dschiptsov

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by dschiptsov 10y ago
The meaning is the difference between a verified by the scientific method approximation to the truth (some aspect of it) and a chimera, created from math formulas. Not everything which could be described with a set of equations necessarily
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s/Science/Sect/
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Not that much has been changed since the times of Egyptian pyramids - producing himeras and pure abstractions out of words and socially conditioned mental constructs is still one of the most rewarding occupation.
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Why, any training, it seems, has the same nature. Highly specialized task, such as joggling will make you better only at joggling (and, perhaps, will improve coordination of your hands) while training at, say, triathlon will make one gene
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Oh. From which substance?
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$25B for a few millions of selfies of teens.. something is wrong here.)
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Ubuntu package?
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Partially observable, multi-variable (multi-dimension) mostly stochastic multiple-causation phenomena cannot be predicted from a set of prior observations, by definition. Correlations does not imply causation. It does not even imply that ob
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The incoherence here is only apparent. Logical negation of an abstract concept could be very real, which cannot be said about a reverse transformation. Consider the similar negation of an abstract concept - non-zero .
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Multiple, mostly in Asia Yes Yes, only to Sweden. ML, AI, Data "science", old school sysadmin, DBA, etc. https://karma-engineering.com/lab/wiki/TitleIndex
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Equality does not exist. It is an abstract concept. What the best political philosophy gave us is the another concept - the equality of rights and liberties. Equality before the law. This means than no person could be discriminated, based
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Because it ain't broken.)
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I am not sure that classification of philosophies and philosophers is of any use. What's more important is the principles formulated and less wrong generalizations about certain aspects of reality being made. It should be called Ideas,
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> I'd like to see statically typed files and pipes You mean homogeneous files and pipes - only text, only numbers, etc - that kind of nonsense? Static typing falls apart with heterogeneous containers. Or you are just putting that st
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by dschiptsov 10y ago
Existialism, obviously, has been around long before Sartre in Eastern (originally Indian) philosophy and partially in the philosophy of Schopenhauer. Actually, what Sartre called existentialism is the Asian way of life, at least in societie
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From artificial instincts and emotions.)
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Why, being a member of a popular rich sect is more comfortable and rewarding than being a seeker after truth.
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And Australian Bushmen, Polynesians, south Indians show us the multiple waves of migration, but who are they compared to a fancy statistical model made from poorly understood DNA sequences by clever hipsters!
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by dschiptsov 10y ago
Not bold enough. Let them tackle nondeterminism first.)
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Realtime? In nodejs? It must be a webscale realtime, or at least reactive realtime..
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Literally. An abstract category is an abstract abstraction. That's the realm of metaphysics. Ayn Rand was a student of the classic Greek philosophy, nothing wrong with her.
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Oh, monads.. sooner or later they will be mentioned.) Actually it is a canonical example of abstraction for the sake of having an abstraction, which only increases confusion. Monads make no sense in a non-lazy language. http://ka
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The difference between the set theory and category theory is the same as between the philosophy of Spinoza and Hegel. The first is grounded in reality, while the second one is an abstract metaphysics bullshit. Developing some abstract vocab
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The set of video lectures from 1986 by Abelson and Sussman. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm... Timeless classic. And nostalgic diving back into 80s. And MIT Scheme on a monochrome
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No one has been born depressed.
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Basic algebra for the substitution model and basic calculus for high order functions and the notion of a transformation in general. Set theory is, probably, the most fundamental. Everything could be defined as a set or as a function. Lambda
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There is an old idea that the visual cortex involved when we visualize past experiences or memorized material. It probably has a recall machinery. With the blind subjects, perhaps, this activity (dealing with abstractions) has been register
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Yes, you are right. It is a better R. I haven't thought of R because I consider it as being nothing special in terms of design of programming languages.
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Some people just did it. Some even wrote books based on such experience.
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It's a book.

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