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by arketyp 5mo ago
I love these counterfactual creations on old hardware. It highlights the magical freedom of creativity of software.
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by arketyp 5mo ago
There is a way to frame category theory such that it's all just arrows -- by associating the identity arrow (which all objects have by definition) with the object itself. In a sense, the object is syntactic sugar.
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by arketyp 1y ago
I understand the sentiment that the Trump administration is draconian, especially for people traveling from abroad considering the new border policy. But, pardon me, how is that executive order about sex a "threat"? Listed as the
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by arketyp 2y ago
Different Cleopatra
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by arketyp 2y ago
I may be old school but to me calling your own work beautiful comes across as pompous. Or "beautiful" is somehow a style now which irritates me as well. Sorry. They do look nice though.
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by arketyp 2y ago
I just put my running-out items on the entryway table.
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by arketyp 2y ago
I agree. Although I wonder sometimes how much "about" is involved in my own abstract reasoning.
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by arketyp 2y ago
Makes you wonder what is meant by learning...
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by arketyp 2y ago
This is true but I think it's iterative, cyclic. It applies to any art and craft, really. You alternate between perceiving and projecting, receiving and creating.
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by arketyp 2y ago
Honest question, why is the study of microplastics and its causes a recent thing? Are better instruments involved somehow? Plastics with their special properties have always been known to be "unnatural", even used as a synonym for
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by arketyp 2y ago
Yes, I had that one in mind, though I'm always a bit skeptic about the cinematics of BBC productions. Sprint or not, the point I should have made clearer is precisely that walking is compatible with the endurance method. Personally I d
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by arketyp 2y ago
There are some accounts of still existing tribes in southern Africa doing this. As the article also suggests, the sprints, as far as I can tell, are intermittent. The hunters occasionally slow down when they need to pay attention to the tra
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by arketyp 2y ago
I don't know, it's a mirror, right? It's up to us to change really. Besides, failures like the one you point out make subtle stereotypes and biases more conspicuous, which could be a good thing.
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by arketyp 2y ago
Thanks. Together with GP's point about the possibility of weird wines, it seems reasonable that one could go along quite far on a false premise.
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by arketyp 2y ago
I've heard this, and I would have been inclined to believe it. But then I watched the documentary Somm about the journey of a couple of friends reaching for the highest rankings of sommeliers. They could identify grapes, regions and ye
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by arketyp 2y ago
Yes, I agree. But I talked about an idea development and said variation, not necessarily addressing the same thing. The headline would be algorithmically random sequence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically_ra
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by arketyp 2y ago
Thanks, I had to dig. I read about it in [1]. Mises was concerned about the formalization of probability theory. It seems the idea appears at least as early as in his 1919 paper [2]. [1] An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Appl
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by arketyp 2y ago
Not sure what kinds of selection pressures there has been for shorter DNA strings, but presumably you could compress it a great deal putting it in a .zip file. Now imagine the havoc caused by random mutations on that format though.
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by arketyp 2y ago
Richard von Mises (brother of the economist) formulated a definition of randomness as a sequence of data that, were you a gambler, you cannot by any strategy make money on betting on the outcomes. This was before computational calculus and
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by arketyp 3y ago
I very predictably have nightmares whenever I fall asleep flat on my back, sleep paralysis kind of things. In Germanic mythology the mare is a demon who sits on your chest, so my conclusion is that I'm not alone in this.
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by arketyp 3y ago
> Sci-fi, Russian lit, biographies, classics. I was never caught, but it’s bizarre to think back that I was reading Crime and Punishment while the rest of the class was learning fake American history propaganda. Sounds possible your teac
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by arketyp 3y ago
Why the downvotes? This is a real point of view. I eventually got so fed up hearing about Game of Thrones and trite opinions about Trump's stupidity that I developed a habit of completely skipping lunch, telling my colleagues I was int
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by arketyp 3y ago
With books, I tend to not bother with the notes if they are bundled up at the end of the book or chapter. I prefer to have them on the bottom of the page. A web page doesn't even have the benefit of easy page turning to a bookmark, so
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by arketyp 3y ago
Good comment. It surprised me that a definition of essay wasn't sought before asking questions about the supposed best. But that tentative approach actually struck the essence in an interestingly performative manner.
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by arketyp 3y ago
It's easy to ridicule the Amish for their lifestyle and their roundabout solutions to the restrictions ordained by their faith, similar to some orthodox Jewish traditions. But I think there is also something honest about it. No one can
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by arketyp 3y ago
I think it can be phrased in terms of the famous explore/exploit dichotomy from cybernetics. An agent with ADHD is more likely to exploit/dig deeply once it gets the "scent", but that threshold is higher. A weak signal o
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by arketyp 3y ago
As a man, I'm happy to even get a foot in the door. I doubt I'm the only one who feels that way.
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by arketyp 3y ago
One can expect minimal generative content for reasons already mentioned in the article. It wouldn't be too surprising if in practice they only have the one reel playing at these festivals. I don't think experiencing the generative
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by arketyp 3y ago
I've seen Markov models mentioned a lot in these context, and my generous take has always been that something like stacked Markov models is meant. At each abstraction layer, the state is conditioned only by the previous abstract concep
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by arketyp 3y ago
I take your point about feelings of communion being a kind of self-preservation, but I think it is taking it too far to extrapolate competition into that realm. That's per definition not self-transcendence according to how it is descri

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