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by ttctciyf 8y ago
The article attempts to explain this property of phi: > Maybe you have a picture of a flower, and you want to implement “every time the user clicks the mouse, add a petal to the flower.” In that case you want to use the golden ratio: Mak
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
More on the mysterious Bosch and The Garden of Earthly Delights in particular (in the closing quarter of the article) can be found in [1]. See also [2] for an intriguing piece on possible gnostic symbolism in this painting. 1: http:/
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Is this a difference between random and algorithmically random? I'd have expected "not computable" to be synonymous with "algorithmically random."
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I don't know if it's still the case, but arxiv papers without a subject classifier used to be more likely to be "cranky" (contrast the /math/ in the Chaitin paper url.) So I don't know about the paper here
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The author alludes to the fact that the overwhelming majority of reals have an infinite number of decimal places that constitute an algorithmically random sequence[1] Sure, plenty of real numbers have finite (0.1, 0.01, ...) or non-random (
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This seems little more than an elaborate bit of PR for "Nevercode"?
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> It is a well constrained problem But attacking not-well-constrained problems is what's needed to show real progress in AI these days, right?
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That is linked in the article, where it says: > First, computational complexity is not well-understood outside of computer science, and this is a pity. Philosophers in particular should pay more attention to computational complexity!
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The issue is that no-one has a cast-iron definition of what exactly amounts to a measurement, outside of something entangling with the system being measured. You can "disturb" a two-slit system, for example by creating a third sli
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> Also we and some other publishers are even approaching google for full page html drm standard. This means adblock will have a hard time, as they cant modify the requests. Full page drm means that extensions cannot interfere with the pa
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by ttctciyf 8y ago
This is the same as discussed by John Baez and others at https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2015/07/20/the-game-of-... right? (spoilers!)
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
There's some footage[1] from One America News Network, which I gather is some kind of sub-Fox News outfit, of their reporter interviewing doctors at the same hospital Fisk writes about. They seem to tell pretty much the same story: on
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Heh, I just commented[1] without having seen your comment, on the same topic. There's a link in my comment to a more literal rendition[2] of the original Polish. How does the Hungarian one pan out? :) 1: https://news.ycombin
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Regards translating the Cyberiad, the famous scene where Klapaucius tests Trurl's AI poetry machine has been translated by Michael Kandel: “Have it compose a poem — a poem about a haircut! But lofty, noble, tragic, timeless, fu
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Why not use different browsers, like chrome and firefox, or, purely within firefox, different browser profiles?
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I regularly browse HN and click through to articles. I run firefox / noscript on both mobile and desktop. I occasionally have to enable or temp-enable some stuff in noscript to be able to read articles, but it's a small minority
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
I sometimes use reddit with Firefox for Android (beta, equipped with noscript and ublock origin) and it's really not too bad like that. But overall I get a much better experience using the free, open, 3rd party app Slide ( https:&#x2
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
> a web forum which, to be fair, is accessible via numerous 3rd party apps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14684105
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Same approach, but I prefer firefox beta + noscript, which allows more fine-grained control (so I can permanently or temporarily enable js from e.g. reddit.com and redditstatic.com, but not googletagservices, amazon-adsystem, etc. .. on the
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And then when you decide to create a sacrificial account just to keep them happy, they won't let you unless you give them your mobile number...
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The Mind's I [1] can work as a decent entree to some core philosophical issues and styles of thinking, while entertaining a lay reader at the same time, or so I found. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind%27s
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
> The usual way to get half an apple is to chop one into "two equal parts". Of course, the parts are actually NOT EQUAL - if they were, there would be only one part! They are merely ISOMORPHIC. - John Baez ( http://m
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Great! Thanks a lot!
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For a purely software-based free modular ecosystem, the cross-platform and rapidly developing VCV Rack[1] is well worth a look Still in pre-1.0, it already has quite a collection[2] of 3rd party modules with all shades of Free-, free-, dona
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It's not just the webpage. > The University of Exeter has confirmed that it is no longer associated with one the directors of scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica. > It was revealed by DevonLive.com on Wednesday that the company'
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> That's a senseless digression though. In terms of your agenda, it might make no sense. It just irks me when I see simplistic assumptions about human information processing that don't take the "situatedness" of the p
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The instructor, though, wasn't the one driving. Being engaged in a particular role relative to a situation can (I believe) alter one's capacity to perceive and respond to it. This isn't to say that for definite the instructor
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Yes! I sometimes wonder if Frank Herbert was aware of this study, reported in the press [1] three years before the publication of Dune, with its tales of transgenerational memory transmission and sandworms.. 1: https://news.googl
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Noscript-enabled firefox ESR gives me "60 requests, 1,690.86 kB, 3.51s" beating Brave's 11.3s by a factor of 3.2 - admittedly the photos don't display :) Yeah, 1.6M for one lousy web page.
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by ttctciyf 9y ago
Thanks to Spivak, who mentions in another comment here [1] that " https://encrypted.google.com doesn't serve AMP results" my phone now has a new default search! 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?

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