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I also found the advice for technical writing at the end of this MIT lecture by Professor Patrick Winston to be very valuable: https://youtu.be/bQI0OmJPby4?t=2703

It is probably ethically no worse than any killing simulation (e.g. first-person shooters). Creatures in such games arguably do not have a rich and lasting experience of processing…

https://kevin.deldycke.com/2016/12/falsehoods-programmers-be...

It would be enough for a friend having bragged about how they hallucinated about certain things. Words can convey very complex imagery like that and these experiences are encoded e…

Humans are however very bad at retrospectively telling which memes they were exposed to in the past and which not. That is basically the reason why highly specialized people in aca…

With the same skepticism you could also ask yourself to which extent the hallucinations were actually due to subconscious recall of all kinds of memes surrounding hallucinogens lik…

There are brief sections about this in the Deep Learning book by Bengio, Courville and Goodfellow (2016): > 18.2 Because the negative phase involves drawing samples from the model’…

Tab switching has improved a lot. I also love the new zoom level indicator in the URL bar. Very innovative. Nice.

Doesn't the caveat at the end of your citation from Wikipedia prevent endless recursion? Both players assume that the other player will not change their decision.

I've been surprised to not find anything for ctrl-F "Bayes". It turns out that traditional deductive logic is simply a special case of applying Bayes rule in order to find out the …

But the null-hypothesis remains that it is junk. The hypothesis is that it is not junk, borrowing evidence from neural networks in which (1) things that look like noise are actuall…

In this talk touches upon an interesting hypothesis that the purpose of junk DNA might be evolvability : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcD_L6_iBLU The idea is basically that junk…

It is also available online for free: http://www.wolframscience.com/nksonline/toc.html

I think most of it is about the brand; about buying a name which is already imprinted in millions of minds. The technology alone is probably only worth 1-5% (?) of the price.

Food and water are already largely covered as a basic need in modern countries. Electricity and pubic transport have nothing directly humiliating or existential about them, but peo…

It comes down to values. Our values have been shaped by stories that on average yield a high reward for a lot of people and they are based on aesthetics, empathy, social stability,…

Is it possible to arrange the tabs in the side bar in a hierarchical list view? It seems it is possible to make stacks of tabs, but the individual tabs in the hover menu are not ve…