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by routerl 5y ago
We don't. Self-driving race cars are hilariously bad. https://youtube.com/watch?v=9fv2HR6Sc48
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Nepo has previously worked as part of Magnus's team (one of his "seconds"), and they have been friends who compete against each other since childhood. It is likely that this is the most evenly matched world championship of th
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Wow spoiler in the title? Wtf
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Machines aren't rational at all. That is, they do not respond to reasons. Machine behaviour is only ever caused (i.e. syntactic), not reasoned. When a human follows a rule, for example as part of a bureaucracy, then our behaviour is
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Kafkaesque. Maybe cyber-kafkaesque, but that feels redundant, since the only difference is that it is being done by computers, rather than thoughtless people.
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Thanks for the comment. I wish I could upvote you more.
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Yes, hence Tyrian purple, from Tyre in Lebanon. Han purple comes from ~1000 BC[1]. But we were talking about regal purple, which I'm fairly certain was an outcome of Roman sumptuary laws. Eventually only the emperor could wear it. Ye
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Isn't it just? I like that it wasn't enough for it to be rare (which it was) and laborious to produce (which it was), but also that it had unusual and very practical properties. It seems as if today, mainly due to marketing, luxur
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See also Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy "Why is this guy saying all these obvious things as if they were important?" Because he was literally the first one.
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It wasn't just any purple, but the particular purple that came from a species of sea snail. For example, purple dyes were common in China many centuries before the Roman Tyrian Purple we're talking about, but never gained this lux
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by routerl 5y ago
Ok, you know how people thought Cantor was crazy because he proposed that there were both countable and uncountable infinities? In retrospect, those of us who are mathematically inclined can understand the value of Cantor's work, since
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> The Mona Lisa isn't "art" anymore; it was once, and now it's a pretty artifact with a lot of historical significance. But that's not art. followed closely by > Art is the kind of thing that makes educated pe
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Agreed, it was a ridiculous comment. I did, however, try to design that ridiculousness to make a point.
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I upvoted both you and the OP, for making good, honest observations. And for relating stories about thoughtful, controversial engagements with art. Because that's kind of the point of art. The Mona Lisa isn't "art" anymo
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> Yes, after having read this article I’m none the wiser about why Popper was wrong or even if he was wrong about falsificationism. "While all this was going on, three philosophers were pulling[0] the rug away beneath the Popperians
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You didn't fail, it's just that this supposed translation makes a lot of assumptions about how it will be read. I speak French, and did not immediately recognize "Un petit d'un petit" as "Humpty Dumpty"; t
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This will certainly be the crux of intellectual property lawsuits in the future. It's striking that some of these examples have distinct features from specific, identifiable datasets: we can occasionally recognize specific characters (
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by routerl 5y ago
I'm on the same page. When my fancy dress shoes need repair or replacing, even I can tell what work it needs, though I can't perform that work myself. It needs a new sole, or new stitching, or wtv. With sneakers, I'm utterl
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To give a little bit more context: "On Certainty" is about the foundations of empiricism and how they relate to the foundations of logic. It takes as a starting point that logical deduction is the one truly certain mode of inferen
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i.e. "Cobblers repair shoes of all kinds", which sounds an awful lot like a tautology. But it's actually a good point. As a practical minded consumer of clothes (read: unfashionable), this article did make me wonder why I&#x2
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by routerl 5y ago
> I can't decide if I like that better or worse. It's a really good question. Let's think about it. As you've outlined it, Tesla's approach prioritizes the user's confidence in the product, rather than the u
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> we're all on the same team as far as I am concerned Your peers have burned through all the believability of this line, by using it when it is a lie.
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> the freedoms you thought you had were vacuumed away over the last two decades while you were not looking. No, that's not true. We got to see it happening.
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> What proof would you expect him to bring? Data. Data about software projects. What bugs me most about Fowler is his reception, not his writing. If we take his writing in the spirit you've outlined (an experienced developer sharing
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by routerl 5y ago
Hey, check out Artemis. It's the exact same genre as Star Trek: Bridge Simulator, but takes the concept seriously. https://www.artemisspaceshipbridge.com/#/
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by routerl 5y ago
Because the game is hideous. https://youtu.be/nGAz0RcZCk4
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> If you can assume one side thought a settlement is better than an outcome via trial, can you also assume the other side thought so too? No. The cost factor has higher weight on one side of that equation. Apple is one of the largest com
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by routerl 5y ago
Your reasoning is only sensible if both parties were on equal footing. They are not. The settlers will offer as little as they can get away with, and the settled will take whatever they can get. This situation is not symmetrical.
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Let's be clear about this: this settlement means that Apple is offering developers less than what they believe they would be forced to provide by law. There is never any other business logic behind these settlements. This is just ano
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The drought was over months ago. Taiwan is well into typhoon season (they've had two already). The water reservoirs are full[1]. And TSMC was never really affected. They were not forced to save water, unlike every other company on the

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