barberpole

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by barberpole 1y ago
It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
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by barberpole 2y ago
how did this garbage wind up here?
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by barberpole 2y ago
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
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by barberpole 2y ago
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0] The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.
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by barberpole 3y ago
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it&#x27
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by barberpole 3y ago
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
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by barberpole 3y ago
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
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by barberpole 3y ago
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.
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by barberpole 3y ago
>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.
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by barberpole 3y ago
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
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by barberpole 3y ago
> trial and error There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.
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by barberpole 3y ago
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
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by barberpole 4y ago
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
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by barberpole 4y ago
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
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by barberpole 4y ago
So it's not about canned orchestration?
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by barberpole 4y ago
"Pick the right tool for the job" --- exit
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by barberpole 5y ago
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
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by barberpole 5y ago
"Snakehead"
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by barberpole 5y ago
Harmonically and formally not as adventurous as the scherzo of Symphony #1.
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by barberpole 5y ago
Vivaldi was a great musical genius.