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by ryanklee 15y ago
"There is a crucial difference between believing that a computer can simulate a brain and believing that a windmill can do so." That depends entirely on what you think a brain is, and it just so happens that a prevalent view these days is t
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I believe that parent's point is precisely that it is indeed unconvincing and so we should in turn be mindful that our own idea that the brain is a computer will, it is possible, given further technological advances, come to strike us as ju
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by ryanklee 15y ago
The kind of intellectual cynicism you describe is often a prerogative and mode of those highly educated in the sciences, and therefore of a very small majority of humans generally, who otherwise in my experience do tend to think of themselv
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by ryanklee 15y ago
I think another way to say this is that you can be a human being and still lack many things: political freedom, money, love, etc. But -- you cannot be a human being without culture and there exists a strong feeling (whether it is correct or
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by ryanklee 16y ago
Should be (Possible) Joy (of Clojure among other things).
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by ryanklee 16y ago
This article is entirely lacking analysis and relies purely on subjective assumptions to back up its judgments. A little digging around and pulling out a few "whys" would have been appropriate here. As it is, it might as well be blog-spam.
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Bubble-Sort Hungarian Folk Dancing (youtube.com)
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by ryanklee 16y ago
"Now that people no longer want to own a netbook" -- FTA. What? That's pretty silly. I don't have any data(n.b.), but my suspicion is that there are many people who still want netbooks. I am one of them. I was just in the Apple store and te
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by ryanklee 16y ago
As both an inexperienced programmer and as someone trying to learn Clojure, I can testify that this fills are real wide and gaping hole in otherwise existing Clojure materials. It's tough as nuts taking Clojure on as one of your first langu
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by ryanklee 16y ago
I'm referring you specifically to the second link I posted which is not from the forums but from the mailing list from which all this speculation arose. The forums don't mean anything, it's just where I originally found the pertinent link.
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by ryanklee 16y ago
Relevant thread at Ubuntu Forums seems to call bullshit on this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1724085 Contains a link to related https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-April/...
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by ryanklee 16y ago
Not Invented Here.
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by ryanklee 16y ago
They were attempting most likely to follow Strunk & White's idiotic dictum to omit all needless words. More often than not, when people trust Strunk & White to do their thinking for them, bad language occurs.
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by ryanklee 16y ago
I won't discount the that there is a value in being taught by a professional educator. However, the primary sources are there for everyone. The excellent secondary sources are there for everyone. The amount of supplementary material availa
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by ryanklee 16y ago
It isn't an exaggerated portrayal, it's a realistic portrayal.
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by ryanklee 16y ago
I think Kaku is a sensationalist and often uses his bloated public image as a physics genius to pretend to know much more about certain fields than he (probably) does. That said, the cessation of the effects of Moore's law would of course h