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by bsedlm 5y ago
> a sufficiently motivated reader could learn it without having to learn it master-apprentice style if that's the case, I would say they failed. however, what they accomplished would certainly help jog the memory of somebody who kne
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> You need to be asking why such large parts of the population distrust the subject of the conspiracy and address that. In my own experience, an important source (among others) for my own loss of trust is the impossibility of being (and&
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I don't see any content, all I see is a newletter subscription prompt: "Advancing Research in Basic Science and Mathematics Subscribe to SCGB announcements and other foundation updates"
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by bsedlm 5y ago
it's still massively cool, also, it's just a first prototype. as these things usually go, they're gonna be squishing these closer and closer together
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I've recently thought that if machines/robots (regardless of precisely how 'sentient' they are) are slaves, they will be used to enslave people. hence the only way forwards which keeps humans free would require that robo
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> What happens when the public lose confidence in academic findings? flat-earthers half-joking aside, I have come to understand that the academic institutions are part of the state (perhaps I should say civilization?). the point being th
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by bsedlm 5y ago
the internet is not really a library, but a radio (an ephemeral stream)?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
as far as I can discern (guessing) this relates to the scientific methodical study of torture, interrogation, and trauma-based personality restructuring. I have no reason to believe they ever stopped, they took their results and continued t
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> I conceived a stock exchange called the Human Stock Exchange, where every human being was a human stock ticker, I've had a very vague (somewhat similar) idea that I'm stil trying to articulate well. something like what you s
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by bsedlm 5y ago
counter example. consider that instead of punching out the holes, you added an ink blot, the ink is somehow reflective and thus is read by the machine (or whatever). as the ink has a weight it now weighs more than when you started. Informat
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I'm not convinced by the way the author regards 'complexity' and 'depth' What the author calls complexity I would call "difficulty", because I find (or maybe hope?) that (structural) mathematical concepts
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by bsedlm 5y ago
the 'beautiful' thing about this, is that it's then impossible to convince product people and "stake holders" to authorize enough time and resources to improve the solution afterwards. In my experience they'd
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by bsedlm 5y ago
but the odds that somebody with a personality profile who'd think creatively enough to do this, then make it out through a modern scientific programme, and also sticks to academia are from low to zero. most people creative enough are d
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by bsedlm 5y ago
Another interesting tool in this space is called Tidal Cycles http://tidalcycles.org/ It's written in Haskell, and seems to do something very interesting with the way to define looping patterns.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
ethersomething??
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by bsedlm 5y ago
because of the y-combinator|russell paradox? correct?? better question: any references to a type-based construction of set theory?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
As I understand this (which arguably I don't), what sets bring to the table (so to say) is a notion of unique identification That said, I wonder if it's at all possible to replace sets (to do all which is founded on sets) with a s
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by bsedlm 5y ago
ah, it's not such a bad fit, just tweak it into: Profit for Profit's sake
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by bsedlm 5y ago
that we don't see it doesn't mean it is not happening.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> Until it’s open source it’s a proprietary project. I do not quite understand what you mean by this, are you saying that unless they accept contributions it's propietary?
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by bsedlm 5y ago
couldn't they do it in the open and just ignore everybody? edit: it seems they're doing that indeed. kudos
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by bsedlm 5y ago
seems the author should be aware of the Big Ball Of Mud http://laputan.org/mud/
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by bsedlm 5y ago
wow, I can't help but imagine a similar scenario but replacing Germany with Russia and Russia with China but maybe I'm just squinting my 'eyes' too hard
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by bsedlm 5y ago
a mix of both with a slider to parametrize the sentiment of the results "it's pure evil VS itls good" or I dunno... it's a near-waste of time to imagine what this could/should be as I'm in no poisition to build
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by bsedlm 5y ago
going way off the rail (but this is a good example for some general thoughs regardings to software in society) this illustrates two different approaches (goals? paths?) about software in society: on the one hand: the lilypond way -- the old
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by bsedlm 5y ago
vc funding is a pattern by which autonomous entities made out of money (better known as investment funds) take over your property and wind up controlling "your" (but really their) company but I'm just paranoid
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by bsedlm 5y ago
but it's not about making cool new things that everybody is interested on by this point the issue is maintaining boring old stuff everybody depends on maybe that's what happens to most (google for example), from being a cool new
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by bsedlm 5y ago
relevant (but introductory level): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KunEYnIaGGc
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by bsedlm 5y ago
there's this thing about the modern internet era which makes it possible to find a study to debunk (or support) pretty much any idea/theory you want. specially in the midst of an information/propaganda war all I'm trying
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by bsedlm 5y ago
the way I think about what's happened in the USA is that primarily by means of "lobbying" it happened that the public (i.e. the citizenry) stopped being made out of human individuals and became corporations and other large bu

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