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'ig' Nobel Prize winners(improbable.com)
4 points by UhUhUhUh 3y ago|1 comments
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
"The Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that make people LAUGH, then THINK. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology." Some of them a
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
I tend to view all platforms negatively because I am afraid that all are a virtual substitute to actual encounters and debates. They soothe a real need and desire with a sort of hallucinatory satisfaction (human beings are very good at that
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
I trust my brain to do the work and if I am not able to produce a relevant summary on demand, so be it. What I read is being processed and I do not know how, when, or why, or to what end it will be useful, but it likely will. In other words
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
There's a Star Trek episode on that.
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
Research now more or less always proceeds bottom-up so that it's never possible to determine causality from results. Everyone looks for causality, researchers look for positive results and the wheel keeps on turning. When top-down thin
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
Well, some Europeans are getting richer. Move along.
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
Nice. Thank you Suno! This is very good and will fit perfectly in my current projects. I feel like hugging your face.
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
I like money tho....
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by UhUhUhUh 3y ago
Will take one seminal paper to be published on Arxiv for the house of cards to collapse.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
The NYT and Bush was earlier.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
And people called me crazy when I started to drive with sunglasses at night.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
And people thought I was crazy when I started to drive with sunglasses at night.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
Let's not forget the Prime Directive.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
Reads United Airlines apparently.
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by UhUhUhUh 4y ago
Q: Do you know why you made this mistake? If the answer is: "Because I assumed that by 'letters' you meant 'characters'", it has the ability to learn.
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by UhUhUhUh 5y ago
I fail to see how one can achieve, aim at or elaborate on something that is not defined.
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
These are indeed "arguments". There is an actual reason though. Mars cannot be terraformed because it has no magnetosphere. Which is also probably why it is like it is now in the first place. Creating a magnetosphere is not imposs
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Storing a memory involves distant parts of the brain(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by UhUhUhUh 9y ago|0 comments
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
The title is a little on the spectacular side. I found this very moving, somehow.
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A Spanish quest to hand down prehistoric secrets(france24.com)
1 points by UhUhUhUh 9y ago|1 comments
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
I do not believe what we read is "forgotten" as in deleted. I believe, it remains as a distinct series of patterns that may or may not be elicited again, depending on circumstances. Proust's "madeleine" is a percept
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Patients with drug-resistant malaria cured by plant therapy(sciencedaily.com)
39 points by UhUhUhUh 9y ago|8 comments
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
And, as usual, a central aspect is absent. The social/historical environment. Any individual's performance, in whatever aspect of human activity being considered, is closely dependent on, some would even say produced by, its cont
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
The story of my life.
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
Let's just note that giving the guy a 1st class ticket or even a private jet to his destination would have been less expensive. And could even have enhanced UA's image and business.
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
It appears that we might have jumped on the transistor metaphor too quick and to intensely. I believe not everything is binary in the brain, even if the resulting executive action is. Patterns, for example, might not be.
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
Second that. The whole learning process is about substituting cognitive action to behavioral action. Kids can handle it and do it very well. It is important, and I would say essential, to push their limits as much as possible. When I was a
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
I also found that knowing something pretty much equals to being able to explain it to someone. I thought I knew many things until I tried to explain them. Or, in other words, there is a sort of "internal" knowledge that seems to h
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by UhUhUhUh 9y ago
I like the reference to a metric, which I always felt could be a useful approach to many problems, including in AI. Re spell-checking, I wonder whether there is an algorithm that uses topography (i.e. vicinity of keys) to assist with the co

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