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I've been making an experimental browser game on the topic of conspiracy beliefs and how they arise - would love to know what you think :) The underlying model is a belief network,…

In that case, estate cars would like a word with the current crop of SUVs

I've been making an experimental browser game on the topic of conspiracy beliefs and how they arise - would love to know what you think :) The underlying model is a belief network,…

My regular mechanic does that. "How much to get this car working again?" [sucks through teeth...]

So many variables unmeasured. How many hours per week? What sort of job? Something the parent finds meaning and purpose in, or just a paycheck? Surely these moderate the sign of th…

The built-in one in ableton is fine by me

Horses for courses... If the game in the article captures what these are about, it didn't do anything for me. Interesting to read, though. I've enjoyed some games that have a cozy …

I suspect it goes deeper than language even. We have associative memories, right? Given our learning, modelling, pigeonholing of the world along with our changing bodies, our older…

FWIW I didn't read that as an argument against providing housing, I read it as an argument in favour of providing housing and treatment.

Yes. As the saying goes, If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research. Finished papers often have flaws, if you try to write something perfect you may never finish it. The…

While we're here, any suggestions on what works better for writing math to a digital whiteboard? Wacom type tablet with no display, or an ipad type tablet with pen?

to correctly judge some fizzbuzz solutions (or approaches to refactoring) you would also have to be knowledgeable. Guess what I think the problem is.

this is the only time in 15 years i've wished hn had a lol react. :D

Exactly For example, 2001 was a great movie but Clarke's worst book imo because he collaborated with Kubrick to write it for for big screen.

Not without its issues but it also prominently featured the mentats, which the recent version didn't.

> Sucrose is 50% fructose What? They're different molecules

Hard to publish interdisciplinary stuff in scientific journals when it's usually shot down by disciplinary specialists who don't get it

I like Bayes, but I thought the "surprising" result is that double descent is supposed to prevent nns from overfitting?

Analysis of recorded audio contains the phrase "for England, James?"

I've since changed my opinion on what I said above. It sounds like they are complying in the short term to maintain their right to challenge this in the Indian courts, which actual…

It's tempting to think the better strategy is to let the current Indian government block them and see how that plays out.

This is a really good comment thread and got me thinking. However here in the UK I'm not sure your point about virtual subsidy quite computes. Most of the free to use parking in va…

I don't think it's fair to consider Wal-Mart's parking free from a societal perspective. Presumably they pay for it and absorb the cost into your grocery bill.