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by amatic 6y ago
Well, you did learn to understand German sentences way before school and grammar, I think that was the point. A baby can learn any language without studying its grammar, and in the early period not being able to pronounce the words.
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by amatic 6y ago
That sounds very interesting, could you elaborate or provide some links? Aren't there successful 'alternative' school programs?
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by amatic 6y ago
Simulation and modelling are great tools in engineering, but it is still very difficult to create realistic models that predict behavior of the real thing well. There are always things you leave out, and sometimes they come back to bite you
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by amatic 6y ago
Friston has a paper on free energy and psychedelics? Huh. Funny guy. Thanks for the link to hakomi therapy. The technique seems powerful and I see similar elements in different schools of therapy: If you’re in mindfulness and I say, “Dogs
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by amatic 6y ago
> I believe trauma instills scientific-type knowledge that is factually false but locally adaptive. False beliefs need more protection to be maintained than true beliefs, so the belief both calcifies, making it unresponsive to new infor
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by amatic 6y ago
For me, one important feature of notation is its consistency. Eg a inverse of sin function should not be written the same as powers, in superscript. Some programming languages enforce (function-name argument1 ... argumentn), or similar stru
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by amatic 6y ago
> Shall we start psychological therapies just because someone thought it sounded good, instead of measuring if it works? Yup. All psychotherapies were started just because someone thought they sounded good; and are still being practiced
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by amatic 6y ago
> Is there a good example of visual programming making difficult concepts easy? Analog computers with patches and plugs, ancestors of Max/Msp and similar software, were successful because they familiarized users with differential eq
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by amatic 6y ago
Which mobile browser? Android Chrome looks nice, draggable sliders, all animations working.
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by amatic 6y ago
The third link was a very interesting read, thanks!
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by amatic 7y ago
I've enjoyed "The Analogue Alternative: The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and USA, 1930-1970", By James S. Small. Really got me thinking about the possibility of forgotten ideas from that space.
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by amatic 7y ago
The price you paid says you value the thing you got more than the money you gave in exchange. At the same time, the person who received the money values it more than the thing he sold. That is what makes economic transactions positive sum g
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by amatic 7y ago
Agreed. Have you seen any models or simulations of economies with subjective value? All I see are some 'objective' measures.
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by amatic 7y ago
Transactions are pos sum only if you look at subjective value, right?
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by amatic 7y ago
Yet, when it comes to decades, we seem to be using the zero based count, perhaps with some confusion. The naughts, teens, twenties, etc.
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by amatic 7y ago
That sounds interesting. Do you have a recommendation for some reading materials on those Science Wars?
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by amatic 7y ago
I was going trough wikipedia after your comment, browsing different visual programming languages and paradigms. I suppose you're right that they don't scale in the same way as textual languages. Maybe someone finds a good set of c
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by amatic 7y ago
True. Simulations are always a simplification of reality and leave a lot out of the picture. On the flip side, successful robotics concepts might have more chance of being relevant to AGI.
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by amatic 7y ago
To me, the strange thing about this concept is the emphasis on textual code. There is still a screen and a keyboard, they are just projected or on paper. I think I would enjoy more something like a cable-patch interface. I would draw an int
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by amatic 7y ago
Downloaded the Calculus in Context when I read the your comment. That is exactly the kind of approach to math I appreciate and understand. I've been reading it and enjoying making simulations during the weekend. Thanks!
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by amatic 7y ago
It seems most of the comments are about negative unintended consequences; but most positive consequences also might have been unintended.
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by amatic 7y ago
Nice read! I keep wanting to learn more about the hardware to build something myself. Only simulations so far. Analog computers are absolutely fascinating. I feel like there is a lot of lost lore in that field.
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by amatic 7y ago
Looks like wikipedia is the source of confusion in this case. "The book laid the theoretical foundation for servomechanisms (whether electrical, mechanical or hydraulic), automatic navigation, analog computing .." Servomechanisms
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by amatic 7y ago
Nit pick - The "original control systems math" is Bode, Black, Nyquist.. 1930's. Cybernetics is the application of control theory (branch of mathematics) to biology; Norbert Wiener, Ashby, etc, 1950's.
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by amatic 7y ago
Serbo-croatian might go to that list as well, as it was an official language in the former Yugoslavia. French too. Spanish (Castillan). Seems like interslavic might have a chance only in a hypothetical panslavic country.
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by amatic 7y ago
Waiting for Teensy 4.0 (currently in beta testing[1]). Probably will make an amazing lisp machine. 600Mhz CPU, usb, all Arduino compatible. [1] https://forum.pjrc.com/threads/54711-Teensy-4-0-First-Beta-T...
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by amatic 7y ago
He is giving some weight to his advice on writing online, not just boasting, is my impression.
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by amatic 8y ago
Not necessarily absurd, though. Every kid can be above average in something .
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by amatic 8y ago
Is the Gödel Escher Bach worth the reading? I started, but I feel it's fluff. People say he is good, though. Are there some practical insights?
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by amatic 8y ago
I've found Atom's Hydrogen[1] to be pretty neat for my purposes, currently data analysis and plotting with python. Separate code into cells with #%%, crtl+enter to run. No need to reload data from files. [1] https://atom

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