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Comment #43668994
It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's reque…
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Comment #42317224
how did this garbage wind up here?
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Comment #42164960
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
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Comment #41947840
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0] The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because …
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Comment #39441976
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it ca…
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Comment #39355927
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
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Comment #39170845
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
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Comment #37454763
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.
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Comment #36485167
>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.
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Comment #36269115
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed…
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Comment #35958875
> trial and error There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.
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Comment #35731086
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
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Comment #34557658
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
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Comment #33303713
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
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Comment #32588455
So it's not about canned orchestration?
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Comment #30764898
"Pick the right tool for the job" --- exit
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Comment #29056389
The left hand fingering of the example puts the thumb on a black key and trills fingers 4 and 5: not good.
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Comment #28930394
"Snakehead"
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Comment #28698590
Harmonically and formally not as adventurous as the scherzo of Symphony #1.
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Comment #27446720
Vivaldi was a great musical genius.