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by breck 4y ago
I agree. It's an interesting intellectual exercise, but I am not sure if we would miss out on anything if we just had a symbol(s) for specific really large discrete numbers. Sometimes I wonder if there's a better math language wai
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Copying is an act of love. Please copy and share (2010)(copyheart.org)
10 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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> Did the idea of enchained symbols motivate the license for Scroll? Yes, my life's work is dedicated to promoting the idea that every child should be gifted with their own copy of humanity's best information. I believe we have
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by breck 4y ago
Any copyrighted content.
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by breck 4y ago
Many fields of medicine, such as mental health, are far closer to religion or politics than they are to science. Science requires controlling the environment and the ability to do repeated experiments with rapid feedback. The mental health
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by breck 4y ago
I'd agree with you. My sentence was bad in that it oversells that book. That book is merely one baby step in the right direction. As excited as I am about Minsky's hypothesis that the brain is a society of agents, your point is th
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Enchained Symbols(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 4y ago|4 comments
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by breck 4y ago
> it is time consuming and risky to determine classification level This! I once had the opportunity to work on a project with DoD folks to help them write software to speed up the declassification process. I was astonished by the current
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by breck 4y ago
Continue neuroscience research; stop pretending psychologists and psychiatrists are more than cranks; admit the pills don't work. Basically quit pretending that this is a science. The problems are not biological that can be solved by p
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by breck 4y ago
Absolutely. Psuedo-science at best. Psychiatry in America is no more scientific than phrenology. These people are charlatans, not scientists. Science only works when you can run repeated experiments in controlled conditions with fast feedba
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by breck 4y ago
As a counter to Chesterton's Fence: sometimes the fastest way to understand what something does is to remove it and see what complains. You might get only 1 complainer for every 10 fences you take down. Putting that one fence back up t
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Espresso Book Machine(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
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The Zoonomia Project(zoonomiaproject.org)
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I was surprised that ETH successfully pulled off the switch to proof of stake. A big risk for the #2 but they did it.
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by breck 4y ago
You are uninformed on the topic. I suggest watching some Stephan Kinsella videos.
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by breck 4y ago
> This argument is mildly ahistoric. You are probably right. I need to make a "The Essential Stephan Kinsella" because I probably got some of the details wrong when he made that point but I can't quickly find exactly where
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by breck 4y ago
Stephan Kinsella makes a great case that the only reason we have a concept of "Fair Use" is that copyright law is so moronic that people would revolt if they didn't water it down a bit. He also makes the case that it strongly
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by breck 4y ago
Recently I saw that the Rust dev community is using Zulip: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/ I haven't used it yet, but in general excited by projects like Linen and Zulip. I hate Slack and Discord (I love the web, deep
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by breck 4y ago
Copyright originated in 1557 as a tool of censorship. ^1 [1] https://www.copyrighthistory.org/cam/commentary/uk_1557/uk_1...
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by breck 4y ago
"A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques" then on the very first page is a big "Copyright Notice...All rights reserved.". Copyright is censorship. The most widespread form of it. Sometimes I feel like I'm livi
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by breck 4y ago
About 10 years into my career through a sequence of unforeseen events I ended up doing bioinformatics at a cancer center. I knew absolutely nothing about biology, but I knew quite a lot about programming and so it was a good fit for both si
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by breck 4y ago
Anything by Stephan Kinsella is worth watching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep2-ohgFOys > ignore the current economic system and wellbeing of the authors and artists who produce work. I'm not ignoring it, I will
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by breck 4y ago
> Be the change that you want to see. I am. Everything I build is public domain. It's cost me a lot of money but I can look myself in the mirror and see an honest man. > not by proposing that everyone else lose the ability to mak
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by breck 4y ago
> How would enabling P2P publishing (which isn't prohibited now) get rid of targeted advertising? Yes, P2P is prohibited now. I found this out when I was a broke college student targeted by the RIAA in 2004. If P2P publishing were l
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by breck 4y ago
If publisher X stuck ads on their content it would be an opportunity for publisher Y to come along and win consumers by offering the same content without the ads. It's illegal for publisher Y to do that now. The market is distorted by
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by breck 4y ago
Not that it matters much, but I'm curious who first coined the specific "GPT" term? The first occurrence of that particular term I can find on Google Scholar is in 2019 ("Documentation is all you need" https:/
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by breck 4y ago
Go deeper. End copyright. If we had P2P publishing, the bad kind of advertising would largely go away.
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by breck 4y ago
What is the best Nostr web client?
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by breck 4y ago
A Prompt Engineer, a Social Scientist, and an Intellectual Property Lawyer walk into a bar. They are served by a Libation Architect.
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by breck 4y ago
Fascinating! I was unaware of Thomas Harriot. If you're interested in Leibniz and his invention of binary, I highly recommend Wolfram's post on that: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2013/05/dropping-i

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