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by sooheon 8y ago
I disagree with that end. The purpose is not to reduce calories, the point is to be, feel, and look better. Counting calories is tedious and inaccurate. "Don't eat outside of X window" is much less effort, and anecdotally, ha
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by sooheon 8y ago
Apply, and first class / higher order functions in general are good in languages where they compose well. Python's * won't compose well.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Now how much nicer would it be if even more things were functions, rather than special syntax like here? This can be done with an `apply`.
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by sooheon 8y ago
So the value of a large corpus remains, it's just this one happens to be generated, as opposed to collected.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Maybe the target should be adults getting it for themselves? Think AA more than parental control.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Loved this rabbit hole. Thanks!
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by sooheon 8y ago
Is this Poe's law at work?
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by sooheon 8y ago
Science divides into disciplines because human compute power and lifespans are limited. Anderson is right to point out that reduction is easier than construction. I deny him the implication that construction is fundamentally impossible, onl
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by sooheon 8y ago
The existing terminology may be inadequate. But when we discovered atomic forces, and it turned out that Newtonian physics could not accurately describe them, we did not split the natural world at that boundary and claim atomic forces could
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by sooheon 8y ago
I won't argue that some phenomena may be resistant to reduction beyond human capability to reduce. My main problem with the thesis is that whatever irreducible phenomena that is, is still part of the natural, physical world. Because we
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by sooheon 8y ago
And yet nobody claims that fluids are supernatural and above the laws of physics. It's our ability to understand, explain, and model it that is deficient, not the phenomena that is supernatural.
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by sooheon 8y ago
> although mental states, events and processes have genuine causal powers, the causal relationships that they enter into with physical entities cannot be explained by appeal to fundamental laws of nature The claim is that mental events a
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by sooheon 8y ago
Your "pure utilitarianism" is a complete straw man. Killing someone to take their organs to save 5 lives is utilitarianism to only first order effects. We live in a world that does not terminate after one time step, so we have to
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by sooheon 8y ago
Writing was on the wall as soon as mobile overtook laptops/desktops as Apple's cash cow, but it is still disappointing. Dumbed down, lowest common denominator UI will eat the Apple ecosystem.
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by sooheon 8y ago
I'm also a fan of patronizing the media you enjoy. Content makers having a direct relationship with their consumers.
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by sooheon 8y ago
> giving it a cool buzzword They called it the obvious word in their own language, it's only a cool buzzword to non-native speakers reading English Wikipedia. > systemized common sense Of course. And still businesses are full of
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by sooheon 8y ago
Awesome mission. But god I wish JS weren't eating the world like this.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Yep, humans are imperfectly evolved game-theoretic machines, and all of these petty signals are incredibly important.
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by sooheon 8y ago
> My working hypothesis is our brains are always learning - literally everything Slightly tangential, but my favorite post on this topic: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
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by sooheon 8y ago
Yeah, I think you're correct to point out the tension between designing up front and adapting to reality you learn as you go. If you haven't been exposed already, the way Datomic approaches this problem has been eye-opening for me
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by sooheon 8y ago
But that is an obvious observation. Almost a tautology. The question is how they choose to go about doing it. One company plans to keep selling me off to advertisers. Another plans to provide me with software.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Idea: whichever bookmarklet you use to pin sites should also request an internet archive backup of the site at that moment.
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by sooheon 8y ago
They picked it for the beat that they could sync showcase elements to. Not the worst I've seen, and definitely better than the twee ukulele with upbeat voiceover that is the default.
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by sooheon 8y ago
Don't delude yourself that you're the only one to see that this is a marketing move. They're differentiating themselves from the rest, and clearly signaling to customers--what else would they possibly do?
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by sooheon 8y ago
> homosexuality is detrimental for the persistence of a species. It is entirely a dead-end. How do you state this with such confidence? In an overpopulated world, homosexuality may be beneficial for the survival of our species. Homosexua
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by sooheon 8y ago
> A drug company might have a lobbying arm that has to care about policy (and that, for pragmatic purposes, talks to all sides!), but a researcher looking at chromosomal recombination isn't going to do a better job of examining the
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by sooheon 8y ago
I agree it's not rocket science, it might be harder because we're dealing with human behavior. The Salem witch hunts happened with full support of the "local authorities" to run investigations, interrogations, trials, an
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by sooheon 8y ago
A: open communication and information never reaches them, we segregate them according to some prime directive, and they go on lynching each other and being backwards for all eternity until they arrive at internet #2 through convergent evolu
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by sooheon 8y ago
Journalism is important, but not to the exclusion of other forms of communication. If your thrust is that barriers to entry for communication is good because it puts mass comm. powers in the hands of the few(er), I cannot agree.
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by sooheon 8y ago
I'm pretty sure poster above is taking for granted that they (or other like-minded) would also wield the knife.

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