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by arketyp 5y ago
I wonder to what extent it's due to considering the environmental impact bad publicity.
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This is the same one I have on my front door: http://buschmeier.org/bh/stockholm/images/20051114_IKEA.jpg
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by arketyp 5y ago
It used to be common in Sweden to see stickers by the mail slot that read "No advertisement, please! But gladly the IKEA catalogue." They stopped distributing the printed catalogue long before 2021, but I've kept the sticker.
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by arketyp 5y ago
That entire last sentence came off both naive and quite sinister. I'd like to think that if robots are to "serve people for fun, as butlers" at least they don't have to look like human slaves.
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Thanks, that makes a lot of sense.
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I feel like I missed the punchline.
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Where and when information exists so do symbols, in the abstract sense. It’s not symbols as representation of meaning but symbols as mediating meaning.
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by arketyp 5y ago
What is a presymbolic computational system? Shannon entropy deals with alphabets in much the same capacity as Turing machines read symbols on a tape. Fundamentally it is about differentiating between states. I don't see how you can get
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by arketyp 5y ago
Compression is a good entry to Shannon entropy. What was also eye-opening for me was that the metric was motivated by fulfilling a specification which matches an intuitive notion of information [1], much like how the Kolmogorov axioms were
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The SAT question related to the 366.25 rotation question can be interpreted as "revolve [around its own axis]" and you'd be correct in answering 3.
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Sibelius took most pride in his symphonies, but they never really earned him much income. He struggled with finances throughout his entire life. Though mostly made for cash, and more or less frowned upon by himself, I find his chorals quite
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by arketyp 5y ago
I compare it to me being in a wheelchair. I would want them to treat me differently, if their actions are just (whatever that means). Perhaps I am simply more optimistic than you.
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Same problem as with all other diseases and predispositions we know of today.
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> Blood type C correlates with increased shoplifting: then what? Then you take appropriate measures, or you don't. Compare it to regular diseases. If you have a history of cancer in your family, you would probably want to go on regu
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by arketyp 5y ago
My question was rhetorically stylized. I meant the best way between two opposing alternatives, i.e., between suppressing and embracing these technologies as tools in any of those fields you mention.
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by arketyp 5y ago
That's a devious analogy. Racism is not the same as acknowledging genetic differences. If people with darker skin are more likely to suffer from D vitamin deficiency, wouldn't we want to be informed about it? Reversely, should pal
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by arketyp 5y ago
You make a good point of distinguishing between a scientific model and a predictive oracle. I think the political use of pseudoscience isn't helpful though. There could be a lot of understanding to be gained from these systems.
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If there were some truth to physiognomy, wouldn't these systems be the best way to defeat injustice?
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by arketyp 5y ago
StyleGAN interpolations of latent space are mindblowing but they are fundamentally superficial, which you can at times tell and more often get bored of. Instead, I would like to see a transformer network trained on ontogenetic/phylogen
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Yes, this is the third paragraph of the article.
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Furthermore in the article, yes.
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I thought this was going to be about data preprocessing or domain transformation. The article does touch upon it. For instance, you can boost your image classifier by normalizing your images with simple statistics. Ironically, since neural
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I chose MPIR for the Windows build options which seemed like less of a hassle. In the end I didn't use the C++ wrapper stuff.
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by arketyp 5y ago
I had to do bignum calculations in a C++ Windows environment a while ago and was surprised how few prepared solutions there are out there. In the end I settled for the MPIR library, a GMP fork. Had to compile the binaries, but the documenta
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by arketyp 5y ago
I know what line of product he's talking about. He's talking about phones that look like seashells and luxury soaps, suited for handbags and walks with a French bulldog.
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by arketyp 5y ago
I was a bit too young, got into music around the time of mp3s, but the Walkman always looked insanely cool. It's one of those rare things that makes you sort of regret technological progress.
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by arketyp 5y ago
That's actually an interesting observation, though perhaps a bit besides the point for an analogy that wasn't meant to be perfect. Regression to the mean does not seem to apply the same way to skin color, even though presumably it
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Lab tests could show the cover up was added later than the rest of the paint.
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They can certainly be generalized to voxel space, though I personally prefer the simplicity of the 1D case as a toy mental model. You can check out chapter 5 in NKS: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/chap-5--two-dimens
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Elementary cellular automata are wonderfully intuitive, great aids for my sluggish brain when contemplating about complexity and more philosphical stuff like digital ontology. In the Wolfram physics project live streams they've been ex

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