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It looks like an interesting book. Published in 1995, it is mostly focused on cognitivist / functional approaches in computational linguistics rather than the current ML paradigm, though there is a section on connectionism, a decentral
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> Isn't mind and a brain two different things? As far as I know you can only get one of them under a microscope, which seems to support your view, but "mind-brain identity theory", positing that mind and brain are literall
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Your statistics ?! Please elaborate! You are exploring possible links between humanities engagement and pathologically convoluted sentence structure, eh? :) But anyway, my bachelors degree was a "combined major" of comp. sci. &#x
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The link between the thunderstorms and Jupiter is theoretical, but our having conscious experience is directly given. The fact that something for which, unlike phlogiston or the Aether, we have direct incontrovertible evidence (denial of wh
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You doubt that you have experiences?
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In order to understand, then we'd have to have a good definition, no?
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If you're saying that a good definition of consciousness does not exist within medicine or biology, then that is (IMO) one way of stating the "hard problem"[1] of consciousness that Chalmers famously posited. Another way of p
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Yeah, TFA concludes that the whole range of scholarly thought on why the Iraq War happened can be boiled down to two schools of thought: "security" (part of a grand coherent plan to keep Americans safe) and "hegemony" (p
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> The sooner you kill this beast within yourself, the sooner you can get to the real work of creating something that the market itself will validate Highly anti-mimetic then, so long as you're committed to entrepreneuring and being
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I think you're off by a couple of decades. The propaganda blitz got underway in the 30's. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_J._Anslinger for example, or consider Prohibition (of the highly toxic and dan
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Somewhat related, the anonymously sourced and unprovenanced document "PROTON, CLEARWATER and Lexis-Nexis"[1] provided to cryptome August 2013 in the wake of the Snowden revelation of "parallel construction" - though not
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> I don't see any "debunking" there You somehow missed the many instances of claims by Huffman contradicted by evidence given in the article? Huffman: > [Developers] are mad because they used to get something for free,
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The text seems to imply the embedded video of Drake singing River Man is the self recorded demo version from 1968, but it is from a Tim Pope 2004 video containing a "remastered" version (with added sound effects and goodness kno
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Googling your ratio 5.828427.. finds a seemingly related discussion[1] which identifies it as the square of the "silver ratio" i.e (1 + sqrt(2))^2[2,3] The explanation at [1] looks ok to this non-mathematician, but best view it th
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> load more comments (1007 replies) was a belly laugh for me.
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2011 discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2214158
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I get 404 clicking on the posted link, but this link works for me: https://www.businessinsider.com/reddit-people-are-starting-t...
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Actual title: "Hey /r/piracy. Reddit admins de-modded the captain and put a sword to the mod-team's necks to re-open. It seems they really demand valuable input from pirates. I look forward to you to taking this tacit Re
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A power hungry mods [sic] melodramatic resignation(old.reddit.com)
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A couple of weeks ago it stopped showing the search page numbers at the bottom for me, but didn't infinitely scroll. I went into settings and changed it to infinite scroll manually so I could get past the first page of results. Trying
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Reminds me that I've yet to see Chris Morris' 2019 film The Day Shall Come which satirizes the FBI's pathological shoehorning of hapless individuals into a paranoid narrative of terrorist cells plotting violence against the
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It seems like everytime I sort by new there's a different version of this story posted, for the last 5 days or something.
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It is quite impressive to see the detailed intimate knowledge of the personality and inner landscape of reddit moderators shown by commenters in this thread. Clearly the moderators have many psychological characteristics in common and are m
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Here's some other coverage of this. I bet there's more if you look hard! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36348842 (17 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36340095 (
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They have created a system for representing "narrative structures" as a set of connected nodes. The nodes are story elements ("tropes") like Hero, MacGuffin, etc., which they have taken from https://tvtropes.o
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I wonder if this will improve Linux Steam's video player performance which IME is awful at full screen res?
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Yeah, I read this post as a dig at "cargo cult" programmers who read up on google-scale programming and best practice and unthinkingly apply those constructs to their own Bob's-Restaurant-scale task at hand where they are oft
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> current Reddit moderators are often very bad Though I think a lot of the most notoriously awful moderation cliques (r/ukpolitics for example) have eschewed the blackout.
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> assert the most inane drivel Thank goodness that never happens here!
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Also: 4. Having no legal accountability (while arguably providing a means of avoiding or reducing accountability for those using them, "LLM says no" style.)

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