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by backpropagated 11y ago
Is this quasi-fractal? The gears are not made of gears so it's not exactly fractal.
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by backpropagated 11y ago
Just guessing that LIQUi|> should be pronounced "liquid."
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Failures to Detect Contradictions in a Text (1992) [pdf](drive.google.com)
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by backpropagated 11y ago
"What is “I am a Buddhist” supposed to say about you? ... it signifies particular personality traits such as openness and agreeableness." Interestingly, the present Dalai Lama is ranked as low on both openness and agreeableness.
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Ask HN: If Donald Knuth woke up 10,000 years ago, how would he build a computer?
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Toward Philosophy of Entrepreneurship(philosophy.jilk.com)
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by backpropagated 11y ago
"The five-factor model provides an alternative basis for interpreting MBTI findings within a broader, more commonly shared conceptual framework." That's the definition of a rotation. QED
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by backpropagated 11y ago
The difference between strongly typed and duck typed is not exactly equivalent to the difference between categorical and continuous variables, but it's close enough for now.
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by backpropagated 11y ago
The MBTI and Big 5 are simply rotations of one another. They explain most of the same variance. This was demonstrated by McCrae & Costa, who created the Big 5, in the 80s.
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by backpropagated 11y ago
Personality could be strongly typed, we don't know if it is yet. The continuous distributions we see in traits could be due to people behaving in a socially desirable way, while their mental algorithms are distinctly categorical. To li