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The long running joke that’s basically true is: all white people are cops. Often found in “WhitePeopleStarterKit memes”.
The long running joke … [read full article]
Always enjoyed the 3 body problem. I feel it points to a lack of parallelism built-in to numerical analysis, which is mitigated by computation somewhat but it’s not native.
Always enjoyed the 3 … [read full article]
I’ve known too many folks on welfare and I could never understand justifications for cuts. I think the build of rhetoric, the image of “the welfare queen” is so fixed in the American psyche that facts can’t break through it.
I’ve known too many … [read full article]
If it’s not perfectly spherical/smooth and has any bumps/corners at all, it can be considered either.
If it’s not perfectly … [read full article]
I get saturated by most songs I like then don’t want to hear them again. Even ones that last for years I eventually turn sour to. I’m not sure if any survived but I’ll think about it a bit. I’m always in search of novelty – an unexpected sound that jolts a jaded emotion into life again.
I get saturated by … [read full article]
Connectionism and computationalism aren’t mutually exclusive and they are compatible but Pinker’s view has almost no such compromise to any significant degree. You can bring in Ramachandran and I’ll probably find Ramchandran agreeable to my view. But Ramachandran does not affect Pinker. This is from 1998 but I have not seen a fundamental shift in Pinker since. He misrepresents connectionism then rejects his misrepresentation in no uncertain terms. “We conclude that connectionists’ claims about the dispensability of rules in explanations in the psychology of language must be rejected, and that, on the contrary, the linguistic and developmental facts provide good evidence for such rules.”
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