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Intentional Deception Among Nonhuman Primates [pdf](ttu-ir.tdl.org)
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Crafting Interpreters – Web Version(craftinginterpreters.com)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Robert Nystrom has generously made the entirety of his "Crafting Interpreters" available for free.
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Python AWS SQS Consumer(github.com)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Agree with this. The logic behind this is simple. The human being is part of the universe, hence subject to causation & perceived chance. The human being doesn't get to "choose" the architecture of the body at birth, no c
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Crapulous – given to or characterized by gross excess in drinking or eating(dictionary.com)
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Textbook manifesto by Allen B. Downey(greenteapress.com)
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by Thursday24 5y ago
First of all, if you go back in memory, you didn't choose your birth. By all possibilities, your parents truly never had a choice, they didn't choose to bring a particular kind of you into the world. And so on, you can go back. Ev
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Ask HN: Technical Papers – reading more/better
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by Thursday24 5y ago
Sounds similar to Allen Downey's "Textbook manifesto" ( https://greenteapress.com/wp/textbook-manifesto/ ). The manifesto can be summed up in a single sentence: "Students should read and understa
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by Thursday24 5y ago
2 - Wonderful advice! It took me years to figure this out. The speedreading books/courses would instruct "Don't subvocalize" and so on. I tried doing all that, and never deeply internalized anything that way. These days
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by Thursday24 5y ago
For books, something that has helped me in getting the best of the stuff in them has been this. For every new book, create a google doc with three sections: 1. Before 2. During 3. After The first "Before" section is to list down y
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by Thursday24 6y ago
Philosophy is a PROCESS of enquiry (hopefully "skilled"). It is difficult to compress a long-running & haphazard process into precise definition. You can label the process, talk about various aspects of the process, share exam
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by Thursday24 6y ago
Consider Newton. He pursued physical theories, alchemy and theological studies with similar amount scholarship and zest. His physical theories obtained popularity due to its utility. And his theological and alchemical studies didn't gi
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by Thursday24 6y ago
> I believe it is a bit pretentious. The word philosophy lends extra weight to what is otherwise random speculations. Many philosophers in fact claim that science is a just sub field of philosophy and that philosophy is “above” it. It ca
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by Thursday24 6y ago
Pseudo refers to pretensions/shams. Philosophy need not pretend to be science, it can openly speculate, without the rigors of the scientific method. In science, a hypothesis can be made, but that has very many parameters restricting wh
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by Thursday24 6y ago
That's perhaps a bit too harsh an assessment of the field. Betrand Russell, in his "A history of western philosophy" defines Philosophy as a no man's land or speculative region between religion/theology and science.