rohern

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by rohern 14y ago
Ha, someone works for Payfirma...
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I am going to assume that you are an older person who has no real experience with "piracy" because the tone of your comment suggests a misconception about how it works. "Pirates" absolutely will pay. They pay to get the content as soon as i
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by rohern 14y ago
This is fantastic. The POS space has needed massive disruption for decades. Kill the dinosaurs!
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Doesn't every young person find the idea of work to be cold? I have lived in Germany and found the people and the society vibrant, friendly, and very warm. They are aggressively pursuing new areas of technological expansion, for me the most
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Thus a public system intended to engender fairness and creative behavior profitable to all society is made its own negation.
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I know nothing about this theory nor about the biology of human intelligence, but someone suggesting a scientific hypothesis is doing science whether or not you like the implications. Go yell at Darwin for implying that a Creator is unneces
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Your points are common sense. You can therefore assume that other men, including the men you are criticizing, know them. Given this, and given that they are speaking publicly, I would wager that they have more access to data than you presum
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Human colonization of Mars.
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His experiences are decently common among young men growing up with internet access. You can read more: http://www.reddit.com/r/nofap
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by rohern 14y ago
> If it is true that MIT initiated this and they, along with JSTOR, could have made tons of noise to pull back the DOJ, they really need to engage in deep introspection in order to make sure this never happens again. A person suspected
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by rohern 14y ago
Hear, hear! It has exactly one thing going for it: it's the only scripting language widely available in web browsers. Please let us change this. We are marching into the future heady with ambition and the common tool is JavaScript. This i
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by rohern 14y ago
You make an excellent point and I agree with you. The natural route seems most promising. Maybe they can steal Hinton from the University of Toronto and have the whole package? Thanks for bringing Numenta to my attention. It appears to be a
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by rohern 14y ago
I tend to agree with you. I am not aware of any major contributions he has made to AI and his recent work on the human brain is shallow and unscientific. However, Google is not dumb. They have Peter Norvig heading Google X and a team of AI
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You understand, though, that the reason laptop screens are measured this way is because of America's continued use of the imperial system.
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We are constantly needlessly introducing math across all of our industries that have international partners by keeping our current system. Your point to which I was responding was that you feel it is more natural to measure in units of feet
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Every objection that is being raised on this thread was raised when other countries enacted metrication. You are free to read the history of these processes. Nations did not collapse and people learned how to use new units. http://en.wikip
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This doesn't make any sense. 1ft is ~30cm. Just measure in units of 30cm. Doing the math in your head is trivial.
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This is extremely good news for the startup world. Maybe Zynga can do one good thing before it dies?
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> science is useless for understanding the world in non-scientific, subjective terms This is only true in so far as "subjective" things are poorly defined. Give me any subjective principle that is clearly defined and laid out and we ca
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by rohern 14y ago
In a word: duh. However, I do not for a second think that you would not listen more closely to someone like Stephen Hawking than you would a guy shouting "Praise Jesus" on a street corner. There is no fallacy involved here. If Hawking is sp
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> I think the problem there is that just because someone has made a name for themselves in one field does not imply that they have some sort of superhuman intellect that means they will offer useful insights on a range of subjects. Of c
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Is it? The signals in your nervous system that give you the sensation of pain are pain. Let me make an argument by analogy. You are saying that understanding the chip architecture and the instruction set of a computer does not allow you to
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by rohern 14y ago
I think we must be operating with very different definitions of science. In so far as a humanities scholar employs scientific methods, I am happy to call him a scientist. > Here's a Greek manuscript. There's a lacuna in the text. What i
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I do not see any reason to suppose this is true. I grant that this is question that is not being tackled by current research (as far as I know, as neuroscience and theoretical neuroscience are in a period of boom right now), but that does n
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by rohern 14y ago
Apologies for attacking what is your career, but I think your explanation for the tasks handled by the humanities is self-defeating. > There are areas involving qualia that could probably be handled by science eventually but the tools a
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Love and emotions are being studied scientifically. The neurotransmitters behind love and affection are extremely well studied. One could quite easily construct experiments to see if exiting fMRI technology can determine the difference betw
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You just wrote > Your inability to fit it into your belief system is not my problem. and > I'm not trying to convince you. And now you are complaining that people fail to engage with you meaningfully. You are drowning in a pool you
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If you can give an example of how such data can be used, you could make a case for this, but putting "emotions" and "intuition" in the same sentence as "valid and objectively true...data" is, I think, all the answer you need. If you are stu
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That's fine, but your intuition is incorrect. Additionally, as has been pointed out, this kind of comment is simply dismissive. If you have an argument to make about intuition, I would be interested to read it.
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> Yet when Hawking does metaphysics, the reverence for science as an institution leads people to treat it as they treat science. This simply is not true. If this sort of a priori judgement occurs, it occurs because Hawking is a famously

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