johnp271

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by johnp271 1y ago
I have not seen any indication that Rowling, Musk, or Adams assert that trans people are categorically a "major threat". That said, these folks do view trans people as a "major threat" to those athletes who compete in th
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How the brain processes the number zero(uni-bonn.de)
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by johnp271 2y ago
Researchers locate neurons in the brain that respond to '0' is in same region as neurons that respond to '1', '2', etc. The empty set (nothing) is apparently encoded differently.
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by johnp271 2y ago
I always figured that liberal radio, e.g. Air America, struggled and failed because that point of view had too much competition from other media, e.g. newspapers and television. Back before internet, conservatives only had radio to hear wha
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by johnp271 3y ago
I don't see it as ironic at all. One way anthropologists studying a society can gauge what that society values is to look at the punishments applied for various transgressions. There are severe consequences for transgressions against t
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by johnp271 3y ago
I too enjoy reading Tao, but this approach to inequalities did not work for me at all. I am a retired PhD mathematician and I've taught the full gamut of undergraduate math in college. BUT all my life I have struggled with the simplest
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by johnp271 3y ago
The research and discoveries that are most deserving of a Nobel Prize are precisely the sort that are unexpected and unpredicted in advance. All this "Monday morning quarterbacking" by everyone who now suggest that this discovery
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by johnp271 3y ago
"Unfortunately universities are not immune to the realities of living in a capitalistic society." There might be unpleasant realities of living in a capitalistic society but they are less unpleasant than living in any other sort o
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by johnp271 3y ago
The CRTC News Release explicitly states: "Today, the CRTC is advancing its regulatory plan to modernize Canada’s broadcasting framework and ensure online streaming services make meaningful contributions to Canadian and Indigenous conte
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by johnp271 3y ago
Adobe Photoshop has just introduced their "generative fill" tool in the new beta version. It requires an internet connection and it goes out to the web and uses AI to fill photo regions with whatever text request the user inputs.
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by johnp271 3y ago
This artist's several sentence summary of an ANN and relating it to prejudice is fascinating: "The output of an artificial neural network can be roughly defined as a conclusion obtained by generalising a limited set of observation
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by johnp271 4y ago
Wow so all this was accomplished starting from scratch in January 2021. Given another year or two and a second Biden term we should be finished.
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by johnp271 5y ago
Does the McNamara Fallacy have any application to our response to COVID? I often hear pundits of all sorts, medical doctors, epidemiologists, politicians, CDC scientists, etc, make statements such as "the data shows this" and &quo
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by johnp271 5y ago
There is a nice 10 minute discussion about this paper by physicist Sabine Hossenfelder on her "Science without the gobbelydgook" youtube series (which I recommend). She considers the existential questions regarding necessity of co
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by johnp271 5y ago
The individual in the photo is 4 'months' old. Arguably 4 month old babies being nude should not be a big deal. I suspect in much of the world this is the normal attire for a 4 month old. I guess videos of babies being born (see f
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by johnp271 5y ago
Because the objective of a 'headline' is to get people to continue reading, essentially it's clickbait. Which descriptive choice gets more notice and is more likely to provoke continued reading "two women" or "
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by johnp271 5y ago
Weren't the two COVID bills passed by congress, each > $1trillion, a socialization of the losses incurred by folks? Wasn't the point of the $1400 (or whatever) checks and extended unemployment benefits intended to make up for l
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by johnp271 8y ago
Shouldn't those who said the world would end with the killing of net neutrality be asked why the world has not ended, also why there has been no noticeable change? If you are reading this now, your action proves that all the claims of
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by johnp271 8y ago
Isn't is also clear, in fact more clear, that none of the doomsday scenarios of killing net neutrality were real either?