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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> For a start, there is no evidence that the ones you are calling "not quite so actual" are any less actual than the one we share an experience of. Well, there is evidence of the one I'm calling "actual" - if i
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Many Worlds still owes us an explanation of the apparently huge difference between this, the actual, world and all the other apparently not quite so actual ones, does it not? The two most promising ideas (IMO) are the idea that the "wa
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
I had the same reaction, but persevered with it, stared at it until I worked it out and decided it was really quite usable. Not that hard :) I still use it.
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> we only found out it was false after the fact The correct information was available, but largely ignored by mass media. For example: > 13 March 2003 > The Blair Government has known, almost from the day it came to office in 1997,
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Right, I found a couple inside the "3rd party" tab in ublock. This is great! Thanks.
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
What is "annoyances list" ? EDIT: Oh, right, inside the ublock options.
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> If you don't want to deal with AMP, you can click the link icon at the top of the page, then click the link [...] Apart from that that is "dealing with AMP," why is it so hard for Google to offer a "no amp in search
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Further Metereological Addenda to Philosophical Investigations(alexdunn.info)
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
>> He also co-wrote the report that stated that Sadam Hussein had WMDs, and helped send America to war. It's not an ad-hominem to suggest that an author's previous record on accuracy can be a guide to his present credibility
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
BoingBoing has the skinny on author John Schindler[1] > John Schindler was a prof at the College; he slammed Snowden as a traitor and compared Greenwald to Hitler, and was generally dismissive about concerns about network surveillance; h
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> he would probably say the inputs into an NLP model would need to capture a much wider range of human culture and behavior I get what you're saying - that something deserving the name "language" way outstrips the simple w
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
A while ago, I commented here[1] to the effect that there's a good fit between the treatment of meaning in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations (PI) and the neural net / connectionist approach, calling it "decen
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
I think your comment would sit better if you indicated the information, since otherwise it just reads "he said, she said, and what they said was FUD."
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Here[1], have another: "Been a Long, Long Time" 1: https://pastebin.com/raw/d9ZXakAB
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Yeah, this bit for example: > The algorithm was also constantly changing. The data inputs were flowing into the algorithm in real time, but the actual weights, measures and trade-offs that the algorithm made weren’t static either. Some o
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> Thanks for some fun reading on a weird corner of history! Yeah, it would make a great basis for a movie / miniseries / 7 season flagship TV drama blockbuster.. ;) The really weird thing about it, I guess, is that in the origi
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
So, bearing the non-endorsement caveat in mind.. :) One version was that the Cabazon immunity > made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
This idea was one of the strands of the biggest, hugest conspiracy theory of the 90's variously known as the Inslaw scandal, The Octopus, etc., which pulled into itself events surrounding a murder involving an obscure (23 member, iirc)
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of the BIOS option, but haven't seen any reliably sourced info on what its exact effect is.
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I've seen this claim a few times but never seen it solidly verified. Can anyone make the case either way?
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Understanding you've won at football is quite different to understanding you've won a fight. Compare two cats fighting and knowing who's won to two cats playing football and knowing who's won :)
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Whenever testosterone comes up, I always think of the study showing testosterone levels change in sports fans according to whether their preferred team wins or loses[1]. The interest for me is not so much in the question of testosterone and
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
> Voting requires ID in almost every other western democracy Not in the UK. [1] > Do I need to take ID to the polling station? > You do not need to show ID to vote in England, Scotland and Wales. You just need to tell polling staff
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Thanks, and thanks for spending a big chunk of your time here!
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Is there a model of a computation that stands to quantum computation in the same way a universal Turing machine stands to classical computers, or is the UTM already enough?
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I don't want to prejudice an actual answer here, but it's worth noting Mr Aaronson has produced a fantastic paper, almost uniquely substantive in its field, commenting on several aspects of possible relations between quantum physi
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
It is a great read! Also, in the comments on his blog post introducing that paper, he says: > Well, yes, “the fact of experience” is a toughie! :) In fact, I regard the “hard problem of consciousness” as so far beyond us, that it’s not e
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
Hi Scott, If it turned out to be true that advances in advertising technology like profiling and microtargeting (see, e.g. [1]) could effectively deliver the likelihood of electoral victory to their highest paying and most ruthless practici
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On Hossenfelder's book, but not so much on the (IMO doomed) philosophical project of logically demarcating some ideal notion of scientific practice, see also mathematical physicist and long-time String skeptic Peter Woit's review[
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How many organizations? A hundred: plural. "There are a hundred organizations.." How many lists? One: singular. "There is a list of a hundred organizations.."

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