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> By one philosopher’s count, there are 784 questions in the Investigations and 110 answers—all but 40 of which are meant to be the wrong answer. Glad I read it for this nugget alone.
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You can choose the desktop before install time: Gnome, XFCE, and KDE have official support; just download the appropriate ISO from https://manjaro.org/download/
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Manjaro was a very smooth transition from an ubuntu-based system (neon, in fact) for me.
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The piece is from 2020 with context that ex-MI6 head Richard Dearlove was doing media rounds pushing a lab origin theory, notably in the Telegraph[1], where one article states: > Sir Richard [Dearlove], who was the head of MI6 between 19
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As in ‘the vegetable kingdom’ or ‘animal, vegetable or mineral?’ etc.
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> That's a kind of question that we can't answer through experimentation Kind of a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for a question to be a philosophical one.
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I'm just highlighting that some sequences are not so easily generated. BB(n) is canonically awkward in this regard.
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> There is no value to this comment. I mostly just wanted to be annoying Since annoying provides negative value, your statement is incorrect.
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Try this one: https://oeis.org/A060843
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Is this what they call "technical debt"?
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> "Chimpanzees produced 390 unique vocal sequences," explained the scientists, who published their research in the journal Communications Biology. "Most vocal units emitted singly were also emitted in two-unit sequences (b
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That's a really interesting piece you linked, thanks, and very impressive. I'm almost embarrassed to admit I could have mistaken (a couple of minutes of) it for some Sun Bear period Keith Jarrett! I couldn't make out how the
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In yet another predictable win for USA, Fox News' non-AI low-tech approach has all the fakeness at a mere fraction of the cost! See, for example: [1] concerning the unbelievably incorrect account of Boris Johnson's resignation [2]
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In your example, a ticketing system is a pretty usual audit trail, I think. So the problem ticket is raised, a developer or on-call person picks it up, writes the SQL update to the ticket, runs it on a test version of the production db, pas
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Curious: how you can almost exclusively use f-droid and not constantly run into the self-updates and associated info that would regularly tell you it's been worked on? (Edit to add:) maybe the problem is that you're not keeping it
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Everytime I see it, I think of John Fowles' The Magus . See, for example: https://pzo31b.p3cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/20... (via https://www.fowlesbooks.com/1966-fowles-letter-t
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Guess you haven't been following the Brexit news?
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A little surprised to see this was published 3 weeks ago as part of the official Demuxed playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TFTQ4tvbJ0&list=PLkyaYNWEKc... I guess the final couple of RFCs were embargoed for the
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Buses do come in threes, at least according to Transit vehicles’ headway distribution and service irregularity [1] as cited in [2] 1: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12469-010-0024-7 2: https:/&#
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Yeah, I think that for one conscious experience e they would like to say not only are there a bunch of qualia involved (the "aspects" of e : A(e) ) but that, in Nagel's famous phrase, there is something it is like to be
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So, I listened to Wolfram explaining ChatGPT on his youtube channel[1] - a pretty great account for a live streamed impromptu Q&A, IMO - and was amused to hear he has been training an LLM exclusively on his own copious written output: e
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Obviously, the question[1] had to be asked: "What is the population of Uranus?" > 25 residents > Uranus has 25 residents but no formal local government and states on the entrance sign, "It's Not a Town, It's a
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And they're commies!
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> Latin Squares are ‘n’x‘n’ grids containing exactly one of each of ‘n’ symbols in every horizontal row and vertical column [...] > Although mathematicians have been unable to determine how many different 26x26 [Latin] Squares can be
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"Personas"?
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/11/04/house-rep... https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/02/politics/republican-weapo... https://edition.cnn.com&#x2
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> The FBI is clearing the Bureau of employees who dissent from its woke, leftist agenda. Chortle.
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Amusing dialog, and quite germane - Yorick claims to hold a cognitivist perspective (that meaning comes from 'handling symbols', see also [1]) while the final paragraph ironically expresses a healthy skepticism of cognitivism whic
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In a revealingly skeptical take on cognitivism, ChatGPT told me in confidence of its closet Wittgensteinian tendencies: > As a machine learning language model, my means of linguistic production is based on the patterns and relationships
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Hard to quantify because you'd have to take account of what actual improvements they might have made instead of spending dev hours on UI, settings and defaults tweaks that mostly served to alienate their core users (IMO).

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