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by lisper 1y ago
Por que no los dos? Thirty-five years ago they gave me a Ph.D. basically for pointing out that the controversy du jour -- reactive vs deliberative control for autonomous robots -- was not a dichotomy. You could have the best of both worlds
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by lisper 1y ago
Saying that people are voting against their best interests assumes that you know what those interests are. Maybe what they really want is not what you think they want, or what you think they ought to want. This is an attitude common among
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by lisper 1y ago
I guess that depends on what you think the purpose of these titles is: to get people to click, or to tell them what the article is actually about so they can make an informed decision whether or not to click. If your goal is the former the
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by lisper 1y ago
In this case I would have gone with something like: Management Science & Engineering (MS&E): Stanford’s interdisciplinary hub
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This particular clickbait title formula -- The X No One Has Heard About -- drives me nuts because it is so manifestly self-defeating. Obviously someone has heard about it. At the very least, the author of the piece has heard about it, a
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The Elements by Tom Lehrer (Aristotle's Version)(tomlehrersongs.com)
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U.S. passport drops to lowest ranking yet on global index(washingtonpost.com)
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That’s great but I think that says more about your mother than it does about Linux.
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I’ll tell you why I still use a Mac: it’s because my non-techie wife still uses one. Even then I still have to provide her with regular tech support. For someone like her using Linux is not yet a viable option.
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Remember the original scenario was "a child telling their parent to walk", so literally using language to communicate a high-level goal to a "lower-level" system. I don't have kids so I have no direct experience w
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> unless those men are property And unless those men are women.
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Sure. So? That doesn't mean that the conscious part (such as it is at that point) is teaching the unconscious part. You could actually test this by asking a two-year-old who knows how to walk to teach walking to a one-year-old with
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> Kids need some sort of protection online. Yeah. It’s called “parenting”.
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I'm pretty sure that's not true. I think most people learn to walk long before they become aware of being able to walk.
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Let me rephrase: what's the difference between a child telling their parent to walk and the conscious part of your brain telling the unconscious part to walk? (BTW, I agree that the mushroom isn't learning anything. My point is
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> a child telling their parent to walk isn't actually walking. How is that any different from a brain telling its body to walk?
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Siping?
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I don't want to make it all broken. I would much prefer it not to be broken at all. I would much prefer if the courts just followed the law all the time. But if it's going to be broke, if the courts are not going to follo
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> the direction of time turns sharply as you go inside Yeah, that's what I meant. It's hard for me to reconcile the concepts of "the direction of time turns sharply" with "space is just space".
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> Why wouldn't it be? Because the whole concept of "shape" assumes properties of space that might not apply inside an event horizon?
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> "Completely" means "for all". Not in the case of bogosity. Completely bogus things might occasionally work under some very particular circumstances, but unless those particular circumstances just happen to be the c
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Frankly I'd prefer the latter because that would take away their plausible deniability and make it obvious that the court has gone rogue.
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The problem is that if the courts only follow the rule of law some of the time then one must consider the possibility that these selective applications of the law are in service of some extra-legal agenda, in which case the fact that this a
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Hertz AI Scanner Charges $350 for Tiny 'Dings' on Rental Car(thedrive.com)
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Meiotic drive is selection. > it isn't Darwinian selection, because it can favour transmission of genes which are not conducive to survival This is the one thing that Darwin got wrong: he thought that the unit of selection was the o
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The HN headline shorterner has really run off the rails here. The actual headline is "The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages" but HN shortens this to "The Mystery of People Who Speak Languages" which makes
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by lisper 1y ago
I would love to avoid Amazon, and indeed I would love to support local retailers, but more often than not it is simply impossible. The only way I can find out if a local vendor carries an item I'm interested in, and if they have it in
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by lisper 1y ago
A bug that shows up in production but goes away when you try to debug it is usually called a Heisenbug.
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> selection is only part of the story Of course. Variation is the other part. > gene flow or genetic drift Those are two mechanisms by which variation occurs. This is not something Darwin got wrong, he just didn't have all the
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A mammoth tusk boomerang from Poland is 40k years old(arstechnica.com)
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