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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Seasonality effects, too
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
What’s your reference on this? I’ll admit it is very difficult to say what Plato thought, rather what ideas he discussed. I know very little about how he viewed physics, apart from the Timeaus. There, I’m familiar with how Plato associated
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
They are united together in Pythagoreanism. Which Newton, Copernicus and Galileo claimed to be… For a Pythagorean, the world is made of math: “All is Number.” The math exists in immaterial reality — and harmonies in math manifested as harmo
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Come visit Ruigoord and see it on display.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Thermostats were invented by the Dutch genius Cornelis Drebbel (aka de rebel) around 1600, based on alchemical principles. This cybernetic alchemist also invented functional air conditioning, a perpetual motion machine (wound a clock powere
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
You are referring to the nonprofit continuation? They have certainly lost the monopoly.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Jan, 2023
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Exactly. A lot of these arguments end up dehumanizing people because our own intelligence doesn’t hit the definition
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Already Here(noemamag.com)
1 points by dr_dshiv 1y ago|0 comments
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-... Here is a mainstream opinion about why AGI is already here. Written by one of the authors the most widely read AI textbook: Artificial Intelligence: A Modern A
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I was surprised when my 7 year old son received a minor eye surgery (he had a random fleck of metal on the sclera) and they gave him a large dose of ketamine. He remained conscious but was immobilized. I asked him what it was like afterward
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The generalized term for the use of random selection in governance is called “Sortition” and has roots in Ancient Athens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
“Whenever the time came to elect a new doge of Venice, an official went to pray in St. Mark’s Basilica, grabbed the first boy he could find in the piazza, and took him back to the ducal palace. The boy’s job was to draw lots to choose an el
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The complicated business of electing a Doge(theballotboy.com)
91 points by dr_dshiv 1y ago|47 comments
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Big fan of the second, which is called “Sortition.” Seems powerful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Dynamic court order. Meaning they can block any new address under the order without returning to court. https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-court-orders-isp-to-block-ann...
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Here is one older article about it. It appears to only cover the larger ISPs — https://torrentfreak.com/dutch-court-orders-isp-to-block-ann...
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Just saying, sci-hub (and libgen) has turned off in my country (Netherlands). Like, they block access at an ISP level — and all ISPs and phone companies are blocking it. I imagine there might be a measurable decline in academic productivit
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Oh, surprising that Claude can do heads/tails. In a project last year, I did a combination of LLMs plus a list of random numbers from a quantum computer. Random numbers are the only useful things quantum computers can produce—and that
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
But what can you do with it? Radio contact with the moon?
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I’m interested from a learning science perspective. It’s a nice finding even if anecdotal
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Can operator be used to extract my social network data from fb?
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Great attitude. You can’t know what is good at that time scale; may as well just pick something that resonates and have fun building!
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Love this Sussman quote: “ In fact, this is an engineering model, in the same way that, [for an] electrical resistor, we write down a model V = IR—it's approximately true, but it's not really true; if I put enough current through
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
“Just like the "explanation" of seasons by the Earth's changing distance to the Sun, or textbook pseudo-explanations of history, like the "crisis" over the discovery of irrationals, or Maxwell's "mathemati
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
Machine psychology is a field now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.13988
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
I am trying to bring this message to schools. We developed https://getsmartpaper.com for under-resourced schools in India, but are realizing that there is a major need for paper-digital integration within over-resourced US schoo
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
…yet, it is also an excuse for not trying to address problems with technology. “The precautionary principle” has paralyzed Europe, for instance.
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by dr_dshiv 2y ago
We need more books! On it…

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