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by lg 18y ago
Actually, philosophers who think that there's something special about consciousness (i.e. it can't be explained by structure and dynamics, but might be due to another fundamental physical property that the scientific community has so far ig
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by lg 18y ago
Expansion packs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ruins_of_Kunark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scars_of_Velious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadows_of_Luclin Man, I feel so old.
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by lg 18y ago
Apparently the users agree... http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=down&page=...
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by lg 18y ago
How about, if you think about something all the time, you'll be thinking about it when it's relevant, and so it'll influence your actions. If you don't, you won't be, and it won't. And one thing we think about a lot is certain past events
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by lg 18y ago
I don't think price makes people think it's a better education; I think it's US News rankings and popular hearsay put out by books and movies. I bet that everyone who shops diligently for these things believes that the Cooper Union is grea
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by lg 18y ago
Well... the seconds are appropriately long, there just aren't enough of them, so there's plenty of time left to cross after 0. Or maybe it's just Porter Square's weirdness, to go along with the striped sidewalks and windmill and boulders..
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by lg 18y ago
I hope that the ones for cars are actually accurate, unlike the pedestrian ones which drastically underestimate the time, causing people to ignore it completely and just look both ways.
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by lg 18y ago
the erlang port was broken for a while, actually...don't know if that's still the case, but anyway it's not hard to build from source.
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by lg 18y ago
I have one of these, and after a mystifying experience at airport security, I discovered that the RFID shielding is made of metal. No clue whether it actually works, though.
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by lg 18y ago
http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?p=43950#43950 It's awesome. But, the shell is a little neutered, i.e. it breaks on (lambda (x) x)...hopefully that'll be fixed soon.
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by lg 18y ago
...I think that's more a hope than a definition (though you're probably just being sarcastic.) Anyway, I don't see why this story is prompting the !HN rigmarole. Bumbling government screwing with technology they don't understand in the na
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by lg 18y ago
Yeah, and at Rutgers I think this is usually a summer class taught by a grad student and taken by nonmajors trying to fulfill a requirement. Probably for good reason.
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by lg 18y ago
I like the simple interface. I wish you could extend it to the actual buying phase though, so I don't need to go to StubHub and make an account there just to buy it, which (when I get a look at the overwrought stubhub site) might make me t
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by lg 18y ago
I know what you mean. There's a lot of philosophy going on, and the pressure to publish causes even idiots to write big books and papers. But I think you should judge a field by its most ambitious members and ignore the shadow-world of cr
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by lg 18y ago
That describes just about every medieval scholar. Reminds me of pg's essay about philosophy, which (I can independently verify) is mostly true. Though I think the field has gotten a lot more rigorous and interesting in the last few decade
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by lg 18y ago
Not certain but I think it's from this: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL11936541M Ignore the 2007 date, it was published in 1930 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
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by lg 18y ago
I think by "critical thinking" he means the ability to criticize, or point out flaws in someone's work/theory. And I took a good number of classes in the humanities where this is basically what we were expected to do: "Critically analyze S
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by lg 18y ago
don't forget the other ones: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35923610@N00/2722267025/sizes/o...
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by lg 18y ago
Ehh I disagree with point number 2. I've been writing a big app in Erlang lately and SA has actually made my program longer. i.e. rec(Lst) -> case Cond of pattern1 -> rec(Lst); pattern2 -> L
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by lg 18y ago
Those "unpopular" classes like Formal Languages might not be so unpopular if serious profs taught them, instead of the usual lazy, disorganized people who outsource teaching to the TA's. Maybe some people make a point of avoiding the hard
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by lg 18y ago
Man, I went to Rutgers, but it sounds like I picked the wrong major. One of my CS TA's literally did not know what the head and tail of a list are (an American, by the by). And to think, math was just across the hall..
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by lg 18y ago
Agreed. There are very active communities of philosophers that work on non-fraud 19th century thinkers; Leiter's blog is probably the center of philosophy on the web, and he's a Nietzsche expert. Anyway, it seems like criticism of "logic-
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by lg 18y ago
Looks great. One thing: on the main site, when I search for "boston" and then "cambridge", I get completely different results, which is a little odd.
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by lg 18y ago
I'm surprised he liked The Haj; the book is basically a Rand-style propaganda piece about Arab society where all the characters are either stereotypes or their 'lives' are an obvious attempt to demonstrate some point.
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by lg 18y ago
I think some of this is useful for normal, not-very-social people.
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by lg 18y ago
> Alternatively you could reject the Simulation Argument that says the three propositions are mutually incompatible - but if so, how? Suppose the universe started normally a few billion years ago (explosion) and humans appeared several
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by lg 18y ago
When I was a kid, this is exactly how our (northeast Philly) neighborhood was. I never thought about it but I guess a lot of the older kids just didn't go to school.
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by lg 18y ago
"Organic" is a stretchy word, but somewhere in there is the idea of sustainable farming. That is, not draining the water table, not relying on dangerous pesticides to compensate for massively monoculture fields, and not relying on expensiv
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by lg 18y ago
I'd say Erlang enforces functional style more than Lisp does... there's no Erlang object system.
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The History of Erlang(cs.chalmers.se)
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