fburnaby

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by fburnaby 17y ago
I find scientific models of the world satisfying; I think our understanding of the world as being made of material and no more is capable of explaining everything we experience. The sketches of how this and that could be so that are written
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Thanks, I'll check them out next when I get the chance.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Presumably, your supposition is that the genetic programming route might work because anyone with a "moral" aversion to learning about biological evolution may not have a problem with learning genetic programming. I think the answer is: "on
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I agree. I think the article has its vocabulary backwards. I like the philosophy that: "if we feel it, then it's real". It's just that "free will" nothing like we originally expected it to be (that is, it's non-magical). We can learn new th
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by fburnaby 17y ago
<q>The child's mind is not properly developed yet, and the best way to continue to develop it is to challenge it at the fastest pace it can handle.</q> But, to be fair, it should help to identify the ones who can handle more
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I've never seen any of these ads before. I enjoyed finding out what the outside world thinks and argues about. Now it's time to hide back in my hacker cocoon and hopefully never hear about this sillyness again.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I find it impossible to search by keyword. The trick I use is to find one relevant article via miracle, then do a reverse lookup on authors that were referenced by that paper. Once you know some names, everything becomes much more readily s
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I would go to the site frequently, provided the ability to compare traits x,y and z of different "shops" within a specified area. This would be easy to do if you can find the right ways to structure the data.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
As soon as I expect to be doing actual work, I bring my 13 inch macbook. A netbook still requires some sort of backpack or bag; at that point I can carry a real (full-size) laptop. Comparing this with my last laptop (bought 5 years ago), it
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by fburnaby 17y ago
"I ate a popsicle, which was melting into a pot of cold soda." It thought I was melting!
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Sorry to "hurt your rep"...I want one!
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Following along the Dawkins theme from the essay: Dennett (Freedom Evolves, or others) takes the implications very far. I suppose there's nothing that will cause a little mental revolution, but it's definitely "consciousness raising".
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by fburnaby 17y ago
For example, I figured everyone would continue to write one-line responses, making this thread continue in its pleasing diagonal venture across the page. Guess I was wrong.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
The naming of a group as "peak-oil advocates" immediately flags this article in my mind as some form of propaganda. No one is "for" peak oil being reached. His attempt at argumentation about the amount of oil that's available is far beyon
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by fburnaby 17y ago
That was a fun read. In this scenario, how do I start a protection agency when others are already competing? They'll kick my ass and shut me down. Do I need to hire myself protection until I can grow large enough to protect myself? In other
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by fburnaby 17y ago
A very good article. I'm just getting into games now, and seeing lots of small simplified examples like this is exactly what I need to improve my intuitional understanding.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I have gotten into doing this sort of work (the scientific computer modeling part, not the "cargo-cult" interpretations thereof). Popper was the first person I went back to reread when I got into it. This is very important to understand (an
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Just Americans. I'm in Canada paying my rent online.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I just made a resume on here to try it out. I like the concept, but the styles need some serious work... Keep at it!
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I have a good imagination. That's too easy, and of course I can imagine an online degree that I would be willing to do.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
If you want a POS, write in some erlang.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I think it matters a great deal on the specifics. I'm not aware of anything out there so far that I would accept as a replacement.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
The permanency is the major deterrent for me, too. I have to psychological problem, here, I've just made the rational calculation that my tastes are too likely to change eventually.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
He plainly justified an asymptote: "there must be some limit where humans can not run any faster". The exponential has this property and is simple. There also looks to be a good r^2.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
<blockquote>It's his problem for believing the bullshit "adults" told him all his life. I knew from day one it was complete and utter nonsense.<\blockquote> This what he's warning everyone else against? Don't trust the lying
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Lawrence Lessig makes very good slide shows. He does this thing with html-style meta tags that are very cool. He talks, while the slides outline the context.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
In the nineties, "hacking" meant "hackey sack" to me.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I don't think this would have been surprising back in the days when we put things on desks and sat at them all the time... It's just that we now expect everything to be "mobile/portable" and lightness is then presumed to be good. Weight is
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by fburnaby 17y ago
Very well put.
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by fburnaby 17y ago
I'm in exactly the same situation. MATLAB and R are so different, yet there's no obvious way to distinguish which will be better for the job. Thanks to those who are also proposing alternatives. However, if the author is in anything of the

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