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this reminds me of a book "monsters and magical sticks, there's no such thing as hypnosis?". Which to my memory seemed to suggest hypnosis, and the states of altered consciousness …

Jumping in on this; I’ve found jurafsky/martin a good place to start. Covers a lot of ground and is a pretty good read as well. https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

I'll leave these here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiresolution_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_wavelet_transform And as a lot of people have mentioned in here…

Same difference back then. (Iceland was basically expat Norwegians who held more on to the older beliefs while Norway got ravaged by christianity, and as a consequence of the pries…

So... this isn’t news at all, but rather can be seen as supporting what our (norwegian here) own older tales and historians wrote down around the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w…

This reminded me; People seem way too comfortable / in the dark when it comes to voice-cloning, which, with the added data of general speech-patterns, is likely to become a major i…

Were they not?

Tragedy of the commons, and the laziness of a false sense of security railings. Basically; I agree with you, and I think it is because of the way people act in a society that seems…

Is "Praise Bob" still a thing?

Or just open it in private mode. The free articles thing seems to be cookie-dependent

There’s a theorem known as the Convolution Theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem Much used in simplifying kernel operations and convolutions (and some other …

If we break AI apart and look at it; Artificial - human made. (As opposed to something emerging from nature) Intelligence - ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, (orie…

..and high performance athletic achievements are typically beyond the bellcurve of health over activity. i.e. if you draw health as a function of activity/performance, it forms a b…

Something I found interesting when running analysis on Ising models; if you do an FFT (2 dimensional) on it, you get what amounts to a wavey star-like blob in the middle (assuming …

After thinking about this for a while, there’s a pattern to games that might be useful to think about: Games generally follow a pattern of: - presenting a pattern to look for. - pr…

Loved the Zachtronics games, but at a certain point they hit the issue with becoming 5+ h investments into a single problem, and cross the boundary to tediousness. Only fully finis…

Same here. Early Lucasarts adventure games drove me and my younger brother to learn english as a second language from around the age of 6.

Of course. Yeah, what I was trying to illustrate is that with enough contextual knowledge the amount of things one has to memorize becomes comparatively smaller. Basically if one l…

normalized, not normal. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_vector ) theoretically if you add the value-vector of all people together you end up with a long vector that represents…

I was recently thinking about this, but on a slightly bigger scale. There’s a term “off-kilter”, which is easy to explain using vectors like this. If we take the general vector of …

I’ve read most Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett 3 or more times. Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse is another philosophical favourite when it comes to getting somethi…

Second this. In the ongoing protests etc. I’ve realised how much the stories about Vimes have shaped my ideas of what a policeman should be.

taylor of e goes something like 1 + x + x^/2! + x^3/3!... Well if we look at cos and sin, we know that these correspond to e^x if x = i x So then it’s easy to plug that in to the e…

Society values education, not necessarily teaching, it seems. For an outsider looking in at the US, it looks like they do not really value teachers (compared to professors) much. N…

I just remembered reading something years back about how “because” is a magical word. People are surprisingly more susceptible and accepting of any request if you add a “because X”…