tjradcliffe

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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Since the brain is not just a Turing machine, it would be astonishing if it was limited to the capabilities of a Turning machine. The brain is capable of emulating a Turning machine, but that is just one of its capabilities. The things
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If employers really want people to work with them, they will pay them more. Everything else is meaningless and unenforcable. Cash on the barrel is the only thing that counts. For job seekers, it's fair and reasonable to assume that any
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False. China has high-speed trains that travel around 1000 km. China is also big. Really big. Also pretty poor. But it manages despite its ridiculous dictatorship to get a modicum of useful stuff done. Stuff that the US--uniquely in the dem
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The critical bit for many interesting practical applications is this: A significant problem, however, arises from the high viscosity of the liquid and the corresponding reduction in its ability to remove CO2.[3][20] All uses
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This is the relevant quote: "But from a deep, fundamental point of view, this is nothing new," he says. A gravitational field is merely another environment to interact with, so invoking it does not explain wh
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These things are a bit of a fad where I live. There are two "float houses" within a few blocks of me. My girlfriend bought us a session in one last last year (she said she was "giving me nothing" for my birthday.) You do
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This does not follow at all, because there is no evidence for any master mechanism that would correlate the group average of one trait with another. So simply because a group can be clustered by one trait there is no reason to expect they w
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
And what are the LD50's of those "toxins"? This is my first question to people who go on about "toxins" and "detox" and "cleansing". I don't want an exact number, just a ballpark. Is it micr
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imh's explanation is good, but it's also worth considering a very common example of this. Consider two groups of people where one group engages in some activity and another does not. Measure a dozen things about those people. Then
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Disney and the contracting firm are both corporations. Corporations do not exist in free markets. They are a product of nothing but legislative intervention in the free market in the form of the Companies Act (the reformed version of the 18
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"This is not the first time that evaporation energy has been captured, but it is the first time that it has been done a scale where objects could be moved." Really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_bird
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> I think depression has a similar role. Why? I can't see any basis for your belief other than "it just makes sense to me", which is the epistemology of bloodletting and witchburning. Evolutionary just-so stories have been
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by tjradcliffe 11y ago
Parker's book on the topic is a good one-volume cover of the history from a global perspective. The climate data are pretty clear on how weird things were, with no shortage of "most extreme ever" events from China to England:
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Other products don't aren't optimized by their creators to extract the maximum revenue from the 0.046% of their market that the creators have determined are vulnerable to remarkably effective psychological manipulation techiniques
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Barely at all. Long Short-Term Memory network blocks, for example, are basically perceptrons with feedback controlled by two or three completely conventional non-linear nets running off the same inputs. Deep learning networks are an assembl
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I'm much less dead, and have numerous other important differences, but I can see why you might see similarities.
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I said "Romantic twaddle", not "modernist experimentation". As indicated in what I wrote, I find a number of aspects of modernism interesting and worthwhile, for much the reasons you cite. Also, I wrote about concrete ex
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This analysis of poetry is like declaring that the purpose of physics is to build perpetual motion machines and then saying we all dislike physics because it fails in this transcendent purpose. The author trots out uncritically the entire c
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Thanks for this. All you have to do is look at the "Deaf Culture" folks to see where attempts to normalize a disease state leads. The lack of ability to hear is not a difference to be celebrated, and anyone who does celebrate it i
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> at this point Which is a huge problem. Optimizing around the current fashion is generally a mistake. As for the rest: the argument seems to come down to "there are no junior developers in Haskell, because if you don't underst
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Everything about this study says it is not worth taking seriously. Why? Because... 1) The size of the effect is not reported. Without any indication of what the dose-response curve is other than it has a positive slope (at what significance
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> The mere act of calling it programming is somehow a problem. There are some words that carry with them unshedable connotations that people want to get away from so strongly that they will call themselves something else at the first pos
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Basic income schemes are getting seriously discussed in Canada right now (they were first mooted in the 1980's, to no effect, but have been lurking in the background since then). The concensus amongst economists is that they are very e
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In my academic days I used to refer to say "physics-standing-up" is a different subject from "physics-sitting-down" and needs to be studied separately. Some years after I left academia I had the good fortune to get in co
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And why don't they count the cost of good candidates who simply drop out of their hiring pool entirely, because they can't be arsed to bone up on the easily gamed idiotic hiring process? I'd never even apply to Google based
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I have very little idea what Yarvin's view on "gender roles" is but assume it's a traditional Anglo-European one that subjugates women to men, the same as virtually every culture everywhere has before the past hundred-od
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Mostly put there by their fellow-revolutionaries.
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Thanks for the forthright reply! I've been involved in political activism of one kind or other for decades, mostly in ways that are opposed to your ideals, so I'm not one tiny bit surprised to find a lefty who is opposed to free s
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> I do in fact fear the "social justice" crowd and their ability to mess with people and their careers when they don't follow the party line This is something I'd love see SJW's here react to. How do you feel abo
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The neoreactionaries aren't interested in the Enlightenment as a set of fundamental ideas, but as a time in history they find congenial: after the scientific revolution, before democratic, industrial capitalism steamrolled the aristocr

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