synergy7

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by synergy7 3mo ago
If you think this is bad, try walking alongside a small road after dark. Some of the oncoming lights are blinding even from a few blocks away.
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by synergy7 4mo ago
I was drawn in by the "there’s a science to it" in the title, but I don't see that implicit promise (telling us something about the science of writing) fulfilled anywhere in the article, which is puzzling. Storytelling is som
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by synergy7 9mo ago
It feels so wonderfully weird reading about some else seeing a manatee today. I too saw a manatee while walking with my kids today. The interesting part was our navigational strategies complementing each other (me – misremembering the detai
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by synergy7 1y ago
Thank you for the correction. I wasn’t completely sure that "a list" was really all there was to it, but turns out I was mistaken maybe in a more important part of that sentence.
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by synergy7 1y ago
It may be immaterial whether we call Culture a utopia or a dystopia. I haven't studied Banks' works in exhaustive detail, but the impression I got is that people in the Culture can do almost anything, because none of it matters. A
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by synergy7 1y ago
I think the second paragraph in the parent comment fits really well with mimetic theory and this René Girard quote: "Man is the creature who does not know what to desire, and he turns to others in order to make up his mind. We desire w
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by synergy7 1y ago
I am not sure Netflix 2025 is a car. I would go with a carnival ride on a bunch of ponies analogy.
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by synergy7 1y ago
Vastly parallel reinforcement-learning-like self-play with no obvious in-game real-time feedback loop. No breaks to explicitly integrate experience into strategy ("... there’s no point to doing that <remembering> between each lif
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by synergy7 2y ago
Weierstrass function is used prominently in Abbot's (2015) "Understanding Analysis" book. Abbott also relies heavily on three other mind-bending functions - Dirichlet (nowhere continuous), Thomae (discontinuous at every ratio
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by synergy7 3y ago
Thank you! Will do. Although, it will take me some time to find three uninterrupted hours to watch it.
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by synergy7 3y ago
> the fan made extended cuts that are extremely brilliant Do you have suggestions where to find them and which one(s) to see?
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by synergy7 4y ago
I think the author uses minimal set because it allows constructing any sigma-algebra from it. This (minimal set-based construction) is only possible for finite spaces. It allows, for example, an intuitive explanation of how sigma algebra F2
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by synergy7 4y ago
Although, reducing the signal to noise ratio may help muting the message...
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by synergy7 4y ago
There is an example in Mathematica [1] that illustrates a similar point using Rock-Paper-Scissors game. It uses a very simple strategy to predict human opponent [2], but it appears to work well. (Although, at the moment the demonstration do