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by sewercake 8y ago
> The scarcity of resources forces social interaction and gives value to life, relationships and property. Are you saying that the 'cognitive elite' will live unsatisfied, lonely existences, and that's the price they have
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by sewercake 8y ago
I don’t have enough experience to say how common my experience (or yours) is, but I don’t know how much luck is involved. I’m sure many institutions have solved these problems without containers and sicker. But For various reasons, politica
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by sewercake 8y ago
It's interesting. Apparently, in mid-to-late 20th century, the discipline of architecture was bursting with self-described architects who rarely, if ever, had buildings created. They instead focused on architectural 'theory',
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by sewercake 8y ago
We're in the process of migrating our (primarily) java services from straight AWS to kubernetes. At the beginning the author poses the following questions: * Do you use Mac, Windows, or Linux? Have you ever faced an issue related to \
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by sewercake 8y ago
Some people disagree: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-... This is a pop-sci article, so take it with a grain of salt, but there is a growing body of research that attempts to frame many cognitive
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by sewercake 8y ago
hmm. This might just be a clarification of terms, but couldn't you say that 'predicting' something is merely a type of conclusion where the information used in the process of reasoning is incomplete or noisy? So all predictio
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by sewercake 8y ago
I'm speaking out of my expertise here, but I think he's referring to Godel's incompleteness theorum/the halting problem, when he says 'no basis'.
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by sewercake 8y ago
I think you're conflating trades, which often provide solid incomes, and lots of room for creativity, learning, and skill-development, with mind-numbing service jobs like being a cashier, delivery drivers, or call-center employees. The
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by sewercake 8y ago
'Statistics is formalized philosophy of science' -- care to expand? Or provide supplementary literature?
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by sewercake 8y ago
great find. It's rare that I see a mouse specifically advertised for 'claw grip' users like myself.
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by sewercake 8y ago
Evan Thompson explores these ideas further in his book 'Waking, Dreaming, Being' if you're so keen. A brilliant guy, who successfully integrates information from various cognitive disciplines, though he can be dry at times.
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by sewercake 8y ago
what metrics would you use to assign points? What would a point mean? While I understand and sympathize with the desire to quantify 'good teaching', it's a 'domain' that has a whole lot of noise. Abstractly, agents
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by sewercake 8y ago
Hey. Apologies that this is off-topic. But I've been interested, broadly speaking, in the kinds of questions Control Theory has to ask. I want to do a masters in something, and there's a few Control Theory programs that have caugh
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by sewercake 8y ago
I think I largely agree with his reflection(s): easily obtainable metrics to track physical fitness / health often do more harm than good. But I can't help but think that partial quantification of the self could still be extremely
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by sewercake 8y ago
Won't this have serious implications for Spark, Hadoop, and other frameworks that distribute workloads across multiple JVM instances?
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by sewercake 8y ago
Right, but you also have to mindful of how many rows are on a single page (or, in the case of the web, in the viewport). When I have to scroll after every paragraph, I find it a) harder to pay attention b) more strenuous on my eyes. That be
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by sewercake 8y ago
There was a fun high-scalability article around their 'fan-out' approaches to disseminating tweets by popular users etc : http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/7/8/the-architecture-tw... . When
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by sewercake 8y ago
I don't know how I feel about the approach presented in the article, but there's a big difference between a personal ritual and one shared and practiced by a community writ-large. This firm seems to be focusing on the latter.
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by sewercake 8y ago
He's probably referring to Marx's Historical determinism. Marx claimed that there were stages of the development of labour and capital that would inevitably happen based on the forces that govern both. For most people, I would say
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by sewercake 9y ago
I think you're understating people's ability to listen to their own body, and using an ungenerous definition of 'feeling'. Listening to your body is a skill that can be developed over time. Several years ago, I did not p
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by sewercake 9y ago
When the usability of a the service (device, whatever) depends on, or is proportional to the number of other people using it, then adoption rate becomes very important not only for the success of the service, but it's usefulness too. i
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by sewercake 9y ago
what makes the differential equation course so good, in your mind?
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by sewercake 9y ago
Yeah, agreed -- evolution doesn't produce best, just good enough. But for large classes of 'problems', we can't (from a computational complexity standpoint) find best outcomes efficiently. 'Evolutionary' techni
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by sewercake 9y ago
Do you think the USDs positions as the international reserve currency would change the effects of America buying back it's own debt?
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by sewercake 9y ago
"Conservative news, it seems, is considered fake news. Liberals should oppose this dogma before their own news comes under attack." These policies are, it seems, affecting Left wing organizations as well: http://www.wsw
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by sewercake 9y ago
I'm no expert in the subject, but check out the concept of 'autopoesis', originally put forth by Maturana and Varela. Ms.Flack's approach seems to share many of the same assumptions.
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by sewercake 9y ago
reminded me of a much more interesting article I read a few years ago on the same subject: https://www.edge.org/conversation/richard_prum-duck-sex-aest...
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by sewercake 10y ago
Bannon, former executive chair of Breitbart news is the Chief Whitehouse Strategist. Where have you been for the last year?
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by sewercake 10y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, civility should be seen as the optimal method to make political decisions, not the only way. Blind admonition of tactics that don't fall into its camp can lead to a really limited understanding of pol
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by sewercake 10y ago
> I tend to view an unemployed human as an awful waste of computational resources This feels like a pretty strong over-application of the computational metaphor, my friend.

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