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by dkural 7y ago
Raw reality and experience is organized in subtly different ways in a different language, in a way that can't quite be fully translated "to learn about" to your native language. It is a bit like just reading about basketball
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https://www.aspi.org.au/report/picking-flowers-making-honey
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by dkural 7y ago
https://github.com/sparsehash/sparsehash was for a decade+ hands down the most memory efficient map implementation, originally written by Craig Silverstein of Google. I am not sure how the more recent SIMD stuff impac
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by dkural 7y ago
I quote, our President's tweet: ""Truly weird Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky reminds me of a spoiled brat without a properly functioning brain. He was terrible at DEBATE!"" & another: "".@FrankLuntz is
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by dkural 8y ago
Based on your paragraph on children never seeing their fathers etc. Japan does seem terrible - perhaps Canadians, underneath all that complaining, are in fact happier; whereas Japanese don't complain but suffer silently? The scores may
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by dkural 8y ago
who are the "wrong people" that massive social programs enrich? Can you give an example? Most of federal spending is medicare, medicaid and social security; which are immensely popular with voters of all kind.
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by dkural 8y ago
How about we simply agree that people do in fact get "tired" and have limited energy and thus must prioritize what to do.
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by dkural 8y ago
It's luck of the draw. We understand perhaps 15-20% of the genes/proteins in the human genome fairly well. We have fairly general notions of what the rest are but lack specific understanding. We also discover novel functions for
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by dkural 8y ago
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing. The issues around the assignment of credit is as old as science and the concept of discovery; reading "The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution" by David Wootton real
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by dkural 8y ago
It's used for many types of political propaganda. Originally indeed it was for more progressive notions, in the last decade or so; more used to justify authoritarian assault on truth, facts etc. Climate change becomes "just an opi
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by dkural 8y ago
Urban environments can often be less noisy than suburbs next to highways/freeways; due to extensive use of subway infrastructure - which moves the associated noise underground. Also, a suburban commuter spends a lot of time in a car
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by dkural 8y ago
Imagine not wanting to have someone in your neighborhood only because that person is black, without you needing to know anything else. That sole fact of their skin color makes up your mind that you don't want them in your neighborhoo
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by dkural 8y ago
My issue is the article doesn't once mention this as factor at all . I also object that one needs racial animus to have racist policies. "I've got no animus towards blacks, I just don't want to share large chunks of civ
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by dkural 8y ago
The US is an extreme precisely due to these social and emotional reasons. It's shocking to me how this article fails to mention even once that a lot of post WWII suburbanization was due to white flight. The article states: "Milli
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No, Scientists Didn't Just Reverse Time with a Quantum Computer(technologyreview.com)
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by dkural 8y ago
In the Elon Way of Thinking, unless you 100% agree on everything and drink the cool aid and roll with rapid reversal of logic giving you whiplash, you are against the mission, and thus the enemy. Since everyone can one day disagree, and th
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by dkural 8y ago
Hey bud, please just remember it is assisted driving & keep paying full attention on the road.
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by dkural 8y ago
If they had Neutrino shares they still likely made money with the exit to Coinbase; and now they don't even need to stick around.
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by dkural 8y ago
His recent tussle with the SEC did not help the share price either.
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by dkural 8y ago
Actually; we're 75% mice, genetically speaking.
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by dkural 8y ago
It is still considered a dead-end. This is a puff / PR piece going over well known old arguments to promote it to the lay public.
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by dkural 8y ago
No, it is not "literally" slavery. It would be nothing like slavery as practiced in the United States. Slaves were property; traded like cattle, killed / lynched without justice, desecrated - left hanging on tress, burned in
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by dkural 8y ago
I don't know where to start... First, it would be NOTHING like slavery as practiced in the United States. Slaves were property; traded like cattle, killed / lynched without justice, desecrated - left hanging on tress, burned in pu
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by dkural 8y ago
This is a bit different, but commonwl.org ( https://github.com/common-workflow-language/common-workflow-... ) has similar aims, at a pipeline / workflow level and used in genomics, astronomy, imaging etc.
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by dkural 8y ago
Here's some journalism on the matter: Washington Post: "China is creating concentration camps in Xinjiang. Here’s how we hold it accountable.": https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/china-is-creating-co
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by dkural 8y ago
Can you substantiate your claim, for instance, when did NYTimes use this effect to create an association in support of false facts? It seems that Breitbart has a much higher rate of misleading or outright false information compared to WSJ,
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by dkural 8y ago
I do tend to agree that unicellular life has a mind boggling diversity of forms and you can find similarities to most things, simple or not-simple :) That said, humans have a very specific notion of "simple shape", intuitively inc
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by dkural 8y ago
Figure 20 from the paper is particularly interesting. Life solves multiple problems, and for unicellular life, one of them is the problem of locomotion. At least here Lenia and real world biology seems to have some amount of overlap.
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by dkural 8y ago
So cool to see CWL used in the wild.
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You do realize that there is a voting-based algorithm & that's how things make it to the front page of hacker news right? Do you find every article on the front page personally interesting? Do you ask on those other articles wh

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