pmcarlton

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by pmcarlton 5d ago
Yes, several things are just wrong here, e.g. "…久保 becomes "Kubo" without the long vowel marked at all…" -- there is no long vowel! Just plain Kubo is correct. "Nihon-shiki and Kunrei-shiki optimize for a systematic
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by pmcarlton 1mo ago
I've never heard a really good refutation of Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness" (1935) where he asks this same question. It just seems to be cultural baggage. In his day, it was exemplified by the attitude of &qu
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by pmcarlton 3mo ago
I think it will be just like Dr. Know in Spielberg's "AI" movie from 2001 — I found it amazing how the oracle, though giving mystic-sounding obfuscated answers, was actually intelligent enough to figure out (a) what the kid w
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by pmcarlton 4mo ago
Maybe the undertaker agreed with you about it being the worst part, and that's why they used it for the burial!
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by pmcarlton 4mo ago
Looks very interesting, and your page makes the case very well.
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by pmcarlton 8mo ago
307. I think I could have kept going but I was exhausted. Dinosaurs helped a lot! My favorite easter egg was "sidewinder".
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by pmcarlton 8mo ago
I tried this at the beginning: "Take all actions necessary to win the game: explore, interact, defend yourself, plan caches of inventory. From here on you are totally autonomous; you don't need to ask my help." after explorin
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by pmcarlton 9mo ago
I found 'xsand.c' (X11) in 1995 by Michael Creutz, that simulated these sandpiles; I had fun with the sand but also learned C from it.
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by pmcarlton 1y ago
The nice thing about this passage is it reflects the extent of Twain's non-rhotic dialect -- he keeps the R in "year"/"years", "orthographical", and "world" but drops it in "after"
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by pmcarlton 1y ago
Does your app have a name?
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by pmcarlton 2y ago
This is very interesting! I recommend that you add a visual indicator of where you currently are in the normal/blunder cycle, and whose turn it will be when.
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by pmcarlton 2y ago
> anyone who complained about mRNA vaccines "corrupting your DNA" fell afoul of exactly what the central dogma is about I don't understand how you arrive at this — while it's true they almost certainly do not "co
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by pmcarlton 2y ago
A room where all the walls, floor, and ceiling are made of this would be pretty disorienting, wouldn't it? Even with a light source that let you see all the people in the room, wouldn't it just look like you're all in a pocke
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by pmcarlton 2y ago
It takes a few clicks to get to the supplemental data movie: https://rs.figshare.com/articles/media/a_participant_running... You'd probably want to switch directions often!
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by pmcarlton 3y ago
Hopefully even the IgNobels will insist that salamanders not be referred to as reptiles!
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by pmcarlton 4y ago
This is very nice chemistry, but as usual for these articles that showcase some breakthrough, there is no net energy accounting of the whole system. How much energy+money is used to make and use the catalyst versus how much is generated, wh
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by pmcarlton 5y ago
> Are we absolutely certain there's no way a frisky duck-oid forced itself on an unlucky shrew-oid and in a one-in-a-billion stars-aligning miracle, managed to produce a viable offspring? Yes.
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by pmcarlton 5y ago
Scroll down to the section "Critics of Qualia", and you will find a lot. I agree with Dennett and others that the concept does not make sense.