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by enord 10y ago
I don't know if what i'm about to write will sell TDD to non-technical managers, or even technical manages of a certain philosopy, but-- TDD is (among other things) a way to have developers write formal (as in "machine readab
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by enord 10y ago
He mentions that a: autists are dumber (i.e. do not express some or most of the markers for high intelligence) but posess the genetic markers, and b: the expression of intelligence markers of siblings/parents/higher-order relativ
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by enord 10y ago
Do you identify as atheist? Is the distinction important to you? Grouping different religious views together with atheism under the same category is useful when discussing people and their beliefs. Arguing the semantics of wether Atheism is
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by enord 11y ago
Actually, I assume abstraction not emergentism but my assumptions are beside the point. My point is that quantum weirdness is not observed on scales that are not quantum-sized and quantum-whatever is therefore a poor candidate for analogous
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by enord 11y ago
I'll chime in with this conceptual map of the article (as far as i read it anyway): Perception->Visual perception->Ontology of visual perception and consciousness->Quantum physics->No. edit: Actually, when i think about it,
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by enord 12y ago
They are arrows. Arrows and objects are the primitives of category theory, just like sets and set membership are the primitives of set theories (well most of them anyway). A category that captures the notion of sets and maps can be describe
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by enord 12y ago
This is a top-down approach starting with CT fundamentals and connecting them to CS concepts/patterns after 150 slides. The air is thinner near the top of the abstraction ladder and more or less unbreathable for people who don't s
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by enord 12y ago
Also regarding duality - just because there is a proof of duality between designs it does not follow that they design the same thing at all. Classic example from CT: In sets (well, the category of sets and maps but still...), the cartesia
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by enord 12y ago
I get really defensive when my intelligence is on the line. I read this entire article with a combination of pretend aloofness and childlike fear of getting gotten by the gotcha-questions. Apparently, my ego plays into my dysrationalia (for
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by enord 12y ago
Was going to point this out as well. For a moment I almost resigned myself to be among the 80%, luckily I found a way to smug myself out of self-perceived mediocrity.
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by enord 12y ago
This is Very Basic Stuff(tm). I wonder if the same topic would receive similar attention in, say, Java.
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by enord 12y ago
Apparently you can record video with your iPhone 6 while on a bike so Apple clearly have different use-cases in mind.
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by enord 12y ago
What's with the resentment towards psychology on YC?[Insert Freudian joke here]
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by enord 12y ago
Rule (-30): "Good work speaks for itself."
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by enord 12y ago
Relax, you're probably a genius. The article built the point that worshiping individual genius was counterproductive for the majority (non-genius) practitioners of math and science. The last sentence was would not pass as a dictionary
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by enord 13y ago
You criticize the author for making unfounded assumptions about the nature of cognitive processes and follow up with your own equally unfounded assumption about the nature of cognitive processes. I do agree with you, but it is still bad for
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by enord 13y ago
How is Bayesianism not a form of behaviorism? The essay devotes a paragraph to explain this point allthough Deutsch assumes the reader is familiar with behaviorism and probabilistic methods used i AI.
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by enord 13y ago
"If the goal of social development was to enable us to work maximally, we should go crazy. The goal is to free people to create maximally. Dance, paint, sing. Whatever you want." -Ernst Wigforss Swedish finance minister 1925-1926,
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by enord 15y ago
There is nothing higher* about the moral ground. It usualy degenerates civil conversation to people taking mountains offense and guilt-by-association attacks. *'Higher' in this case interpreted as "more positive" or "more virtious".