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by llamaz 3mo ago
> But given the above, I have not understood their importance as kernel functions or use for GP. If the author has a CV attached to their blog, the purpose is to signal competence and the target audience is future employers .
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by llamaz 6mo ago
There are levels to morality, from the abstract (e.g. climate change, energy usage, veganism) to the concrete (murder). Time are unstable, but there are multiple ways to make money. If you are established in your career, you can probably fi
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by llamaz 2y ago
A position shared by both Lenin and Thatcher
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by llamaz 2y ago
It's a university project, so it wouldn't have been expected to be perfect. I had to do something similar as an assignment, but if I had the choice, I would have chosen anything else because the project was anything but fun. Every
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by llamaz 2y ago
You're talking about genocide and religious discrimination. Wikipedia: Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word "genocide" in the 20th century,[110] referred to the Albigensian Crusade as "one of the most conclusive cases of
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by llamaz 2y ago
The credit for the labour theory of value goes to Adam Smith, specifically the Wealth of Nations. Whether it was true or not is a separate question, but it was based on empirical data available at the time. Marx is usually credited with it
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by llamaz 2y ago
Excellent game. I also suggest adding instructions that words can only be top down or left-to-right. I was trying to fit right-to-left in some cases initially.
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by llamaz 3y ago
"Do you know what it’s like? What it’s like when you get the feeling that you’re about to die? And that you were ready to collapse at a moment’s notice?" It sounds like the author had a bad experience with energy drinks. Everyone
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by llamaz 3y ago
I didn't know, thanks for the correction :) The Arabs must have switched it around then
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by llamaz 3y ago
This is intentional. They're called Arabic numerals for a reason - when they were imported to Europe to replace Roman numerals, they weren't flipped. This is why mental arithmetic is harder than it needs to be.
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by llamaz 3y ago
Leibniz did that from memory, although the stoics deserve the credit for propositional logic (which can be reduced to a collection of truth tables). and contrary to popular belief Boole actually extended Aristotle’s syllogisms (reduced the
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by llamaz 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but this is not immediately obvious. For example, control systems also adapt to data and are often robust to noise, and they're understood mathematically very well. I don't necessarily disagree, but
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by llamaz 5y ago
No, I’m fact the best female chess player, Judith Polgar was known for her aggression while the best male chess player Magnus Carlsen is known for his conservative style. They are different generations, however, but there have always been a
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by llamaz 6y ago
I'm not a Foucault fan, and I used to hold the same opinion as you. But now I realise the exchange was, as you say, a "waste of time". Chomsky doesn't seem to have read up on the issues Foucault is talking about, and he
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by llamaz 6y ago
How do you know truth is objective? Without a doubt it's true in hard science, e.g. chemistry and biology. But by the time you get to social science, economics, politics, and ethics I think we're closer to the dark ages than we li
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by llamaz 6y ago
there's a few gradations of difference between Trump voters and neo-Nazis... parent is talking about the latter
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by llamaz 6y ago
Interestingly enough, this is exactly how one of the world chess champions, Jose Raul Capablanca, was said to have learned chess as a child. It may be true, or perhaps it was a story concocted in order to emphasize his innate talent.
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by llamaz 6y ago
dietary cholesterol... sure But saturated fat is legitimately bad for you. You should consult any introductory university biology course rather than blog posts (even if they are endorsed by decorated MDs or PhDs - science in consensus based
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by llamaz 6y ago
I guess another way to put it is that, not only is there not necessarily any progress. But that as a result of a fixed human nature, the mistakes of the past will almost certainly be repeated. As John Gray states “politics is a succession o
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by llamaz 6y ago
> Gray's view is not that there is no progress but that the idea of natural progression, unstoppable, inevitable progress is wrong and dangerous. What I mean to say is that his view is that there really is no progress. Scientificall
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by llamaz 6y ago
You misunderstand Gray and somehow believe him to hold the exact specific position that he's arguing against, namely, the humanism of Dawkins/Pinker/Chomsky. You can't get this from the article above, but read other book
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by llamaz 6y ago
You certainly seem to have a good understanding of how provocative his philosophy is. He doesn't believe that history is leading anywhere, that there's moral progress. He believes that in the future slavery might return because hi
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by llamaz 6y ago
Yes, and the United States regressed back towards those countries. I don't think the United States is the "bad guy" or the root of all evil, I don't think the West is either. I just don't think that they're th
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by llamaz 6y ago
This is the same narrative of the civilized Europeans that colonized the rest of the world and led to the genocide of the Native American (Indians) and the Australian aboriginals. Our side is human and anyone that falls short of your values
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by llamaz 6y ago
I agree, but I'd argue that most education is similar, unless you live in Finland or went to special technical school for e.g. math or physics. In university I had a few lecturers that tried to be different. They tested knowledge rathe
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by llamaz 6y ago
2 year PhDs? That sounds like a Master of Philosophy. Maybe in Europe PhDs are easier because you require the extra step of habilitation.
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by llamaz 6y ago
Democracy requires informed consent, and an education on the facts. A truly free people are trusted with the facts, and it is the ethical duty of journalists to provide this education, and as such Assange has acted to the highest ethical st
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by llamaz 6y ago
It was severely punished in all societies until recently. Islamic societies have not developed yet, and its not entirely clear that it's because of Islam. First you have to accept that ideas, rather than the material conditions, are pr
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by llamaz 6y ago
Have you been reading John Gray too?
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by llamaz 6y ago
The moment you clarify the statement you end up in a contentious political debate, so the ancestor post is trying to bait others into saying the elephant in the room without putting words in others' mouth: That some groups/ethnici

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