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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
Apart from illusions, what about discriminating between genuine obstacles and things that can be safely driven over ? For example, a barrier vs some old snow. The car's software has never experienced the properties of materials by walk
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
Isn't the difference simply that physics has theories backed by reproducible experiments, whereas economics has theories but one can't do such reproducible experiments without an inspectable multiverse to settle all the counterfac
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
Today I made it out of a local thicket of a problem I've been stuck in for a week and once it worked I was like "well, now that works I can do this, and now _that_ works I can do this" and I got so much done today. But yester
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
the outliers could be explained by aircon
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
Economics is worse than religion: it's astrology. It has the trappings of mathematics (ODEs and whatnot) as astrology uses numbers, like astrology and auguring (in their day) economics is a fantasy serving to flatter the powerful.
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5nY8qMbO8
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
One thing I learned from a colleague years ago is: Delete code. If a function isn't working after say 10 minutes of trying, delete it and write it from scratch. Another thing: walk away, come back, bug fixed. And the other one: explain
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
80 columns is the wrong width. Should be 81
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
are you having a laugh ? of course programming will largely be subsumed by machine learning!
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
I'm sure the office would be more popular among employees if it was a place they could actually get work done in. Give employees proper offices instead of the distracting open-plan mess. Sometimes home is the only place one can concent
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
search for "centrality", "networks", "degree", "betweenness", "robustness", "information-processing", "motif", "graph"
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
a thread of experience = a consciousness yes, but you'd have no consciousness of any other such threads of experience that may be instantiated by your brain
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
There's been much work on this in graph and information-theory. To the point of centralization: it's a trade-off between efficiency and robustness (for one thing). Most living systems show evidence of this trade-off, having a mixt
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
and, as Scott Aaronson points out, why assume the brain only hosts a single consciousness* ? Maybe there are multiple consciousnesses hosted by each person's brain, and "you" are one of them at any given time - you'd hav
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
ok, that's what the author wanted, but they're wrong. We are reading our text on computers in 2017 - we should be able to choose the format that reads best for us.
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
that's still presenting the pages in portrait orientation. I want the pages to be landscape and for the text to flow in at least 2 columns.
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
what I would love is an app that would reformat portrait PDFs as 2-column landscape for reading on my screen
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
nothing in this universe is intuitive except for a handful of parochial human matters
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by vbuwivbiu 9y ago
but LaTeX can crop PDF images anyway
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by vbuwivbiu 10y ago
nope, it's grandpa tech. GMOs will kill all oil products
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by vbuwivbiu 10y ago
i just used an iphone app (IQBoost I think..it's been a while) & did the sound+vision version with headphones, practicing in groups of 3 with a break inbetween until & got bored
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by vbuwivbiu 10y ago
nice analysis. My experience with DNB is that it definitely slightly improved my working memory after quite a lot of practice. One side-effect I noticed was an improved ability to track people's arguments and notice inconsistencies. Ho