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337karma·104submissions·April 7, 2015
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Founder @ Mineral Arts
Author of: wordsontheboards.com
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>>> My theory is that all animals have extensive defense mechanisms to prevent motor entrainment to external stimuli, since that would make one very vulnerable. Therefore, they only exhibit e…
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The "feeling of doing something wrong" - as mentioned in the article - when automating your tasks is somehow relevant but not in current context of alienated work. For natural working contex…
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Looks like an early entry point for something that can raise something completely new in computer games. I'm looking forward to progress concerning generating some graphics based on text. I'…
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I divide my working time sth like 50/50 for actual tasks solving and learning. My company doesn't understand it, but I work remotely and no one notices. But soon I'm back to office. I…
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Vote up. I think it'd be a great primer for more complex concepts.
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"Billions of digitized thoughts are transferred between humans every hour of every day, more than the neural messages within any of our individual brains." - this one is quite interesting as…
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Basic concepts like "sense percept" (eg. color, shape) and emotion (sadness) are mixed here. Emotions affect perception in general.
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The most pressing problem for humanity is poverty. But I agree that working on natural energy is crucial to solve it. We need to provide energy to the network of machines that will produce the basic s…
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"Don't worry folks, our people are working on introducing basic income, so you'll have opportunity to develop in more important areas of your lives, instead of wasting time on such a me…
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Another guy with savantism, who impresses me a lot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_playe... …
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IQ measures few cognitive skills - with some relevant to abstract thinking amongst them, which were problematic for KP. Most savants have low IQ scores.
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One extremely important topic wasn't mentioned here - the impact of sunlight. For those, who feel that sunlight is crucial for their cognitive and (more important) emotional base-level, I recomme…
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I wondered about sylogisms, so I started with: All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is ... and it came up with two answers: "mortal" & "a man". Good job.…
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Actually many of those "darwinisms" can be classified under "cultural darwinism", so you are quite right :) I wrote my master thesis on "Stanislaw Lem's evolutionary view…
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I started my opinion with "In my opinion", so it should be rather clear. I would rather claim that due to epistemological reasons we cannot "understand" reality. And i think that &…
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In the wise words of many people, it's good to keep your inner child alive (and happy!). My logic skills are good enough to predict down-voting of my little story ;) Anyway, I think logically it …
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In my opinion black holes emit space just like stars emit light. That is why galaxies are getting further and further from each other - because more and more space is emitted. Stars settle around blac…
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"Yes, you are lonley..." is too much to infer from that I have internet connection ;)
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Yup, maybe 6-12 moths is wonderful comparing to what you have to deal with, but still not enough for me to get into flow. I consider myself average programmer, so in your environment I'd feel lik…
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I noticed that most criticsm indeed concerns "shallow presentation" and lack od deep (e.g. mathematical) analysis and explanations - and I could agree with that. But by "inspiring"…
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Amongst dozens guides on AI and ML ("how to start"), I found Siraj Raval's YT channel really helpful and inspiring.
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Another phenomenon that makes most programmers unable to achieve flow state is technology diversity - brain can get into flow state only when one is using familiar tools - and than happens rarely, a…
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1. How many people do there need to be in a room so the there is a greater than 50% chance of at least two of them sharing the same birthday? 2. How many numbers we have to draw from 365 so the there …
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Ancient Greeks called the life period when one is about 40 "akme". It is a period of greatest mental skills (can't find it on English Wiki, but here is German: https://de.wik…
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Location: Canary Islands
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Negotiable
Technologies: Full-stack classics (PHP, Postgres, JS, Linux)
Résumé/CV: chess.gold, companyhouse.de, funtasto.com…
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Quite similar to original polish is "Koshciushco" as pronounced by GT.
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Anyone can recommend JS toolset for crearting essay like this? I can see React components used, but maybe there is something less complex?