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The types of reasoning: 1. Deduction - given premises and inferential rules, produces conclusions; as certain as possible. 2. Induction - given premises and conclusions, produces inferential rules; statistically probable, but a single count
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All Buddhisms are not created equal. I'm always amazed to see westerners, who are otherwise very weary of cultish behavior within Christian denominations, embrace and praise Eastern cults. Osho is not a wise man, given his actions. Thi
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If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him.
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In the 21st century, in the West, "Buddhism" is treated as a set of stress-relief techniques and slogans. This isn't strictly limited to the West: at least two of Taiwan's Four Great Mountains (i.e. schools of Buddhism)
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These studies are lagging behind reality by about a quarter century. Academia was obviously starting to become dominated by financial elites as early as 30 years ago. The non-lagging metric is: how many high-performing students, from non-el
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In Toronto, here's a small and non-exhaustive list of affected services: - Point of sale machines. Supermarkets are accepting only cash. - ATMs. Several banks are incapable of dispensing cash. - Public transit ticketing systems. The TT
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> how to use it outside of the logic domain You've got it backwards. Logic isn't a domain, just like algebra isn't a domain. Logic is what lets us work within a given domain. It isn't like geometry, which won't
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To Asians , the Greeks were all called Ionian, likely because that was the oldest term associated with people from the far west. The article touches on this, but when Chinese explorers arrived in Bactria (roughly modern Afghanistan), they
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I'm far from an expert on this, but I do know that many classical Chinese texts also had very well defined structures, including rhyming patterns. These are often very good sources for figuring out, vaguely, how an ancient word would b
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> A better tactic is to pick one very specific area you think you can make a dent and focus on that. Amen. Best practices taught me "don't break extra windows, and repair broken ones as you find them", but I'm finally
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It's not that unusual. Tom Clancy has been doing it for decades, and before that "Carolyn Keene" (the collective pseudonym of every Nancy Drew writer). It's a brand. This brand happens to be presented as a person, a sing
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> Dilute the vote tallies by using the voting machines to increment the votes for specific candidates > Why is it so easy? I don't know, it doesn't seem easy to me. I mean, it seems like the result of a ton of long-term plan
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I still listen to that song just by itself. It's such an amazing demo.
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Demos of this caliber are like F1 cars from 60 years ago: a single genius, or small team, creating something totally beyond the reasonable expectations of everyone who is familiar with the technology in question. I really hope it continues
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He hoards cars, predictably.
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There's a lot more to say there. For instance, many[0] have argued that the things Rawls places behind the veil are precisely the things that make us human, and ignoring them to make a procedural argument therefore begs the question:
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> "justice", which used to mostly mean "the proper administration of law". Citation needed . That isn't what that word has meant since, at least, Socrates. Read academic works of jurisprudence from the past 3 ce
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Great recommendation, and has the same moral premise as Snowpiercer (for a more recent take on this concept).
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Unfortunately, there's just not enough solidarity between workers in the tech industry: e.g. Java programmers who develop features often see themselves as a different class of professional (and people) than Java programmers who develop
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How does this happen? Why does a simple mechanical feature need firmware?
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Car-centric living is absolutely not quality-of-life focused...
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Let's not forget that "fit" includes management. I've worked with people who were building something mundane but acted as if they were writing avionics software; there just can't be 10x engineers in that context, be
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And just let them keep driving until that happens? What proof to we have that any of these issues have been solved? And self-driving is a combined hardware/software system, not just software. Certain problems aren't bugs, but limi
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> There are not uncountably many OP was obviously not using that term mathematically (i.e. the cardinality of the power set of natural numbers), and obviously meant something in the neighborhood of "effectively not countable".
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There's the notion that "playing a beautiful game" is a better outcome than "winning". This can be part of chess too. A child can start winning pretty fast by memorizing opening traps, but that gives small satisfact
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Nah, teach your kids chess, so that they can exercise their deductive/calculating muscles during that golden phase of childhood in which our brains are malleable enough to easily learn new languages: realize that artificial languages (
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We're probably talking about engineers from well regarded schools, so having these people on the payroll lends a lot of credibility.
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They're both new versions of an ancient archetype of IT. When they are correct, it seems that their priority is being correct , rather than productively informing others. This attitude ignores a fundamental truth of any industry; &quo
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> Being judgemental always seemed immature to me This might just be a matter of vocabulary. I come from a tradition where "judgment" means pretty much the same thing as "inference", and it's not possible that inf
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> Whatever your pursuit, if you’re being judgmental of most other people, then you’re probably missing something big Sure, but this may very well be intentional and good; an entire community can become pathological, and it then makes s

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