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by tgbugs 5y ago
Rate coding vs temporal coding is literally a meme in neuroscience because the two camps seem to refuse to compromise. Everyone else has realized that both happen depending on how that particular part of the nervous system works, or even wh
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by tgbugs 5y ago
The whole architecture of the internet is inside out. People have become numb to the insanity of encountering null pointers multiple times per day. This is understandable since the inside out structure is what allowed the web to grow quickl
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by tgbugs 5y ago
It doesn't matter if you can restore a cellular lineage if the only environment that the organism can exist in has been wiped from the face of the Earth. Until we can restore balance to whole ecosystem we will never be masters of natur
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by tgbugs 5y ago
It is unlikely that we will be able to use IP as a way to create a single network between Earth and Mars much less outside the solar system.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Reading this now, I'm imagining all the horrors of static linking but applied to every function instead of whole modules. Maybe the simplest solution is to allow the function to change to the new version, but make it easy to revert in
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Sadly these did not take off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Interesting. You can write a macro and some buffer modifying code to do this in elisp. But having now written up the rest of my response, why not just use Smalltalk? The hard part is coming up with the normalization routine which guarantees
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by tgbugs 5y ago
This is significantly harder than it appears at first glance, because there is no way to determine whether such descriptions are correct, and they are extremely easy to game. This is the challenge that the essentially torpedoed the semantic
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Glorious. False positives on the synonym match gone wild. This is the kind of thing that deep learning was supposed to solve. The fact that it is failing from specific (imagej) to general (fiji) is beyond the wildest dreams of anyone doing
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by tgbugs 5y ago
There aren't good candidates for highly non-linear processes that can accumulate but take decades to hit some threshold. Biological systems are full of homeostatic mechanisms that prevent such slow accumulation and if and when they bre
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I've had a bias in this direction for quite a while. When learning about neurodegenerative diseases back in college over a decade ago my conclusion at the time was that something metabolic was going on. Nothing else made sense to me as
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by tgbugs 5y ago
It isn't so much that it is not applied as that the pressure to generate data inside academic science makes it extremely difficult for grad students and postdocs to allocate the time to doing science on their experimental processes. Th
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I have found that writing a function and then using `typeset -f` is a reliable way to pass code over ssh. It is also nice because the function call provides a clear boundary indicating which variables come from the source/configuring s
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by tgbugs 5y ago
> hunt through the Stdlib for global state Well I guess this is an indication of what it would take to get elisp to have real multi-processing. It will be interesting to follow this process to see how the workflow pans out, and should be
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I hear you. I do use bookmarks, and sometimes they work better than a google search, but they are a solution to a different problem (a problem for which sometimes I wonder whether it doesn't make sense to store the raw html of every pa
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I have said this elsewhere, but the fact that so browsers have cashed in on tabs and that tabs are opaque to window managers means that you literally cannot search through your tabs to find one that is already open with the title or content
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by tgbugs 5y ago
I don't have anything specific in mind that covers this (I'll look around), but maybe take a look at the work by Nicholas Strausfeld for some actual data on early nervous systems [0], and Leigh van Valen for the general theoretica
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by tgbugs 5y ago
This is the kind of failure mode that I imagine (now with hindsight) should be mitigated by (re)designing the system in such a way that the timestamp desync would always be detected because each part of the system should have its own intern
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by tgbugs 5y ago
They may be shallow comments, but they have a point. JSON is fundamentally unsuitable for anything numerical for a variety of reasons [0]. Thus, it actually can't ever even get to the point of being a suitable replacement for expressio
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Looking at my clrc file I have a variant of the above which might allow you to have folders in different places, but by accident I have them all sharing a common parent folder. (asdf:initialize-source-registry '(:source-registry
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by tgbugs 5y ago
> Yes. Will it happen? Almost certainly not, though I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong about this. I have a sense that any new standards process would have to work hard to defend against a number of distractions, such as
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by tgbugs 5y ago
In case anyone is wondering what step 3 in the readme means, this is what I used when I was exploring SICL back in March. (asdf:initialize-source-registry '(:source-registry (:tree #p"/path/to/SICL/
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Hard deletes are also awful from the perspective of data preservation. For example, when youtube removes a video they also delete all the metadata or any indication that it ever existed. Countless people have lost what they thought was a se
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Roughly the same way I feel about HIPPA certification. Except that there is an additional interaction of building codes with zoning laws that leads to inflated housing prices in the US. Also, if you want to know if the house was built to co
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by tgbugs 5y ago
Consider also the disillusionment that a significant portion of the population feels when confronted with the nearly 1000 years of rule based knowledge representation that is common law. Maybe a good law would be that if you can't be a
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by tgbugs 5y ago
The problem here isn't that we are missing a language for expressing laws. Indeed, DSLs for expressing legal axioms don't really exist, and I expect that formal verifiable languages will be created, but even when they are, the pro
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by tgbugs 5y ago
It is actually worse than that. Many/most implementations of tabs are completely opaque to the window manager so if you want to programmatically control your browser windows e.g. by moving a window with a certain title to the front you
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by tgbugs 5y ago
The underlying motor sequence is learned and probabilistic based on prior sequences that you actually played. Therefore if you introduce a mistake early it will be one of the set of motor sequences that can occur following the start of the
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by tgbugs 5y ago
If I had to guess the wording of completely insane contracts signed with companies that provide campus wide printing.
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by tgbugs 5y ago
The real trick will be to make sure that the AI negotiating on your behalf is really your advocate and has not somehow been subverted (by any variety of means).

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