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by placebo 10y ago
> However, we except such a sorry state of affairs in theoretical physics and the workings of the mind -- why should we be any less charitable with philosophy? Well, personally I don't expect nor accept any non-falsifiable theories
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by placebo 10y ago
I'd expect philosophy to try and dive into what point 1 actually means rather than to jump to conclusions with points 2 to 4, otherwise it becomes mostly a practice of defining axioms within the realm of thought and manipulating concep
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by placebo 10y ago
I remember those days :-) Back then after getting tired of typing raw instructions I wrote a very primitive assembler in basic (starting with 3.5K and counting down, it had to be primitive if I wanted any space left to run the generated mac
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by placebo 10y ago
While I definitely don't exclude the possibility of life on other planets, I don't think we have yet any way to calculate the probability of its existence. I can think of two possibilities to estimate the probability of life outsi
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by placebo 10y ago
I'd be interested in knowing what parts of the language it doesn't support and the estimated timeline for implementing them (as in soon, not soon, probably never). In any case it looks very interesting and should make quite a spla
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by placebo 10y ago
Very good read, and resonated with me because I had read the same new agey books at the time, went to study physics with the same "I'll find the grail" philosophy and had felt the painful blow of disillusionment, together wit
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by placebo 10y ago
There are quite a few "reliable UDP" implementations out there - I wonder if the same considerations would hold. Guess it might depend on the implementation of reliability using UDP.
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by placebo 10y ago
Rosetta Code is cool, but I've long been looking for a "Rosetta stone" type of tool to show the equivalents of lower level operations in various languages. Recently I found a good resource for matrix operations ( http:/&
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by placebo 10y ago
I understand where you're coming from and also agree in principle, but I'd change the claim that "this approach is just not enough" with "this approach is just not enough for achieving many things in machine learnin
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by placebo 10y ago
I distinguish between consciousness and self-consciousness, but as to your question, I don't think it matters at all in what form self consciousness takes place, and the moral thing to do when something appears to be self-conscious is
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by placebo 10y ago
This is a model. At best it answers the "how". It doesn't answer the deeper "why", which I think is what the essay should try and address
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by placebo 10y ago
>The simulation hypothesis, to me, is not terribly surprising or interesting Well, it might not be interesting in terms of answering what I consider to be the truly fundamental questions (the answers for which I'd also argue are out
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by placebo 10y ago
Funny, Just discovered and bought it yesterday :-) Seems like a very good book just by glancing at contents as well as the way the material is presented and taught. Noticed the Amazon reviews are also very good.
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by placebo 10y ago
Disrespecting your users has very little to do with the tool you use and everything to do with how you use it. One can also be pedantic/fanatic about going by the book to the letter in order to conform with every one of the platform UI
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by placebo 10y ago
Frankly, because I didn't want to learn Angular when I first encountered Ionic. Ionic might be great though, it's just that I have no experience with it yet to say one way the other.
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by placebo 10y ago
Use the right tool for the right task. Using the wrong tool for the task does not mean that there is something wrong with the tool. You want to develop graphic intensive games using a single code base without learning native iOS or Android
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by placebo 10y ago
I'll give it a shot based on my current understanding of non-dual pointers. The perceived mystery is that of two seemingly separate realities existing - one being the unquestionable objective reality believed to be "out there&quot
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by placebo 10y ago
This reminds me a bit of a thought I had regarding how long would it take civilisation to return to it's current level of technology if we'd all be magically transferred back to the stone age retaining only our memories.
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by placebo 10y ago
I think you'll find most of the rich and powerful are not scared of the internet at all but just happily use it to get what they want. Those that are scared of it (usually governments) take the appropriate measures to keep tabs and lim
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by placebo 10y ago
Totally agree. I think the disappointment is that in its earlier days there was hope that the internet would end up changing the world for the better but it ended up just magnifying whatever good and bad already existed in world before it c
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by placebo 10y ago
I think the quote contradicts itself: I find that "The Internet is a perfect reflection of the world at large" and "it TRULY makes everyone equal" are not compatible. I think the internet has gradually become a good refl
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by placebo 10y ago
>Well you believe the premise of the ideology, so you are a part of it. Unsurprising that you think it is useful, that is what it claims. You believe in the premise of your claims so you are part of them - unsurprising you think they are
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by placebo 10y ago
I take feminism to be a healthy reaction to a historical warped perception of women that created unjust conditions and treatment. As with every ideology, it holds the unfortunate risk of some losing the big picture and eventually taking the
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by placebo 10y ago
One of the problems is that we think there's only one kind of "smart", and even if we manage to see past this myopic assumption we tend to accept the arrogant assumption that only this type of "smart" is really wort
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by placebo 10y ago
If that's all it was then I wouldn't bother to bring it up. What I'm saying is that more focus on the beauty of a solution (e.g robustness, scalability, flexibility, simplicity ) can be a more financially sound solution in t
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by placebo 10y ago
These are the exactly gems that I am constantly in search of, and thrilled every time I come across one. This is going to turn out to be a rant, but sometimes it feels like there's a culture of solving problems by a philosophy of &quot
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by placebo 10y ago
I've heard good things about MBSR ( http://palousemindfulness.com/ ) - on my todo list after more pressing things are dealt with (yes, I see the irony...)
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by placebo 10y ago
I've implemented a peaks/troughs feature extraction in Javascript a few years ago as a basis for some larger analysis project. It works at O(n) of the number of data points. You can play with a demo here: http://nocurve
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by placebo 10y ago
> Well, it doesn't create any information that wasn't in the original data (nothing can do that, you can only lose information in processing) I'm not sure this is correct. In a sense, it does contain information that was
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by placebo 10y ago
It definitely makes a significant qualitative improvement, making the picture appear more in sync with what our brain interprets as a higher resolution picture, but my first thought is whether this particular example goes beyond aesthetics.

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