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811.
by orasis 12y ago
If you have an iPad, PixelPress Floors is a great option - http://projectpixelpress.com/floors/
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by orasis 12y ago
We are well aware of various optical illusions, but are there "illusions" that be applied against other brain structures, such as memory or beliefs?
813.
by orasis 12y ago
This actually kind of freaks me out. Might it be possible that there is a way to corrupt brains?
814.
by orasis 12y ago
I'm feeling old since I seem to have an innate aversion to vertical photos or video.
815.
by orasis 12y ago
I think a big part of the problem is that when people are angry, they resort to shame as a tool of retaliation. Instead of saying "Dude, what you said was uncool." they say "Dude, you are a piece of shit." I think Brene
816.
by orasis 12y ago
People love faces. Include the faces.
817.
by orasis 12y ago
"... ditch all traces of the ideology that says that work is a value in itself, but rather redefines labor as caring for other people."
818.
by orasis 12y ago
The iPhone 5s now has dedicated movement tracking hardware with the M7 chip.
819.
by orasis 12y ago
Does anyone have a link to the actual API docs?
820.
by orasis 12y ago
Change the name. I get the joke, but it has an emotionally negative connotation that bosses will hate.
821.
by orasis 12y ago
Do you guys do any sort of logistic regression for optimizing numeric values? That would be really cool.
822.
by orasis 12y ago
For the DIY crowd, implementing this on your own is a straightforward (and fun) exercise. I used the Javascript Bayesian Bandit library found here: https://github.com/omphalos/bayesian-bandit.js/blob/master&#x
823.
by orasis 12y ago
This present experience is ineffable. Is this present experience hogwash?
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by orasis 12y ago
Thats a quite pedestrian view of Buddhism that may have sufficed for ignorant lay people. But, being an intelligent person, you're going to want to go for the meat of it, which is to realize emptiness of the ineffable and see that both
825.
by orasis 12y ago
Until math can bring the mind to directly realize the ineffable, you're going to want something like Buddhism. The whole point of enlightenment is for the mind to escape the trap of logics/concepts and directly perceive and be lib
826.
by orasis 12y ago
If you look closely, the physical world cannot be found. There is only this present moment. Past and future are memory and fantasy arising in this present moment. The couch that I am sitting on does not exist as a couch, that is a mental
827.
by orasis 12y ago
Its very important to understand, that unlike most Western philosophers, the Buddha's philosophy came as a side effect of his meditation and realization. When you realize the non-dual nature of reality, that the split between subject a
828.
by orasis 12y ago
Explaining the illusory nature of the self isn't important. seeing , in real time, the illusory nature of the self is what brings liberation.
829.
by orasis 12y ago
Is that true? References?
830.
by orasis 12y ago
Fair enough. Most arguments to discount free will rely on determinism. Lets go back to this moment, now. Can you find a present moment in which outcomes are determined? Or, are you left with an infinitely slippery field of experience whe
831.
by orasis 12y ago
This present experience falls outside the domain of physics. Physics is just models. This present experience is real. Ideas and models about reality are not reality, but rather contained within it.
832.
by orasis 12y ago
"You are effectively defining consciousness as your own consciousness alone." That is a good point, and it bothered me for some period of time, but there is a way to resolve it. First, we have to recognize that "your own cons
833.
by orasis 12y ago
There is causality. This present moment is the very leading edge of causality being computed. When do you make decisions? Do you make them in the past? Do you make them in the future? Past and future do not exist. They are simply memori
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by orasis 12y ago
Meditate and you won't find it preposterous. Absolutely everything you experience is consciousness. You have never experienced concrete objective reality, you have only ever experienced experiences, which is consciousness. Every idea
835.
by orasis 12y ago
Understanding the mind has been a priority for Buddhists for 2500 years. Many state of the art understandings of mind do not assume any sort of objective reality. So, questions like "where does mind come from", "is it a physi
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by orasis 12y ago
For a similarly super-geeky exploration of consciousness, I recommend this talk - "Consciousness and The Interface Theory of Perception" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqDP34a-epI It provides a computable model o
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by orasis 13y ago
Inequality is a fundamental to any network that features power-law like attachment of nodes - i.e. any sort of preferential attachment to nodes that are already well connected. Thus, in a way, inequality is "natural". So the crit
838.
by orasis 13y ago
Alternative Hypothesis: Perhaps older people just don't give as much of a shit.
839.
by orasis 13y ago
This article isn't about growing plants :-(
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by orasis 13y ago
Sorry, I couldn't get past the terrible whitish text on blackish background. Instant headache.

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