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Hard to believe that great tits weren't even mentioned

That's what the paper's abstract says: >Crucially, this argument does not rely on biological exclusivity. If an artificial system were ever conscious, it would be because of its sp…

If you just type "Salem" for the city, it just picks one and goes with it. If you type "Salem, Oregon" vs "Salem, MA", it gives the desired result (at least for the cases I've trie…

I noticed my local wal mart doing this, not on every product, but more than one. I had hoped it was an honest mistake until it happened on my next visit. I told an associate about …

A lazy error [0] in the abstract suggests that the paper may have been written by a domestic cat (Felis catus). Given that male experimenters tend to stress out mice [1], it is pla…

It's a graduate student writing a journal club article about the Lewicki 2002 paper, which is very good, and whose abstract states the idea more precisely: "The form of the code de…

TFA doesn't even mention the human habit of stealing food from mice, for example https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1605...

Same reason there are still 5 senses, because it's easier to teach than the truth

Dark Sky

the math version of this idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41566446

It was widely used on slashdot, I just assume that people who use this Three Letter Acronym (TLA) are also /. refugees

Adm Greenert nicely describes the attitude toward early 90s sub movies (Hunt for Red October vs Crimson Tide). For this audience, in addition to driving maneuvers, he might have ad…

TLAs FTW!

Some preliminary evidence: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44286277

Wait I thought we were supposed to eat more low-hanging fruit...

Yet this is exactly how educational curricula are being developed right now - AI generates lesson plan based upon standards (easier for teachers), teacher feeds in reading assignme…

The functional equivalent of yodeling is 'hollerin', which old timers in the mountains used to do every morning

Never heard anyone pronounce the v in that one, it's always Y'all'd'a, as distinguished from y'all'odda (you all ought to). Similarly we have y'ontu? (do you want to?). Jeff Foxwor…

There was a robust social effort back then to select and grow the best cider apple trees, but those orchards were cut down during prohibition

At my university this was called 'business calculus'. It's enough to get you through most of economics and finance, but not enough to understand basic physics. You can memorize cra…

It's an American thing, which traces to Bill Clinton's development of the factory farming industry when he was governor of Arkansas. The good old-fashioned eggs and chickens are st…

dang thanks for the url change. The detail I would not otherwise have noticed was his rejection of the idea that AI might dumb people down (~13:00). He states in analogy, unironica…

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In the south, the term "maple syrup" is shorthand for "maple-flavored sugar-based syrup-like product"

A Hopfield network is a lot more like physics than biology, but agreed that the conformal field theorists should have been recognized before Hopfield and/or Hinton. Jim Simons woul…