davnola

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by davnola 16y ago
He's a Platonist, so he believes in the existence of a real world that is neither material nor mental. His central claim that conscious acts are in some sense noncomputational is prima facie false. And his concrete solution to problem colle
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by davnola 16y ago
> Um, isn't this already well known? No idea. The point is that it's a substantive claim that could be tested empirically. > Did they not craft the hypothesis to fit their existing understanding? I hope so. Using what you already kn
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by davnola 16y ago
> I haven't seen the theory used to rule out any behaviors The article itself includes more than one example. E.g. the researchers hypothesized that, given some premises about evolution, poor women would have more kids earlier. This ru
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by davnola 16y ago
I've recently started using chef for config management. It's Ruby, I'm Ruby so it was always going to win over Puppet there. Off the top off my head observations: * Conceptually clean and very powerful * Quick and easy to write new cookbook
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by davnola 16y ago
Great idea, but oh the irony - it's currently throwing a Bundler::GemNotFound exception. Could not find gem 'remarkable_activerecord (= 4.0.0.alpha4, runtime)' in any of the gem sources. () EDIT: back up almost immediately.
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by davnola 16y ago
I don't know, maybe you're having a deep insight! Roughly speaking, the idea is that water in our universe is essentially H2O. The intuition is that if we went to another universe where there was watery stuff that duck-typed as water but ha
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by davnola 16y ago
Recovering philosopher here. > Philosophical arguments about objects in “reality” having a certain metaphysical essence are somewhat dubious. Does wood really have a wood-ness? (No, but certain types of wood have certain properties, esp
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by davnola 16y ago
> Anyone faking an injury on my pitch used to get a red card for conduct detrimental to the game. Sorry, this is flat-out dangerous. You are not 100% certain who is really injured and who is not faking, and you are incentivising players
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by davnola 16y ago
Before you invest time in grep, take a look at ack-grep http://betterthangrep.com/ . ack-grep --thppt
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by davnola 16y ago
Fun! I immediately thought of brains in vats: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/brain-vat/ Also, once the test has run, the stack of simulations and the real (top) world have diverged. Diane and Timmy at the top have belief states that si
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by davnola 16y ago
May I add 'On Food and Cooking' by Harold McGee (ISBN 0684843285)? McGee also writes at http://curiouscook.com/ .
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by davnola 16y ago
Linux, Emacs and Org-Mode http://orgmode.org/ Anything else is just heresy and witchcraft :)
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by davnola 16y ago
Yes everyone here knows that. But it's not really the point is it? I mean I can also move my mouse out through the very narrow channel between the different segments of the annulus! Instead I'm going to use a calendar that doesn't have all
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by davnola 16y ago
This is not awesome, this is merely circular. One major problem: how can I see the data I want without leaving my mouse hovering over the right segment? For example, I hover over England (out in the quarters as per usual), move my mouse to
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by davnola 16y ago
English is what happens when Norman soldiers pick up Saxon girls. [source unknown].
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by davnola 16y ago
A misguided and confusing appeal based on misconceptions and untruths. For example, the author suggests that separation of content from presentation using HTML and CSS is not possible because the <em> tag is presentational. On the c
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by davnola 17y ago
I like the idea of a constellation of small applications but I cannot envisage how it work. If you have written an app (library) that I want to use, I use it directly, or I can clone it. The former requires that I trust you completely and
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by davnola 17y ago
Sure the iPad is a car. But it only travels to Apple-approved destinations.