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by rndn 11y ago
1. Do you have a source for that claim? You probably only run into a significant lack of variation if the gene pool is extremely small, i.e. in incestuous relationships. 2. As far as I know this is not fully known yet. It is conceivable th
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Effects on IQ of in utero nutrition shocks: Evidence from Ramadan fasting(sciencedirect.com)
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by rndn 11y ago
These statistics provide some evidence: http://www.japancrush.com/2013/stories/30-of-single-japanese... There is an antithetic trend in Japan though, since Japanese women are emancipated and the high economic dema
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by rndn 11y ago
> Citation needed. This is still very new research, but not implausible. See for example section 3.6 in this paper [1]. > By contrast, there are a lot of cultures (eg. India, the Arab/Muslim world) where marriage is societally
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by rndn 11y ago
It’s probably more memetics (constrained by cognitive load) than genetics that select the features of languages, and there are likely many other factors that determine the complexity of languages and grammatical structures: For example, the
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by rndn 11y ago
The terminology is a bit weird: Positive vs. negative means presenting a stimulus vs. removing it. Reinforcement means increasing the frequency of a reaction and punishment means decreasing it. You have to logically conclude, whether the p
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by rndn 11y ago
I was trying to keep things in the most general terms. A problem is certainly that you can hardly talk to the mob (I’ve tried that in some cases of cyberbullying, racism etc. on Reddit). You simply get downvoted and your comment gets buri
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by rndn 11y ago
Reddit is pretty much a case study of upbringing without effective punishment. In real life kids behave because they have skin in the game—if they misbehave, they are not allowed ice cream. On the contrary, if you are banned from reddit,
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by rndn 11y ago
What’s up with this publish or perish nonsense? If you are concerned that MIRI works on problems that are disconnected from reality, then read their papers and provide a thorough analysis.
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by rndn 11y ago
Looks very nice. ImageJ is another great free image processing tool: http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ I’ve used this for example for removing a gradient background from a photographed text document which worked really well.
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Scholarpedia, the Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Encyclopedia(scholarpedia.org)
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Phonagnosia(en.wikipedia.org)
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Elon Musk: AI Is Going to Happen. Let's Prepare for It.(inc.com)
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The growth of non-vocal communication(attentiv.com)
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by rndn 11y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach has a great paragraph on this in the context of recursive structures and processes (i.e. things that can be modeled with stacks, i.e. push and pop operations): Recursion in Language (p. 138): Our mental sta
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by rndn 11y ago
That’s still just one sample outside their expected competence. Ideally, you’ll want to test people over a long time period to take as many samples as possible.
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by rndn 11y ago
According to the Peter Principle [1], the entire concept of promotion is flawed in that people get promoted according to their performance in their current role, not the future role. Perhaps, it would generally be better if promotions
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by rndn 11y ago
Awesome. It would be great if Disney/Pixar would make more educational videos like this one. Off-topic question: Why is this video unlisted?
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by rndn 11y ago
You can download the language packs on Android and iOS, and each one is about 4 MB in size.
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Which movies get artificial intelligence right?(news.sciencemag.org)
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Space and Time(thegreatatuin.blogspot.com)
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by rndn 11y ago
I'm wondering why they aren't using the contest mode.
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On the other hand, the current theory of the EmDrive predicted exactly that amount of thrust for the given configuration.
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by rndn 11y ago
Actually, there is still the possibility that conservation/symmetry is also just an approximation of the actual fundamental laws. Lee Smolin argues that way in his book Time Reborn: https://santitafarella.wordpress.com/
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by rndn 11y ago
This statement makes me feel nauseous.
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by rndn 11y ago
It's surely still in there but there are by now on the order of hundreds of additions, tweaks and heuristics that have accumulated over the years. See for example this Google blog entry: http://googleblog.blogspot.de/20
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The 'mini ice age' hoopla is a giant failure of science communication(theconversation.com)
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by rndn 11y ago
I tend to believe that molecular technology and AI are the great filter. Just picture the situation we find ourselves in: We are stuff made from the rules of the pattern generating system that we call our universe. We are figuring out the r
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by rndn 11y ago
Reminds me of this great piece of digital art using differential growth algorithms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HI8FerKr6Q There appears to be work in progress on a shape generator app that presumably uses the same alg
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by rndn 11y ago
Oh, you mean it that way. Anyway, I’ve already said that it should rather applied to large movements instead of interactions of individuals. The current ideal of free speech can’t possibly realized to its fullest extent either/anywa

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