000!") A scientist doesn't hide the truth in fine print and technicalities, they expose it.
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by Retra 7y ago
There is an example right in this article: >(Confusingly enough, with typical “machine precision” computer arithmetic, this doesn’t work correctly, because even though one “runs out of precision”, the IEEE Floating Point standard says to
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by Retra 7y ago
How much does a home installation cost?
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by Retra 7y ago
They're not booleans in ruby, python, js; they're objects that can be null.
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by Retra 7y ago
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/moderate-level...
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by Retra 7y ago
I don't think the problems are meaningless because words might have different meanings, but because problems are often posed as if the words can't have multiple meanings so questions are often arranged in a way such that any rea
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by Retra 7y ago
So would going to a gym. But it's easier to build a habit of taking care of something you love at home than doing a chore you have to drive/walk across town to do.
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by Retra 7y ago
If IQ functions that way, you don't need to measure it because people are already doing what you want it to enable.
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by Retra 7y ago
People tend to preferentially value things that they understand. If you understand your employer's business platform, you'll naturally prefer it. I don't think you need such a cynical explanation to get the same end result...
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by Retra 7y ago
Perfect doesn't mean absence of pain, conflict, or struggle. Certainly a physical fitness regiment would suffer under that attitude. Why should a mental or social fitness program be any different? Yes, perfect means perfect, but that d
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by Retra 7y ago
How much you care isn't as important as how effective you are at running the organization. That seems like a counter-productive optimization. Let's say we have two charities: one that is run by 'bleeding-heart' passionis
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by Retra 7y ago
Just because you work for a charity doesn't mean your work is itself charity. If you're collecting money to buy food for people, you still pay for the food, you're not demanding that the growers and packagers of that food sim
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by Retra 7y ago
I'm regularly imagining what I would actually be able to accomplish if I went back in time 200-2000 years. Details are always the problem. It reminds you how little you know, but also helps you to form a background interest in engineer
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by Retra 7y ago
Think of it as a linguistic problem instead. What is the minimum number of symbols needed to express the complexity of nature together with the complexity of the interpreter needed to parse them? Simple forms are just those that compress no
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by Retra 7y ago
What you've said is not profound. When you go around saying "the sky is blue" people aren't wrong to assume you meant something relevant, rather than just tossing out vague and trivial statements.
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by Retra 7y ago
>we must struggle to agree on a useful definition of intelligence, therefore it is a social construct. This makes everything a social construct, which negates any usefulness of the distinction. Having to agree to definitions cannot be a
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by Retra 7y ago
They're not only checking two degrees though, they're checking as far as they can and just happen to find them within two degrees. So it's not "how likely are they to find them in two degrees", but "how likely
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by Retra 7y ago
Rust is not based on C++. People coming from Haskell/ML aren't used to C's backwards type declarations, and that's why they're not in Rust; the people who make Rust have experience with more than just C/C++. So
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by Retra 7y ago
"Released" isn't really important; "marketed and/or advertised" is.
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by Retra 7y ago
>According to Wikipedia, Aladdin grossed "$923.7 million, against a production budget of $183 million". So despite you and your nephew, Disney seem to manage OK. That's not an objective way to look at things. If there were
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by Retra 7y ago
Making it more abundant doesn't necessarily make it more affordable. You need the costs of extraction to be low, because if you want platinum, you can recycle and mine it here, it is just expensive. So the question is only whether it i
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by Retra 7y ago
And what if they cure cancer and you haven't actually given them opportunities or assistance? Or what if they don't cure cancer? Did you not raise them sufficiently well?
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by Retra 7y ago
People are also unreasonably squeamish toward unpleasant smells. Some things just don't smell great, and that's not actually a problem. It's life, move on.
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by Retra 7y ago
You can record an encrypted message and get it decrypted by anyone who demonstrates knowledge of the key. The process is identical to finding someone who demonstrates knowledge of Haitian. Encryption is nothing more than an uncommon encodi

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