pjdorrell

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by pjdorrell 2y ago
The hypothesis that music is caused by a "glial illusion". That is, glial cells observe the activity of neural activity responding to music, and glial cells falsely perceive certain aspects of that neural activity, which results i
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by pjdorrell 4y ago
The results of these experiments indirectly tell us something about our chances of ever meeting aliens: * No physical collapse => Everett interpretation AKA "many worlds" * Many worlds gives us the Anthropic Principle for free
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by pjdorrell 4y ago
Link to something I wrote once, which includes a discussion about absolute vs relative morality: http://thinkinghard.com/blog/BiologyOfMorality.html . (It would appear that "moral realism" is just another way
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by pjdorrell 4y ago
We could ask the opposite question: Some forms of entertainment are usually only entertaining the first time. Like jokes. Or movies. Music seems to be a form of entertainment. But usually we are quite happy to listen to a new song more than
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
If your theorem provers never prove a contradiction, they are all too weak.
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Ask HN: How come 3rd party payment systems still exist?
1 points by pjdorrell 5y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
The author says: >"The status quo provides marginal individual benefit to the person making the decision while also causing marginal harm to society as a whole. Doing the right thing doesn’t really provide much tangible short term b
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An application of infinite countable ordinals to the theory of metatiktok(tiktok.com)
2 points by pjdorrell 5y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
In the bacterial example, each individual tumble chooses a new direction at random, and the effectiveness of the algorithm depends on the smoothness of the chemical density function in the 3D space that the bacteria is swimming around in. I
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
CO2, or CO₂ ?
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
I have been learning new things since I started _making_ videos on TikTok. Ironically, making highly digestible content for social media is something that requires a certain amount of sustained attention.
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Music temporarily suppresses the process of Truth Evaluation(tiktok.com)
2 points by pjdorrell 5y ago|0 comments
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Omicron does not grow “70 times faster” (bad math alert)
11 points by pjdorrell 5y ago|3 comments
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I Made a Video about Humpty Dumpty and Naïve Set Theory(tiktok.com)
1 points by pjdorrell 5y ago|0 comments
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
All definitions of the word "music" that anyone has ever come up with are wrong. We only know what the word "music" means from our own subjective experience of listening to specific examples of music. At most we can obse
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
In the Speech-to-Song illusion, recorded speech is altered so that there are one or more exact repetitions. These exact repetitions are something that never occur in spontaneous conversational speech.
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
Last time I tried it you couldn't update titles. Which is very limiting. Some web pages have great titles and other web pages don't.
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
Nuclear fusion. It's been such a struggle to get anywhere near to making it do something useful. But what if, one day, it actually works? What could happen if we all had access to enormous amounts of very cheap energy? Have we thought
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
This page is dated 23 April 2020, so it might be interesting from a historical point of view, but it's rather out-of-date. In particular, it does not contain the word "Laos".
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
The name reminds me of "DCOMbobulator", another software whose purpose was to turn off something that caused endless trouble and which you never asked for in the first place.
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
Some observations: * The "raw" pitch information coming into our brains from our ears is absolute. * Sophisticated processing inside the brain is required to calculate relative pitch. * Although absolute pitch perception is consid
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
One could make a Venn diagram of positive adjectives used frequently in Hacker News headlines and positive adjectives used frequently by a certain US ex-president. "Beautiful" would be in the intersection. "Modern" is po
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
This is an example of a triple negative in a headline: Biden can not make landlords not be able to tell you that you are not allowed to continue living in your existing accommodation. Therefore (in some cases) this reduces to a single negat
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by pjdorrell 5y ago
Music. What is music? Is music an adaptation? If so, what is it an adaptation for? If not, how come it exists at all?
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by pjdorrell 6y ago
Some toplined melodies - https://whatismusic.info/melodies/index.html
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The Speaker Controls the Thoughts of the Listener(whatismusic.info)
1 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments
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What Is Music? The Four Step Model of Speech Processing(whatismusic.info)
1 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments
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Frequent, rapid testing could cripple Covid within weeks, study shows(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|1 comments
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Music Is Anti-Conversation(whatismusic.info)
1 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments
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What Are Emotions?(whatismusic.info)
1 points by pjdorrell 6y ago|0 comments

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