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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   Since you are a student of logic, but you're not studying logic, I deduce that you are and aren't studying paraconsistent logic (No, really! See: http://www.iep.utm.edu/para-log/ )
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   Back in 2008, British journalist Nick Davies was making noises[1] about how marketplace dynamics impact news standards: I commissioned research from specialists at Cardiff University, who surveyed more than 2,000 UK news stories fro
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   Unfortunately, I guess you're right. Dammit, I knew there'd be a catch somewhere! :)
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   I quite like the idea of a self-serving, artificial and mostly automated ad market. Maybe making it wholly automated would be an improvement.. Like: a browser plugin that would randomly click ads in a different browser profile, maybe throug
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   In a naive google search it gets masked by discussions like this one - but some extra filtering can find examples: https://www.google.com/search?q="it+was+on+accident"+-"by+ac...
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   Pretty interesting question - I don't know Dunbar's view, but I can see two ways of looking at it: one: that the functional social group is the primary thing to be measured, and people who you aren't physically around very of
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   Bearing in mind this is a Ministry of Defence project, maybe they once more feel the need to rustle up some support for an upcoming war?[1] 1: http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/feb/08/politics.iraq
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   The idea is not a new one - Oswald Rayner's wikipedia entry, for example, mentions his involvement in the plot, or just google Rasputin and Rayner. It's going a bit further to look at MI6 as instigators or knowing collaborators, o
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   by ttctciyf 11y ago

   "parse invoices better" ;)
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    > buzzwords Ok, so apologies for that - the point I was trying to make is that PI's view of "meaning is use" is consonant with some quite recent and popular (and therefore buzzword-prone) ideas about AI and psychology. Rig
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    It is quite striking to me that the decentralised, statistical, emergent treatment of meaning in PI fits so well with neural-networks and connectionism[1] whereas Fodor's "Language of Thought Hypothesis" and other opposing vi
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    I like to consider the mathematical use of 'exists' as something quite similar to its use in sentences like "a solution to such-and-such problem exists" - basically, an assertion that if you do X then Y will result - not
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    Failing that, we can always study the hijacking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnotology - a field with a future!
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    > Every physicist I know loves new physics. If physicists don't want new physics, they should stop doing research!
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    Thanks for this. It was particularly interesting to me how PKD's themes of simulacra, Disneyland, and Watergate closely matched those of Jean Baudrillard who wrote[1], somewhat more pessimistically but very much in the same vein as PKD
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    I meant like a varying question - "which is not an animal - zebra, teapot, monkey, .." so yeah, if your AI can pick the right wav file it's beatable..
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    The page aesthetics work for me - I particularly liked the absence of three USP divs under the lede (though the illuminoid-friendly logo was a close second..) Hey, feature idea - riffing off the now overdue but unlikely to happen call flag
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    Roughly: the state-space of the universe isn't large enough to contain a distinct physical realisation of every book in Borges' library, though it is about large enough to contain every possible tweet (I think.)
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    Hah :) Seriously, though, it seems a bit of leap from the existence of confirmation bias to explaining away the public outpourings of US Politicians about their financial crises and foreign policy disasters - in the absence of better data a
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    > (x, 2x, 4x) gives you a "yes" every time, therefore it is a correct answer I think this logic is a bit wonky - if there are sequences that get a "yes", but don't match (x, 2x, 4x) then the correct rule cannot b
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    by ttctciyf 11y ago

    I've seen this mentioned in a few places: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Preceded by an April 1 announcement on usenet: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.games.roguelike.... which has some informed and not-so-informed commentary..
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Mathematics, in one sense, is an exploration of universal, repeatable, rule-following procedures - if you can't get the same result as me, today, yesterday, and next year, by following my procedure, then whatever my procedure is, it ca
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Some really inspiring versification in here, and it would be difficult to surpass the aesthetic and philosophic achievements already mentioned. However, for sheer technical brilliance, perhaps a word should be said for the ElectroBard from
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    > Let's not over-romanticise the subject. It was an era of romance and derring do! :) I'm not sure about github - I take your point, but you might also argue that if git didn't have the particular design, features, and min
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Arguably, he's referring to (what would become) git in this earlier message in the same thread: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0504.0/1826.html > So I'm writing some scripts to tr
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    I think it's something like this: you can't prove the consistency of a formal system using that same formal system, unless it is in fact inconsistent, but you can model a formal system from inside a larger formal system and then p
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Leading criminologists were inferring criminal tendencies from eyebrow type well into the late 19th century in Europe. Specifically, Cesare Lombroso's[1] theory of Anthropological Criminology listed, amongst a number of other character
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    There's an extended interview with the author at http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2015/01/episode-96-ultima-rati... Been a while since I listened to it, but I'm pretty sure DF gets a mention or two in there
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    by ttctciyf 12y ago

    Think you'll have to use a separate app for now like hugin, which should exist for your platform. Also things will depend on your fisheye's projection. Some discussion at http://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread&