andrewjl

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by andrewjl 6y ago
> 2. Using a mental image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia There are many who are unable to form images in their mind. Aphantasia isn't rare. But it's also not universal and people with aphantasia
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Folks working in Foundations of Mathematics would like a word... On a serious note even if objective mathematical entities exist, which I personally don't believe is verifiable, it'd be really something to see how they can maintai
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An alternative definition is that language is a set of referents to a collectively constructed "picture" of reality. Wilfrid Sellars has done work on this. I say alternative because it shifts the focus away from person-to-person i
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It has been demonstrated that humans have no easy way to universally distinguish artifacts of perception from empirically real phenomena. So I really take issue with this use of "exist". It's never that simple. And that'
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I think the issue isn't that someone may be forced to take the leave when they don't, rather there are hidden incentives for them to not do so when they do. There's a heck of a lot of room between the latter and the former. O
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In newer versions of Swift the need for almost all prefixing has been removed. You can still say it's a facade when using things like UIKit, but as we've seen in the past few years w/ SwiftUI that is changing. It's alrea
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Supporting a language fully on a variety of non-Apple platforms is a massive undertaking. Even assuming for the sake of argument, unlimited funding, there's still the issue of finding the right talent, as well as expending limited mana
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You can substitute surprising for stunning. In any case, I'm guilty of missing this as much as anyone. I chuckle at Charlie Munger's aphorism: "Well, I think I’ve been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understandi
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There's always a risk somewhere in that 3% there is a 1% that can drastically alter your understanding of the 97%. You can mitigate that risk by reading a summary from a trusted source, however you can never fully eliminate it. Everyth
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> In short, academic institutions systemically promote exactly the sort of short-term optimization of which, ironically, the private sector is often accused. I find it stunning at how little people understand the role of incentives in ba
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Is there a resource online that breaks down the types of equipment and facilities needed for this sort of production?
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There are ASICs out there that simulate analog synths, such Universal Audio. Brings to mind some interesting pure software approaches if that were the case.
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I didn't know about this. It's curious that the article mentions that recently (2016) improved FPAAs were demonstrated. Perhaps an opportunity where there wasn't one before.
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> but tons of useful software is still bottlenecked by single core speed It's interesting to see approaches like Apple's where more and more of computationally heavy work is moved onto what are essentially special purpose purpo
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I agree. Not everyone thinks or solves problems in the same ways, and math notation has historically favored only one type of cognition. More visual approaches using touch screens or spatial / tactile ones using AR would be cool to see
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Is this something an FPGA or something similar could do? Would be interesting to know of any home-brew attempts at this out there.
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Government borrowing costs, even for terms as long as 30 years, are at the lowest they've ever been. We don't necessarily need private startup capital if we agree that this is an important problem to solve. And unlike much of othe
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Doing so would destroy the ability of non-establishment candidates representing salient issues, e.g. police violence in particular communities, from effectively running grassroots campaigns.
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> The focus on renewables is depressing, and the memes around the solution to climate change to be "use less, consume less, focus on more clean energy" are equally so, since they creates a cynical belief there is a tradeoff bet
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Presumably by auditing all the prime brokers.
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> The point is essentially one of dependency and voluntaryness. False dichotomy. Gradations exist. Particularly in the ad business that is, in effect, a two-way market for intentional attention online. > An actual government collectin
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> Security theater really Use of this phrase in this context indicates either a naive or incomplete understanding of the constitutional order, i.e. how government works in practice as opposed to as an idealism, which is the foundation fo
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Except those five companies are dwarfed in size and market power by the one under spotlight. The biggest chunk of US S&P 500 market cap is FAANG stocks.
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This is a reply to you down-thread, all those things I listed should be seen as a totality, not necessarily as separate pegs. And I think of "rule of law" [IANAL] as encompassing both formal and informal enforcement mechanisms. Fi
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There is also a role in this for the IG. And, ex post facto, for WaPo, NYTimes, or some other press to report on this. The system is clearly imperfect, but and this is a big but, the presence of these safeguards is what makes the comparison
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Who is "the establishment" in this case? And who is "we"? I suspect the answer to the first question consists of direct or indirect Google shareholders. Some opponent. Most small business would benefit from more competit
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FISA provides reports to Congress at least annually.[1] [1] https://it.ojp.gov/PrivacyLiberty/authorities/statutes/1286
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You can't compare headcount across time periods without taking into account productivity growth. This is an apples-and-oranges comparison.
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I agree with all this, just want to add that there have been cultural and structural changes in US society as well that make comparisons to 1960s NASA or Bell Labs ahistorical.
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The fact is, Google is a US company and they benefit from the security provided by those agencies. Your analogy, colorful as it may be, belies reality.

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