thanatropism

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by thanatropism 3y ago
If you can find intelligence about which CRE will crater to zero and which will just be half of what it's now, you can arrange some in-kind swaps. But the ethics of this feels wrong.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Then, isn't the long duree view of technology about replacing apprenticeship learning (sit with the master welder, clean the shop, watch him work -- this doesn't cut in software)? Sometimes with explicit learning (linear algebra),
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I empathized a little with my manager during the pandemic. My job got somewhat easier, his got much, much harder. I guess managers took a little longer to be whacked by the wrecking ball of technology.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Is there any reason why anthropomorphic is needed for an enjoyable hobby? Get an Arduino, a couple of servos, make a claw that grips on things.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Astrology has more of a culturally evolved or emerged nature. Of course, it's peddled by entrepreneurs who have an incentive to "make it up". Yet it's oddly coherent (with itself), at least from the POV of an unintereste
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by thanatropism 3y ago
> COG https://wiki.opencog.org/w/The_Open_Cognition_Project
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by thanatropism 3y ago
This is a Derek Parfit quote, famous for refusing the idea of a stable "self" of psychological continuity: > My life seemed like a glass tunnel, through which I was moving faster every year, and at the end of which there was da
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I was a big proponent of privatization in my South American country and I'm reversing some of that position. But I still don't regret or recant the underlying theories that made me a proponent in first place. People are going all
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Isn't variable name length a factor there? There's a dogma that variable names should be super descriptive, but I came to programming from science where X, y, phi, gamma can be both highly generic and ambiguous and highly meaningf
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I mean, since we split systems up because the whole can end up being worth more than the sum of its parts, there's definitely a knowledge of the whole to be kept besides knowledge of the parts. You have to budget for this.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Yay, I'm listed!
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Wise men from a prior generation said: worse is better.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I don't understand how people can still pretend to ignore this: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arrows-theorem/ There's also a whole map-territory problem where we're still pretending the distinc
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I tend to wear jeans with skinny legs that don't seem conducive to taking across-the-stairs (I'm thinking 3 to 5 meters in the horizontal direction) jumps. Why do I wear impractical clothing? I never even thought of it as impracti
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I think artists are compelled to produce "artist statements" about their work, and in tune with current intellectual fashions too. This is a little like complaining that Ariana Grande wears stupid clothes.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I find myself really sleepy after lunch and I'm trying to trace the problem by experimenting with my diet. But when I'm no longer able to function I reach for a ridiculous donut or similar and get the problem solved. (Yes, I might
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by thanatropism 3y ago
People who don't drive want denser cities where things are closer together; but sprawled out cities are all but imposed by car centered development -- highways, parking spaces, etc.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
> I found raising your voice in many cases just means you don't trust yourself and you don't trust that your kids respect you. My current working theory is that toddler temper tantrums are this. I mean from the opposite directi
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The breaking point of the Brazilian constitutional crisis (2019)(asemichorizon.wordpress.com)
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by thanatropism 3y ago
What GP seems to be saying is that deep learning flourished because of the availability of GPUs, if fast SAT solving chips had appeared before.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
That depends so radically on the child. What their personality/psychology is like and what they've been exposed to already. I wouldn't want DN3D to be my son's first exposure to the idea of female strippers. (What should
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by thanatropism 3y ago
The Mac used to have a cube-turn animation for switching between screen-spaces. It was a-larming, like your computer was breaking down in a spectacular Hollywood fashion.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
"Dix pour cent" is great.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
This can also be solved picking a copy of Goethe's Faust in German. It's an entertaining story.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
So wait. If I forget my office dooropen to my office, are you entitled to enter, make copies of documents and leave?
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by thanatropism 3y ago
I presume you're fairly knowledgeable of men's soccer too, even if it's not your cup of tea. What are important things that are different in the women's game? Tactical style, practical impact of rules, physicality of con
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by thanatropism 3y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098382/ Star Trek V is the one with "Shakespeare is better in the original Klingon".
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by thanatropism 3y ago
Tastes vary, but the best music that exists is invariably an "acquired taste". In other words: it takes listening to a lot of good music to be able to appreciate good music.
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by thanatropism 3y ago
k8s, though?
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by thanatropism 4y ago
Modern text embeddings are not word-based like that.

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