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by nova 12y ago
> ch, ll, ñ, and rr are all considered separate letters In Spanish "rr" has never been considered as a single letter. "Ch" and "ll" used to be, but not anymore. Ñ is, of course.
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by nova 12y ago
> it's probably a byproduct of making an intelligence that can reason about itself and its environment. See Jaynes' bicameral mind hypothesis. Even if it's most likely a mistaken theory it's still interesting as a dis
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by nova 12y ago
To check if I understand the argument: I'm guessing you're talking about the internal logic or language of some category, in contrast to the external one used to talk about that category.
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by nova 12y ago
Mushoku Tensei (Unemployment reincarnation)
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by nova 12y ago
There's a very interesting discussion in Scott Aaronson's "Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity" ( http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/philos.pdf ). Briefly (as far as I underst
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by nova 12y ago
> He's also excited about the prospect of most math papers publishing machine-checked proofs. Apparently the feels he can't be sure of the correctness of his own papers without machine checked proofs anymore, and he's a Fi
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by nova 12y ago
There is "Introduction to 64 Bit Intel Assembly Language Programming for Linux", 2nd Ed, by Ray Seyfarth. It's pretty good for beginners with some C experience, I think.
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by nova 12y ago
“The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist
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by nova 12y ago
I don't get this issue. Let the robots have all the jobs.
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by nova 12y ago
So let's keep making it more complicated, then.
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by nova 12y ago
Try teaching to kids or nursing.
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by nova 12y ago
>> And then we can do what /u/murbard2 is alluding to, and go for "hardcore mode" on Bayesianism: Objective Informative Bayesianism (better referred to as Algorithmic Bayesianism). This sounds very interesting but
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by nova 12y ago
> Understanding distributed systems means being aware of a much larger state space and how things like special relativity impact it (I'm being a bit flippant, but not actually inaccurate—message latency is not poorly modeled by spec
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by nova 12y ago
> Perhaps I'm missing something due to having read through the article too quickly. Please educate me. The point I got out of this fine article is that we are under/misusing types. Types encode logical propositions. The compile
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by nova 12y ago
The great thing about this hypothesis, even if it happens to be false for homo sapiens, is that it separates the concepts of "intelligence" and "consciousness". Jaynes shows that it is at least logically possible for a b
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by nova 12y ago
Funny how patents are supposed to encourage innovation and they're doing exactly the opposite.
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by nova 12y ago
> Eventually, the competitor's product will become good enough, and the stampede away from Adobe will begin. To prevent that is what patents are for.
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by nova 12y ago
> "Death is bad," said Harry, discarding wisdom for the sake of clear communication. "Very bad. Extremely bad. Being scared of death is like being scared of a great big monster with poisonous fangs. It actually makes a gre
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by nova 12y ago
Except libertarians most people do, as long as they're "their" bureaucrats.
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by nova 12y ago
Spain has three layers of malfunctioning uncoordinated and corrupt big governments, incredible amounts of red tape and taxes and a slow-as-molasses and politicized judicial system. Not big on free markets either. On the other side it is che
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by nova 13y ago
So, semantics and rhetoric aside, what is _really_ this thing called "intellectual property"? In the real world, in actuality. A big game of Who Has The Best Lawyers. Nothing less, nothing more. An expensive game, normally better
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by nova 13y ago
Exactly. What makes up the identity of a person is not the physical substrate but the pattern of information stored. But this is a tough bullet to bite, even for computer professionals.
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by nova 13y ago
> You invest in a promise that may or may not be reality With religion I can be quite sure it won't be a reality, as there is no trace of actual gods anywhere I look, but a lot of good evidence of it being just a social and cultural
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by nova 13y ago
Cryonics?
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by nova 13y ago
From mutual agreement in exchange of goods and services, or by force. Not the same. Only thieves and governments do the latter.
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by nova 13y ago
I think the problem is what to do with that money once collected. With taxes in general. Currently we just let politicians spend it as they see fit.
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by nova 13y ago
Well, they only have to say it's "to protect intellectual property" and the other governments would be happy to help.
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by nova 13y ago
A great book, whose only downside is using AT&T syntax.
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by nova 13y ago
> News flash for everyone, death is inevitable As far as we know there is nothing in the laws of physics about death (or life). It's all about fields and particles. Or maybe strings or loops or something else, but vitalism ( https:&
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by nova 13y ago
> They make every attempt to reduce costs and increase development speed, and it's possible that in the long run, things are better. My point is that research companies should focus on discovering how the human body works and reacts

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