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by bbctol 10y ago
Interestingly, I think technological progress really has been faster over the last 50 years than the 50 before that (although it's decidedly close.) But the progress of the first half of the 20th century so spurred our hopes for rapidl
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by bbctol 10y ago
Income-less, post-scarcity society, where the limits of what goods/services you can access are so much higher than you could ever need that the only limitations put in place can be set democratically? That, or just increase typical soc
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by bbctol 10y ago
Google Brain was an internal development, while Google DeepMind was an acquisition. What the conceptual difference is supposed to be between the two is hard to say.
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by bbctol 10y ago
This article frames it in part as due to the Alphabet reshuffle, but hasn't it always been this way? Has X been decreasing in effectiveness recently, or were they just always there to be Sergey's batcave?
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by bbctol 10y ago
I think there would be more training centers popping up if there was funding for them; just because they help a region's economy doesn't mean they're a good investment, and it's plausible the state will have to get invol
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by bbctol 10y ago
I am unconvinced that integrating all cultures into a giant knot is good for the environment, scientific progress, or human equality.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Not quite the same, but immediately after the war a number of prominent German scientists were interned at Farm Hall, in England, and secretly recorded for months. The full transcripts are available ( https://books.google.com&#x2F
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by bbctol 10y ago
I highly recommend Pynchon (yeah, over Joyce) and recommend reading while referring to notes; there are some good websites with page-by-page annotations.
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by bbctol 10y ago
There's media manipulation, but it's more by private companies than the state. Which is definitely also troubling, but at least we get three or four different pushed narratives to choose from, instead of the true Russian reality d
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by bbctol 10y ago
On the other hand, peer reviewers are generally paid by the same people who pay scientific journals--academic and research institutions--with contributing to peer review usually being an understood part of their duty.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Only in a bizarre conspiracy world where everyone who disagrees with someone must be allied, even if a more logical explanation is just that your opinions are terrible. So, the Moldbuggery answer is yes, absolutely.
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by bbctol 10y ago
For those not in the know, John Ioannidis is responsible for much of the current focus on reproducibility in science, following his seminal 2005 paper "Why Most Published Research Findings are False." ( http://www.ncbi.n
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by bbctol 10y ago
Because they'd get sent to an asylum. Because you had to keep all mental issues to yourself, lest you be seen as weak and shut out of normal society. Because it really, really, really sucked to be a victim of trauma for most of history
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by bbctol 10y ago
Yeah, schools try to emulate the real world as much as possible. That's why they also don't have professors, classes, or dormitories.
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by bbctol 10y ago
In the example image the compression seems more noticeable on some parts of the image than others, though this is probably due in part to my imagination. It gives me a wacky (far-future) idea, though; what about combining a NN-based compres
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by bbctol 10y ago
Any particular reason why?
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by bbctol 10y ago
"Neuroscience" is an extremely broad field, but is defined by being grounded in direct observation of the brain. I work for a major neuroscience journal, and can assure you that research being done is both highly technical and ext
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by bbctol 10y ago
Traditionally, the division of sciences into "soft" and "hard" is very different from calling them real or fake science.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Poor title; it looks more like the August 23rd misconception was pre-existing and Facebook used poor data, rather than them forgetting and now covering their tracks.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's video on demand! The leader demands, and you watch the video!
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's actually not very clear what North Africans would have looked like prior to the early Muslim conquests of the 600s. The entire Mediterranean-North African-Middle Eastern region has been conquered and reconquered so many times that
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by bbctol 10y ago
There's no real guarantee that current success with neural networks will continue to ramp up all the way to hard AI. They're impressive, and getting more interesting all the time, but the downside of the whole "though neural
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by bbctol 10y ago
It blows my mind how many science/STEM students dismiss the whole field of philosophy as meaningless navel-gazing, separate from the real work of data-gathering. And then we wonder why there's a reproducibility crisis...you have t
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by bbctol 10y ago
While I have serious reservations, I do appreciate philosopher Paul Feyerabend's idea of science as "epistemological anarchism." In the end, all rule-based concepts of how to accumulate knowledge and understanding fall victim
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by bbctol 10y ago
That and moving to cities with concentrations of brainpower; I live near a couple world-class universities and feel real dumb most of the times I meet new people.
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by bbctol 10y ago
Seeing that someone else had lots of money to spend on a nice holiday wouldn't make me feel better about my situation...
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by bbctol 10y ago
Saying consciousness is "just our subjective experience" of anything isn't a definition, it's tautology. The question is whether a reductionist definition of consciousness exists, or whether it's fundamentally irred
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by bbctol 10y ago
Michael Graziano is a highly respected neuroscientist and psychologist (and a pretty good novelist, too.) Not to say that this isn't a real problem, and that trying to understand the brain through current engineering concepts can lead
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by bbctol 10y ago
Man, for a second I thought Google was really going back to their roots and opening up a journal of science. Now that would have been fascinating.
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by bbctol 10y ago
It's really meant to explain what Chinese characters actually are and how they work, by an elaborate analogy.

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