Kednicma

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by Kednicma 6y ago
You are slightly improving as a person. I did not expect that. To respect your personal growth, I'll retire this account. In the case example that you linked, I find it disappointing that you still do not read entire threads. The origi
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I wonder whether maths really can be self-taught for more than about two generations. It has been known since the beginning of maths that it must be taught by teachers who understand the ideas to students who challenge the descriptions.
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Of Groups and Monads (2018)(garlandus.co)
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Hi, to be gentle and brief: Lengthening telomeres can provoke cancerous behavior. Therefore we cannot simply lengthen telomeres by giving people more telomerase; we need a more holistic approach which understands the cancer/senescence
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Do your analysis per-capita, please; as a former gigging musician, I assure you that it doesn't matter how much money is being given to the Big Four by streaming services, it only matters how many gigging hours there are per week. And
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by Kednicma 6y ago
There's evidence against strong Sapir-Whorf in the logical-language subculture. They originally wanted people to learn logic by learning Loglan, but today the speakers of Lojban and Toaq are usually either fluent or logical but not bot
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24766148 Unsure how Aeon is doing this; some sort of URL trickery?
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by Kednicma 6y ago
It is essential when we look at deep time, or any sufficiently high-dimensional and detailed time series, to remember that we are only looking at a tiny slice. We always like to talk of "the tree of life", which might mislead folk
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Relax already. Count your karma; I'm pretty sure that you're positive in this thread. Please, instead, reflect upon why you've felt the need to post multiple times in this thread without actually talking about the original ar
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by Kednicma 6y ago
It's all a matter of how wrong you want to be, and what information you want to use for deduction. If you see a humanoid approaching you, do you start with "that is a human (99.99% certainty)" or "that is a man or woman
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm not going to argue Python politics with you, but suffice it to say that only a few communities have had such a bad major version upgrade experience. Here are some off the top of my head for comparison, from roughest to smoothest: *
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by Kednicma 6y ago
No, the entire point of critiquing the author's qualifications is to break apart the idea that, because the author is well-spoken, they are therefore correct or even reasonable. If the author had declined to publish a miniature biograp
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I've written Python for over a decade. There are two problems with Python. First, the excellent readability leads directly into hard-to-read code structures. This might seem paradoxical but Dijkstra insisted that the same thing happene
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Please pay attention. I did not say "cancer or whatever". I said cancer [0], a specific family of diseases characterized by normal cells becoming cancerous [1], a state marked by unbounded growth and self-reinforcing DNA damage.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'll put to you what I put to Bostrom in my analysis further downthread: What, exactly, do you think we should be doing which we aren't currently doing? Everything he implies that we should be working on, we are working on.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Yes: http://extremelearning.com.au/unreasonable-effectiveness-of-... Sibling comments are completely correct. Graphics simulations often require quasirandom sequences; the particular sequence is not important, but any cor
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by Kednicma 6y ago
We aren't completely starved yet of the bottom-up approach, but I agree that it's somewhat limited. We can explain choice and free will in bottom-up terms, which complements the article's explanations of memory and signaling.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
...Are you suggesting sacrificing the old in order to save the old?
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by Kednicma 6y ago
This is a very difficult question. We know somewhat his preferences, because he worked on implementing ALGOL 60 [0][1], but unfortunately we are blocked by a bit of incommensurability; in that time, garbage collection was not something that
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Ha, hilariously naïve. I still have the "Black Dragon Fallacy" written down as something that deserves a full writeup, but in short: What's the missile made of, and how does Bostrom propose that we build it? Bostrom brings us
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by Kednicma 6y ago
We shouldn't be charitable to racism, sexism, delusional religious beliefs, or fascism; they are too harmful to the world. In this case, you're asking me to be charitable to a sexist article whose author does not justify their cre
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Some of these have aged so perfectly that I only need substitute a few letters: > Python —"the infantile disorder"—, by now nearly 30 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today:
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by Kednicma 6y ago
I'm not exactly being Gettier over here; if y'all have reasons why my counterexamples are wrong, then speak up. Otherwise maybe sit back and consider exactly why it's interesting that a professor of philosophy rattles off all
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Biological sex has more than two configurations of sex chromosomes possible, in humans. This isn't rocket science, although it is biology. Also, on your other points: Objective truths can exist, but not all measurements are objective.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
The author seems to be some sort of ill-read hack. There are fungi [0] with thousands of biological sexes. Additionally, within humanity, there are more than two configurations of sex chromosomes [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Stop posting marketing bullshit to HN, thanks.
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Well, yes, I don't know if you've read the rest of the thread, but it's quite apologetic. For example, the parent claims that nobody outside of academic research should actually want/need/desire to write code for th
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by Kednicma 6y ago
You would do well to read the rest of the Pirsig quote you used. > This eternally dualistic subject-object way of approaching the motorcycle sounds right to us because we're used to it. But it's not right. It's always been
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Who do you think writes code for the T2, if not programmers? You're imagining that people who are employed for Apple are special, but they of course are just ordinary programmers. Your point about SSD controllers is embarrassingly inco
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by Kednicma 6y ago
Thanks for turning community-driven social sites into advertising-laden shitholes.

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