maze-le

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by maze-le 6y ago
Yes, a number is pureley abstract. It is even more abstract than the form of representation in a theory of mind. It doesn't really matter if it is communicated via hard wired instinct, hormone signalling or language / reason -- bo
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by maze-le 6y ago
Nothing, he is stating a historical fact, that's all. I found it interesting, because we sometime tend to think we kind of know how roman society worked -- a lot of our own institutions in the west are modeled on roman equivalents: cou
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by maze-le 6y ago
I sadly can very much imagine this happening here in Germany... Almost exactly the same story happened to me too -- and it was not a "very dark area on a bad time of the day", it was one of the nicest cities around here at lunchti
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by maze-le 6y ago
But be sure to put all your brilliant thoughts into writing and send it to a friend, you just might get a whole area of mathematics named after you...
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by maze-le 6y ago
The sentence you object to was not thought of as a teleological dogma of what humanity is meant to do or not, but an evolutionary perspective of why our brains are not very well equipped to handle some questions and/or scales of such d
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by maze-le 6y ago
It is called existential anxiety, it shows that you are able to contemplate about your own insignificance in contrast to the grand scheme of things (universe, all of existence, etc.). We all have it on one level or another, I used to have i
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by maze-le 6y ago
It isn't even clear if a long lasting immunity in individuals builds up -- first studies indicate the contrary. Without long-term individual immunity no herd immunity can be reached... https://www.forbes.com/sites/
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Pikachurin(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by maze-le 6y ago|0 comments
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by maze-le 6y ago
The port of Rotterdam: https://earthengine.google.com/timelapse/#v=51.9137,4.1106,1... It was already impressive in 1984. Also interesting is the slow migration of sand banks on the Haringvilet estuary.
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by maze-le 6y ago
With that reasoning we should have stopped producing music after Bach, Mozart or Beethoven. Instead, our cultural context and technology evolved and so did our forms of expression. There will always be more possibilities and combinations of
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by maze-le 6y ago
Yes, but only for you. The people you live your life with (some of whom you even love) are in the same state of mind as before, and you have no (or at the very least less) reason to change something for the better for them.
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by maze-le 6y ago
I am not sure if this is a good state in the long run. What do you live for when everything is always/mostly positive in your head -- but reality is as sad as it ever was. Do you really have an incentive to change something to the bett
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by maze-le 6y ago
> Their employers pay them to learn and gather the expertise needed for their future in the firm. I think it very much depends on the company and culture. I always had jobs where learning and self improvement was encouraged and expected
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by maze-le 6y ago
Why is this downvoted? Chained and piped AIs will probably be the next step towards building ever more powerful AI systems. There is even a framework to chain Machine Learning outputs and use other systems to improve: https://sin
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by maze-le 6y ago
He is definitely one of the most interesting people to listen to when it comes to AI, Intelligence and Philosophy. I've seen him in Leipzig on CCC events in the past, here are some of his other talks: * Computational Meta-Intelligence
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by maze-le 6y ago
> the year is 2289. Gazprom fully occupies Venus. Walmart controls most parts of Mars. Cosco has an estimated ownership of 80% of all astroids in our planetary system. Volkswagen is still not aligned on budgeting and long term planning.
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by maze-le 6y ago
Doesn't that leave an eventually incriminating paper trail?
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by maze-le 6y ago
Yes, definitly, there are places in the world where such relevations are much worse with much more dire consequences -- I have nothing but utmost respect for people that still don't bow under such pressure -- I am sure I couldn't
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by maze-le 6y ago
It happened in Frankfurt (Hessen), not Bavaria, you're probably referring to the Gustl Mollath case -- which is eerily similar. You're right its not a systemic issue I think (I hope), but it sheds light on the role of psychiatric
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by maze-le 6y ago
> Sure, it's not like Russia or the CCP and you're not in danger of being suicided if you uncover some high level dirt You are not going to get disappered, but you are in danger of getting a fraudulent "psychiatric diagnos
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by maze-le 6y ago
How about: Hydrogen fluoride. I know there are acidophiles but a concentrated HF solution in water has a H0 of up to -11, surely no membrane (made of proteins) can survive that?
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by maze-le 6y ago
They just might extinguish Windows with that. Think about it: if the next Windows release becomes just another Linux distribution with some fancy proprietary features, and proprietary driver/hardware support they just might convince en
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by maze-le 6y ago
Only if really all the mass of the antimatter is usable energy for propulsion. A large chunk this energy would probably be in the form of gamma ray photons: they are not usable for thrust and irradiate the materials of the spaceship, anothe
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by maze-le 6y ago
> I wish the Linux in public institutions that was tried in Germany caught on. Linux doesn't have a lot of lobbying power, and no important public figures like Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates that would personally intervene on its beha
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by maze-le 6y ago
I am also confused about this wording but I assume it refers to the duckduckgo-app on android devices. It would be blatantly anti-competitive if google would refuse the ddg app in their app store, solely because they compete with them in th
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by maze-le 6y ago
That is exactly the case! I heard the term for the first time in this SSC article, clicked the Wikipedia link to fulfill my curiosity and was kind of awe struck by the whole process, so I thought I'd share it here...
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Whale fall(en.wikipedia.org)
491 points by maze-le 6y ago|111 comments
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by maze-le 6y ago
This is so sad... I cannot even begin to contemplate. When I was young blogging was something exciting and new. You could share your thoughts and interests with complete strangers and make connections to people you didn't even know --
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DIY Oximeter(hackaday.io)
17 points by maze-le 6y ago|0 comments
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The curious case of Ravio Patra(thejakartapost.com)
1 points by maze-le 6y ago|0 comments

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