> It's because it is effectively a computer. Not in the vague sense of "it has stuffs connected to stuffs and there's electricity involved", but in the more specific sense that it takes inputs, produces complex outputs,…
It's interesting the definition of bullshit in this study: > ‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. compared to the definition…
That CV Dazzle project is fascinating. The link to the warship Dazzle camouflage is also hilarious in the sense that that is what people have to turn to in 2019. It reminds me of the comic book The Private Eye by Brian…
The problem with that line of reasoning is you're assuming the brain is a computer, or that it merely computes. But that's just an assumption and there are many reasons a person, let alone a brain, is not a machine or a…
That clarifies a lot, then, thank you. In this case, then, I don't think the article from the BPS accurately presented the research in the paper. The fact that they specified that it is clinical depression in the…
Is this that people with depression crave sad music, or that music meant to elicit pathos has found its target audience? > The controversial implication is that depressed people deliberately act in ways that are likely…
I personally wouldn't jump at the chance to live in the US, but I still would. I absolutely would not ever live in a country that is not a democracy. That is the distinction I think you are kind of eliding. A puttering…
> The Chinese, Russians and Arabs are just copying the West. The problem with that line of reasoning is that those countries are categorically different from democracies. Those countries do not have the interlocking…
The problem with that argument is that they can just call themselves developers and nothing would change. Currently, "software engineer" doesn't mean anything. There is no credential that obligates software engineers to…
> The regulation won't necessarily help anything but to outlaw a lot of smart people from being able to write certain software. It will put us further behind the USA in our ability to create tech companies that matter…
I'll take a stab: 1) News is an account (story) of an event. The degree with which it is "true" is the degree with which it holds the events to account, and the degree with which the news organization/publisher holds…
> It's because it is effectively a computer. Not in the vague sense of "it has stuffs connected to stuffs and there's electricity involved", but in the more specific sense that it takes inputs, produces complex outputs,…
It's interesting the definition of bullshit in this study: > ‘Bullshitters’ are individuals who claim knowledge or expertise in an area where they actually have little experience or skill. compared to the definition…
That CV Dazzle project is fascinating. The link to the warship Dazzle camouflage is also hilarious in the sense that that is what people have to turn to in 2019. It reminds me of the comic book The Private Eye by Brian…
The problem with that line of reasoning is you're assuming the brain is a computer, or that it merely computes. But that's just an assumption and there are many reasons a person, let alone a brain, is not a machine or a…
That clarifies a lot, then, thank you. In this case, then, I don't think the article from the BPS accurately presented the research in the paper. The fact that they specified that it is clinical depression in the…
Is this that people with depression crave sad music, or that music meant to elicit pathos has found its target audience? > The controversial implication is that depressed people deliberately act in ways that are likely…
I personally wouldn't jump at the chance to live in the US, but I still would. I absolutely would not ever live in a country that is not a democracy. That is the distinction I think you are kind of eliding. A puttering…
> The Chinese, Russians and Arabs are just copying the West. The problem with that line of reasoning is that those countries are categorically different from democracies. Those countries do not have the interlocking…
The problem with that argument is that they can just call themselves developers and nothing would change. Currently, "software engineer" doesn't mean anything. There is no credential that obligates software engineers to…
> The regulation won't necessarily help anything but to outlaw a lot of smart people from being able to write certain software. It will put us further behind the USA in our ability to create tech companies that matter…
I'll take a stab: 1) News is an account (story) of an event. The degree with which it is "true" is the degree with which it holds the events to account, and the degree with which the news organization/publisher holds…