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by ravar 8y ago
Lets propose that pattern recognition is indeed something different than what most people would call intelligence. If this is so then there should be a statistically reliable way to measure pattern recognition in a way that does not also me
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by ravar 8y ago
General relativity is not a basic assumption in physics. There is a large feeling that there is something more out there , but that we don't really know what it is . Some theories of dark energy or dark matter work by modifying gravity
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by ravar 8y ago
To expand on this , growth is real , and it's not random. Value for society is created by having money directed towards more beneficial projects.
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by ravar 8y ago
Probably none considering that calories are collected while awake, and there exist animals that collect calories during the night and the day.
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by ravar 8y ago
If the economics of Idaho are so awful for poor people then maybe they should move to California or Oregon where it is so much better because of the unions.
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by ravar 8y ago
Just because something correlates with parental income doesn't mean that it isn't heritable. Take an example that you agree with. Being white (or Asian) correlates with parental income. Those traits are also rather heritable.
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by ravar 8y ago
I am personally happy to see that this happened in Vermont and not on the federal level. We now have the opportunity to see the impact this has on the citizens of Vermont and whether or not the regulations are effective. Nothing beats exper
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by ravar 8y ago
When does n grains of sand become a sand pile?
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by ravar 8y ago
That part is spot on, he's showing how history rhymes. It's an example of humans historically making the same mistake of not reasoning about unanticipated consequences.
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by ravar 8y ago
Fair market value is not defined uniquely in one off transactions. It's very possible that what happens in both nations is a fair market price. If this is true it then becomes natural to ask how we, the taxpayer, can get a better deal
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by ravar 8y ago
If this is an opportunity for change then what is a positive change that you would suggest?
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by ravar 9y ago
Wimps have gotten lots of funding. But we are probably on the last generation of wimp detector
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by ravar 9y ago
If the rocket can be used without limit this almost makes perfect sense.
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by ravar 9y ago
Your argument sounds nice, but does not offer sufficient proof for your rather strong statement "so the natural biological differences are irrelevant". This is a claim which could be scientifically tested. For example researchers
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by ravar 9y ago
I can't speak for their articles in general, but this one seems to not be clickbait. One of the objectives of T2K is to measure the cp violating phase of neutrino oscillations. As more data is being collected it is appearing there is a
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by ravar 9y ago
Good catch, I did say it wants to provide all the answers, but I guess that wasn't exactly the idea I was trying to get at. I think the more fleshed out idea is that some people want science to provide all the answers. These people, li
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by ravar 9y ago
I would add to this by positing this is not just American culture. I think all people are religious by nature, even the most rational scientist has their inexplicable religious rituals. My thought on this is that the world is simply too com
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by ravar 9y ago
I partially agree with this assessment, industry for whatever shortsighted reason sometimes implements bad academic policy, as was seen in the Harper administration in Canada. However it is fully well possible that in a complex world such a
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by ravar 9y ago
As someone who will be personally negatively impacted by this tax raise I just want to say that there is more to the tax raise than just plutocracy. Conservatives are raising complaints about what is happening in the academy, and if members
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by ravar 9y ago
Throwing in my two cents. I used to suffer from seasonal mood swings, since taking a daily multivitamin this has been the best winter of my life.
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by ravar 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory I believe in the context of these road discussions its important to understand the math behind the usage of roads. Roads become less efficient, in terms of people per ho
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by ravar 9y ago
To put some numbers to this, lets take the model that damage scales with weight per surface area to the fourth power. If you double the number of axles but maintain the same weight. Then there is half as much stress on twice as much area, 1
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by ravar 9y ago
http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue116/hottopics116.htm Usually the damage done on a material varies by the stress to some power, not exponentially, as in the link. My understanding is the damage to asphalt scale
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by ravar 9y ago
I have wanted to melt my own glass in the past, but I didn't find good information on making recipes. Do you have a github link for the project?
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by ravar 10y ago
My first reaction is that there is no reason to use entropy. In physics you can prove that Hamiltonian motion leads to ergodic behavior and that creates the push to higher entropy. In an economic system I question that ergodicity would be s
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by ravar 10y ago
If you take the 2d Fourier transform of the sequence and the low frequency components go to zero the point process is hyper uniform [1] . Poison disk noise has this property but is generally slow to generate. [1] http://arxiv.org