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by prvc 7y ago
I wonder what conditions would be necessary for a culture that is more tolerant of heretical ideas, compared to the present environment, in order to be more conductive to new discoveries?
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by prvc 7y ago
Adding 7ths and 9ths certainly is changing the harmony, as is changing a diminished to a half-diminished chord (which also changes its function), so that element of the criticism is true and warranted. As for "fair", I think havin
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by prvc 7y ago
He changed the chords that the audience selected and reordered them, first off. Furthermore, the demonstration does not prove or even suggest the thesis that "repetition is what makes music beautiful", the end result being of ques
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by prvc 7y ago
Could you summarize the way in which it is "relevant" (and to what)?
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by prvc 7y ago
Exactly right, it's merely that they approve of the things that they are funding on some level.
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by prvc 7y ago
>For the time being at least, I am going to be going about it “Victorian Gentleman Scientist” style, pursuing my inquiries from home Who will fund the necessary computing resources? If not FB, then he will surely be joining or starting a
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by prvc 7y ago
>The only way to know for sure is to plant your own garden. You still don't know in that case. It is not a question of trust, or the strictness of your standards. The problem is, more fundamentally, conceptual.
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by prvc 7y ago
The buried lede here is that "organic", as applied to food is itself a meaningless concept. It's just an ersatz religious practice. What assurance is there that no glyphosate particles have found their way onto your artisanal
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by prvc 7y ago
Journalism has been one of the worst offenders with regard to the misuse of statistics, not only in "soft" topics, but also in science reporting. Perhaps statistical literacy ought to be normative in that profession the same way t
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by prvc 7y ago
Not convinced by that sentence; I get stuck on the second "eat".
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by prvc 7y ago
I see no reason why the difference between "textbook" and "contest" problems would be anywhere near as significant to computers as it is to humans.
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by prvc 7y ago
If any medium is "hot", it's Twitter. I think he misunderstands the concept. It has nothing to do with bitrates. Watching a video at 5000 vs 10000 kbps is not a fundamentally different phenomenon.
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by prvc 7y ago
Is mixed SFW/NSFW social media more trouble than it's worth? Tumblr did the same thing. Permitting NSFW may enable some promising growth stats in the early stages, but perhaps there isn't a lot of long term value to be extrac
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by prvc 7y ago
Nothing about the arguments in the article are convincing. It seems he merely shoehorning a collection of disparate anecdotes into a predetermined (probably politically motivated) thesis. One which does not have a precise meaning, to boot.
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by prvc 7y ago
Great presentation. I wonder whether all correct solutions submitted on the contest day had the same solution.
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by prvc 7y ago
>the speaker in this video can’t believe why he would stick up for what’s right vs his own self interest only Indeed, why bother to leave behind great artworks for future generations when there are such steeply diminishing returns for in
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by prvc 7y ago
You can obtain the problem statement on this page: https://www.imo-official.org/problems.aspx
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by prvc 7y ago
We live in an era where great art has so little power that it requires defending, and that doing so is considered to be controversial. Our time is a spiritual dark age.
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by prvc 7y ago
Since we're sharing gripes, I wish it would only push updates when there is a significant user-facing change (such as a fix for a major bug). It's not worth the bother to update the app manually merely in order to gain a new formu
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by prvc 7y ago
Can we get a succinct thesis statement of this article? Was put off by the writing style of the portion I read.
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by prvc 7y ago
Does anyone have a source for the claim of dropped support in iOS 14?
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by prvc 7y ago
Yes, the existence of an upper bound on transistor count follows easily from the atomic nature of matter. The Wikipedia article on Moore's law lists multiple disparate "enabling factors" which do not seem to have much to do w
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by prvc 7y ago
A possibly stupid question from a neophyte: what was the driving force behind Moore's law when it was in operation? Did it become a self-fulfilling prophecy by becoming a performance goal after becoming enshrined in folklore, or is the
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by prvc 7y ago
They could have chosen "Quince pudding".
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by prvc 7y ago
>Latest news about "superfoods" or nutrition. I heard about someone who waited 5 years to act on food trends. None lasted that long before more latest nutrition news superseded it. The Atkins diet bore all the sociological hall
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by prvc 7y ago
>The thesis of the article is that one shouldn't conflate "stoicism" with "Stoicism" He may have asserted something like that at some point, but the article contains no cohesive argument to that effect.
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by prvc 7y ago
The only actual example of the author's straw-man "Stoicism" given in the article was his own attitude as a 14 year old.
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by prvc 7y ago
A not insignificant number of fans will buy it anyway.
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by prvc 7y ago
Bostrom, at least, makes good philosophical arguments, and has been doing so since well before these topics around AI were even being discussed.
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by prvc 7y ago
I see no a priori reason why "superintelligent services" as defined in the review would necessarily be inherently safer, due to the complexity of the systems they affect, and the possibility of emergent effects that might be in so

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