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Only because "actual understanding" is ambiguously defined. Meaning is an association of A with B. Our brains have a large associative array with the symbols for the sound "dog" is…

Wnat about Gödel incompleteness? Comptuers aren't formal systems. Turing machines have no notion of truth. Their programs may. So a program can have M > N axioms in which case one …

A ridiculous argument. Turing machines don't know anything about the program they are executing. In fact, Turing machines don't "know" anything. Turing machines don't know how to f…

I don't remember when I first started using BBEdit. Perhaps not long after the demise of MPW. I still use it for everything but Lisp development.

Does the testimony of the adults who were negatively affected by it, both as adults and as children, count?

Just recently a black child, who was born at home with jaundice, was taken from the parents to be given care in a hospital, because a doctor didn’t think the parents would provide …

Earlier today I came across this on Scott Aaronson's site: "Also, are the ultimate equations that govern the universe “real,” while tables and chairs are “unreal” (in the sense of …

Edward Feser published a review of Koon's book ([0], [1]). I was struck by the number of times Feser argued that a "common sense" view of QM is the one that is "basically correct."…

They also "broke" the ability to set/remove a bookmark by double-tapping the page. The more Books degrades to become like Kindle, the less incentive I have to buy books from the Ap…

I'm a theist. His writings wouldn't have converted me, either.

The lock analogy fails. First, the viewer was given the data. Second, obfuscation is not a lock.

Should I be bothered that "=" is (((x•x)•(y•y))•(x•y)) so if he's going to write his axiom in terms of NAND, he needs to write all of it using NAND?

No: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2020/02/10/medical-error-thi...

While I see a lot of discussion about the contents of the article (politics, engineering, etc...) I want to comment on the article itself. Very well done. A delightful read during …

It’s the same complaint made against the ending of Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galáctica. All this has happened before and all this will happen again.

Thanks!

What do we do with a theory that conforms to every measurement ever made, but whose predictions aren’t testable? After all, we’re already there. We’ll never measure the interior of…

See the Millikan" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment”>Millika... Oil Drop Experiment , particularly the section “ Millikan's experiment as an exampl…

Ah, memories. I wrote a proposed multiprocessing extension for Genesis, et. al. which Apple didn’t adopt. Instead they went in different direction for the multiprocessing library. …

Until you get information from the measurement, it didn’t happen.

Excellence is privilege.

Not a darn thing. Don’t like them, don’t need them, don’t want to need them. I understand this (luxury) might not apply to everyone.

Isn’t the ultimate answer always “we don’t know”, “because”, or “42”? It has to be deeply unsatisfying because we don’t know what the ultimate question is, do we? We can’t stop ask…

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is a great short story. It won a Hugo in 1974.

Should the person whose content is blocked be able to face their accuser, know precisely what line they crossed over, and have recourse against arbitrary, malicious, incompetent ..…