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by carapace 4y ago
If I promise never to call him "Doctor" again will you look through the referenced papers with me? I just woke up, I've got my coffee, and I'm ready to go... - - - - Gatekeeping the term "Doctor" is uninteresti
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by carapace 4y ago
> references to very old systems that did already this Here's one: Alice Pascal > In a syntax directed editor, you edit a program, not a piece of text. The editor works directly on the program as a tree -- matching the syntax tre
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by carapace 4y ago
I see you edited your comment to take a swipe at Bandler, eh? Why are you carrying on if there's no real point? (Sorry. I shouldn't tease you. I do appreciate the opportunity to hash this out in a public forum.) AFAIK people ca
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by carapace 4y ago
> Dismissing it out of hand because you dislike who prepared it is fallacious. Please, it's like you cited a paper called "Do Ghosts Exist?" prepared by a member of the There's No Such Thing as Ghosts club. You do
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by carapace 4y ago
But you haven't presented "overwhelming evidence". You cited a meta-study paper that was prepared by a member of a Skeptics club. It's like you're not even trying. (Look, from Shannon's Information Theory we
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by carapace 4y ago
I prefer Hg over Git but I use Git. Why? One time I tried to use hg command and it didn't work. Why? I was on a system that had incompatible Python interpreter to the Hg scripts. That was it. Since then I use Git everywhere even
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by carapace 4y ago
I just found the paper: https://doi.org/10.2478/V10059-010-0008-0 "Thirty-Five Years of Research on Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP Research Data Base. State of the Art or Pseudoscientific Decoration?" Poli
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by carapace 4y ago
> You've skipped pretty much most of my argument, Well, it wasn't very good... Frankly, comparing NLP to Scientology or homeopathy is silly. > but I'll humour you nonetheless. I appreciate it. This isn't my first r
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by carapace 4y ago
> This is a case of correlation, plus (again) totally unsubstantiated anecdotal claims. I went to a one of the greatest hypnotherapists in the world for help with depression, he put me in a trance and did something, and when I came out o
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by carapace 4y ago
FWIW I wasn't offended.
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by carapace 4y ago
>> You don't have any actual experience with NLP do you? > No Thank you. That's really the best I can hope for in conversations about NLP with skeptical people. I'm not going to convince you, you're not going
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by carapace 4y ago
I wasn't cured of clinical depression by "extra confidence" or "trying harder".
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by carapace 4y ago
You don't have any actual experience with NLP do you?
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by carapace 4y ago
There's a common pattern I've seen over and over. When people learn a new thing they tend to go through a creative phase with it. The first time I noticed it was in a programming class I took in school. We were learning in Pasc
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by carapace 4y ago
> I think you're being overly mysterious here. Maybe, but I feel electricity is mysterious, eh? I mean, we don't know what it is, nor why the Universe has it, and we aren't likely to ever figure it out, eh? Really that&
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by carapace 4y ago
The NLP people have developed a body of models and techniques for rapid and durable psychological changes. This body of work is systematic and repeatable, but the NLP folks haven't (yet!) "done science to it" to try to figur
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by carapace 4y ago
For someone who doesn't care one way or the other you're being a just a little insulting. > It doesn’t lend it any credence. NLP doesn't need "credence". It works. Believe or not, it's no skin off my teeth
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by carapace 4y ago
> it's generally considered a pseudoscience. Only by people who have no experience with it. NLP ("Neurolinguistic Programming", not Natural Language Processing) is pre-scientific , yes, but that's not the same as bei
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by carapace 4y ago
These are physical properties that can be experienced (although there is some risk) for voltage you can touch a Van de Graaff generator, for current you can touch a battery to your tongue. That's the way to understand electricity witho
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by carapace 4y ago
What worked for me was developing an interesting project and presenting it at a small programmers' convention. That was enough to get the attention of a company that decided to hire me. The number one thing you should do is network: g
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by carapace 4y ago
I guess we're seeing different things? I just got back into hobby electronics and the kit market in electronics seems pretty healthy. I mean, I don't have any hard numbers, but there's a lot of activity. - - - - To me the s
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by carapace 4y ago
The Internet is a mood organ (among other things.) > The book is full of delights, but one of my favourite parts is the opening passage, four pages long, in which Rick Deckard and his wife Iran are arguing about the Penfield Mood Organ
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by carapace 4y ago
Last year: > For years now I've been kinda-sorta working on a plan involving making funky peripherals, small toy computers, and large flying machines based on cellular kites and the Magnus effect. I think this is the year to really
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by carapace 4y ago
> Historically rent-seeking has been a negative for the health of society. Sure. I mean, I'm not an economist nor a sociologist, I bet there's some nuance to that, eh? > Granting overlords the power of ownership, reducing i
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by carapace 4y ago
Levin is undoubtedly doing some of the most important work in all of science, in my opinion. Just as an teaser, one conceivable result of this work could be to unlock the secrets of regeneration! Imagine being able to regrow limbs and orga
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by carapace 4y ago
> You don't mind if I borrow your car do you? ZipCar, et. al. > And your house? AirBnB > Let's not quibble about the particulars of me ever giving them back. Symmetry.
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by carapace 4y ago
If they can't move the decaf it would make good mushroom growth medium.
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by carapace 4y ago
Over the last two years I've gotten into gardening in a serious way. I have about a hundred species of plants growing now, and another three hundred fifty or so waiting for Spring. Coming from a sciencey computer nerd background I hav
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by carapace 4y ago
Hmm... "Surprisingly Turing-Complete" https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete > ‘Computers’, in the sense of being Turing-complete, are extremely common. Almost any system of sufficient complexity—unless carefull
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by carapace 4y ago
What if (and I'm spitballing here) people didn't write to make money? (That might sound snarky but I don't mean it that way.) - - - - It seems to me that we will see a kind of memetic evolution: some folks will develop a cult

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