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by mcswell 4y ago
If God had intended for us to travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum, He would have slowed down light.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Probably off-topic, but: Myers Briggs seems to be based on the idea that its four properties are each dichotomous, e.g. most people are either introverted or extroverted. I would imagine that the tendency to be Y-troverted is in fact more
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by mcswell 4y ago
True, but hardly anyone does anything theoretical. Those who do will probably have taken a lot of extra math courses along the way. IMNSHO, you need to understand the principles of algebra and calculus, but you don't have to know how
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by mcswell 4y ago
Wow, I've been saying that for a long time. I took algebra, calculus, and probability and statistics back in high school/ college. Guess which one I've used since then, and which two I have not used (with the exception of h
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by mcswell 4y ago
I get phone calls like this, asking for some non-existent person. When I tell them there's no such person, they say "I'm from the police benevolent association..." I hang up at that point.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Jabba the Hutt
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by mcswell 4y ago
My guess --and I admit that it is just a guess--is that Amazon retail is only profitable if you have something unusual that you're selling, and the unusual aspect of it can be described by your potential buyers in words. As an exampl
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by mcswell 4y ago
My daughter had me replace the lever-style doorknob on her bedroom with a round doorknob, since her cat had figured out how to open the door.
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by mcswell 4y ago
From a sermon I heard years ago: A dog looks at how its master cares for it, feeds it, takes it on walks, gives it treats, and generally loves it, and says "How my master loves me! My master must be God." A cat sees its master do
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by mcswell 4y ago
Interesting article, but: "Compared with bird neurodiversity, humans are a monoculture." That happens when you compare a single species with hundreds or thousands of species.
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by mcswell 4y ago
While I view the modern approach--give the infant some anesthetic--as best, here is another thought about not being able to remember the pain afterwards (reportedly babies that were operated on without anesthesia have no memory of it, even
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by mcswell 4y ago
I would view such pro-choice people as making the same mistake that anesthesiologists once made about infants: if you can't hear the unborn complain, they must not be complaining. Therefore it's a personal decision of the mother,
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by mcswell 4y ago
The article mentions that premature babies feel pain (not clear how premature, back in 1987 that might have been six or seven months' gestation. My late wife was a neonatal intensive care nurse, and like most such nurses had a great d
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by mcswell 4y ago
thx!
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by mcswell 4y ago
In the mid-term, the replacement of typewriters with computers led to the secretary's job description going away (phone answering machines helped too). Somewhere I read (warning: this may be apocryphal) that secretaries were exactly o
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by mcswell 4y ago
Hippie culture? Can you expand on how that was an advantage?
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by mcswell 4y ago
I had an experience with this a couple decades ago. I was using a piece of Xerox software that came on a CD in a book. The license meant you had to buy a copy of the book for every runtime version, and IIRC it came with some kind of non-c
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by mcswell 4y ago
They did. They were called LISP machines.
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by mcswell 4y ago
copiers and paperless offices: who can forget "It's a miracle!" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAt-lB9JIqw )
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by mcswell 4y ago
Do you really need a control group for this kind of study? The growth of cancer has been studied for well over a century, with millions of cases; what would a hundred more (to take a random number) tell you? (BTW, this is a real question,
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by mcswell 4y ago
I don't suppose anything prevents it from doing that, but consider this: Covid19 has infected billions of people. How many times has it mutated? A few hundred, I suppose, with only a few of those mutations having given rise to more
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by mcswell 4y ago
"the Bible presupposes the existence of an eternal Heaven and an eternal Hell." Not to turn this into a theology debate, but the Old Testament says next to nothing about either, and the New Testament doesn't spend much time
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by mcswell 4y ago
I used to use the term "evangelical" to describe myself, but given the usage of that term in the last ten or so years, I've stopped, and I just consider myself a Christian. That's a preface to what I really wanted to say
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by mcswell 4y ago
Not the same thing, but a friend of mine invented an infrared lens based on lobster eyes, with the application being to focus IR energy from heaters down to where it's needed. Ordinary glass doesn't pass much IR, so you can'
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by mcswell 5y ago
I've read that the Ukrainian war is a problem for China for exactly the opposite reason: the invasion of a sovereign country by another is somehow like outside countries (the US, Japan) supporting Taiwan, which China claims is a part o
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by mcswell 5y ago
That's also why people can't talk on telephones, nor can they communicate by written words. Beware Poe's Law.
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by mcswell 5y ago
"Because we're Google, we know better than you."
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by mcswell 5y ago
My proof is too big for the margins of this window. Guess it's time to get a larger monitor...
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by mcswell 5y ago
No.
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by mcswell 5y ago
I know a little about constraint optimization programming, but I don't know how it works (or would work, if scaled) for neural nets. Do you know of any work on this (citations)?

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