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> But given the above, I have not understood their importance as kernel functions or use for GP. If the author has a CV attached to their blog, the purpose is to signal competence …

There are levels to morality, from the abstract (e.g. climate change, energy usage, veganism) to the concrete (murder). Time are unstable, but there are multiple ways to make money…

A position shared by both Lenin and Thatcher

It's a university project, so it wouldn't have been expected to be perfect. I had to do something similar as an assignment, but if I had the choice, I would have chosen anything el…

You're talking about genocide and religious discrimination. Wikipedia: Raphael Lemkin, who coined the word "genocide" in the 20th century,[110] referred to the Albigensian Crusade …

The credit for the labour theory of value goes to Adam Smith, specifically the Wealth of Nations. Whether it was true or not is a separate question, but it was based on empirical d…

Excellent game. I also suggest adding instructions that words can only be top down or left-to-right. I was trying to fit right-to-left in some cases initially.

"Do you know what it’s like? What it’s like when you get the feeling that you’re about to die? And that you were ready to collapse at a moment’s notice?" It sounds like the author …

I didn't know, thanks for the correction :) The Arabs must have switched it around then

This is intentional. They're called Arabic numerals for a reason - when they were imported to Europe to replace Roman numerals, they weren't flipped. This is why mental arithmetic …

Leibniz did that from memory, although the stoics deserve the credit for propositional logic (which can be reduced to a collection of truth tables). and contrary to popular belief …

I get what you're saying, but this is not immediately obvious. For example, control systems also adapt to data and are often robust to noise, and they're understood mathematically …

No, I’m fact the best female chess player, Judith Polgar was known for her aggression while the best male chess player Magnus Carlsen is known for his conservative style. They are …

I'm not a Foucault fan, and I used to hold the same opinion as you. But now I realise the exchange was, as you say, a "waste of time". Chomsky doesn't seem to have read up on the i…

How do you know truth is objective? Without a doubt it's true in hard science, e.g. chemistry and biology. But by the time you get to social science, economics, politics, and ethic…

there's a few gradations of difference between Trump voters and neo-Nazis... parent is talking about the latter

Interestingly enough, this is exactly how one of the world chess champions, Jose Raul Capablanca, was said to have learned chess as a child. It may be true, or perhaps it was a sto…

dietary cholesterol... sure But saturated fat is legitimately bad for you. You should consult any introductory university biology course rather than blog posts (even if they are en…

I guess another way to put it is that, not only is there not necessarily any progress. But that as a result of a fixed human nature, the mistakes of the past will almost certainly …

> Gray's view is not that there is no progress but that the idea of natural progression, unstoppable, inevitable progress is wrong and dangerous. What I mean to say is that his vie…

You misunderstand Gray and somehow believe him to hold the exact specific position that he's arguing against, namely, the humanism of Dawkins/Pinker/Chomsky. You can't get this fro…

You certainly seem to have a good understanding of how provocative his philosophy is. He doesn't believe that history is leading anywhere, that there's moral progress. He believes …

Yes, and the United States regressed back towards those countries. I don't think the United States is the "bad guy" or the root of all evil, I don't think the West is either. I jus…

This is the same narrative of the civilized Europeans that colonized the rest of the world and led to the genocide of the Native American (Indians) and the Australian aboriginals. …

I agree, but I'd argue that most education is similar, unless you live in Finland or went to special technical school for e.g. math or physics. In university I had a few lecturers …