somethingroma

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by somethingroma 8y ago
I'm confused. IF a consciousness was housed in a black box (a brain, but we're ignoring it's internals) AND that black box had inputs connected to a computer that can send signals to the black box that it WOULD interpret as s
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by somethingroma 8y ago
"Does the external world exist, as it so concretely seems?" I know this is not the direction of the paper (or question) but physics already gives us an astounding 'No!'.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
They've gotten it a little bit bigger than a buckyball https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.8343 Also what's cool is that these things are visible under an electron microscope (so are buckyballs iirc).
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by somethingroma 8y ago
I'm sure it gets used at dry water research meetings all the time.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
No. By definition remembering an answer is not the same as doing. Additionally my experience tells me otherwise.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
I don't understand what you're saying or objecting to. Incase this is what you mean: remembering the multiplication table is the antithesis of multiplying in ones head.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
> you have to get deeper and deeper into niche subreddits to find worthwhile discussions. Which raises the question wouldn't that be better served with a forum...
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Additionally 9 * n = [n-1, 10-n] for n = 2-11; where n-1 is the digit in the 10's place and 10-n in the single place. This just an aesthetic curiosity. I know the pattern continues for larger n I've just never bothered to generali
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by somethingroma 8y ago
"Maybe they are planning for the audience they want rather than the one they have?" That's definitely a reasonable possibility since it appears to me to be formatted for the Instagram crowd. "Or maybe they just feel safe
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by somethingroma 8y ago
First and foremost it's unnecessary and is not fixing anything. Second, it forces learning a new layout and system. I don't understand instead of gradual changes in UI to improve experience they went with whole new thing. Third, i
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Memorizing multiplication tables is over rated. Seeing connections between those early multiples up to 12 is more interesting. Can be helpful I suppose in factorization. Maybe I just don't trust my memory (as in how am I sure that 7*8
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Always good practice to rename 'bugs' and 'flaws' as 'features' and 'design'.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
"This was the key. If you knew hhhhwwhy you didn’t have to memorize equations, or solve equations in the exact same way they did in the book..." I feel like this is a valuable lesson a lot of people could benefit from.
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Honestly I think you make a good point and implicitly they could have used those resources instead to improve the user experience (for example, improve the sites efficiency and load times)
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Cool. Maybe these guys should get in touch with the redesign guys and get them fired. Also fire any executive that thought it was a good idea. Because all the hard work to serve ads more efficiently goes to waste when the site is a mess and
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by somethingroma 8y ago
Apple is great for the privacy concerned
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by somethingroma 8y ago
If you want to think even deeper, Romans had complex systems of bureaucracy as well yet clearly even less technology.