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by kurosawa 4mo ago
lovely music, sounds like enya or clannad or such
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by kurosawa 3y ago
This is interesting: could we see it as the most exhaustive set of plausible/probable human events of a harmful nature ? Sure it is for insurance purposes, but I’m wondering what we could use it to label human experience in general—an
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by kurosawa 3y ago
Wondering how many will ever be born here, if it lasts until the sun dries out for example
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by kurosawa 3y ago
This felt somehow complementary to Dr Seuss’ “Oh the places you’ll go”, specifically, part two and/or a commentary on part one. Thanks for this.
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing(youtube.com)
2 points by kurosawa 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurosawa 3y ago
This reminded me in part of the work of Francis Su on math and the virtues: math and human flourishing https://youtu.be/FTXhj-puDgw Mathematical practice can be a means of achieving the various virtues, and ‘show up’ (or ma
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by kurosawa 3y ago
It might be more general than that: imaginary problems are at the root of bad___ Where ___ could be something produced like software (or furniture, etc.), or theorised such as scientific theorems (as even though thought experiments are use
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by kurosawa 3y ago
Middle-aged government worker sought to get promoted by abusing a mentally handicapped teen—probably the same age as his own kids if he had any.
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by kurosawa 3y ago
On this question please check out the work of Peter Kingsley (like ‘Reality’)
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Ask HN: Could recent AI be used to generate an operating system?
1 points by kurosawa 3y ago|0 comments
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by kurosawa 5y ago
Also, what if many folks set up the same so that we have full crowdsourced surveillance of aircrafts over various regions, how could this info be used i wonder?
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by kurosawa 5y ago
why this edition specifically?
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by kurosawa 6y ago
This is nice, it adds another dimension to the audio experience of the bridge-bay 'composite-system'
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by kurosawa 7y ago
I'm wondering how as a non-blind person i can actually learn to listen at such high words-per-minute. I don't need to read the screen in general but research papers (pdfs etc.)--while i'm looking at something else; so i can b
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Crowd-solving true crimes?
1 points by kurosawa 8y ago|0 comments
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by kurosawa 8y ago
Reminds me of old-school emission/extramission theories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emission_theory_(vision)
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by kurosawa 8y ago
Do something that would be orthogonal to the current sum of your life experiences.
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by kurosawa 8y ago
I say dive in, don't be shy. There is so much that these specific intellectual paths lead to.
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Sites like HN
2 points by kurosawa 8y ago|0 comments
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by kurosawa 8y ago
His faith background plays out more explicitly in his doctoral thesis; several ideas therein were precursors to his later-popularized notions: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Trivium-Place-Thomas-Learni... Short review sum
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by kurosawa 8y ago
Anyone know about similar but open-source projects that do code completion (or assist in some way) upon training on stackexchange data?
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by kurosawa 8y ago
Inspiring. Anyone know any problem-books that could match the (implied) breadth of the one indicated? "I went back to the library and found the mathematics book with the largest number of problems. The book was in Russian, and I didn’t
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by kurosawa 8y ago
I find the same for books for the relationship between contemporary and classic works in other major traditions
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by kurosawa 9y ago
This is no longer held by most western medievalists/orientalists/etc. let alone by the descendant of the peoples of concern. There are too many references, but here is one to start with: https://mitpress.mit.edu/bo
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by kurosawa 9y ago
his mnemotechnic devices and 'art of memory' (later to influence modern computation) derive from devices from the preceding islamic tradition in andalusia (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zairja ) There are
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by kurosawa 9y ago
somebody had to say his name thrice
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by kurosawa 10y ago
Spend a good bit of time thinking about what the ideal way would be for you to spend 8+ hours a day (i.e. work), and how this would fit into your overall goals in life - beyond work/career. Do this by testing out all of the above hypot
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by kurosawa 10y ago
The following suggestion is not about tackling AI from neuroscience/biological perspective, but one that critiques the computational view of mind/brain - which provides only a limited picture. See the work of prof. Walter Freeman:
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by kurosawa 10y ago
I use my perception to do much more, most of the time. All evidence points to humans being a good few steps above other animals for whom those three activities are not only necessary but almost sufficient.