tmuir

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by tmuir 8y ago
I've assumed that. I appreciate the advice. I got a little heated in the Berkeley Study article this week. I guess I get to a point when some things are plain as day to me, such as "Humans learn better when they are more awake
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by tmuir 8y ago
The paywall prevents me from finding out the economist's theory, but I can put forth my own. The two movies Sully and Deepwater Horizon, which both came out in 2016, are near mirror images of each other in many ways. Sully is partly th
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by tmuir 8y ago
"Other areas of cortex can support 'declarative' memory formation. For example you can learn things like the definition of a new word (lang), features of a novel object (vis), where you parked your car outside your new apartm
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by tmuir 8y ago
I posit that this is largely due to your frame of reference. I will assume from your presence on hacker news that you already have learned programming. You are already familiar with its utility. You have found over your career that tools
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by tmuir 8y ago
Are you familiar with Node Red? It is an IBM project that is a self hosted website you can run on a raspberry pi, or a traditional PC or server. The tool allows you to graphically build Node.js applications, through some key abstractions.
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by tmuir 8y ago
I can appreciate that they are different tools, but to accept your challenge, I submit three.js, along with the multiple websites that have boatloads of single feature demos. In the particular venue of 3D graphics in the browser, I contend
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by tmuir 8y ago
It's interesting to think about how apex predators are the keystone that propagates order in their ecosystem. For as long as humans have been aware of wolves, we have sought to eradicate them. After all, they kill livestock. They ar
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by tmuir 8y ago
Please stop jumping to the conclusion that I am off topic. My thesis that ties this story together, and showering in PE class, is that some people see boats, guns, and sailors moving through the water, but are somehow incapable of acknowled
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by tmuir 8y ago
I just laid out the derivative of your behavior, and then you said "thats ridiculous, we quickly adapted over a short amount of time". So, if I hear you correctly, what your saying is that as your understanding over time, lets cal
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by tmuir 8y ago
Allow me to contextualize all of your controversial deflection: You specifically selected parts of the body that finish maturing earlier than my statement, because it was the most controversial thing that popped into your head. It didn&#x2
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by tmuir 8y ago
Here's a secret: we all did. But ask yourself this. Think back in time to those dreadful experiences and remember the people who didn't _appear_ to dread the experience. Those people dreaded walking naked amongst their 14 year ol
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by tmuir 8y ago
The irony of defining a regional term in the context of other regional terms.
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by tmuir 8y ago
All people are particular about their routines. Some to greater degrees than others. Are you familiar with the phrase: "There are two types of jobs, those you shower before, and some you shower afterwards."
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by tmuir 8y ago
Does it make your nebulous conspiracy theory more believable or less believable when you consider that the age of 18 is generally when people's bodies have reached full maturity? Personally, if my 22 year old self travelled in time thr
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by tmuir 8y ago
Let me guess, you believe governments should be run like companies, right? Perhaps, ask yourself why you come down on the side of moneyed interests in every point you make. When I see this kind of dogmatic badgering, Its almost like my brai
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by tmuir 8y ago
What was so traumatizing about the showers available to you in high school? Because I certainly remember first period gym, and I just took a shower afterwards. Then I was right as rain.
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by tmuir 8y ago
But those are controversial ideas that are not part of the reverence around Dr King. The conventional wisdom about Dr King is that he inspired an entire movement to universally take the high road and protest with nonviolence. In this sens
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by tmuir 8y ago
I don't argue that they've been particularly successful, I simply said relatively successful. I mean relative to other recent movements that have never gone anywhere at all. The very fact that you confidently use the acronym BLM
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by tmuir 8y ago
The true power in microtargeting lies in the iteration speed achievable by computers. As with any effective weapon, if you can wield yours faster than your opponent, you will emerge victorious in the normal case. This is the same principl
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by tmuir 8y ago
More than anything, its really hard to keep ones emotions in check after they realize they've been mindfucked for the last 1000 days or so. Some people react in anger at whoever tricked them, and others get overly excited when, like a
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by tmuir 8y ago
Lets imagine you developed a Deep Learning algorithm that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt to be able to pull off what CA pulled off. Why on god's green earth would you ever tell people that you have the algorithm, if you could inste
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by tmuir 8y ago
Like Orangutans?
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by tmuir 8y ago
Do you have context to add to the story, or just more reasons to look somewhere else, preferably away from this story?
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by tmuir 8y ago
Oh, I almost forgot. A good way to think about downvotes is your subconcsious admission that the best recourse you have to any argument is to try and make sure as few other people read it as possible. That means part of you that you have n
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by tmuir 8y ago
Well, then you're gonna love love love love this. Faked videos are certainly bad, but lets travel in our mental time machines back to February 18th 1990, the day before Photoshop was released. "We are rapidly nearing a world whe
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by tmuir 8y ago
You know how Donald Trump says he doesn't telegraph his moves? You know how Donald Trumps supporters talk a lot about 4D chess? There are several people playing 4D chess with Donald. The Cambridge Analytica story is lining up a path t
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by tmuir 8y ago
I posit that its a beautiful piece of artwork designed as a honeypot. The sweetness that will draw certain people in is all of the conflicting, and therefore inherently controversial information that can be used to paint Facebook and Chris
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by tmuir 8y ago
This makes me think about what someone said in regards to the Black Lives Matter movement, and its relative success. Essentially, if you're waiting for Jesus, or even just Martin Luther King, Jr, to come back, and be the pure, untaint
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by tmuir 8y ago
There are certainly common aspects, such as mantras, and the general motivation for meditating, vs seizing control of your mind, to not let it be lead by the cigarette.
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by tmuir 8y ago
Carr specifically addresses this point in the book. He said that he was hurt to find out that after he'd published his book, and gave signed copies to friends, in the hope they would quit, many of his friends never even started the bo

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