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by tikwidd 5y ago
That is not what is happening in this study, which is tapping into the motor system that controls the muscles used in speech. That is part of the externalisation of language, not the system of thought (which we know very little about).
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by tikwidd 5y ago
I'll take a knife crime problem over a gun crime problem.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
Up until around the time gmail was first released, it seemed like all the innovation and 'cool stuff computers can do' was in operating systems. Customisation was super popular, people were sharing screenshots of their linux deskt
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by tikwidd 5y ago
The US prison system is an ongoing act of violence. Destroying and replacing them with humane systems should reduce violence.
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by tikwidd 5y ago
I had a little play with Solana to see if it would be appropriate for a game I'm building, to use as an (after)marketplace for players to trade in-game items. It's quite easy to install the Solana command line tools, create a wall
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by tikwidd 5y ago
> Alison Killing conducted this reporting with a grant and further assistance from the Open Technology Fund. The Open Technology Fund was previously part of Radio Free Asia [1], and continues today as a project of the US Agency for Globa
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Ask HN: Hashcash as a Service?
1 points by tikwidd 5y ago|1 comments
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Wow, I have been thinking lately about building something similar. Looks very nice!
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by tikwidd 6y ago
I think Feynman illustrates the failure of the Mechanical Philosophy very well, but that is not incompatible with what Chomsky is saying here. In physics, you can model action at a distance with waves, fields and so on, which are part of a
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Free will can't be explained any more than your sense of smell or taste can be explained. You know you have it because you know that nothing can absolutely determine your own actions. Our actions are neither deterministic nor random.
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by tikwidd 6y ago
You're welcome, it was good practice! Hopefully I represented those ideas somewhat correctly..
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Reminds me of the John Maynard Keynes quote, "Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians". Chomsky's ideas about of innate linguistic systems in the mind seems to jibe well with Kant [1].
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Here is my attempt at a summary (disclaimer: going from memory; watched this and related lectures during my MA thesis last year): - Early scientific inquiry in the enlightenment period (by those who referred to themselves as "philosoph
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Please don't assume that "we" are all the same people. "We" include a lot of people from outside the US, including China. I imagine our fellow hackers in China would feel pretty alienated reading this comment.
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by tikwidd 6y ago
But the upkeep cost of protecting the gold is continuous in the same way as bitcoin mining. If you want to own some gold you need to protect it (usually with the state apparatus of violence, which has massive externalities). In other words,
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by tikwidd 6y ago
This might not be quite as outlandish as it sounds, because we now have plenty of evidence that early humans were living alongside and interacting with other archaic homo species. I have a pet (similarly highly speculative) theory that the
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by tikwidd 6y ago
if(adj == 'red') drawBlock(RED) According to your definition of understanding, this program understands something about the concept RED. But the code is just dealing with arbitrary values in memory (e.g. RED = 0xFF0000)
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by tikwidd 6y ago
I wonder what happens when you ask it for an impossible object, e.g. a square triangle?
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by tikwidd 6y ago
This should be higher up. Here's my cynical take: the most effective way to lift the sanctions would be lobbying from US corporations. Lifting sanctions is probably profitable for every US business with a market in Iran, so if you work
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by tikwidd 6y ago
You're replying to a post describing the terrible effects of US sanctions on Iran. Imagine if you were living under those conditions, and person from the country enforcing the sanctions responded that there's nothing they can do b
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Overleaf is an online LaTeX editor that supports multiple collaborators and comments.
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by tikwidd 6y ago
The article talks about the gene increasing the neocortex, folding of the brain, more neurons and so forth. There is no evidence that doing these things to a monkey brain will imbue it with (human) intelligence. For all we know it could hav
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Maybe we are not even a very interesting kind of ant from their perspective, and they are off studying something else.
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by tikwidd 6y ago
My landlord installed a meth detector in my home which looks like a large smoke detector on the ceiling. It apparently communicates via the mobile network, but I have no idea how it actually measures meth. I doubt it actually measures anyth
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by tikwidd 6y ago
That's a generous offer, thanks :) What are your biggest gripes with Duolingo et al? I guess there are two major aspects to these apps, one is teaching the grammatical patterns and structures and other is memorising vocabulary (plus ch
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by tikwidd 6y ago
I wonder if a screen reader could be smart enough to use OCR when it comes across an abrupt sequence of unusual character combinations like this.
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Ask HN: Startups Working on Second Language Acquisition?
3 points by tikwidd 6y ago|3 comments
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by tikwidd 6y ago
Putting aside the shared space aspect, I would argue that Starbucks does not really even trade primarily in coffee, but milk drinks. Starbucks is a "milk bar" (and lots of other local coffee shops could be described in the same wa
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by tikwidd 6y ago
I did, and unfortunately it didn't make any difference :( I guess my $20 USB sound stick is not backwards compatible.
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Ask HN: Anyone made a USB driver for Mac OS 9?
3 points by tikwidd 6y ago|2 comments

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