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by arketyp 5y ago
The scholastics read Aristotle and the development of Western philosophy sprung from pretty much antique sources, AFAIK. It's logical, I guess, that the dark ages of Europe were the golden age of somewhere else. But it does not follow
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by arketyp 5y ago
Can you supply some context to this denounciation?
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There's a thrill to coding in C which is similar to using a great chef's knife. I'm no master with either, will probably hurt myself -- but the limitation is me and my own.
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by arketyp 5y ago
Masks work but so does the (non-)impression of a shielded face. Those aspects are luxuries maybe, but at some point, even granted the utilitarian outlook, it weights in on the Well-being calculus too. I feel sad for kids especially.
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by arketyp 5y ago
How many real images do you need to match this performance though? Say I take my camera and make a 10 minute video filming my apartment, my street and the park. That's a dataset with thousands of images with structure and decent variat
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by arketyp 5y ago
I think a SimClimate could become a hit. Maybe the dynamics could be gamified for kids, but I bet there are lots of adults who'd also want to just "spend months crossing the steppes" following the seasons pretty much.
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by arketyp 5y ago
A Turing machine is basically just ifs in a loop.
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Transformers are exciting as they seem to work on all types of modalities, including vision [1]. It makes me wonder if the transformer module captures some essence of the minicolumn structure found all over the neocortex that Jeff Hawkins r
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by arketyp 5y ago
I'm conditioned on Winamp classic skin for my oldschool mp3 listening the way I suppose audiophiles want the ritual of dropping the arm on the LP. Since as early as I can remember I have downloaded some obsolete version of Winamp due t
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by arketyp 5y ago
I wonder how much is enterprise revenue albeit the sites are used as personal services.
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Yeah, this is related to Stephen Wolfram's principle of computational equivalence and his re-take on "the weather has a mind of his own". Turing machines occur everywhere in nature, emerge from the simplest rules, Wolfram dem
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by arketyp 5y ago
>There is definitely not a total order either of works or of people's ability to judge them, but there is equally definitely a partial order of both. So while it's not possible to have perfect taste, it is possible to have good
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by arketyp 5y ago
Your solution is anecdotal but it does sound similar to the process described occurring in people whose depressions are cured by MDMA or psilocybin treatment. A cure induced by a staring into the abyss kind of thing.
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It makes me think that biases were always committed to with profit in mind.
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I wish QR codes were just 3-point simplices with barycentric triangle pixels. That ought to be enough. You could even shape the QR triangle any way (affine transform) you like, at the risk of readability of course.
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by arketyp 5y ago
This lateral shift on a 2x2 grid is equal to rotation. In each iteration tiles are shifted/rotated but its content is not. So the content is split into smaller tiles which are rotated but the content is not, so it is split and so on un
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by arketyp 5y ago
Precisely in the way my stream of consciousness brought me there. Some seem to think it's a rescue for artists in the digital sphere.
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+1 My love for Winamp classic is bottomless. I would love to love IPFS as much. And information should be free. If your art can be consumed digitally, deal with that. I'm willing to let go of all the (supposedly) great art for the grea
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by arketyp 5y ago
Yes, sure, it's about the process and about the inescapable context with postmodern conceptual art. Whether it's mere splashes I will leave aside, but Pollock and Mondrian precisely brought the consideration of the process to a ne
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by arketyp 5y ago
No knock on the artist, I particularly like the pom-pom display, but I get the sense that much of art today is about going roundabout ways, almost Rube Goldberg machine like, to achieve things could be presented in other ways with minimal e
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by arketyp 5y ago
I didn't always know that [ ] are immediate keys and { } are shift characters on a US keyboard. I had internalized the AltGr pain as something that just came with the territory of programming.
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by arketyp 5y ago
I've been involved in interviews for new hires a couple of years now. I'm pretty sure I could have the interviewee talk about cucumbers for 10 minutes and I could determine if its a good hire or not. It's all about getting in
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by arketyp 5y ago
That's true. But a different interpretation is that natural selection is an optimum in progress. It can all end abruptly, but there can be many branches too.
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Sure, and there can be conflicting preferences within a person's society of mind as well. Workplaces and schools sounds like a decent scale of granularity for free market effects though. I'm not saying network effects don't e
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by arketyp 5y ago
I'm not oblivious to the threat of lock-ins. But as far as remote tools go, my experience during the lockdown was that of competitive capitalism working at its best.
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That's a good point which hard to address adequately in a few sentences. I think, perhaps naively, that corporations would like to make more profit out of people actually feeling good using their services. You could say that being alig
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I see. So you were forced but found an alternative. That's great to hear.
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>We don't need to keep living inside screens — especially ones controlled by Mark. We don't need to accept Facebook's domination of the digital world. Right! No body is forcing you. Ironically, these kinds of anxious react
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I used to make music as a teenager. Spending many hours in the "studio" certainly shapes your aesthetics and how you approach new music. Even understanding just the basics and tiny bits of underlying techniques makes you listen di
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I was not implying anything very factually based, just a decision based on people's perception. Like the ban on plastic straws.

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