fat_cantor

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by fat_cantor 28d ago
> The natural logarithm being its own derivative the derivative of ln(x) is 1/x > the derivative a radians-based sin(x) being cos(x) and so on. Make it any other unit, and you have a mess of conversion factors worse than 2pi. the
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by fat_cantor 3mo ago
Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned
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by fat_cantor 5mo ago
That's what the paper's abstract says: >Crucially, this argument does not rely on biological exclusivity. If an artificial system were ever conscious, it would be because of its specific physical constitution, never its syntact
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by fat_cantor 8mo ago
If you just type "Salem" for the city, it just picks one and goes with it. If you type "Salem, Oregon" vs "Salem, MA", it gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've tried), and then uses your in
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by fat_cantor 9mo ago
I noticed my local wal mart doing this, not on every product, but more than one. I had hoped it was an honest mistake until it happened on my next visit. I told an associate about it, left my groceries, and I haven't been back. It&#x27
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by fat_cantor 10mo ago
A lazy error [0] in the abstract suggests that the paper may have been written by a domestic cat (Felis catus). Given that male experimenters tend to stress out mice [1], it is plausible that the opposite effect occurs in cats. Mostly, it w
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by fat_cantor 11mo ago
It's a graduate student writing a journal club article about the Lewicki 2002 paper, which is very good, and whose abstract states the idea more precisely: "The form of the code depends on sound class, resembling a Fourier transf
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by fat_cantor 11mo ago
TFA doesn't even mention the human habit of stealing food from mice, for example https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1605...
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
Same reason there are still 5 senses, because it's easier to teach than the truth
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
Dark Sky
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
the math version of this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566446
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
Adm Greenert nicely describes the attitude toward early 90s sub movies (Hunt for Red October vs Crimson Tide). For this audience, in addition to driving maneuvers, he might have added that the main premise of Red October (a clipped message)
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
TLAs FTW!
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
Some preliminary evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277
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by fat_cantor 1y ago
Wait I thought we were supposed to eat more low-hanging fruit...
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Yet this is exactly how educational curricula are being developed right now - AI generates lesson plan based upon standards (easier for teachers), teacher feeds in reading assignment, etc., AI generates quiz and grades responses. Maybe ther
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
The functional equivalent of yodeling is 'hollerin', which old timers in the mountains used to do every morning
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Never heard anyone pronounce the v in that one, it's always Y'all'd'a, as distinguished from y'all'odda (you all ought to). Similarly we have y'ontu? (do you want to?). Jeff Foxworthy has a bunch of these
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
There was a robust social effort back then to select and grow the best cider apple trees, but those orchards were cut down during prohibition
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
At my university this was called 'business calculus'. It's enough to get you through most of economics and finance, but not enough to understand basic physics. You can memorize crap about pendulums, but you won't underst
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
It's an American thing, which traces to Bill Clinton's development of the factory farming industry when he was governor of Arkansas. The good old-fashioned eggs and chickens are still widely available at farmers markets, etc., but
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
dang thanks for the url change. The detail I would not otherwise have noticed was his rejection of the idea that AI might dumb people down (~13:00). He states in analogy, unironically, that you don't need to be able to do multiplicatio
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
In the south, the term "maple syrup" is shorthand for "maple-flavored sugar-based syrup-like product"
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
A Hopfield network is a lot more like physics than biology, but agreed that the conformal field theorists should have been recognized before Hopfield and/or Hinton. Jim Simons would have been deserving too, IMHO, far more for his work
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Sadly the techcrunch article did not mention Rick Astley, as detailed hilariously in these comments
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
*Fortunately* (for manual street navigators), people who only use GPS think the art of manual street navigation is impossibly complex. During heavy traffic, we can use maps to find out where those people are being herded, and manually navig
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
Waze sure pissed of a lot of owners of million dollar homes in west LA and Santa Monica when they sent a bunch of assholes speeding through those neighborhoods at 60 MPH
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
A year ago, I had fast Cox internet for $70 per month. I moved a mile away, and Cox wanted at least $233 for any connection at any speed because AT&T was not a competitor in that neighborhood. I said no and relied on 5G until AT&T m
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by fat_cantor 2y ago
for eSaaSinations

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