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colorincorrect
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Comment #22215534
fair enough. i was told that by a old/english scholar and i checked wiki sample text to confirm, but i must have been mistaken. >Middle English is much more similar to modern Engli…
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Comment #22214171
misread, my bad; but i remain suspicious because from what i've heard the latin grammar is something quite alien, but then again i heard it from an english speaker....
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Comment #22214118
your last sentence is inaccurate: an english reader cannot read any latin at all naively, but a modern chinese reader can interpret little/some/most of classical chinese, depending…
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Comment #22214105
"classical" chinese is the form of chinese used before around 1910's (but some texts which have the "modern style" predate this time). single obscure characters would be used to co…
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Comment #22213947
not sure if serious but this sounds like trying to learn english via python syntax
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Comment #22207649
as to whether it is conscious or not influences whether you would want to model it a-la 3d physics engine, or if not then perhaps there is a more elegant solution we do not know of…
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Comment #22204083
"Mr. Soros is a philanthropist." also note that Soro's position isn't to inform a position on which Facebook should proceed with community guidelines, but instead he just wants to …
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Comment #22202004
good point you raise: this statement is very behaviorist in leaning, and ignores human psychology, but perhaps this is to do with pragmatic reasons
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Comment #22199893
it might be more accurate to say (as a hypothesis), is that whatever this "inner monologue" thing is, people don't seem to experience it the same, even if it does exist/not-exist
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Comment #22178310
shhh don't tell him that: art is partially self contradictory anyhow
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Comment #22178272
it is consistent for someone to procrastinate and work on something for a long time: you work for a long time while putting little effort. perhaps this was the intended interpretat…
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Comment #22178257
>very small children spending a lot of their time learning basic concepts of cause and effect, properties of objects, materials and physics and so on. i do not believe that young c…
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Comment #22178198
maybe, but any regular human being might not want to play your stupid word game which isn't even fun at all asides for the AI researcher.
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Comment #21742035
nitpicking here, but Cogito Ergo Sum (“I think, therefore I am”) has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. in modern vernacular you might translate it as "i percieve/witness …
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Comment #21725379
is there a similar analysis of google/facebook/instagram?
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Comment #21725360
dumb question, but if VCs decided that the venture is profitable under a certain model (aka: no limits pricing), then why doesn't the domain registry just do so themselves?
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Comment #21568757
there are a lot of dashcam footages of car crashes on youtube. i wonder if that information can be salvaged in some way
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Comment #21556793
I'm curious if there's any "good" positive correlations with screen time. Any ideas?
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Comment #21548864
obligatory comment that uBlockMatrix or any similar content blocker is good, but would anyone tell me if that is sufficient as well?
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Comment #21533123
Im more curious as to how they were found: can not even the richest of persons be completely secretive of their money?
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Comment #21469421
not that i believe (or not) that this will eventually be feasible, but the dream is that if you feed an introductory paragraph (which includes a thesis) to the algo, it will be abl…
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Comment #21431606
known nothing about the results, i suspect that mid-ranges are poorer mainly because human frequency response is most sensitive towards mid-range aka vocal-pitch frequency
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Comment #21421164
unrelated question: but why would any investigator leak information like this? who benefits?
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Comment #21404243
counter argument: having something explicitly labeled as "advertisement" allows for people to take it into context. now that that route has been taken away, advertisers would pursu…