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by placebo 9y ago
While I don't underestimate the scope and possible ramifications, I still don't understand the immediate threat to the average person. The malicious hacker that is after secret personal information does not need to go to the troub
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by placebo 9y ago
When you double click one of the images displayed in xnviewmp the image opens in a window and then under the 'Image' menu item, there is a submenu named 'Map'. Selecting the Map submenu opens a list of functions that ca
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by placebo 9y ago
I have IrfanView on Mac (via Wine project) and it works flawlessly. However, if you don't want to install Wine on your OSX, there are other alternatives, some mentioned here already. Personally, I like xnview - its free and probably in
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by placebo 9y ago
I'll be convinced when I get a satisfying explanation on how blockchain will scale to handle the rate of transactions in a real global economy (while keeping all it's advantages intact)
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by placebo 9y ago
I think around the time people started basing their counting system on the number of fingers at their disposal... :-)
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by placebo 9y ago
Would Stephen Wiltshire's talent be attributed to the same explanations ? http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223790/Autistic-art... https:/&#x2F
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by placebo 9y ago
This got me thinking about human cognition and the meaning of mathematical truths, or even how does one know that something is true (and I assume that probably none of this is original). At which point would Mochizuki’s work be considered p
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by placebo 9y ago
Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. I'm glad you're in a place where you don't have to test it and hope that I also won't find myself in a difficult place where it will have
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by placebo 9y ago
I find that one can get a better intuitive grasp on many things when you take them to the extreme. In this case, suppose that instead of three doors, there are one hundred doors and behind 99 of them there are goats and behind 1 there'
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by placebo 9y ago
The entire post is addressed to him, and not in a positive way. I tend to agree...
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by placebo 9y ago
I'm delighted to see comments that show some people here actually get this. While my conclusions are based only on my own experience, they have served me well so far. In the dozens of interviews that I've conducted over the years,
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by placebo 9y ago
It looks like we share a similar enthusiasm for the potential of artificial neural networks (and I also assume a similar distrust in the ability of philosophy to answer these questions), and I agree that NNs are currently the best candidate
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by placebo 9y ago
> Just because I formulated said ontology from sense perception doesn't entail that it references subjective concepts. My point is that calling it sense perception will not make the subjective pre-conceptual experience of it go awa
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by placebo 9y ago
> By saying "no conceptual explanation ever will" you put consciousness in a category of its own, supernatural or mysterious, like Chalmers. That's just a soft form of dualism. I think you just pointed out the very parado
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by placebo 9y ago
I did not mean to imply that subjectivity is irreducible, but rather to say that it a mistaken belief that is the flip side of another mistaken belief (i.e reality is the objects/concepts we use to describe it). > it still leaves us
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by placebo 9y ago
AI in general (whether via RL or whichever new development that will surface) opens up a fascinating new arena for learning about how agents operate, and investigating the soft problem of consciousness (i.e, what are the type of processes a
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by placebo 9y ago
I don't subscribe to either (and I'd venture to say neither does westoncb). My view is that both are flawed interpretations of reality. Both dualists and materialists assume "objects" to have some sort of independent exi
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by placebo 9y ago
> However, my suspicion is that the experience itself will remain not amenable to conceptual analysis I'm in total agreement with this as well. When I suggested looking into what is it that objectivity and subjectivity arise from,
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by placebo 9y ago
You're right, and I also see how this obvious observation is consistently and elegantly ignored in most scientific or philosophical arguments that try and promote some totally "objective" account of reality. However, it'
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by placebo 9y ago
I believe you're referring to Dissociative identity disorder (DID), or multiple personality disorder (MPD), not Schizophrenia, and a friend who's a psychiatrist told me that in quite a few decades of practicing, he hasn't enc
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by placebo 9y ago
> It's used in systems as important as the Airbus A350 so it comes as no surprise the tests for SQLite 3 are aviation-grade I stumbled upon SQLite around 2001 and have been using and admiring this gem of a software since that time,
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by placebo 9y ago
True. VSCode is more open source in this sense. Of course, that doesn't mean everyone is happy... https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/17996
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by placebo 9y ago
A free, powerful, open sourced editor and IDE constantly improving and growing - what's not to like? - I get that some don't like the electron-based thing/performance but it never bothered me (and I bought and use both Sublim
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Holochain(holochain.org)
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by placebo 9y ago
:-) was about to respond in a similar way, and I probably won't be telling anyone something they don't know by reiterating the cliche of "it's a matter of balance". There is nothing wrong with feeds, just as there i
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by placebo 9y ago
True - you don't even need to venture into quantum mechanics, the concept of infinity has been useful in practical science far before anyone dreamed of quantum mechanics - but there's a difference between a definition of what happ
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by placebo 9y ago
> Yet math is consistently being conceptualized? Sure, how else could we capture it or convey it to others? The thing is that I don't see it as that different than conceptualizing things in the "real world". In the latt
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by placebo 9y ago
Amen. Not a mathematician, but this perfectly articulates my thoughts on the subject. > the real world does not contain infinities I have no idea what "real world" even means, but I'd say that infinity does not exist with
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by placebo 9y ago
sorry, missed your reply (so perhaps you won't see this for the same reasons) but anyway: Mainly the feeling of giving up simplicity. Adding things (such as sourcemaps and any relevant configuration changes) usually detracts from the s
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by placebo 9y ago
This just strengthens my cynicism on the general state of the law and the degree it generates justice. I'm hardly surprised anymore. Can anyone convince me that the judges in this case put more thought into this than the vast majority

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