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by dcre 10y ago
> too distant for most people unless there is another component on top of the music That's exactly the point of this tool. This tool is meant to produce background music for commercials that's cheaper than what's currently
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by dcre 10y ago
Shorter version: What is change? How do we know what we know? What is the relationship between speech and the thing spoken of? What is the relationship between knowledge and the thing known?
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by dcre 10y ago
All that's required to show that philosophy's aim is not to eliminate itself are a few examples of philosophical questions that are not reducible to scientific ones. Naturally the author of the quoted post could still argue that t
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by dcre 10y ago
Maybe you don't.
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by dcre 10y ago
All the people here saying "I don't get what the big deal with the swear words is" are far more stupid than the teachers who went and got the changes made so they could actually use the damn book in their classrooms. When mil
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by dcre 10y ago
"Back in 2013, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid changed the Senate’s filibuster rules so presidential Cabinet nominees only required 51 votes, rather than 60, to be confirmed." http://www.vox.com/policy-and-p
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by dcre 10y ago
This is quite bad — I can barely understand a word of it and I have some background in Greek and German philosophy. I wouldn't take it as anything but a decent list of authors to look into in more detail. We're talking about thous
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by dcre 10y ago
And you would still do that if they were complete frauds?
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by dcre 10y ago
The fact that a human reporter can write this article without including a single note of skepticism is truly sad.
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by dcre 10y ago
Absolutely! I was actually thinking of the change and movement stuff too but I couldn't think of a concise way to express it like you can with the causes.
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by dcre 10y ago
I'd say you're overstating the extent to which Aristotle was "hopelessly wrong" in his physical theories. It's more that the things he was right about have become so deeply ingrained in us that we don't even
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by dcre 10y ago
> Philosophy's not particularly complicated to someone who understands basic logic. Yes, of course — modus ponens has a lot to say about how we should live.
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by dcre 10y ago
It's such a wide set of authors that any ELI5 is going to fall very short (kind of like saying "can anyone explain 20th century European literature to me?") but the Wikipedia for continental philosophy is a tolerable intro:
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by dcre 10y ago
Yes, but they don't necessarily need to own them. They could call a ride from a lot 10 minutes away whenever they need one.
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by dcre 10y ago
I did! I guess the title was "generalist hacker type." Here's the original post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7325886
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by dcre 10y ago
I don't think Facebook is waning.
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by dcre 10y ago
...what? If I could upvote the top half and downvote the second I would.
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by dcre 10y ago
The built-in constructor is `list`, not `List`.
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by dcre 10y ago
I already see a bunch of people posting and upvoting Bret Victor's "Inventing on Principle", but I think his "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" is better. https://vimeo.com/67076984
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by dcre 10y ago
I cannot imagine what you think "paving the way" is supposed to mean.
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by dcre 10y ago
There is. You can write regular function calls like this: React.createElement('h1', {}, 'Hello') Personally I like JSX a lot, but you don't have to use it.
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Lego Marx(medium.com)
3 points by dcre 10y ago|0 comments
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by dcre 10y ago
It still isn't obvious to me ;)
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by dcre 10y ago
The data is horribly presented. It took me a solid 5 minutes to figure out "+X% above national average cost of living" means that the cost of living in the place is X% higher than the national average. I thought they were talkin
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by dcre 10y ago
Your first two sentences seem to imply that thought is a neurological phenomenon, but in the following paragraphs you describe several examples of thinking without ever mentioning neurons or any other (one would think) necessary components
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by dcre 10y ago
Software rots because everything does.
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by dcre 10y ago
I wonder if this could be related to more classes being taught by adjuncts. Tenured professors don't have to care what students think of them. I'm surprised this question was not raised by the article.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning(deepmind.com)
146 points by dcre 10y ago|29 comments
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by dcre 10y ago
This article spends way too much time on badly substantiated differences in cultural norms, and not nearly enough on the differences in incentives and skills between international and domestic students. English skill is an obvious one the a
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by dcre 11y ago
It's from here http://deepdickdreams.tumblr.com

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