morningseagulls

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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Preprint here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.07425 NB: OP here, but I didn't write this blog or co-author this preprint.
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Modeling Sequences with Quantum States(math3ma.com)
2 points by morningseagulls 7y ago|1 comments
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>> its capabilities are arguably an improvement over the capabilities of the old monopolies >I think this is true, but it's a much, much weaker claim than the one you have been making. I think you need to stop identifying me w
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>> it's a market-maker that provides a venue for other vendors to sell stuff >That's not what a market maker is. A market maker is a market participant that guarantees to buy or sell something if no other buyer or seller
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Sorry. Still, it never ceases to amaze me what some people end up doing for work. "You mean they pay people for this?!" is usually my first reaction.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The Melbourne Gold rush was in the 1850s-1860s so the "new" part has become inaccurate. It also happened just a few years (very much less than a decade) after the California Gold Rush, and there were other gold rushes after th
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>This came before the usage of 皇 to broadly mean emperor (i.e. during the Spring and Autumn period before the Qin dynasty), although it is used to describe the three mythical emperors. Here it's a clan name (氏), the common clan name
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Something I'm surprised hasn't come up yet is the ability to flex... "something" in your brain and turn hallucinations on and off. >I grew up in a Buddhist family and was meditating since an early age. I'm no
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>She should use 鹄(swan) instead of 鹅(goose). Yes people don't usually use this character for swan I've never heard of or seen this character until today. >most people know of it as it's part of the idiom: 燕雀安知鸿鹄之志. &quo
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>>it is a marketplace-as-a-service >To the extent this makes a difference It does, because you're arguing as if Amazon sells stuff. It doesn't (just) do that: it's a market-maker that provides a venue for other ven
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Hayek was perfectly well aware that such market participants existed (after all, such participants existed in his day--for example, Standard Oil). And Hayek did mention monopolies or "coordinated industries" as a "halfway
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I would feel weird about giving myself a rare and ultra-high-prestige name. Er... 司馬 isn't that rare, and people would rather advise you to select a rare but prestigious family name, rather than a rare and unknown one. It's li
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>> I’ve collected names from the sublime—Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) beautifully phonetic and semantic rendering of her name >Was that joke? At least in Japanese, the two first are a very common colloquial
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>please take this article with a grain of salt as it reeks of whitesplaining. Agreed. Also, most Chinese names are "invented" anyway, so why is that in the headline?
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>鹅 = goose 鹅 can refer to quite a few birds in Chinese[0], and in this case, since the article noted: Vancouver city council candidate Jean Swanson’s (金玉鹅) [has a] beautifully phonetic and semantic rendering of her name 鹅 is probably r
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I think the Japanese meaning encompasses any kind of roundish object As in Chinese, 金玉 also means "gold and jewels" in Japanese, i.e. treasure, so the semantic distance to testicles is not any smaller. Presumably someone might
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>皇非我 (Not-Me Huang). An official of the kingdom of Song. Again maybe a result of traditions trying to protect children from evil spirits, but I still find it rather amusing. I'd think that, since 皇 means "emperor", the nam
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>>> The prototypical Chinese name has three characters, a single surname followed by a two-character given name. A smaller number of Chinese people only have a single given name, and a very few have two surname characters. >I&#x
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Sure it’s nice to have a Chinese name that sounds familiar, but would you expect your (say) Indian immigrant colleague to adapt an English-sounding name when moving to Canada? I remember watching a comedian doing a bit about this phenom
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
And in case anyone was wondering, the "New Gold Mountain" is another name for Melbourne[0]. [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E6%96%B0%E9%87%91%E5%B1%B1
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Also Bostrom is a nincompoop and no article that mentions him deserves to be taken seriously. Agreed, and as I've pointed out elsewhere[0] (see also the parent comment[1]), his ideas are also not that new. I think it's quite s
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>This struck me as a warmed-over version of the literary conceit that we're all just characters in a particularly elaborate-seeming novel or stage play. He also came up with the notion of apocalyptic "superintelligences"[0
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Synthetic cells make long-distance calls(eurekalert.org)
1 points by morningseagulls 7y ago|0 comments
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Alienation is a critical and central part of Marxist critique. To miss it is to misunderstand Marxism. I don't think the author meant that reference to Marxism as anything more than a rhetorical flourish. His target, in that contex
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>You could just as easily say that space colonization is the highest form of humanitarianism. "Greed" and humanitarianism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they can be mutually compatible, depending on what your definition o
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>> Hayek is arguing that no centralised agent has perfect information. The author is arguing that Amazon is approaching the stage when it would have perfect information about the consumers it serves. >This statement in the article
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>This argument - that Amazon prefigures a new Soviet-style planning - has been made sincerely. Because there is evidence that Marxists had tried, and failed, to do what Amazon has now succeeded. Project Cybersyn comes to mind: https:&#x
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Well, I suspect that the help is not disinterested. Nor do I think it's done in a 'personal' capacity. I won't quibble with the "not disinterested" bit, but what he's doing is introducing people that h
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The article also misinterprets Marxism/communism. >it's not a revolutionary seizure of the means of production. The revolutionary bit of Marxism was a political sideshow for Marx's anarchist supporters. The economic th
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>that part of the article misinterprets centralised planning. What it describes is the logistics of getting something from one place to another. I think it's worthwhile to re-read the passage I quoted: >Hayek[...] argued that no

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