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by logicrook 11y ago
When I was in high-school, reading a lot of Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kant, and Stoics, I got the idea that if you thought hard about a difficult issue and couldn't decide on your stance, then you should just throw a coin and go with it
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by logicrook 11y ago
>Which are sadly fictional. For context, these are reviews lampooning the style of modern horrible reviews, applied to some landmark TCS papers. So I'd say these reviews being authentic would be very sad. >I suspect the tumblr bl
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by logicrook 11y ago
For those who like to read these, be sure to read the hilarious "We are sorry to inform you" by Simone Santini [0]. It's quite hilarious, and illustrates most common tropes of bad reviewers. [0] https://www.destroy
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by logicrook 11y ago
>yeah you are right in terms of concept art; I figured that unfortunately more often than not the lines between concept, mood, detailing etc tend to be blurred depending on who looks at it; Also this is not going to replace individual ch
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by logicrook 11y ago
But Erewhon came in 1872, and contained many ideas that are still very strong (emergent life, creation of the technological system and clash with the ancient order (Church))... It's a bit like the 'Seinfeld is unfunny' trope;
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by logicrook 11y ago
No, it's a gross misunderstanding of what is concept art. A concept art piece is about the idea, not the style; if you take a famous protagonist, say batman, you can have it drawn in a medieval, realistic, sci-fi version, drawn in a st
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by logicrook 11y ago
This is more from the perspective of the language designer, not from a "you get a binary, is it malware" one, in which case Turing-completeness basically has no importance. So for an example... Many exploits use stackoverflows to
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by logicrook 11y ago
Well, take things that way: if your language is not Turing-complete, you could lock things down so that no crazy stuff happens, and prove that there is no way to bypass the security --assuming this problem is decidable, which can be the ca
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by logicrook 11y ago
Most of the transcript of the video is on the main page ( http://miegakure.com/ ), along with illustrative images and gifs. They evoke how their inspiration was flatland, which when I read it I found strikingly unimaginative.
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by logicrook 11y ago
What a pernicious double-entendre.
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by logicrook 11y ago
>I don't know why anyone would assume that, given how poorly it works. You're tough. Every type of computer generated visuals have some cases that won't work well, given that there are so many semantic choices: anti-aliasi
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by logicrook 11y ago
This is about trusting what you read on the NYT, not trusting the site. In both cases, caution is advised :)
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by logicrook 11y ago
Programmers, hackers, mathematician, often tend to fall into this trap. It was pretty well illustrated by Swift, in Gulliver's travel. When the protagonist arrive in Laputa, the city of mathematician, they take his measurements to make
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by logicrook 11y ago
This is a cheeky comment from Don Knuth.
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by logicrook 11y ago
If you're into jazz, you can check the label Rune Grammofon; you can start bands that are easy to listen to, such as Elephant9 (just listen to Fugl Fønix and try to resist the groove), and then get into the rest (woohoo, Shining). Afte
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by logicrook 11y ago
When it's well intentioned... A friend went to a statistics-focused master degree, and her first internship made her come back with the comment "well, during class we had one prof tell us exactly what we shouldn't do with the
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by logicrook 11y ago
Oops, the quote was from the article, not Feynman (I've edited my post now); note that the author is Gelman from 'the statistical crisis in science'. But it throws back to Feynman's speeches on Cargo cult science, what i
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by logicrook 11y ago
So basically, social sciences are still at the sad state of affairs Feynman described. From the article: >"One reason so many of these Psychological Science studies are so dead on arrival is that they hinge on noisy measurements in
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by logicrook 11y ago
The headline should definitely say "at least Mac". It so annoying to hear about "computer viruses"... (protip: it's Windows, Osx, well, maybe even Linux virus).
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by logicrook 11y ago
Well, Gowers went at great length explaining its motivations [0] (see the following quote, from [1]). So saying that Gowers started attacking Elsevier "by accident" and "was surprised that it grew as a movement" is very
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by logicrook 11y ago
>"Timothy Gowers's first big assault on academic publishing started almost by accident. In 2012, the Cambridge mathematician took to his blog to write a post bemoaning the exorbitant prices that journals charge for access to re
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by logicrook 11y ago
So you say 'no' but you don't refute the argument? Can you explain why following correct substitution principles does not work? You could also try to answer to the arguments of harry8, who gave you polite and well-written poi
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by logicrook 11y ago
>OSC researchers tried to reproduce an American study that dealt with Stanford University students’ attitudes toward affirmative action policies by using Dutch students at the University of Amsterdam. If they do conclude things on "
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by logicrook 11y ago
I can't see how you can make such a comment while being efficient. When you're looking for some software, you don't want "X that does Y". There are already solutions (maybe hacky ones) to do Y, so you want some X th
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by logicrook 11y ago
Hey, do we have to read the articles before commenting now? Let's take a stand for free speech! Ill, unadvised speech is still speech!
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by logicrook 11y ago
The whole "drug users are victims" makes absolutely no more sense that "any criminal is a victim". You can't find a single person in the world who doesn't have bad circumstances. Even the people at Goldman-Sach
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The analogy is "I decide to drive my car" while drunk "then I hit someone". In which case you are responsible. There is no accident. It's all a question of probabilities and risk. The probability to hit someone wh
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by logicrook 11y ago
But little kaka is very poor, the poor little guy has been reduced to begging over the internet. And you expect him to pay you for your work? Monstrous Thénardier. You should pay such a genius to use your lowly software. Don't you kno
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by logicrook 11y ago
Psycho-Pass is to GITS what Equilibrium is to Orwell/Huxley: what happens if an idiot tries to rewrite the original. The form is there, but there is no substance.
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by logicrook 11y ago
Although there are major differences between the movie and SAC. The two movies are strongly influenced by Mamoru Oshii's ideas, to the point of contradicting Shirow's point of view on certain subjects. SAC is much closer to the au

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