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by panglott 10y ago
What Nix for Mac needs more than anything is a great, simple overview of how to use it in practice, for casual users. I use it as my main package manager, but I install software with it rarely enough that I need to dig around in the manpage
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Link requires login.
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Yea, climate change is ultimately a problem of risk and risk management. And the "climate skeptic" position that we can't assess the risks well is just amazing, as if we shouldn't worry because we can't tell how bad
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More problematic may have been using sugar of lead to sweeten wine. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/sugar-of-lead-a-d...
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No, I don't actually handwrite things frequently, and didn't get much practice. More trouble than it was worth, for keeping notes and stuff in. Maybe I'll pick it up again.
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My thought was similar: how long ago was the most recent common ancestor of Florentines (barring immigration)?
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I was wondering what the Mac versions did, since there's no Backspace. "Press Delete to go back"?
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"Backspace" to go back was new to me, and just sounds like a terrible idea, you'd be accidentally deleting things all the time. Firefox does not have "Go back" accessible through the menu, although the "Backspa
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I suspect that since the 9th century CE was 1200 years ago, he added an extra hundred years in the wrong direction when thinking about the 15th century (i.e., he thought 1427 was in the 14th century, which is seven centuries before the 21st
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> He takes those facts to be uncontroversial, and he says that that is what he means by systematicity and compositionality. Right, but Chemero's point is that that premise is not so empirically grounded; it is an a priori assumption
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A couple years ago, I learned to read/write Quikscript, which was indirectly inspired by shorthand systems (George Bernard Shaw knew phoneticist Henry Sweet and Pitman shorthand, and endowed an effort at script reform in his will). ht
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I'm just reminded of Kuhn: "To the extent that two scientific schools disagree about what is a problem and what a solution, they will inevitably talk through each other when debating the relative merits of their respective paradig
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I posted a link and very brief summary elsewhere here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11730489 He discusses Fodor on p. 26 as part of a critique of conceptual/a priori (Hegelian) arguments.
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The author and several of his sources argue that they do this without internal mental representations of objects.
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Interestingly, the author of that piece is the editor of "The Future of the Brain", a selection of which is cited in the original article.
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Birds don't store flights, they fly. Human brains don't store memories, they remember: they reimagine internal mental states and tell stories.
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> I never met a professional who claimed that memories are stored in individual neurons! http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/123485-mit-discovers-the-...
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Some interesting ideas. He points out that cognitive science is young and can be multi-paradigmatic, and is clear that this is non-mainstream cognitive science. It is an attempt to explain cognition without involving appeals to mental gymna
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Chemero's book has a long section criticizing Fodor's reasoning in arguing that connectional networks are not a good model of human thinking. Looks like there's little skepticism about the power of neural networks here, even
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Cited in the article: Radical Embodied Codnitive Science, by Anthony Chemero http://uberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anthony-Chemero...
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In fact several people in this thread have explicitly compared human visual memory to lossy compression of images in a computer system. That's his main point, about the metaphor leading people astray.
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There's he's talking more about paradigms that require or oppose mental representations that simulate the motion of a ball. The point there is that it's unnecessary to have an internal mental representation simulating the mot
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I'm looking up Anthony Chemero's book "Radical Embodied Cognitive Science", and the first sentence of the preface is: "Jerry Fodor is my favorite philosopher. I think that Jerry Fodor is wrong about nearly everythi
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Conceptual metaphors lead you astray when you take them too far. You can note some similarities these have, but the author cites lots of examples of people assuming that human brains store, retrieve, and process information just in the way
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The point of this article is the argument that the metaphor that human brains work just like computers is leading people astray in figuring out how human brains actually do work.
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That's his whole point. It doesn't store or retrieve.
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"The information processing (IP) metaphor of human intelligence now dominates human thinking, both on the street and in the sciences. ...But the IP metaphor is, after all, just another metaphor – a story we tell to make sense of someth
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Metaphors are useful, but taking them too literally is like overfitting your model.
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BRAINS ARE COMPUTERS is a useful conceptual metaphor for many purposes. But metaphors are imperfect. It's not literally true that LIFE IS A JOURNEY or SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS ARE PLANTS.
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Much of this is also perception. Lots of places are fine for walking or cycling, but people are so accustomed to driving everywhere that they drive even when it's somewhat ridiculous, like driving from one parking spot to another in th

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