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by ttctciyf 10y ago
The transcript[1] from a secret recording[2] of seasoned propagandist Rick "Dr. Evil" Berman, laying out his strategy for smearing environmentalists and muddying debates on behalf of Big Oil at a Western Energy Alliance[3] summit
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
At least as old as Plato: "I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do.
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
The piece[1] from John Preskill linked in the article has less fluff and is more informative, IMO. Given Preskill is director of the IQIM, and Fisher is on its faculty, he may have a promotional agenda; but he has an impressive pedigree[2]
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Also, consider limiting the number of replies to a given post - the way comments are dominated by the myriad replies and replies to replies to some irrelevant nitpick that through whatever dynamic ends up as the top comment is a source of e
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
> Great story Yes it is! I was previously unaware of the futurist-style mozilla.org branding, but very much aware of the "hippies and communists" smear on open source. jwz's branding response as explained here is sublime!
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Thanks for that informative link.. I would say the advice to simply re-write a musical composition so that bass and kick don't happen at the same time seems to put the cart of mix aesthetics before the horse of musical intent! :) &quot
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Heh, thanks for the explanation, and sorry for apparently ruining your day :) I did suspect that "Garret then claims that this can be used for superluminal communication" missed that you were using this as a kind of reductio, but
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Hi, I'm considerably less of a physicist than yourself :) I did watch your google talk video, and have to thank you for an interesting presentation that introduced me to a couple of new perspectives on quantum interpretation. I'm
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Wait, "we in Laouche's Youth Movement.." ( http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202004/Spring... ) - what is this publication, exactly? Wikipedia says: > 21st Century Science and Technology
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Pando had an interesting piece a while back on the origins of privatization [1]. I guess that anyone buying into that would be unsurprised by the conclusions of the present article. 1: https://pando.com/2014/09/
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Well, if the string was a widely occuring one (say, because it's useful in some coding task, etc.) you might expect it to turn up a few times in a google search for occurrences prior to Aug 1 2016. But, apparently not: https:/&#x
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> I'm not convinced that kids learn lessons like these better when it's spelled out for them. From another angle, showing events with consistent and guaranteed moral consequences could be seen as mis -educating viewers that i
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If you're intrigued by the interpretation of Bosch's famous tryptich in this article, you may like to read an interesting alternative take, at http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/246864
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"Triad" would be an unusal term, though, for D-E-F, wouldn't it? Reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_(music) it appears, outside of "some twentieth-century theorists," the notes of a tr
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
John Baez's Prehistory of n-Categorial Physics [1] has some interesting nuggets about Feynman diagrams, in the "Feynman (1947)" section. In particular, "The mathematics necessary for [interesting Feynman diagrams] was
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
There's an article at http://www.mackungfu.org/LouisRossmanntheguywhorepairsAppleh... as per https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016253
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Arrived too late to see the post you're replying to, but isn't it fair to say that an electron's spin, though it corresponds to a notion of angular momentum mathematically, is a little different to everyday ideas of spin? Not
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I agree - it seems to be another variety of "nothing buttery." I don't see how locating the production of experience in attention schemas (which seem, inasmuch as they're scientifically respectable, to be indistinguishab
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This passage from the article: > Even if you’ve turned your back on an object, your cortex can still focus its processing resources on it. Scientists sometimes compare covert attention to a spotlight. (The analogy was first suggested by
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> Teaching ethics to a machine that is more intelligent than we are, in a wide range of fields, is a far more daunting task. ... but then ex-hypothesis, shouldn't a human-plus intelligent machine be teaching us ethics, rather than t
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I don't know if I agree with "the only independent online media outlet left in the world." Look, for example, at pando.com - given that Thiel is an investor there, their language about him ("unforgivable", "a t
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Immediately following the part you quote (my emphasis) Well, as it turns out, thanks to the software-eating- the-world thing and the Internet of Things we happen to be amassing *vast quantities* of all sorts of data [...] The dema
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by ttctciyf 10y ago
Probably the most famous quantum computing algorithm, Shor's algorithm for finding prime factors, uses interference to arrive at its result, the very rough layman's version (about what I can understand! :) being that the amplitude
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by ttctciyf 11y ago
Interesting to compare Frank Herbert's Destination: Void : The crew are just caretakers: the ship is controlled by a disembodied human brain, called "Organic Mental Core" or "OMC", that runs the complex operations
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Since it was written in 1971, well before the Chernobyl disaster, it's not surprising that the Strugatsky brothers' Roadside Picnic doesn't appear in the article. The book's theme and narrative are so redolent of Chern
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Maybe because of the Presidential trip to Saudi Arabia? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/barack-obama-sa...
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by ttctciyf 11y ago
Maybe not exactly what you're looking for - not daily, includes streamed coding sessions, and mostly in a longer format than a standard vlog - but you might like to dip into Jonathan Blow's youtube channel [1]. I quite enjoyed one
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by ttctciyf 11y ago
An article by Tyler Cowen of the Mercatus Center - "the most important think tank you've never heard of." [1] If you're interested in the background of this interesting organization, there's some funding information
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by ttctciyf 11y ago
I haven't seen mention of the Kochs in "Panama papers" stories, but they were definitely mentioned in a previous round of leaks published by ICIJ, detailing tax avoidance strategies using Luxembourg's permissive tax regi
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Watch paint dry is also a real game, so to speak; see https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ObckU6cpDJ4 (2013) for example

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