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by ppod 7y ago
Not a very convincing criticism in my opinion. I liked the plot, but even if you don't like the plot or themes, I think the ideas, the sentences, the verbal invention and playfulness are the best things about the book. But, theme-wise,
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by ppod 7y ago
You've read a lot more into my comment than was there. My point is simply that your abstract philosophical equivalance between Monad and God does not correspond to how most people in the real world use their concept of God.
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by ppod 7y ago
That's fine in theory but my aunt isn't praying to Monad or declining to get her kids vaccinated because Monad will protect them.
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by ppod 7y ago
This reminds me a bit of David Deutsch's Constructor Theory. What's the mainstream acceptance of that like at the moment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructor_theory
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by ppod 7y ago
The mistake you are making is that you are trying to answer the question of what the average user wants by looking at what you want. Developers are not representative of users.
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by ppod 7y ago
I think the first few are problematic too. Which conspiracy theories? Moon landing, pizzagate, Epstein? No idea where to draw a line there. Demonstrably inaccurate? I doubt they remove young earth creationists. It seems easy at first, but i
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by ppod 7y ago
I'm not sure what to make of this article, but on a related note: the economics of software just seems to get weirder and weirder. I guess most US developers are fairly politically liberal, although probably a good chunk are libtertari
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by ppod 7y ago
I think a problem with this approach is that since it doesn't ask for the student's actual belief, the student might score highly but still hold beliefs that may be dangerously wrong when used in a practical situation. For example
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“OK Boomer” Escalated Quickly – A Reddit+BigQuery Report(towardsdatascience.com)
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by ppod 7y ago
>any argument that it will provide widespread meaning or understanding is essentially a philosophical argument. You're just stating this, what you are saying doesn't actually mean anything. > we'd need philosophers to u
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by ppod 7y ago
I totally agree with this point, but there is an unavoidable anthropic counterargument, which is for the people who do in fact live in some kind of end times, this is exactly how it will seem to them too. We can't just rely on inductio
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by ppod 7y ago
Colab maybe?
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by ppod 7y ago
I think this is a commmon goalpost-moving strategy. The likes of Dennett et al don't deny that first-person experience is real , but rather that it is inexplicable or mysterious somehow. For the case of free will, Dennett is excellent
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by ppod 7y ago
>Machines beat humans on a reading test. But do they understand? I can't link directly to the result, but if you select "co-reference" from the dropdown, and enter the above text, this demo correctly links "they"
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by ppod 7y ago
The author explicitly acknowledges that the result of rent control is nepotism. Why is someone's friend's niece a better resident of this neighborhood than anyone else?
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by ppod 7y ago
As noted above, stable has a precise definition in this context, and in that context the Max is stable.
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Has the author read Brandom?
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by ppod 7y ago
How do you write this article and not post the Venn diagram? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/British_...
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by ppod 7y ago
There is too much performative expression of concern and not enough discussion of actual factors. The problems are basically the same as for human bias, and the automation of the process gives us an opportunity to examine them transparently
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by ppod 7y ago
Maybe a suggestion for the authors (if not already in the pipeline). Shiny offers a button in RStudio that deploys an app instantly and for free to a domain at shinyapps.io. They then charge for apps that require more data hosting or more c
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by ppod 7y ago
This looks excellent. I'm an avid RShiny user and can't wait to try this and Dash. Is there an example for how to host (e.g. on aws or google cloud) and make an app available online?
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by ppod 7y ago
Mary.give(apple).to(John) Mary.give(John, apple)
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by ppod 7y ago
A nice thing about "everything is an object" languages is that a.isGreaterThan(b) seems less ambigous than isGreaterThan(a,b). There are natural langauges that are Verb-Subject-Object. It seems less common in natural language to
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by ppod 7y ago
>In the era of Big Data, we’ve come to believe that, with enough information, human behavior is predictable. But number crunching can lead us perilously wrong. The article isn't actually negative about quantitative approaches overal
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by ppod 7y ago
Honestly, because when I started I didn't understand AWS very well, which was my fault. But it definitely ended up costing me more money than I expected.
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by ppod 7y ago
I'm a solo academic researcher user and there's one thing even simpler than this that i can't stand: there is no way to check which EC2 resources are running all at once. You have to click on every single region in turn to se
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by ppod 7y ago
I sort of understand why search is a near-monopoly: it's free, and there's somewhat of a network effect and a self-reinforcing credibility thing. But what are the barriers for competition to AdSense? Why isn't some other comp
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by ppod 7y ago
Agree, hard to see how this can get 55 points in an hour.
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by ppod 7y ago
At least twitter provides an outlet for short, insightful and measured comments like yours.
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How Life Sciences Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation(guzey.com)
1 points by ppod 7y ago|0 comments

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