taylorius

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by taylorius 5y ago
I think that's largely what it is. Reading goes out of fashion, only to emerge from it's ashes with a new, Matrix-y name.
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by taylorius 5y ago
It's funny how this cost benefit calculation is considered valid when applied to research on mice, but any such calculation used to try to justify research on humans would give a "divide by 0" error. I think there's an i
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by taylorius 5y ago
But why doesn't "not being in command of one's mental faculties" qualify as a valid reason to want to end one's life? If that is ongoing, and unlikely to ever improve, I can well imagine wanting to off myself, rathe
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by taylorius 5y ago
I'm in the UK, and I would listen to Art Bell recordings late night in the office (absolutely HAS to be listened to late at night!). I always loved the slightly lonely, ominous vibe it conjured up, and I'm delighted to hear other
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by taylorius 5y ago
Dumb compared to what? A basket of goods curated by a government who have a vested interest in getting certain numbers out of the formula?
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by taylorius 5y ago
I think some background noise reduces distractions, because it causes our noticing apparatus to raise it's alert threshold, and we no longer notice every tiny micro-noise.
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by taylorius 5y ago
I think we're saying the same thing. I described the dice outcome comparison as a nonlinearity.
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by taylorius 5y ago
Looking at it, the trick seems to be in tweaking the variance of the distribution of possible outcomes for the dice. That, coupled with the fact that it doesn't matter how MUCH you win or lose by. A loss by 1 and a loss by 4 counts for
579.
by taylorius 5y ago
There are lightfield displays that can synthesise arbitrary focal planes, but they're still experimental afaik.
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by taylorius 5y ago
I do believe this anecdote provides a comprehensive answer to the question posed in the article.
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by taylorius 5y ago
And how will they see these hashes? By uploading a hash of every file on your iphone to a database in the cloud. Oh - don't worry - they promise to delete them all after checking for child porn. Scouts honour.
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by taylorius 5y ago
Who could object to a measure to eliminate child pornography? Unless you're a fan of it, right? And so the precedent is set - and before you know it, they will be checking your phone for all sorts of things.
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by taylorius 5y ago
Using microtubules. Very interesting. The same structures found in our brains, and posited by Roger Penrose and Stuart Hammeroff as being key to consciousness. Penrose proposes that they are using some previously unknown quantum phenomenon
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by taylorius 5y ago
I thought that apple juice was a bit dry and grainy.
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by taylorius 5y ago
That turgid, wall-of-text article is the absolute antithesis of Pessoa's beautiful, philoso-dream writings.
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by taylorius 5y ago
I have The book of disquiet, and a collected works in English. I love them, though I can't comment on their accuracy, translation-wise. I must say I'd never thought of them as having a political message.
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by taylorius 5y ago
Very interesting. There is a principle with a lot of modern, abstract art, which is that the work is not complete until the viewer sees it - that is to say, the observer brings a portion of the meaning to the work. This AI art seems to go o
588.
by taylorius 5y ago
Sounds cool, though "nymph" gives it a vaguely erotic vibe, which might not be what you're after.
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by taylorius 6y ago
"Mr Scarecrow!". (If anyone gets that reference, I'll be impressed) :D
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by taylorius 6y ago
Does the Dunning-Kruger effect apply to people's knowledge of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
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by taylorius 6y ago
At university, I became obsessed with Bresenham's algorithm (I was great fun at parties). I managed to adapt it to render hyperbolic functions, which are used in perspective correct texture mapping (this was back in the days before gpu
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by taylorius 6y ago
In my experience, it is possible for certain poems to transmit meaning in rather a direct way, where the reader ends up becoming aware of something without quite knowing how. I find this incredibly fascinating. In my opinion, the poet who i
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by taylorius 6y ago
But if we aren't running the utopia (as in Banks' Culture), then a lot of the problems can be side stepped.
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by taylorius 6y ago
"Safety" is a magic abracadabra word, that is used these days to justify anything and everything someone wants to do. I don't blame the guy for quitting - sounds sinister and oppressive.
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by taylorius 6y ago
The past is, as they say, another country. I was a child in the UK in the 70s and that is indeed what people looked like. These days, the pictures seem grim, but people were happy enough. I think it's the clothes. By 2020 standards, ev
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by taylorius 6y ago
I think technology acts as an amplifier to our impulses, both good and bad. The more technology, the more sensitive the balancing act, to stop civilisation going off the rails. We are not sufficiently balanced. The sort of tech required to
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by taylorius 6y ago
An excerpt from "The Blue House" by Tomas Transtromer, which talks about this. ----- The house is like a child’s drawing. A deputizing childishness that grew because someone—much too soon— gave up his mission to be a child. Open t