fat_cantor

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by fat_cantor 2y ago
It's an interesting thought that as AI advances, and becomes more capable of human destruction, programmers, bots and politicians will work together to create safety for a large quantity of humans
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
There isn't much to learn if you have proper (or at least bilaterally symmetric) range of motion in your muscles and joints. If, instead, you have long-term injuries, tissue damage, etc., that have led to patterns of movement that are
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
You would know if you had purchased expensive clothes before. Due to autoimmune issues and a change of diet, I lost a lot of weight and could not afford retail clothes. I found a $300-retail shirt for ~$5 at a thrift in LA, and because my s
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
People who pay up for a nice pair of selvedge jeans, such as the Levi's reproductions of early-mid 1900s denim, tend to wear the same pair every day, wear them into the shower if they're too dirty, and keep wearing them as they dr
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
There are also plenty of people who avoid wearing the same pair two days in a row, because bacteria build up, cause foot odor, and degrade the lining of the shoe
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Another vote for Bedrocks, I had put maybe 1000 walking/hiking miles on mine before I had to glue the soles back together last week. They're the only shoes I've bought retail in the last decade, the others are all thrift stor
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Anatomy for Runners by Dicharry
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Another convenient fiction is that neuronal communication is all spikes, 1's and 0's. In this fiction, neuromodulators are ignored. Glial cells are ignored. The immune system is ignored. The first neurons in the brain that select
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Whoa, I use TLA ironically to joke about Three Letter Acronyms, I had no idea that the Three Letter Acronym (TLA) was in any way related to Temporal Logic Actually. Fascinating!
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
yes the joke is on i
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
You're perhaps underestimating vision scientists. If the problem is a driver (or something else that doesn't require a surgeon), I'm not the only person who might volunteer to develop the driver, given the alternative of peop
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Presumably James Weiland [0]. He's the (excellent) USC engineer that moved to Michigan in the fallout of the dean Puliafito scandal [1]. Puliafito was great at raising funds by conning rich people, but uninterested in supporting legiti
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
My favorite quote from the Feynman lectures on computation: “All we would lose by the omission of ‘parallel processing’ is speed, nothing fundamental. We talked earlier about computer science not being a real science...”
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Seriously yes, that's what I came here to say - the default wake word should be "Computer", with edit access to a captain's log granted if spoken with sufficient authority in proper Shakespearean English.
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Cover & Thomas
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What do the chatbots say when you ask them what's a computer?
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
I liked this one so much I wrote a meaningful palindrome 100! A+++ Dual. Is time. Rafael went, so passes. Sally’ll assess a post. New leaf. Are MIT’s. I laud 100! A+++ I am a man with a plan for evil rats in a canal.
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
Given Nature's treatment of truth, I'd say the explanation is right about here: "The conservative mainstream population often collides with and rejects the value of certain scientific fields. I also face underestimation by so
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
What makes you say he is underappreciated? He is a rock star in neuroscience
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
It's also clear that the criticisms from the article apply. For example, in Seafood, Dairy, Eggs, Meat they have ranked soy milk ahead of milk.
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
I visited these ruins with my grandfather (a geologist) when I was young. He rolled his eyes and said there's no way they were that old. In person it's easy to tell, even for a child, but how else are you supposed to attract touri
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
The first word I tried was 'object' and the first synonym was 'IC Analysis'. I don't even know what that means.
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
the vacuum isn't considered absolute nothingness. In theory it has a residual energy characterized by a vacuum expectation value. There is no space or time, just spacetime, and it expands. You can use the rate of expansion to trace it
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
human minds will immediately cease to exist when deprived of external stimuli. We are not O-machines and our minds cannot be separated from the environoment
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
Most studies lump red meat together with processed meat products, but when treated as separate food categories, the negative associations with red meat tend to disappear. That said, red meat clearly promotes inflammation, which is necessary
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
Everywhere in America that I have lived, their primary use case is landscapers blowing leaves and trash from private property into the street, thereby clogging drains.
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
The purpose of Brahe's measurements, and the reason he hired Kepler, was to gather data for astrological predictions. The principles of astrology led them to look for simple, basic principles in a way that a computer would not, unless
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
None of this works without astrology, since it was the guiding theory behind Brahe and Kepler's measurements. The out-of-sample training data that Newton used for confirmation was comet orbits. Would ML really have created an elegant,
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
I can confirm that a major impediment to learning Clojure is understanding where Java is and isn't broken.
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by fat_cantor 4y ago
Can't tell whether "Einstein's forth assumption" is a clever simultaneity pun or a typo.

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