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by tpeo 9y ago
That was my reaction... about 3 to 4 years ago when I saw the Epson Moverio BT-100 engine maintenance training demonstration ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVV5tUmky6c ). It's not as sleek as Glass, but it's in t
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by tpeo 9y ago
Well, I'd make them more specific to the task I'm trying to solve. For instance, if I had to write what was the results of some paper and what is it's contribution to my field in 1000 characters or less, I'd make that my
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm not keen on Soylent either, but I think you're forgetting about the micro nutrients. Macro nutrients are rather easy to get on the cheap, but micro nutrients can be somewhat of a hassle.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Is the stuff in the dashboard(e.g "5w+h") supposed to be writing prompts? If so, rather neat. Have you considered making them modifiable?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Even if it wasn't erysipelas, they didn't know what it was. Eating the pig could've been fine if they at least were able to tell what is it that it had and whether it was infectious or not. Eating animals whose cause of death
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by tpeo 9y ago
Somehow this doesn't seem like a desirable property in a language. One of the purposes of (human? inter-sentient?) languages is the reliable transmission of information. Verbosity and repetition in language have a purpose similar to th
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by tpeo 9y ago
There are observations. Just go to http://data.worldbank.org if you want some. My point was that people in deparments aren't the ones making them.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why would they talk about data? Data collection in economics is often very much outside the scope of economics departments. Not only because it's beyond the budgets of individual departments to maintain the necessary personnel, but bec
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm on the opposite camp. Nothing makes me groan so deeply as dialogues. And I know I'm not alone either: plenty of people are bored out of Plato because of the dialogic writing, specially because every other line amounts to nothi
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by tpeo 9y ago
Yeah, I don't think you're an alcoholic. It might be because I come from a wet culture. Which is to say one where having a beer over lunch isn't (or wasn't) frowned upon. But 4 beers a day is completely manageable. Docto
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by tpeo 9y ago
Not quite so. Farmers don't have to reassure their cows that they care about them. Plus they do care, even if for completely selfish reasons.
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by tpeo 9y ago
What do you mean by "in the long run"? Because a library being rendered unusable for a definite length of time wouldn't be a problem in the long run unless we're talking about a system with path dependence. And even if t
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by tpeo 9y ago
Redundancy is actually a good argument for maintaining a library card system along with a digital system. Don't know why the author let that one fly by.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Why would he do that, though? I do think it's neat, but I think most people would just memorize an algorithm instead. Were any memory tricks involved (e.g. pegs, palaces) or did he just go through a table of square roots every morning?
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't know how much of the stuff associated with ceremonial magic can be called "christian mythology", since most of it was only attested pretty late, between the 15th and 17th centuries, at a time when Christianity was alr
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by tpeo 9y ago
The issue is that being able to see that little path of logical steps is a skill on it's own, and most students don't know even how to begin approaching a new mathematical problem.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I'm torn between whether this is cool or just massively irresponsible. Couldn't they just stock the shelves with fac similes and keep original editions for archival purposes?
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by tpeo 9y ago
Depends on what kind of programming or reading. Writing out boilerplate code or just skimming text don't seem to require much brain power. Neither does a task which one is so used to that it becomes "effortless".
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by tpeo 9y ago
Sounds like you might have some stories to tell.
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by tpeo 9y ago
I don't see why they'd bother.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Well, I didn't say they were comparable. I just sort of pointed out they existed. Current generation video game consoles are also incomparable to Pong. But hey, that's the difference between 1st and 8th generation consoles.
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by tpeo 9y ago
These aren't 1st generation products. There has already been a VR craze, back in the 1990s.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Yea, I don't think novelty is quite the exploitable niche though. The uncertainty regarding whether or not something might become some sort of fad is way larger than whether or not some app with a clear use and target demographic might
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by tpeo 9y ago
That argument only makes sense if your utility function were either monotonic and non-decreasing over arms or if it were monotonic and non-decreasing over a combination of arms and other things (e.g. legs?). Are you sure you'd always p
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by tpeo 9y ago
This is a huge wake-up call for everyone here on Earth: if you still haven't either watched Kubrick's Odyssey or read the books, you're missing out.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Maybe they're trying to minimize the number of hours needed to go through the cases yet to be decided. So whenever some free time comes up, they're able to go through that backlog easily. It could also be that, just as in medicine
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by tpeo 9y ago
Aren't you overshooting what you mean by linking to that paper? Treating some physical processes as computational processes might lead to some intractable problems, but it also might lead so some insights. Aaronson's section on sp
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by tpeo 9y ago
Computing a heuristic is doing computation, though.
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by tpeo 9y ago
Would that be really an issue, though? At least in so far as living macroscopic beings are concerned, they're all doing computation of some sort by processing environmental information and using the results to produce behavior. They&#x
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by tpeo 9y ago
Only if the choice between PPI and H2 blockers is random. If there's some self-selection going on, there isn't much to say about PPI's impact on patient health given what we know about H2.

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