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by bweitzman 10y ago
Interesting concept, but what gives readers any authority to vote on the truthfulness of a story?
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by bweitzman 10y ago
One would hope that the age/gender/race/etc profile of a company would at least reflect the profile of the applicants.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
Do you drink beer at all? I'd be open to trying to a low sugar diet, but I homebrew and don't want to give that up right now.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
If you instantiate `t` as a promise then you have to always consider that it isn't there yet, even if you're saying that it's going to be. If you instantiate `t` as `Identity` [0] then you have a type level guarantee that you
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by bweitzman 10y ago
If there is an innate language structure in the brain then we know that it's possible to develop such a structure by statistical optimization, since this is exactly what evolution did, no?
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by bweitzman 10y ago
The Mary's Room thought experiment is garbage, if you ask me. You can't just assume your hypothesis and then call the result truth. If you assert that a person can understand everything there is to know about the color red and the
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by bweitzman 10y ago
So if language comes from the structure of the brain, what would stop us from simulating that structure to give a machine mastery of language? And specifically what would imply that a machine which had some of that structure would need to l
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by bweitzman 10y ago
While they may be common, they're not actually built into the language. They're just regular functions.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
From what I've heard about tone clusters, they sort of came about as continuations of the natural progression of more and more intervals to sound pleasant (or at least acceptable) as time has gone by. Tone clusters are like predictions
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by bweitzman 10y ago
There are different ways to assign pitches to notes. What is commonly used in modern western music is called equal temperament, but there are other systems, like just intonation, for example.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
Yeah I think those patterns are completely irrelevant when talking about the characteristics of notes and combinations of them.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
Notes do not have timbre, they are just named pitches (which themselves are just frequencies).
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by bweitzman 10y ago
I think you could make the argument that more common place actually means less dissonant. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_cluster
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by bweitzman 10y ago
It's the last paragraph of the article.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
Like the article (thankfully) mentions, the photographs really do have nothing to with the notes themselves. Intervals and chords have characters, individual notes do not.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
The interests of the lawmakers are more aligned with corporations with deep pockets than with the general population (at least regarding copyright laws). Fixing this issue via the legislative process would therefor require realigning lawmak
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by bweitzman 10y ago
What could possibly be more important than happiness?
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by bweitzman 10y ago
You are not trying to prove the thing, just trying to encode it, The assumption is that the proof already exists.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
If walking is not an entity then how is consciousness an entity? Further, the mass, charge, etc that we define an electron by are shorthands for describing the way it behaves which is all we can glean based on observation. You cannot observ
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by bweitzman 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with paywalls and ads. It's annoying when sites with paywalls are posted to public forums since any number of people are not going to be able to join the discussion, but this isn't the site's fault.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
It's a recruiting scheme.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
Yeah I'm not commenting on the results. The sample size was way too small to be a reasonable study and yeah, weeks is not enough to talk about long term results. But the basic principle of the experiment is sound I think.
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by bweitzman 10y ago
No, the study said that the subjects (who were either dependent on marijuana or non users) were given the amphetamine to elicit a dopamine response. The users did not smoke for a week prior to the experiment, so you would expect that if the
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by bweitzman 10y ago
I don't see why we should be relying on the emotional responses of people rather than on cold hard policy. I mean, to be fair, we already have the policy, but I think we should address why it's failing to be implemented. I'd
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by bweitzman 10y ago
I think that's unnecessary. Obviously police officers shouldn't have to be shot before they are allowed to shoot people, so where is the cutoff?
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by bweitzman 11y ago
No I didn't say that, and I don't believe that.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Premiums going up because of drug users is not unilateral, you have the drug users and the insurance companies both taking actions.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Why wouldn't the government just get a warrant to have you decrypt whatever communication they'd like to see (if you're being investigated) and if you don't you are held in contempt of court? Of course if all communicati
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Yeah but hypocrisy doesn't take away from the point the author is making. Something can be true and also be ad hominem.
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by bweitzman 11y ago
Knowing any single piece of information is not a big deal, but stringing them together is basically stalking which is illegal.

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