drcomputer

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by drcomputer 12y ago
I wouldn't call that a danger. I would call that being human. We all have models of the world that deviate in some ways from one another, otherwise we would all have identical minds, identical environments and origins, identical herita
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by drcomputer 12y ago
How did you learn to understand what 'mundane' means?
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I grew up writing poetry. I have a love of words, metaphor, literature, sentence structure, composition (in music as well). But the base form is mathematically expressible, that is the foundation of every perception to me. It's the onl
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I'm going to guess you've never had an extreme problem in communication throughout your entire existence. For some time, for me, the grammatical structure of my sentences formed such a weak relationship to the interpretation of me
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I don't think anyone really does it on purpose. A truly independent mind can be a terrifying thing. It can make you feel disconnected, isolated, insane, or stupid. I have observed the flow of information through people for a long time.
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> This is the state we live in, the real question is "Are the people going to let this happen?" I am terrified of mental manipulation. My only inclination and direction is to train my mind to be an independent blank slate. The
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Yes, the title is misleading. The software runs a simulation of the worm's brain using a software defined mapping between the 302 neurons (which I am assuming are software modeled) of C. elegans brain. The (software and hardware) react
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I'm just wondering whether the model of which they base their programming problems for web apps is isomorphic (structurally preserving) to algebraic concepts. Computer science and development in school is very different from computer s
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by drcomputer 12y ago
How is programming aptitude measured and defined?
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I don't know. There always seem to be many alternate compositions of rules that can be used to define the environment while enforcing or altering the rule composition rules. Rules can define themselves, rules used to regulate the flow
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by drcomputer 12y ago
My inspiration comes from the knowledge of my mortality, literally, not in a poetic romantic artsy way. If I am not going to give up on everything and die, then I will try my hardest in learning to live. There is nothing really that I can b
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> It’s the other money problem. Just as having a lot of money drives a wedge between friends, power drives a wedge between writers and their audience. It spoils all the fun. Sure, things might look the same as before. But they just won’t
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Do you think the same rules apply to an information economy?
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I am in the habit of persistently deleting comments. Sometimes my disagreements are just one half of a conversation I should be having in my head, alone.
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Thank you for the recommendation.
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> To actually learn it, Mac Lane & Saunders "Categories for the Working Mathematician." seems to enjoy continued popularity. This is the best way I've found so far, and I had been semi-supplementing with MacLane and Bi
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Laziness is relatively defined to other people's minds. Your mind works the best when it does, and it works best with the minds it works best with, which is actually really complicated to think about. Also, persistently evaluating your
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> Why do we have to simplify things and try to apply sweeping generalizations? The universe is complex. Things that apply one way to somethings do not apply that way to others. The same reason we over complicate things. It's hard to
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Yea, coming from the background assumption of "everything comes from the same thing", it seems more interesting to me that we have consciousness to experience, rather than the curiosity that we age and die. Age and death are pheno
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by drcomputer 12y ago
The completion of executing the less valuable (as perceived) idea may lead to the ease in execution of the more valuable (as perceived) idea. It's more humorous to consider maths and programs as ideas. And when I say humorous, I mean t
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I think there are ways to understand people using written language that do not translate well face to face. It's a fairly subjective evaluation, but consider the whole spectrum of human writing, rather than the tendency of conversation
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Shakespeare also invented words when the ones he could not express the concepts he wanted to convey. Those words also had to be accepted and understood by those who read his literature. I think when people feel stuck between paradigms, ther
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by drcomputer 12y ago
There is often the desire to formalize all concepts under a single, over-arching, unifying language, of which everyone learns from and adds their discoveries to, and it is perfect in clarity, unchanging in form, and eternal in elegance. But
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Both matter. Execution doesn't progress without the capacity to think well. Learning to think well doesn't progress without littering and clearing the mind of thousands of ideas. It's a careful balance of maintaining a signal
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> now it seems reasonable that maybe the nature of our military services today causes potentially more stable men and women to be more likely than ordinary to commit suicide. Suicide is an extremely complex issue. I don't think it&#
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I was about to quote this quote, but I have a different opinion here. > I would actually go a step further with the thread title: Please don't try to teach if you can't. The line between teaching a truth and teaching a self-enf
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by drcomputer 12y ago
Being someone who wants to build something like this: there are plenty of uses that can build on top of text that is readable or meaningful. If you can get a computer to have a random conversation with itself, then that is very interesting.
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by drcomputer 12y ago
This is really cool, I had been working on something similar. I do think it's a little 'pejorative' to try to computationally define creativity, though. Creativity seems to involve so many levels of cognition, and it really s
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by drcomputer 12y ago
> Growing up in a secular society ancient religions can seem awful strange: why did people worship stone statues and sacrifice to them? Did they really believe all that effort did anything? I don't know, do you really believe there
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by drcomputer 12y ago
I had thought something similar to this, that a person's internal state of 'feeling / intuition / empathy' was oriented around the combination of certain kinds of sensory / intellectual input reacting with the

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