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by cicero 9y ago
It sounds to me like a desperate attempt to explain away religious experience.
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by cicero 9y ago
So what is the proper pronunciation for JSON?
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In Picasso’s Blue Period, Scanners Find Secrets He Painted Over(nytimes.com)
1 points by cicero 9y ago|0 comments
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Good News: A.I. Is Getting Cheaper. That’s Also Bad News(nytimes.com)
3 points by cicero 9y ago|0 comments
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by cicero 9y ago
Back in the late 1970s, I was doing Baudot[1] art using teletypes and paper tape, exchanging pictures over amateur radio. My magnum opus was an R2-D2 image that was about 8" x 15". Although it lacked depth, it was very detailed. W
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by cicero 9y ago
As someone who has been on two juries, I object! Jury selection is complicated, and there are limitations to how many potential jurors can be struck. There are also multiple strategies that legal teams may adopt. In my last trial, the plain
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by cicero 9y ago
If there is no objective reality, then what is the explanation for the overlap of our subjective experiences? By the way, you do bring up a good reason for the existence of God as the only one who knows all of reality. However, God does not
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by cicero 9y ago
Her National Book Award speech is short but very good. I like her expression "realists of a larger reality," but she also talks a lot about publishing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2TFeL_aPiA
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by cicero 9y ago
Perception of reality is not the same for everybody, but there is a single objective reality that we all perceive in our imperfect ways.
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by cicero 9y ago
Of course one shouldn't jump into a thread to say "I don't know", but if someone receives a response to a statement they made in a thread that points out a fact or point of view they hadn't considered, they should b
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by cicero 9y ago
I started as a kid with BASIC on an Apple II, went on to get a computer science degree, and worked as a developer for 22 years before becoming a teacher. The limitations of BASIC actually created a desire in me to learn better languages lik
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by cicero 9y ago
I work with about a dozen Cistercian monks at a school run by Our Lady of Dallas Cistercian Abbey[1]. I started here 10 years ago after working 22 years as a software developer, and it's been the best job I've ever had. I manage t
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by cicero 9y ago
When I read about the 35-note octave, I was not expecting something positive. I had never heard anything done with non-traditional scales that I liked. However, I went ahead and listened to the Beauty in the Beast track and I was enchante
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by cicero 9y ago
"...speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ..." Ephesians 4:15 (RSVCE)
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by cicero 9y ago
Wrestling with learning a hard subject, even under the best teacher, will often lose out to the instant gratification that is available from a phone if that distraction is available. Adults have problems with this, so why wouldn't chil
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by cicero 9y ago
In most Lisps, objects are an option, as opposed to languages like Java.
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by cicero 9y ago
I think we have a tendency today to under rate the abilities and knowledge of pre-modern people. There is a lot we can learn from earlier ages despite the fact that their scientific knowledge was not as advanced as ours.
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by cicero 9y ago
I'm teaching 11-year old boys to do graphics in Python using the turtle module. It's pretty easy.
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by cicero 9y ago
It was in Integer BASIC and Applesoft BASIC on the Apple II. You could say something like this to count to 10: 10 FOR I=1 TO 10 20 PRINT I 30 NEXT I
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by cicero 9y ago
AI will need to be better than a good human driver, so these kinds of comparisons are not helpful. A good human driver would back up out of the way of the truck and/or sound the horn. If this is too hard for AI, then it is not ready.
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by cicero 9y ago
The argument for self-driving cars is that they will be better than a human driver. A human driver would backup, sound the horn, or both. If a self-driving car doesn't attempt these things, something is deficient.
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by cicero 9y ago
Yes, I remember being frustrated trying to get magazine games to work on my Apple II with Integer BASIC (or Applesoft BASIC if I spent several minutes to load it in on cassette tape). However, I learned a lot trying to debug these games and
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by cicero 9y ago
Class time should be a great time of interaction between students and teacher. The advantage of a good lecture over printed material is the lecturer can adjust to the needs of the class. This requires much more than asking for questions at
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by cicero 9y ago
The school I work at sometimes takes some heat because we are relatively low-tech, so it's nice to see that there is some data to back up our intuition.
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Ban the Laptops, Yes(firstthings.com)
12 points by cicero 9y ago|6 comments
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by cicero 9y ago
> deeply racist portrayal of its Klingons This struck me as strange. The Klingons started off as the violent bad guys in TOS. Then in TNG and DS9 there was an attempt to make them more admirable. In Discovery, I got the impression that
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by cicero 9y ago
When I call my doctor's office, I speak with a nurse, or I leave a message and a nurse calls me back. After talking to me, the nurse may consult with the doctor and call me back, or if necessary, the doctor might call me. I can also em
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by cicero 9y ago
When I used to ride the train to work a few years ago, one of the happiest appearing people I met on the train was a young (30 something) COBOL programmer. He was examining a green-bar fan-fold printout of COBOL code that was part of the ba
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by cicero 9y ago
Try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numerals
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by cicero 9y ago
Even if the parents are the cause of the problem, it is still better for the children to recognize the problem and change their lives accordingly.

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