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by Zuider 6y ago
And I suppose cleaning the occasional strawberry dachary puke is less onerous than cleaning up a whole swath of term papers.
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by Zuider 6y ago
I don't think the author's account is complete here, not because he is lying, but because he cannot face the truth, which is that in order to make his case against a viewpoint academia considers to be beyond the pale, he would be
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Symbolic mathematics finally yields to neural networks(quantamagazine.org)
275 points by Zuider 6y ago|99 comments
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by Zuider 7y ago
This kind of reasoning opens you up to the genetic fallacy. If you believe the moral status of the origin of a thing is necessarily transmitted to the thing itself, then you are liable to consider Hitler's pernicious concept of Der Vol
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by Zuider 7y ago
I have seen what looks very much like a truth table written in George Boole's spidery handwriting in an exhibition dedicated to him in the University where he taught, Queen's College, Cork, now University College Cork. Instead of
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by Zuider 7y ago
>So you don't get the "oh you lose" social cue [on twitter] You don't get the silent downvoting that occurs on sites like reddit, but you do get overt disagreement which can go viral and result in consequences in real
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by Zuider 7y ago
Editorializing is prone to abuse, but sometimes it is necessary on various grounds, such as the original title of an article being obtuse, misleading or even offensive. A good title should convey the nature of the subject matter and why it
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by Zuider 7y ago
>Giving a corporation personhood does not give the corporation rights as much as does take away rights from those who interact with that corporation. Maybe, but the purpose of legal personhood for abstract entities is also to hold them a
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by Zuider 7y ago
Objective C is compiled, yes, but like Smalltalk OOP, the target object of the message is resolved and interpreted by that object at runtime.
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by Zuider 7y ago
Heads rolled in France, but that lead to the totalitarian Jacobin regime. Across the channel in Britain, democracy had been growing slowly since the signing of the Magna Carta began the process of subjecting power to the rule of law, divest
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by Zuider 7y ago
The word 'democracy' has been used in two incompatible senses. In the West, we see democracy as a means of limiting the excesses of power. As Karl Popper noted, 'democracy' is not so much the answer to the question &quot
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by Zuider 7y ago
Don't forget that sea levels have risen some 120 meters since the end of the last ice age. Given that civilizations tend to form close to the ocean, most archeological evidence from tens of millennia ago, if such existed, would be unde
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by Zuider 7y ago
Roger Penrose has speculated that the ultimate heat-death of one universe, the stage where space, time, radiation and matter lose all meaning is identical with the singularity from which a new universe emerges.
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by Zuider 7y ago
Space 1999 was a little like that. The premise was that the moon was blasted out of the Solar system into interstellar space. Somehow, the doughty denizens of Moonbase Alpha managed to encounter a new planet with intelligent life in nearly
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by Zuider 7y ago
Your stolen personal data could be used to empty your bank account or to commit a crime in your name which could cause permanent damage to your reputation, even if you were exonerated.
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by Zuider 8y ago
Not if it is intended purely as a question. It is true that the phrase "what's stopping them?" could be interpreted as an incitement, but this is Hacker News not one of the grubbier corners of the internet, and the first inte
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by Zuider 8y ago
In regard to ecmascript, have you considered Haxe?
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by Zuider 8y ago
Real programmers don't need to give explicit orders like GOTO. A scowl is enough.
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by Zuider 8y ago
Real programmers can glance at a plate of spaghetti and tell where each strand of pasta begins and ends. Even when it is covered in bolognese sauce. And cheese. Can you do that with quiche? Thought not.
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by Zuider 8y ago
But the article explicitly states that Lena Forsén herself requested the extra 'n' in the spelling of her name so that she would not have to hear it mispronounced as 'Leena'.
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by Zuider 8y ago
The reference is to Plato's allegory of the cave. Prisoners are chained so they are facing the back wall of a cave. Puppeteers project a play of shadows onto this wall and the prisoners, knowing no better, take this show for reality, w
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by Zuider 8y ago
An application of the principle of intellectual charity would have gone a long way here. As a musician, I understood the OP to mean that even though a player may be able to play with equal facility in any key, the instrument will sound bett
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by Zuider 8y ago
If only Twitter were merely an insubstantial epiphenomenon lacking influence on the real world, but unfortunately, people can use Twitter as a tool to destroy those who offend them.
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by Zuider 8y ago
You may be overlooking the spate of execution-style murders of police officers by BLM members that occurred in 2016. These killings ought surely to have some impact on how one judges whether BLM is a social movement that has on occasion gon
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by Zuider 8y ago
Peterson is well aware of the differences in brain chemistry between lobsters and humans, but this difference is not incompatible with the claim that hierarchies have existed well before human societies, and that serotonin levels correspond
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by Zuider 8y ago
What is Jordan Peterson's lobster theory?
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by Zuider 8y ago
Genuinely curious as to why this was so. Did these students have prior programming experience? Was their reaction due to a particular fault of Racket or would they have disliked any language to which they were not accustomed? Perhaps their
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by Zuider 8y ago
In their pursuit of 'intellectuals' Khmer Rouge targeted anyone wearing spectacles. Do the Cambodians have better eyesight than comparable populations?
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by Zuider 8y ago
To be specific, Frege, was quite anti-Semitic in his private writings.
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by Zuider 8y ago
This kind of controversy is intruding on the hard sciences. For one example, a highly abstract math paper on the greater male variability hypothesis was blocked from publication and the authors subjected to uncollegial harassment for purely

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