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Perfect pitch is very common, can be developed by training. My daughter said once she was the only one in their class who didn't have perfect pitch (she was on music program at uni…

Modifying something for future benefits is exactly what sentient beings are doing. Yeah, bacteria are small. But small is not the same as dumb.

Can you cite any experiment that can distinguish volitional choice from non-volitional choice (whatever that means)? In the absence of such experiment, both options are purely spec…

Following generic ideas as to how to improve your life is what makes people depressed in the first place. You MUST do this, you MUST do that, become rich, retire early, make the wo…

Those cases were probably quite common. From wikipedia article about Glenn Gould, the great Canadian pianist: "The family's surname was changed to Gould informally around 1939 in o…

If not for this quota, you would have much greater number of "known physicists and mathematicians from USSR with Jewish names" LOL In some places (Moscow University math dep-t) the…

The target acceptance rate was rumored to be 2% - which roughly corresponded to the percentage of Jewish population in USSR. I was one of those Jewish applicants in 1973 :) Exam wa…

Forgot to mention most important tidbit I learned. Normally, you need to have your first colonoscopy at the age of 50. Mo matter if you have symptoms or not. But for certain ethnic…

Had same thing at age 44. Stage 2.5, was given 60% chance. Had chemo and radiation. There's something I can share with you if you write to tatumizer at gmail dot com. I really hope…

while in the "Zone", you lose the ability to reflect on the things you are writing - long trip often results in complete bullshit. Which you can discover only upon waking up. Then …

Let's consider a different problem. There are 100 non-negative numbers summing up to 10000. Let's choose a random combination of numbers satisfying this condition. Intuitively, it'…

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/615017-symmetry-is-only-a-pr...

I would love to use it, but no preset is good for just playing with MIDI keyboard. Notes sound ad infinitum. Any advice on how to calibrate it to sound like electric piano? Maybe a…

> In a classical word, you must simulate only one path. In a quantum word, you must simulate both. You don´t need some magical conscious observer to force the collapse of the wave …

This simple criteria above perfectly explains how mainstream media came up with 90% probability of Clinton's win. Otherwise please provide your own explanation.

Does posting fake results of fake polls constitute a fake news? If yes, what kind of AI is needed to distinguish it from the real one?

Term "understanding" will be banned by then, replaced with "backpropagation". And if you fail to backpropagate whatever you are told, you will be pronounced a fascist on the spot.

True, but this new variation is fundamentally different exactly because now it's not just an abstract process of unknown nature, but a "computation". It will be interesting to see …

My bet they will. As soon as VR gadgets become more realistic, people will start asking more philosophical questions. Let's talk about it in 10 years :)

Can it be that in 10 years, everybody will believe that we live in simulated reality, and these galaxies are created on demand when we stare into particular region of space? Elon M…

As a former citizen of USSR: NYT is an absolute equivalent of "Pravda". Instrument of propaganda. Of interest only for historians/PR professionals.

She was used by greedy VCs. She's a victim. Take pity folks. (No sarcasm)

Fragile web of mocks. You will find yourself spending 90% of time fixing this web.

Would be good to know what "up to" means in "up to 1000 times faster". By any chance, isn't it the same "up to" as in "you can win up to 100 million dollars in a lottery"?