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by tgflynn 5y ago
I think that would be more likely to be covered in a pure math program than applied math.
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> Conspiracy theories are a manifestation of skepticism. They're a manifestation of biased skepticism. Conspiracy theorists tend to be skeptical of everything except their own favorite conspiracy theories.
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by tgflynn 5y ago
It's obvious the CDC data shows weekly periodicity but I've never really understood why. Are testing centers really closed on weekends ? What about the death data, that also shows a similar periodicity ? My guess is that it has
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> The idea that all manifestation should have been prevented to prevent suffering seems to take for granted, that the joys of life are not worth the suffering. Yes, because that has always been my experience. I have never experienced a
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I'm not sure why the order of this thread seems to have gotten screwed up. In your view (or the view you are defending) is there any reason to be compassionate towards other beings ? If the answer is yes than that compassion should ha
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To the ego self that previously existed and previously suffered. Is it OK to torture someone as long as you make sure to kill them afterward ?
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by tgflynn 5y ago
Yes, but as long as you don't realize you're wearing a mask the suffering seems very real. It seems to me there remains a reality to that suffering even when the ego self that suffered ceases to exist and it's unjust to disc
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I think I've seen both sides. I no longer suffer very much, because I largely recognize the ego self as a delusion. However I experienced intense suffering when I was young. While suffering may not be real in an absolute sense it is
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by tgflynn 5y ago
Games don't usually involve inflicting suffering on unwilling participants.
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Those who are lucky may think they enjoy it, for a time, until their bodies wear out and everyone they know dies. But even then their enjoyment comes at the expense of the suffering of other beings.
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There are some non-dualists who claim to have an answer to that question. Basically according to them consciousness divided itself in order to experience all the various forms of existence and from the point of view of the (illusory) indiv
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I don't have up to date information but I think the answer is probably yes. Deep learning works well when you have huge amounts of data and computational resources but for smaller scale problems other models, including Random Forests
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by tgflynn 5y ago
When you say speaking, I'm guessing that you're referring to conversational skills (which also includes listening and comprehension) rather than public speaking, which is often a problem even for native speakers. Assuming that, I
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Milieu is a French word. My guess is that your Danish word is also derived from the French.
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There's this: > Prof Golomb says high levels of radiation were recorded by family members of personnel in Guangzhou using commercially available equipment. "The needle went off the top of the available readings." But she s
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by tgflynn 5y ago
Wasn't it more Christianity than the Roman empire that destroyed Celtic/Druid culture (noting that from the 4th century on the Roman empire was itself Christian) ? Druidism also disappeared in Ireland which was never invaded by R
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I won't try to answer your question directly but I'll tell you what happened to me and let you make up your own mind. I developed type 2 diabetes probably by my mid-20's but because I generally felt OK I never bothered to go
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by tgflynn 5y ago
OK, that at least allows me to understand what the sentence is supposed to say. I still find the content of the claim highly dubious. For one thing it would obviously depend on how big the label is. In addition it certainly depends on wha
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by tgflynn 5y ago
If this project wants to be taken seriously they should really improve their copy editing. > For example, a megapixel image of the surface of a human-scale UAP object at a distance of a mile will allow to distinguish the label: “Made in
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by tgflynn 5y ago
My impression of this as a programmer is that if one is modelling a system in which different people may have different beliefs then one must design the model accordingly, otherwise there will be bugs. But that doesn't mean there'
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by tgflynn 5y ago
> he resulting system is unsound (in the sense of Tarski) because it asserts the existence of natural numbers that have no "written form" (i.e. the existance of natural numbers that are larger than any term you can write to den
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by tgflynn 5y ago
The truth doesn't care whether you like it or not or whether you find it "helpful". We can't really ever exclude the possibility that we're merely playthings for beings far more advanced than ourselves. Usually we
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by tgflynn 5y ago
Why do human scientists force mice to find their way through strange mazes ?
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What if that's exactly the effect that the source of the phenomenon is trying to achieve ?
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What I found most surprising was the number of people involved. 60000 people involved in clandestine special ops ? The entire FBI only employs 35000.
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Kind of. Rust seems to be becoming quite popular. It has features that allow low-level programming while maintaining as much type safety as possible. There's even talk of using it in the Linux kernel. EDIT: I'm not sure why you
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I wasn't referring specifically to juries. The ranges of punishments that are prescribed for crimes are done so by democratically elected legislatures in most modern nations, including the US, though judges and juries do have varying
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In a democracy what such an action "deserves" is decided by the people and the people are not of one mind on what a person like this "deserves". It seems quite likely that in a different jurisdiction or at a different t
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by tgflynn 5y ago
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-that-the-nimitz-flir1...
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by tgflynn 5y ago
I'm not interested in debating all of the technical points with you here. I've looked into it in the past and come to the conclusion that Mick West's theory is highly improbable (which he now appears to be admitting if you c

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