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by limist 17y ago
Know your competition. I think that's the shortest summary of a mixed-bag of an article. And knowing your competition is mostly a marketing challenge, especially where the competition is virtual, like the NULL competition of non-consumptio
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Copenhagen climate summit in disarray after 'Danish text' leak(guardian.co.uk)
22 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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by limist 17y ago
<snip> Interviewer: Would you still study computers whether or not it had any commercial value? Knuth: Thank you for asking that question. I have always been attracted to computer science because it involves beautiful patterns, rat
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by limist 17y ago
Also, this is the blog where the files were first leaked to: http://noconsensus.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/leaked-foia-file...
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by limist 17y ago
The leaked files are available here at least: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=75J4XO4T If there's a better place to get/post it, please advise.
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God isn't big enough for some people(umbertoeco.com)
3 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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by limist 17y ago
Eco does not seem to think all that highly of Dan Brown: see this essay on his personal website: http://www.umbertoeco.com/en/about-god-and-dan-brown.html
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by limist 17y ago
But Eco's perspective is more nuanced than "Internet untrustworthy, books good" or the like. On the second page of the interview is where he gives a little gem on how to train a discerning mind, a modern version of classical rhetoric exerc
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The Other Economic Crisis(zerohedge.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Visions of data - shipping, animal movement, handwriting(newscientist.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Free will is not an illusion after all(newscientist.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Google: We're Going into the Solar Mirror Business(pcmag.com)
3 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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by limist 17y ago
The fact that there remains a controversy over even the possibility of at least some animals having some form of consciousness, indicates how the evolutionary world-view still has ground to gain over the Judeo-Christian religious world-vi
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Researchers using parallel processing could save thousands by using an Xbox(physorg.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|1 comments
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Evidence Points To Conscious 'Metacognition' In Some Nonhuman Animals(sciencedaily.com)
12 points by limist 17y ago|29 comments
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Pinax 0.7 released, ready-to-run social network on Django(groups.google.com)
2 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Secrets of the centenarians: Life begins at 100 (newscientist.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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by limist 17y ago
Thanks for the link. While I don't disagree with the general point of the linked article, the writer PhilGoetz misstates Searle's conclusion. Also, Goetz's counter-argument - that the locus of consciousness need not be the man in the room
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by limist 17y ago
Some very interesting points and discussion here; what surprises me is no mention yet of the major thought experiment addressing many of the AI/intelligence arguments made here - the 29-year old Chinese Room paper by John Searle: http://en
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Why AI is a dangerous dream - interview with Noel Sharkey(newscientist.com)
40 points by limist 17y ago|77 comments
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New microprocessor runs on thin air (newscientist.com)
4 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Pinax 0.7rc1 released(groups.google.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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Swine flu: How experts are preparing their families (newscientist.com)
1 points by limist 17y ago|0 comments
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by limist 17y ago
Here's a more direct link to the climate engineering section: http://fixtheclimate.com/component-1/the-solutions-new-resea...
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by limist 17y ago
To see the proposed climate engineering solutions, look for the Climate Engineering/Read More link on the bottom right of the page. I don't know whether to be impressed by the technical audacity, or horrified by the hubris. Given that we cu
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Climate engineering as a response to climate change(fixtheclimate.com)
2 points by limist 17y ago|11 comments
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by limist 17y ago
Be sure that at least some of your friends do not look like you; yes, I mean that literally. The world's only going to get more interconnected and diverse, and understanding how different people think and feel is vital, especially when you
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by limist 17y ago
Suggestions please? I tried Foxit Reader for Linux, no dice, c/p still picks up gibberish. pdf2txt can't extract it. Printing to a ps doesn't help. Would be very curious to hear of hacks around this restriction.
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by limist 17y ago
I got a hold of the paper itself, Women in the boardroom and their impact on governance and performance by Adams and Ferreira, Journal of Financial Economics (currently an accepted manuscript, not yet published). It's long, at 46 pages i
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by limist 17y ago
No, incorrect. There is weak correlation between posting an article and personally agreeing with its title, because many times titles are simply re-used, for expediency and accuracy. Also, I personally did not confuse correlation with caus

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