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barberpole

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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.