reader5000

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by reader5000 16y ago
"While the easy problem looks at correlations between brain activity and different states of consciousness — something that the global workspace theory is beginning to elucidate — the elusive hard problem of how these patterns of electrical
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by reader5000 17y ago
There's no such thing as "hacking" women. If you can be attractive to a woman then you are attractive. I mean maybe wearing an earpiece and having somebody else feed you lines would be hacking a woman. But the good 'pickup' gospels basicall
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by reader5000 17y ago
55% is kind of a big cut
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by reader5000 17y ago
The n-back task is a working memory task that has been correlated with increasing fluid intelligence in one paper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back
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by reader5000 17y ago
Excellent, this does work. (The preferences page is under Tools -> Options -> Clojure).
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by reader5000 17y ago
Yeah I am interested in learning clojure but cannot get an environment to work (this guide mentions enclojure not working; same thing happens with me).
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by reader5000 17y ago
I think the guy is being paid by Toyota. One dramatic case regarding this highly publicized recall turns out to be a fraud; casts doubt on the entire ordeal and wins the public back over to Toyota. Genius.
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by reader5000 17y ago
Not everyone is a machiavellian networking pro. Some people just show up, do the job, and go home.
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by reader5000 17y ago
Maybe this is just a generational thing, but when I entered my years of intellectual curiosity I had access to the local university library, bookstore, and the internet. Although I don't disagree there are mindblowing concepts out there, I
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by reader5000 17y ago
School consists of sitting in a lecture hall with 100 other students listening to a middle-aged lecturer talk about his interests for 50min, 3 times a week. Unless you aspire to be a good listener / note-taker, no, there is no actual point
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by reader5000 17y ago
Got to love the long tail
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by reader5000 17y ago
Eh, thats not very good evidence of the claim, and wouldn't over 50% be first born anyway? I dont know the average distribution of child-sizes but I would assume almost half of people in the US are first borns (including only-children).
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by reader5000 17y ago
Does anybody else find all microsoft.com domains inaccessible using chrome, or is it just me?
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by reader5000 17y ago
You've probably evolved to produce offensive body odors and to fear social interactions with your own species. You probably have no choice but to trick yourself into thinking you are good at trivial reading comprehension.
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by reader5000 17y ago
To determine if I have free will, I shall now attempt to willfully raise my arm. Raises arm . I don't know, that's pretty hard evidence to refute.
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by reader5000 17y ago
Libertarians are so cute!
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by reader5000 17y ago
I switched from ff after the latest ff update succeeded in slowing startup speeds even more. They seem to be more focused on ribbon/toolbar customizations than achieving <5 second start ups.
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by reader5000 17y ago
You are conflating vocational training with degree acquisition, which sometimes overlap, but usually do not.
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by reader5000 17y ago
College is just a big inefficient n-player prisoner's dilemma. Defection is getting a degree. Cooperating is not getting a degree. As soon as one person defects, everybody defects and are worse off than if nobody defected. (If everybody has
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by reader5000 17y ago
Intellectual soda pop for the simple minded
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by reader5000 17y ago
I always wonder what general sort of "algorithms" they use. Neural nets?
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by reader5000 17y ago
>That said, not everyone can be a good writer because there is an innate intelligence of some kind upon which good writing must be predicated and not all people have this. If you are writing correctly you are exercising cognitive skills
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by reader5000 17y ago
John Koza at least as late as 2004 was writing about 'human competitive' GA results: http://www.genetic-programming.com/jkpubs2004.html
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by reader5000 17y ago
Physics is nothing but modeling phenomena found in the world. Usually physicists use mathematical functions as their preferred class of models but they are free to use whatever they please. I don't believe there is a 'fundamental' science s
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by reader5000 17y ago
His point is not what the definition of 'science' is. His thesis is that in the late middle ages society operated on a 'mutual credit system' (wikipedia it) of exchange where the merchant classes were independently creating and exchanging v
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by reader5000 17y ago
Stat mech is basically the math of 'complex systems'. Evolution, neural processes, economics --- it's all coming out as stat mech in one way or another. Thus familiarity with stat mech is important if you have any interest in these areas.