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by bbor 2y ago
Well put, but sadly I must disagree heartily. Mathematics is half of what drives/guides/underpins natural science, but it is not itself a natural science. As Kant teaches us in A Critique of Pure Reason , mathematics is the culti
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by bbor 2y ago
Heh, well spotted. SSKOM will be overtaking KGATLW any day now…
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by bbor 2y ago
Yeah I’m a huge proponent of this general philosophy, but after being introduced to prolog itself for a third of a semester back in undergrad I decided to stay far, far away. The vision never quite came through as clearly as it did for the
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by bbor 2y ago
You’re in good company — the most influential AI academic of all time, the cooky grandfather of AI who picked up right where (when!) Turing left off, the man hated by both camps yet somehow in charge of them, agrees with you. I’m talking ab
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by bbor 2y ago
I believe that the best companies–like Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft–are founded by a single person. Heh, otherwise fun article but this is pretty funny. OP, you have some fascinating Wikipedia articles to read, and even a
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m doing this with Quart on the python side and prisma for both (there’s a python prisma adapter! Crazy world) and I’ve been enjoying it. Biggest framework hurdle so far has been that next.js doesn’t have native support for Websockets, whi
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by bbor 2y ago
HackerNews sadly never fails to disappoint. Thanks for taking the time to share, that was exactly what I was looking for! Would endorse this link for any lurkers. The LISP (elisp?) syntax itself gives me a headache to parse so I think I&#
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by bbor 2y ago
I love and relate to any impassioned plea on SWE esoterica, so this seems like as good of a place as any to ask: What, in practice, is this deep level of "homoiconic" or "symbolic" support used for that Python's fun
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for sharing, I for one found it relevant! I've always found it somewhat monstrous how much art is in museum archives -- surely "showcasing stuff behind glass" is something our civilization can manage?? I'd quibble
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by bbor 2y ago
Well put! Though I would argue that the issue being discussed is not short-term distraction in highly dangerous situations like driving a car or sharing a sidewalk in NYC, but rather the long-term psychological effects of filling every spar
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by bbor 2y ago
To be fair, “math education” usually refers to the millions that learn arithmetic, algebra, and geometry every year, not the (tens of?) thousands that take part graduate level courses in “real” mathematics. Although I’m curious; do you thin
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by bbor 2y ago
Thanks for taking the time, really thought provoking… Will definitely be kicking that around in my head. No counterpoints. I was going to correct you that Orion is just a baby step towards Minority Report holograms (aka plain ol’ non-tangib
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by bbor 2y ago
Great points, it just occurred to me that I’m biased towards high level applications! HCI equally applies to our appliances, factories, and vehicles to name a few, and I absolutely agree that physical affordances are not quite as outmoded a
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by bbor 2y ago
This is incredible work, thanks for sharing. That said, does anyone know what kind of technology they’re gesturing to? Maybe I’m really stuck in the present, but short of tangible holograms I’m not sure how we’d make tactile computing devic
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by bbor 2y ago
Certainly a cool idea! Especially the idea of having the models available for direct contracting to follow up on the AI work. And the images are clearly stunningly real. That said; can someone explain what the usecase is...? What kind of fa
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by bbor 2y ago
Very cool, even though I'm not 100% sure what gap it's filling that isn't filled by existing Encyclopedias - I'm probably just not enough of an expert to see the need yet! My only problem is: All entries are copyrigh
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by bbor 2y ago
Dumb counterpoint: if it’s not a true belief, is it a false negative or a false positive? Any third option I can think of starts with “true”… QED - proof by terminological convention!
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by bbor 2y ago
A great example of why executive agencies need leeway in their power to make and refine policies. AFAIK the GDPR notifications were put into place by the "The European Parliament and The Council of the European Union" directly and
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by bbor 2y ago
I think we should take the time to recognize that this isn't bad design, it's a badly regulated market. This is exactly what antitrust exists for: to prevent a small number of firms dominating a market with thin margins, leading t
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by bbor 2y ago
Chin up — this sentence doesn’t appear anywhere on the internet, as far as Google knows. There’s a good chance you just created something wholly original! https://www.google.com/gasearch?q=%E2%80%9CI%20doubt%20they%...
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by bbor 2y ago
We are definitely able to reason deliberately in ways that single/few-shot LLM inference calls cannot, which I think is somewhat obvious when you consider how much more complex our persistent brain is than a webgui for a chatbot, RAG o
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by bbor 2y ago
This is the true analytic answer! More fundamentally, “know” is a move in whatever subtype of the English language game you’re playing at the moment, and any discussions we have about what it “really” or “truly” means should be based on tho
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by bbor 2y ago
AFAICT it's not actually published yet? It's a bit of a confusing situation because you can "download Rama" but it's not "full", whatever that means. See https://redplanetlabs.com/learn-ram
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by bbor 2y ago
TBF "this Clojure library has clunky syntax that makes it brittle" is a far more sophisticated and valid critique than "it's not built on Node so no one will use it" ;)
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by bbor 2y ago
Because this article is nationalist lies released on a dramatic TV show for Spain's "national day", not real science. Sorry! For some reason, people are still fighting to claim more credit for the guy who was condemned at t
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by bbor 2y ago
Fun article, thanks for sharing! It always blows my mind how much work people will put into this stuff without consulting/citing the thousands of years of cognitive scientists that have been working on the problem, but that’s more of a
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by bbor 2y ago
Well put, but I think you’re using “focus” in a different sense than the author is. The article discusses internal (intensional!) focus on the substance of experience itself as it’s presented to your unified Ego, and you’re discussing the m
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by bbor 2y ago
I have a comment on the spanish-language version of this article so check my history for the juicy deets, but long story short: I'd bet my shorts that this is nationalist BS based on extremely shaky--not to mention unpublished!--scienc
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by bbor 2y ago
I already posted below, but since you probably won't scroll down and I hate to see people get tricked: I would take this article with a massive grain of salt. Not "definitely wrong", but perhaps "of very dubious origin,
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by bbor 2y ago
...I'm a little suspicious. Spain, Portugal, and Italy have been fighting fiercely to claim cultural credit for Columbus for my whole life (hundreds of years, even?) and some of the quotes in this article display some bias on the sides

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