cristianpascu

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by cristianpascu 2y ago
The _conclusion_ that the Universe is expanding is based on the long accepted premise that the Universe is _flat_. And this premise can not be proven or disproved unless we travel great distances to actually _observe_ if the Universe does,
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by cristianpascu 3y ago
I reported an ad that was so obviously a deep fake and Facebook said there's nothing wrong with the ad. I guess AI is already favoring AI generated scams. :)
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by cristianpascu 3y ago
Seems there's a russian brand of chainsaws called Druzhba, that's where we got it.
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by cristianpascu 4y ago
“A plain .html file” - This made me chuckle. :)
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by cristianpascu 4y ago
Making music! :) That's something I love so much, I could be drowning in a see of AI generated music and still love music and do my own.
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by cristianpascu 4y ago
Just realized something while reading the article, about “spaced repetition”. For a while now I had the impression of not learning anything new and also of loosing the interest of doing so. It sort of came back to me as I am in a sabbatical
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by cristianpascu 4y ago
I believe the word “ordered” in the question caused the confusion for some of us humans and for the machine. It anticipates some information, that the events are ordered by their time stamps, but doesn’t yet provide the order.
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by cristianpascu 4y ago
I quit my job instead. If the schedule is randomly or unpredictably fragmented by meetings, being expected to also write high quality code is quite simply inhumane. It’s not you that should find tricks to save you from a burnout. It very mu
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
Actually, not quite so. There's structure, otherwise it would be incomprehensible and people would not resonate so much with it. William James said that philosophy “sees the familiar as if it were strange, and the strange as if it were
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
One of most miserable type of mixed discourse. So many people a tricked into believing this because 1) they have empathy for sick people, relatives and friends. 2) it sounds reasonable that big companies are only after profits at any cost.
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
Life is not 'self replicating proteins', but rather self-replicating processes. And in those processes, hundreds of chemical components are involved in a dynamical manner, which requires both spacial (chemical formula) and time sy
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
I didn't say anything about proteins being random. But words of hundreds of letters, out of 23 possible letters, come in many, many, many combinations. All governed by laws of physics. Not to mention the many ways a protein could fold,
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
A billion years is a very long time if you wait in a railway station. But in milliseconds, for instance, as powers of 10 is a blink of an eye compared to the magnitude of the search space of configurations of a single protein.
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
If you assume that a storm put together a Boeing 707 randomly, and there are many storms in the Universe, then yes there will be a good chance for there being Boeings all over. Not to creatroll the discussion, but the probability of occurre
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
All I can think about when reading post-modernists, with their critique narrative of western science and rational authority, is that they just want more sex. No surprise, since the most prominent post modernists are French. Kidding here and
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
But there's certainly hope that someday we'll be able to explain through physics how come we hope to explain hope and understanding through physics.
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
The 'scientific method' is mostly a pop-culture myth. Mostly used to discrediting whatever views one does not like. There is value in predictability, but one must understand its limits. It's one thing to work with electrons a
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
And also "uncontrolled and unsustainable" living standards growth. When you have huge portions of world population wanting to live like in the west, and not only for basic stuff like hygiene and schooling. And meanwhile people are
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
If they discuss ideas, they are intellectuals. A group, if there's a common idea that unites them, at least for now. I think it's telling the fact that atheists and religious intellectuals are coming together for something.
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by cristianpascu 8y ago
Misrepresentation is another way to silence someone, since you're not making that real person viewes visible, but some fictional, and obviously bad views. Happens a lot with Peterson, being called alt-right and all that. So many people
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
It's slightly harder to fill a whole newspaper page with non-nuanced text than it is to fill a tweet.
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
It's not only these that have learned to keep their mouth shut. I'm even skeptical that they do. Extreme positions are uncontrollable, they demand to be heard. The more moderate, the more nuanced a position is, harder it is to put
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
Have you ever considered things that men have to deal with and are not being able to put them in terms of 'being male in the X industry/community/field"? This is not to minimize anything a woman has to go through, but le
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
I don't have the feeling I am a man. I am a man by the definition we all(used to) work with. It's not a word encompassing a set of feelings or doings. If one wishes to use the word "man" for something else, question is:
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
It's philosophically related. Very much related and of much more interest these days. Specially since transgender people have such high risk of mental illness and suicide, they and close ones need to be made aware and informed about th
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
I have once robbed by a Gypsy guy, right after I thought to myself "I should judge him". It was late in the night. He was backed up by an obviously non-gypsy guy. Needless to say, I've been more skeptical since then about int
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
He, and his wife, were executed so they don't talk. It was not the will of the people, but rather the ones surrounding him in the former regime, who subsequently took the power. Romania, I believe, is the only ex-communist country wher
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
Whatever the Holy Wikipedia says about the distinction, isn't it funny, not to say something else, that we use the same words for two/three concepts that are, supposedly, completely different and vary independently? I'm a mal
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
There's this book, Aristotle at the Mountain of Saint-Michele, that has caused some controversy around the idea that only muslim scholars have preserved ancient greek knowledge. https://www.brusselsjournal.com/node&#x2F
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by cristianpascu 9y ago
It was funny to me to read about the people at fifty, at the peak of their carrier and with teenagers in their house. I am 36 and have both. The first one is debatable, but the second one is 15 years old. :) I hope it'll get better fro

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