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A lot of (probably valid) criticism in these comments. Personally I find the comparison between strange attractors and hermeneutics really fun. I imagine the self-similarity in int…

The comparison to luxury goods is not really accurate here IMO. When you purchase a luxury watch you get something tangible in return. These apps purposely prey on psychological we…

Everyone saw this coming. Still, it's disappointing to see. I will be taking my valuable 0.12$ elsewhere thank you very much.

I'm a huge fan of Karl Friston's work! A seemingly simple idea (viewing cognition as effectively Bayesian) with many interesting implications. Really hope we'll see more energy bas…

The Lutheran reformation was a political movement. And the spread of this movement was dependent on things like population density, economic potential and proximity to catholic ins…

I doubt the average peasant was into schelling or fichte. Göethe had and continues to influence literature, poetry, etc. But shifting culture to be more self-oriented? Please. The …

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I remember when scigen successfully published one or two papers in a journal.

There's not. The positional encodings are generated using sines and cosines such that any offset in position can be described as a linear function on the original position. Using t…

I think it's because ext2 and ext4 both use block allocation in favor of paging thru bio and uses buffer tricks to write data in a way that reduces fragmentation

There has been research into common factors on the biomedical front. For example, the shank3 gene has been implicated in both ASD and Schizophrenia. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov…

I don't really agree with the opening paragraph here. We have seen numerous examples of GPT4 "reasoning" by what is essentially dumb metacognition. For example, when querying wolfr…

One cool application of the discrete laplace operator is that we can use it to calculate the number of spanning trees of the graph by considering the determinants of the submatrice…

Nothing pisses me off more than journals charging thousands for access. None of the money reaches the actual researchers and it only serves to reinforce public distrust in research…

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As far as I can discern, the Carter administration, much like its predecessor, was responsible for providing the most of the arms used during the East Timor genocide. However I don…