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901.
by randcraw 7y ago
I don't know the bases of Friston's theory of intentionality, but it sounds like it was likely motivated by the notion made popular a decade or so ago that free will didn't really exist, that evidence from Functional MRI-base
902.
by randcraw 7y ago
I agree that inviting contrarianism can be a useful way to communicate (though it probably isn't the best way to present a convincing / 'useful' argument). But the medium for many essays lacks an interactive forum. Reac
903.
by randcraw 7y ago
> Short sentences and clear points are more persuasive even if they're nonsense. What you're describing is propaganda -- an emotional appeal that solicits mindless reaction. That's the basest form of communication -- hard
904.
by randcraw 7y ago
> Writing is an art, not a science. Writing fiction may be an art, but writing nonfiction is a craft. And essays are nonfiction. The creator of art seeks somehow to offer fresh insight, often employing some form of novelty, be it techni
905.
by randcraw 7y ago
Powerful questions are disruptive. They invite revolution. Corporations HATE disruptive questions. They destabilize the status quo and the large scale infrastructure that relies on it. They embarrass executives who can't answer them
906.
by randcraw 7y ago
> Do you know _why_ this uptick has happened? Does anyone? I think it's because online, each of us is disembodied and anonymous. We're a nobody. And nobody wants that. So the quickest way to become somebody is to join a grou
907.
by randcraw 7y ago
Not lung cancer per se; the paper focuses only on reversal of tumor mutation burden of the cells that line the lungs and airways. Alas the popular press summary implies concomittant reversal the carcinogenic damage of smoking -- which 60+
908.
by randcraw 7y ago
Xanadu sounds like a first class example of Raymond's Cathedral and Bazaar, with Ted as high priest. Perhaps if he'd gotten his hands dirtier earlier, he'd have better appreciated the impractical demerits of all such grand d
909.
by randcraw 7y ago
A primary role for corporate R&D is to wow investors and competitors via splashy sexy demos that your company is not only cutting edge but is actually reinventing the business. This is true for the media, communication, art, HCI, and a
910.
by randcraw 7y ago
Right. Every tool invented by humans is superior in achieving a certain end than is our inborn equivalent. We don't have to faithfully model nature to surpass it. Likewise manmade models based in mathematics and statistics have long
911.
by randcraw 7y ago
True, but the equating of a brain with a city is largely specious, especially when trying to understand cognition. Yes a brain regulates many low level parasympathetic processes. But it's the decision making and memory systems that w
912.
by randcraw 7y ago
Alternatively, you could augment the vote of people who show themselves to be better informed than average. Let people earn "brownie" points by demonstrating 1) knowledge about the costs inherent in important issues before congre
913.
by randcraw 7y ago
There's huge interest in fighting Alzheimers and other neurodegeratives among the pharmas. Alas, there's been nearly zero success on that front after more than 20 years of effort. Until more cutting edge research can suggest mor
914.
by randcraw 7y ago
Like most new cancer therapies, this will surely get “expedited” status from the US FDA, which will enable as fast a development as imaginable, like FIM (first in man) within the year. If it delivers on its promise, it will receive initial
915.
by randcraw 7y ago
An excellent book. A long term back pain sufferer herself, in the course of more than a decade the author interviews numerous physicians and trainers in the field of back pain therapy about their method or insights, and does a nice job of
916.
by randcraw 7y ago
Certainly many kinds of apps (e.g. web- and GUI- and disk- or DB-based) won't care if Dennard scaling has essentially stopped on a uniprocessor. But in other domains uniprocess speed is still their life's blood, like graphics, AR
917.
by randcraw 7y ago
All of these are by Bill Bryson but none are about travel: Shakespeare: the World as Stage One Summer: America, 1927 The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got that Way Made in America: an Informal History of the English Language in the US A
918.
by randcraw 7y ago
My suggestion: build a basic calculator then extend it... Add scientific and fixed formats. Add functions like log, sine, exp - especially if you create the math ops from scratch. Detect roundoff error and suppress it gracefully. Add bi
919.
by randcraw 7y ago
I assume you're referring only to garbage, since all other substances produce a lot more crap than steam when they degrade. Why not just let garbage rot (i.e. compost)? Why worry about actively recycling that which will fade away on i
920.
by randcraw 7y ago
And behind a strict paywall.
921.
by randcraw 7y ago
> the poorest person was entitled to live his life as he saw fit on his land, and should be regarded as equal to a rich plantation owner with employees and slaves I think this describes neither medieval Europe nor the antebellum US South
922.
by randcraw 7y ago
Yeah, this act was wildly indiscriminate. Russia could easily have limited the propagation of NotPetya to Ukraine only, but chose not to. That makes the act irresponsible and comparable to distributing an infectious biological agent via r
923.
by randcraw 7y ago
First of all, do we know why other countries are outperforming us? Especially countries with similar socioeconomic and cultural norms, like Canada? Second, why do we insist that a single number is going to usefully assess the many skills
924.
by randcraw 7y ago
Agreed. Levy's "Hackers" is still the best book I know about the mindset that begets hacking and hackers. I can't recommend it highly enough. It opened the door to my first job in programming. The author seems to be b
925.
by randcraw 7y ago
Rarity is not the only possible basis for value. Public good is another.
926.
by randcraw 7y ago
Stiglitz weighs in on this very topic in today's Guardian: ”It's time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters time to retire metrics like GDP. They don't measure everything that matters” h
927.
by randcraw 7y ago
When a third of the population is disenfranchised from choice by outright exclusion, choice as it applies to everyone is clearly NOT well served by that system.
928.
by randcraw 7y ago
You make the author's point for her. When any model for valuation disregards the vast good arising from a fountain of youth, that (margin-based) model is corrupt. (Obviously I'm disregarding all the derivative concerns that inevi
929.
by randcraw 7y ago
I was wrong too in thinking that no mainstream pickup has a 3000+ pound payload. It turns out the F150 does (in its maxed out config), so the Cybertruck's 3500 payload isn't necessarily that implausible.
930.
by randcraw 7y ago
After 5 years of growth in data mining at my giant pharma, this is exactly what I'm seeing. Most ML projects remain toys while the number of them that advance into something useful can be counted on one hand. (Of course it's a bi

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