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The very beauty and reason behind filter is in that it does not care about its arguments. It is a logical construct - if predicate is satisfied - keep it. The ADTs, type-tagging, predicate logic and duck-typing are superior and less clutter
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Yes, you are right, I have messed it up a little. What I have tried to say is that there are major and minor factors, and the major ones, with highest weights, so to speak, are cultural instead of economical, and I will keep my stand. A cul
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Otherwise it would be like Mongo did - we have put your data in the OS buffers - what could possibly go wrong?
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Consistent writes to a permanent storage or didn't happen.
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> the network structure contains information (in the Shannon sense) about the environment ... the way a map represents a territory instead of how a guide book does ;) Or the way a 3D structure made out of the same 20 joined amino-acids c
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> they encode information in network structure and rules for updating that structure I think use of the term 'information' is not accurate. There are no bits and the whole information theory, it seems, is synthetic and has noth
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Education is not only about academic knowledge per se. It is also a set of habits of self-control, acquired skills, social behavior patterns and transformed perceptions. This is what we call conditioning or exposure to certain culture. Stre
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It is obvious after taking a decent psychology course, like the one of Paul Bloom at Yale.
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This basically postulates that language learned is a process similar to a supervised machine learning algorithms, and this, perhaps, is a more realistic view that Chomsky has. The machinery has been evolved, but "the training data&quot
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It is learned because the brain has specialized circuitry to be able to learn it. The machinery obviously has been evolved and is inherited, while a grammar of a particular language has been learned. There is also a strong hypothesis that t
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Education is asymmetric. Educated could clearly see the world in the same naive way as uneducated, but the contrary is not true. This constitutes the fundamental difference and incompatibility which is supposed to be eliminated by providin
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It is obvious - poor but educated people are different from poor and uneducated. To lift people out of misery and poverty is what education is for in the first place. In countries like India that could be clearly seen. Poverty alone does n
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Publications, funding and status are the goals, not validity. Science became theology and metaphysics - joggling with fancy concepts and theories, producing chimeras from "advanced statistics" and probabilistic models, etc. The ma
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This is a classic example of what we call a blogrammer and self-serving bias. Classic CS (Algorithms and Data Structures and basics of FP) is the must. The questions about subtleties of C++ syntax is, perhaps, less reasonable (but they are
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Exposure to various environmental factors.
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So, basically, it is about a much better heuristics, not a general algorithm. Of course, with a specialized heuristics one could get a lot of pruning, but generally, if there is no way to come with a specialized heuristic when there is no w
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Why, Kant has been explicit that such kind of knowledge must be there prior to the sensory conditioning of the mind (through which each baby goes), hundreds of years before modern machine learning algorithms, so he is an extraordinary think
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Human brain is bound and conditioned by the shared physical environment. The process of evolution accumulates so-called hard-wired heuristics which reflect what usually happens in the environment. This is the machinery behind of some intuit
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Correlation, no mater how "strong" is not a causation. A causation must be proved experimentally. Statistical sampling does not constitute a valid experiment. Statistical inference is not an equivalent to a logical inference and t
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Tibetans believe it can. Traditional Tibetan medicine emphasizes changes in a diet as an adaptive answer to some symptoms. Obviously, Tibetan medicine is unscientific and based on superstitions rather than biology, and to some extent the me
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What a mess. They literally produced chimeras and used them as a building blocks and premises for another ones.
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Freedom of Speech is one of the most fundamental principles in political philosophy, not just an optional decoration. It contributes to sustainability of a democratic system by guaranteeing that no issue or critic of the government could be
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Another animal without accompanying confirmations through other sensory channels, so they are confused and does not act as in the presence of a real animal. There is no question that they see "themselves". Animals have no such con
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How do they know that it is solid?)
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Freedom From The Known is much more actual.)
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It obviously does not because there are whole populations, such as Tibetans, who consume butter on daily basis and are still alive and well, without any cardiovascular epidemic. What is a risk, by the way? How it is defined, apart from a pe
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That's, of course, by design. If you are an animal then repetition is the only way to learn and make sense of the environment. One could learn what usually happened and what to do, but not, obviously, how it works. Humans are the only
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Mediocre [blank] Doesn't Require Talent or Even Passion
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I could only try to clarify the same principles a bit more. Non-falsifiable and non empirically verified hypothesis does not amount for a science and constitutes a set of beliefs similar to religion among a community of its followers. As lo
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Try this. This is a particularly good one. Science is definitely not a consensus of observations. It is a systematic effort to unveil what is. http://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/eeb-122...

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