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by amatic 1y ago
I don't know if I can "will" myself to go on autopilot. It seems like if there is a conflict in some meta-reasoning level, in values, life principles or general beliefs, I might be experiencing more depression-like symptoms u
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by amatic 1y ago
At the moment, Deep Think is only available with the ULTRA subscription ($250 per month).
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by amatic 1y ago
There is a mistake right in the beginning, not sure how it affects the conclusions yet. The variables given are S - System variable (some kind of disturbance), Z is the outcome ( a controlled variable) and R is the action of a controller. T
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by amatic 1y ago
> This is not new ground. See Cybernetics Control theory and cybernetics were supposed to transform psychology in a much more dramatic and all-encompassing way, as argued by W.T. Powers, for example[1]. In modern psychology, the concept
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by amatic 1y ago
> Not seeing the revolution here. Most of the ideas here have been seen before. Did I miss something? The reviewer is a psychologist, with some interesting opinions and criticisms of psychology. My impression is that applying control the
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by amatic 2y ago
I'm not sure I had the same issue, it is a different laptop, but it would not go to sleep. The current solution is to make it hybernate instead of sleep.
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by amatic 2y ago
Every time you order an "expresso", an Italian falls off a vespa.
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by amatic 2y ago
The scientific community, or the ministry of science of some country, or a university - might find that paying for peer review, for example, might be more effective in promoting good science than paying for publication.
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by amatic 2y ago
This sounds amazing! Are there any metrics on how often different models pass tests? Has someone used a similar process to finetune an LLM?
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by amatic 2y ago
Where is the author's name? Strange editorial. Neuroscientists should "involve participants"? What if they cannot speak, like that guy Broca's area was found in? >>Without a doubt, human neuroscience is entering a
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by amatic 2y ago
I think it's just that bouba has o, and kiki has k. Also the b is half-round, and I is more spiky. Visual differences, not auditory. edit: You make a round shape with your mouth in o
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by amatic 2y ago
Check out the Analog Museum https://www.analogmuseum.org/
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by amatic 2y ago
> I started in 1934, [... ] At that time, the computing industry was limited to mechanical calculators using the decimal system. That seems a bit biased toward discrete systems. Engineers and scientists of the time used mechanical and (l
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by amatic 2y ago
In a controlled environment - where the object to pick up, for example, is always in exactly the same location - you could do that. If there is any variation in the location of the object, you need vision to localize it each time. You need
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by amatic 2y ago
That is also a difficult problem - how do you know beforehand, that a problem is worthwhile? That someone else thinks it is important? Or how high is "ambitious" if you never tried to do a thing? There is a lot of luck in that s
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by amatic 2y ago
Well, it is not "brain activity alone", there are always light waves, forces, chemicals, and a lot of other things, acting on the brain from "outside" of the body, through some very strange receptor routs, but the "
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by amatic 2y ago
I don't think it was ever proven in an experiment that an out of body experience or an NDE got some information from the real world, as opposed to information originating in the person's "brain". I don't know, but b
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by amatic 3y ago
That's interesting, I've never heard of Milton Friedman's thermostat, but there is a procedure called "The test for the controlled variable" intended to find if a system is controlling one variable or another, inven
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by amatic 3y ago
> That will solve the criminality problem, but not the drug problem. That is exactly right. The drug problem, like the alcohol problem, on the level of personal suffering should be addressed by other means, like support groups, therapy,
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by amatic 3y ago
There is Soroka 1954 - Analog methods in computation and simulation. Includes mechanical and electrical analogs
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by amatic 3y ago
Could you share some references, like a recent review or consensus? I've seen different takes on the causes of megafauna extinction, and one story is that the extinction lines up pretty well with the arrival of humans to North America.
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by amatic 3y ago
> "what's so special about x ?" Does f(x) mean one function, whereas f(y) means a completely different function? This looks like the difference between parameters of a function and arguments. In the definition, you have t
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by amatic 3y ago
A tuned PID loop should follow a moving target with no issues and no advanced control theory. Here is a similar example from a Lego robot with a pixi camera [1]. The pixi camera recognizes the ball location in 2D, sends to arduino. There ar
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by amatic 3y ago
I'm getting close to 40, have been studying for the driving exam since last May. It's terribly boring and tedious, and I guess that attitude is not helping, but it doesn't seem that much different than studying for an exam in
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by amatic 3y ago
I've been thinking about the same concept, and trying to find a way to introduce analog computing as something that goes together with the story in the game. Analog computing was historically used to solve differential equations, and d
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by amatic 3y ago
> If these drugs cure trauma-derived addictive behaviors, that's just so extremely interesting, mechanistically. So much this. I think going off semaglutide makes the weight come back, so it would seem that semaglutide doesn't
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by amatic 3y ago
My problem is how to stay in science, and outside of academia? Not sure.
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by amatic 3y ago
When I was growing up, in eastern Europe, we had a small potato plot and every few days during the growing season, we would go to the plot, scrape the little red eggs from the leaves, and hand-pick the larva and adult beetles, then crush ev
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by amatic 3y ago
Do they also use assembler in HFT?
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by amatic 3y ago
Apparently, there were horses in the Americas, but they went extinct about 12k years ago, along with the other megafauna. What I understand is that different images could have been made in multiple time periods, from the first inhabitants

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