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Patricia Churchland: Consciousness Is Not Mysterious(theatlantic.com)
1 points by ppod 11y ago|1 comments
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by ppod 11y ago
(1) You publish the code at the time of publication of the paper, not before. (2) This is a reason to publish the code, not a reason not to publish it. (3) You don't necessarily have to make package it neatly like production software,
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by ppod 11y ago
I think that the crucial difference between twitter and facebook is not the length of the posts, but the fact that twitter is broadcast, or "publish-subscribe", while facebook is semi-private through reciprocal permission (by defa
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by ppod 11y ago
I never really understand the view that evolution can only happen over long timescales. From a theoretical perspective, natural selection can obviously have a huge effect over a single generation. Imagine that the ability to swim was an ext
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by ppod 11y ago
As mentioned above, this case involves ignorance of the action, not ignorance of the law.
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by ppod 11y ago
In what other facet of human life would you be held responsible for something you had no knowledge of?
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by ppod 11y ago
Exactly, I thought the original article was brilliantly written, but I'm surprised it didn't mention these related concepts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%E2%80%93territory_relation https://en.
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by ppod 11y ago
There are a lot of interesting resonances between theoretical linguistics and programming language theory. An obvious one is Subject Verb Object order: dog.bite(man) or bite(dog, man) Another one is the Liskov substitution principle and hyp
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by ppod 11y ago
Also, random bold, underline and italics all over the place.
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by ppod 11y ago
>I stopped cycling in London because I value my life The number of deaths per year varies between 10 and 20 with about 500,000 to 1M journeys per day. More than half of those killed were on the inside of a left-turning HGV. I'm not
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by ppod 11y ago
Without video of the typing it is difficult to believe these assisted communication methods. It seems harsh but in the long run it isn't doing the child any good. This RPM thing involves a lot of fees, and if it isn't the real dea
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by ppod 12y ago
Text of the patriot act definition below. As much as I hate the Patriot Act, its terrorism definitions do a pretty good job I think, but B(ii) seems a bit redundant given B(iii). Note that it's A && B, not A || B. ‘‘(5) the ter
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by ppod 12y ago
I think this is a bit of an unfair comparison. Sullenberger had 3000 feet at time of engine loss and Transasia had a max altitude of 1050 feet, and lost the first engine at around 3-500 feet. Yes it was their own fault but no engines at 100
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by ppod 12y ago
So, you earned enough to make a living by writing novels?
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The blasphemy we need(douthat.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by ppod 12y ago|0 comments
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by ppod 12y ago
I don't understand what kind of answer is sought, and I don't understand why there is a question. As a species, we have done well by being unusually good at processing and communicating information. Our senses receive information
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by ppod 12y ago
>I'm even wondering if the author might actually have meant 'always bet on language' This was my thought too, the examples the author gives are good illustrations of the power and expression of human language, not specific
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by ppod 12y ago
A regularized prior would help.
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by ppod 12y ago
Nice. Does it do any encoding conversion, e.g. latin1 to utf-8? Does Tika do that?
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by ppod 12y ago
Reminds of these cool evolutionary algorithm simulations: http://vimeo.com/79098420
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by ppod 12y ago
It's a cultural difference I have noticed across a lot of copy evaluations. But you chaps sure seem sensitive about it.
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by ppod 12y ago
Are you from the US? I'm from the UK and I really liked the comments too. I really find that people from the US are more likely to dislike humour in this kind of game. Especially Californians.
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by ppod 12y ago
Still, the total they are talking about is two minutes per week. I'm struggling with how they can draw a conclusion from n=12. It's something to do with the population variance being low, is that right?
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by ppod 12y ago
Try using tf-idf instead of raw word frequencies.
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by ppod 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/1168/
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by ppod 12y ago
I'm well aware of the robotic research and I chose my example carefully. The extra weight of a baseball, the grasping motion necessary, and issues of bounce and spin on an uneven surface makes it a more difficult problem than the pole
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by ppod 12y ago
That's a very insulting reduction of Dennett's arguments http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia#Daniel_Dennett
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by ppod 12y ago
Why? We are information processing devices, is it surprising that we have a first-person experience? I'd say it was more surprising if we didn't. I don't see what's magic about it.
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by ppod 12y ago
>The human brain is not magic... I wonder is this really at the root of a lot of people's failure of imagination. Maybe it's Hoftstadter and Dennett people should be reading rather than the technical AI detail.
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by ppod 12y ago
>Anybody who has actually, or is currently, studying AI will know that there are fundamental differences in programming "AI" and some self aware magic computation which is almost entirely unfathomable. With current knowledge, a

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