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by metaxy2 9y ago
What's always surprised me is how much of the cartoony image is real . There really were pirates with peg legs, hooks for hands and eye patches, pirates that talked with lower-class English accents and kept parrots as pets. There were
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by metaxy2 9y ago
This seems worth dividing into a couple of concerns. One is: Can it provide an accurate enough simulation for the baby? I think we would definitely get there with advanced enough AI, since the level of sophistication needed for cuddling and
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by metaxy2 9y ago
Really top-notch American barbecue really doesn't get enough credit. The best BBQ places deliver a head-trip, pleasure-overload, "this is so good I'm going to die" experience that matches any haute cuisine you can find.
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by metaxy2 9y ago
There's a large contingent of dark meat eaters here in North America as well, and we also find it a mystery.
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Modern, sophisticated dualists tend to think that consciousness just sits "on top" of brain activity, experiences are generated based on what's going on the brain. Many are "epiphenomenalists," who say that the con
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Dualists tend to have the intuition that it's an absolute quality--or at least, something with a special status beyond a higher-order description of patterns in physical activity. Your turbulence example is perfect: I can't imagin
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by metaxy2 10y ago
There's a lot of talk in here about whether consciousness is binary, whether it can turn on and off like a lightswitch, as if that's a good proxy for dualism vs. materialism. I would argue that this is a totally separate question.
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by metaxy2 10y ago
There seem to be really extreme regional differences with this. Wherever I am, when I take an Uber I usually tip a small amount ($1-$2) and as small talk I ask the driver what ratio of people leave a tip. Here in Western Mass I've gott
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by metaxy2 10y ago
I suppose I did mean more common within our circles --the corner of the culture that reads Hacker News. I'm from Western Mass, which has way more small software businesses than startups, so I'm not sheltered from the idea. I thin
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by metaxy2 10y ago
On some level I'm surprised this approach isn't more common. With diminishing marginal utility of wealth, a small chance of making millions has a much higher expected value than an almost zero chance of making billions. Plus, even
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by metaxy2 10y ago
I think at least at first, Google's success was definitely because of the algorithm. Existing search engines were terrible . They primarily relied on text analysis and human edited web directories. You could search for something as ba
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by metaxy2 10y ago
There are certainly players who could make a much better move given five hours in a highly complex position (not every move--you'd be hitting sleep deprivation by move 3!). It's not unheard of for grandmasters to spend an hour o
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Moreover, this is a classic side effect of stimulants, at least anecdotally (not sure what the literature says). You can get hyper-focused on one task or sub-task and lose track of your overall priorities. Although I imagine regular stimula
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by metaxy2 10y ago
In the US we do teach about the scientific method as an abstract idea, especially in grade school and high school, but working scientists mostly learn by osmosis here as well. I'd say it serves a role similar to the way finance guys
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Maybe you got wires crossed between the Nick Cave cover of Avalanche amouat mentioned, and the John Cale Hallelujah? Cale kind of sounds similar.
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Stevie is amazing, but for "greatest creative run in popular music history," I feel like we still have to give that to The Beatles, no? In 5 years they released Help, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, Sgt. Pepper's
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by metaxy2 10y ago
The key of C is arbitrary (you could rename any of the other keys to C and rotate the whole system, and everything would work the same). But there's a case to be made that the diatonic major scale (Ionian mode) has a certain primacy
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Like a lot of the seemingly random and arbitrary stuff in music, there's a good historical explanation. Western church music used a variety of rotations of the scale (a.k.a. modes, though that word also has a broader meaning) and it to
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Mindfulness meditation is not unlike that, but the thing you get engrossed in is your entire mental experience: sounds, smells, the feeling of the air on your skin, even your thoughts (though you're supposed to let them go as soon as y
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by metaxy2 10y ago
The best work happening in this area is by a Princeton professor named Dmitri Tymoczko [1]. He's discovered some pretty fundamental results that tie together a lot of the previous theories of harmony based on geometry. He was the first
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by metaxy2 10y ago
Seems to me there's two ways of doing this: 1. Totally clear your mind of the previous letter and make each letter a separate decision. That way you only have to avoid being biased toward using one letter or the other too much. This is
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by metaxy2 12y ago
There's actually a whole class of keyboards like this [1], the most popular being the Jankó keyboard [2]. Here's [3] a cool demo by a Jankó virtuoso. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jank%C3%B3_keyboard [2]
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by metaxy2 13y ago
I think I may have gotten the best one, on my second try: "Zynga Shuts Down LucasArts"
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by metaxy2 13y ago
I think that really happened with Riven. It's easy to forget, but some of those stills were as beautiful and realistic as anything being done in realtime 3D games today. [1] [2] [1] http://www.mysterium.ch/riven/pi
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by metaxy2 13y ago
I actually switched to NewsBlur the second I first saw it, a few months before they announced they were killing Reader. I just find the interface much nicer to look at and less distracting.
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by metaxy2 13y ago
Some good arguments, but isn't .NET still the best platform for making truly native looking Windows desktop apps with a simple, high level language? Qt and wxWidgets are decent, but it's a lot trickier to get a native look and feel with tho
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by metaxy2 14y ago
The "ask a professional" feature is really cool. A couple of years ago some MIT students came out with a plugin for Word called Soylent [1]. It's the same basic idea, except it's backed by Mechanical Turk instead of a team of professional e
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by metaxy2 14y ago
Inspired by this, I translated the whole solution into JS. I renamed your "query" object to "output_state," which seems like a more accurate name. var output_state = {}; function print(x) { console.log(x); if (type