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by arketyp 7y ago
I don't want decoration on my tools. On the other hand, I prefer tools where the personality of the maker to can still shine through. Today it's just a Santa's hat for which they can't take responsibility. And tomorrow?
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Birds' intelligence is especially interesting because the ontogeny differs from that of primates and other mammals like the dolphins. Maybe it can help triangulate our views about intelligence and give parallax insight into what genera
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Anyone ready to interpret the question as response 1 woud seem to me about as unbearable to work with as a person asking the question and actually meaning reponse 1. That's a very sad working environment and my Gordian knot solution wo
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by arketyp 7y ago
Those bread cracks look better than anything I ever baked.
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But this assumes the gamut of trichromacy is more anchored in reality (woken life) than the gamut of tetrachromacy. In principle there is nothing different between a trichromat and a tetrachromat sense of color. They see one dimension of co
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by arketyp 7y ago
That’s why I said naturally occurring. If naturally occurring colors corresponds approximately 1-to-1 with trichromatic vision, that could explaining why a tetrachromat dreams of unreal colors and trichromats don’t.
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That has nothing to do with my argument. Why would tetrachromats be inclined to dream of colors they do not see in the real world any more than trichromats?
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by arketyp 7y ago
I don't see why seeing an extended pallet in dreams would be a thing particular to tetrachromats. Unless trichromatic vision completely covers the gamut of naturally occuring wavelength combinations, which I doubt.
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by arketyp 7y ago
It comes off as quite arrogant of Hofstadter to imply that people believe translation has now been solved by deep learning. You don't even have to be bilingual and know the other language to detect the subtleties lost by machine transl
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Fair point. And the moon mission. Autonomous driving is such a consumerist issue though, seems quite well suited for a free market dynamic. I'd rather see a great joint effort on fusion energy or something.
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You can apply this line of reasoning on many markets, like the pharma or food industry which also have safety concerns. It strikes me as the kind initiatives EU attempts nowadays when realizing we are running behind on some tech and want to
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How does this relate to Arc?
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There is a visual resemblence between zoom levels because of the statistical self-similarity across zoom levels. I suppose the word resemblence was chosen by the author as a less strict variation of the concept. But even the self-similarity
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In the way that being content is an evolutionary disaster, it makes sense that we always have an itch to scratch.
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DNA... A lifeform, more generally a replicator, is actually an interesting idea for something long-lasting. Perhaps our meme pool will survive our gene pool.
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I would guess 25 cups translates to an excessive amount anywhere in the world.
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by arketyp 7y ago
The repeal of Moore's law will be a blessing in disguise, I think. Not only will programmers need to get clever in a traditional sense but, also, a new era of specialized hardware will require a more intimate understanding of the bits
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by arketyp 7y ago
In the end, maybe not that different.
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by arketyp 8y ago
That’s the point of the question. Is this the result of convergent evolution or are Boston Dynamics simply mimicking nature’s solution? Even worse, what if the bird-like head motion has no functional value for the posed problem?
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by arketyp 8y ago
Tobacco never appealed to me, but seeing only the Marlboro geometry on the cigarette banned Formula 1 cars makes me want to pick up smoking. I'm at awe at their branding power.
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by arketyp 8y ago
This scenario doesn't get enough attention and sympathy. Things have been going downhill with internet freedoms for a long while, with tech giants usurping content and the way we navigate the web etc. But, living in Sweden, I had not f
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by arketyp 8y ago
I read it "We don't want to be dragged into anything and your region is hardly a customer anyway."
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by arketyp 8y ago
Glad to hear someone is thinking about this. Right, hitting tab should never generate something invalid. That's the shell being sound. Conversely, the system should also be able to determine whether what's being typed could possib
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One thing that strikes me as a person who grew up with mouse pointer interfaces (starting with Workbench on Amiga) is how strange it is that the terminal allows for a time-lag between a mistake in typing and the user's becoming aware o
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by arketyp 8y ago
Some females (due to the XX chromosome setup) are born with red cone receptors that are sensitive to sufficiently different ranges in the wavelength spectrum that they are in effect tetrachromats. I particularly remember reading somewhere t
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I call this putting my garbage in (reverse) quarantine.
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Not having "turned" it into anything may be his greatest achievement, and no little one either.
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I sometimes prepare my shipments as a kid preparing for bullies at school. Be ready for some abuse, everyone is tested. But don't look overly protected and don't just mark yourself fragile. That's "asking for it".
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Now is the time for the cloud I think. Phones are pretty much laptops and laptops have replaced desktops, heavy tasks are more often outsourced. When the hardware is interchangeable (and that includes the next version of the iPhone) that&#x
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It reminds me of an ashtray design which is famous in Sweden, by Stig Lindberg: https://balstaauktionshall.nu/images/custom/ProductTemplate/... I remember tracing the lines with my finger as a kid, trying to

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