orobus

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   by orobus 10mo ago

   I'm disappointed this wasn't a Nelson Goodman reference.
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   by orobus 1y ago

   I can’t figure out how to get the visidata frequency analysis histograms to render properly. Some render as blocks as expected but others are those diamond-question marks. I know it’s a silly hang up but it’s what’s keeping me on iterm. It’
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   by orobus 1y ago

   The conditional relation represented in prolog, and in any deductive system, is material implication (~PvQ), not causation. You can encode causal relationships with material implication but you’re still going to need to discover those causa
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   by orobus 1y ago

   If you were actually traveling at the speed of light it wouldn't feel like anything at all! Photons don't 'experience' time—any length trip would be instantaneous from the traveler's point of view.
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   by orobus 2y ago

   Does Amazon Neptune not count?
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   by orobus 2y ago

   One of my professors liked to translate it as “un-stirred-up-ness” which I always loved.
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   by orobus 2y ago

   I’m not a neuroscience expert, but I do have a degree in philosophy. The Russell quote immediately struck me as misleading (especially without a citation). The author could show more integrity by including Russell’s full quote: > Languag
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   by orobus 2y ago

   I've got a background in philosophy and I'm constantly asking myself these questions too. There seems to be a two way failure - first, the ML folks failing to engage with the extant literature, and second, academic philosophy&#x27