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by gbjw 6y ago
So you mean your frustration is warranted then?
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by gbjw 6y ago
The 13 inch MBPs don't have a dedicated GPU and the Intel integrated graphics draws significantly less power. Does anyone know why the 16 inch MBPs power on the AMD GPU for external screens?
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by gbjw 6y ago
I also love Blood Meridian -- curious what your other two would be? Mine are probably Moby-Dick and The Brothers Karamazov.
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by gbjw 6y ago
Except that, if I understand correctly, the author poses the problem such that one must 'end up back home' (that is, one must find an Eulerian circuit, not a path). If there are 2 nodes of odd degree, then you must start at one an
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by gbjw 6y ago
The medium is the message. The medium, Twitter, may not necessarily be just a passive channel, but an active component that amplifies and promotes certain types of communication at the expense of others.
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by gbjw 6y ago
Hmm, perhaps, but I find that book indices can be better than a raw search of some term (easier to find more substantial entries).
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The Cantor Set(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gbjw 6y ago|0 comments
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by gbjw 6y ago
The only way to build a recursive loop is to say that awareness is some state (the output of the awareness process). But that just begs the question, how could awareness be a state? If it is a meta-phenomena (i.e., the result of some sort o
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by gbjw 6y ago
These stories are genre in themselves. Next I'll read about how some CS PhD didn't even know what a computer was.
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by gbjw 6y ago
The term 'consciousness' is somewhat overloaded. I prefer 'subjectivity' to denote the strange fact that there is something there is like to be me--cf. Thomas Nagel's essay 'What is it like to be a bat?'.
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by gbjw 6y ago
Right -- consciousness is whatever it is that is aware that it is self-aware. In fact, anytime you pinpoint consciousness as any particular awareness, you beg the question. How can you be aware of your awareness?
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by gbjw 6y ago
You're right--'heavily' relative to their purchase price ($0).
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by gbjw 6y ago
It's the same reason Apple invests so heavily in Pages, Keynote and Numbers (all free apps on three different platforms). They believe that building software internally (taking hardware into account) leads to a better user experience,
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by gbjw 6y ago
It's a single well-designed app where you can order takeout in a few clicks. It's generally much easier to re-order a past meal on it than it is to call or use some clunky web interface.
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by gbjw 6y ago
Maybe not in a traditional sense, but certainly there are strong social pressures to eat similar things to those around you. Advertising can strongly affect your food choices. Smoking is also not contagious in the sense that it doesn’t imme
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by gbjw 6y ago
You are assuming that a particular course of action: (1) is guaranteed to be the best way to save lives and (2) only has ramifications which we have the ability to ‘adjust’. Many scientists may disagree with you on both accounts. I don’t se
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by gbjw 6y ago
Part of the problem with the reporting on death rates and, to a lesser extent, many of the tests and treatments of COVID-19, is the almost nonexistent emphasis on uncertainty quantification. A view might only be ‘different’ in the sense tha
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by gbjw 7y ago
I stumbled onto Winston's advice as I was preparing for my Ph.D. defence which took place in early March (right before the COVID-19 shutdowns began). For the public presentation portion--a 45 minute talk aimed at a general audience--I
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by gbjw 7y ago
Right: if you are a brain-in-a-vat observing some powerful play, what can you say about the world in which the vat is embedded? (or for that matter, how is it that you can even be made aware of the vat’s existence?)
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by gbjw 7y ago
The Free Will Theorem paper is available here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0604079v1.pdf . Most of it seems quite readable.
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by gbjw 7y ago
He notes in the first lecture that he thinks it is impossible to disprove determinism. A determined determinist can always resort to the argument: all of your senses are deceiving you and you are simply experiencing some predetermined scrip
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by gbjw 7y ago
If free will is an illusion, why not the rest of the world (a la Descartes' Evil demon thought experiment)? Why do you trust your senses at all? I am compelled by the notion of free will described by Schopenhauer (expanding on Kant). N
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by gbjw 7y ago
Note that Conway's Free Will Theorem [see 1, Sections 10.1, 11.2] holds whether or not the laws of nature are inherently stochastic. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0604079v1.pdf
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The Coronation(charleseisenstein.org)
2 points by gbjw 7y ago|0 comments
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by gbjw 7y ago
Does Gallup do that survey? ('Are you self-actualized?') I suspect you're joking, but the notion that self-actualization can be measured with percentage points is a perversion of the term.
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by gbjw 7y ago
'Suspension of basic reasoning' is a common theme in literature (i.e., the limitations of logos).
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by gbjw 7y ago
https://krisp.ai
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by gbjw 7y ago
I think they are referring to the (mis)spelling of 'qualatative.'
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Buridan's Ass(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by gbjw 7y ago|0 comments
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by gbjw 7y ago
Tangentially related: Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor? [1] (short answer: not with current analytic tools) [1] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

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