this reminds me of a book "monsters and magical sticks, there's no such thing as hypnosis?". Which to my memory seemed to suggest hypnosis, and the states of altered consciousness associated with it, as people being…
Jumping in on this; I’ve found jurafsky/martin a good place to start. Covers a lot of ground and is a pretty good read as well. https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
I'll leave these here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiresolution_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_wavelet_transform And as a lot of people have mentioned in here, DFT is pretty much implicated in…
Same difference back then. (Iceland was basically expat Norwegians who held more on to the older beliefs while Norway got ravaged by christianity, and as a consequence of the priests going straight from dying rites to…
So... this isn’t news at all, but rather can be seen as supporting what our (norwegian here) own older tales and historians wrote down around the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimskringla It’s well known we…
This reminded me; People seem way too comfortable / in the dark when it comes to voice-cloning, which, with the added data of general speech-patterns, is likely to become a major issue wrt political/legal issues. see:…
Were they not?
Tragedy of the commons, and the laziness of a false sense of security railings. Basically; I agree with you, and I think it is because of the way people act in a society that seems structured. People seem to think that…
Is "Praise Bob" still a thing?
Or just open it in private mode. The free articles thing seems to be cookie-dependent
There’s a theorem known as the Convolution Theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem Much used in simplifying kernel operations and convolutions (and some other nifty tricks.) Another useful idea is…
If we break AI apart and look at it; Artificial - human made. (As opposed to something emerging from nature) Intelligence - ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, (oriented agency modulated by prior…
..and high performance athletic achievements are typically beyond the bellcurve of health over activity. i.e. if you draw health as a function of activity/performance, it forms a bellcurve of some sort, and high…
Something I found interesting when running analysis on Ising models; if you do an FFT (2 dimensional) on it, you get what amounts to a wavey star-like blob in the middle (assuming you center the lowest frequencies) If…
After thinking about this for a while, there’s a pattern to games that might be useful to think about: Games generally follow a pattern of: - presenting a pattern to look for. - presenting tools to solve that sort of…
Loved the Zachtronics games, but at a certain point they hit the issue with becoming 5+ h investments into a single problem, and cross the boundary to tediousness. Only fully finished exapunks, which somehow didn’t…
Same here. Early Lucasarts adventure games drove me and my younger brother to learn english as a second language from around the age of 6.
Of course. Yeah, what I was trying to illustrate is that with enough contextual knowledge the amount of things one has to memorize becomes comparatively smaller. Basically if one learns and remembers Euler's Identity…
normalized, not normal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_vector) theoretically if you add the value-vector of all people together you end up with a long vector that represents the direction of society (even the…
I was recently thinking about this, but on a slightly bigger scale. There’s a term “off-kilter”, which is easy to explain using vectors like this. If we take the general vector of society, just sum up all personal…
I’ve read most Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett 3 or more times. Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse is another philosophical favourite when it comes to getting something new each read through. Book of…
Second this. In the ongoing protests etc. I’ve realised how much the stories about Vimes have shaped my ideas of what a policeman should be.
taylor of e goes something like 1 + x + x^/2! + x^3/3!... Well if we look at cos and sin, we know that these correspond to e^x if x = i x So then it’s easy to plug that in to the expression for e and get e^{i x} = 1 +…
Society values education, not necessarily teaching, it seems. For an outsider looking in at the US, it looks like they do not really value teachers (compared to professors) much. Not by the economic measure at least.
I just remembered reading something years back about how “because” is a magical word. People are surprisingly more susceptible and accepting of any request if you add a “because X” where the reason can be almost…
this reminds me of a book "monsters and magical sticks, there's no such thing as hypnosis?". Which to my memory seemed to suggest hypnosis, and the states of altered consciousness associated with it, as people being…
Jumping in on this; I’ve found jurafsky/martin a good place to start. Covers a lot of ground and is a pretty good read as well. https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/
I'll leave these here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiresolution_analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_wavelet_transform And as a lot of people have mentioned in here, DFT is pretty much implicated in…
Same difference back then. (Iceland was basically expat Norwegians who held more on to the older beliefs while Norway got ravaged by christianity, and as a consequence of the priests going straight from dying rites to…
So... this isn’t news at all, but rather can be seen as supporting what our (norwegian here) own older tales and historians wrote down around the time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimskringla It’s well known we…
This reminded me; People seem way too comfortable / in the dark when it comes to voice-cloning, which, with the added data of general speech-patterns, is likely to become a major issue wrt political/legal issues. see:…
Were they not?
Tragedy of the commons, and the laziness of a false sense of security railings. Basically; I agree with you, and I think it is because of the way people act in a society that seems structured. People seem to think that…
Is "Praise Bob" still a thing?
Or just open it in private mode. The free articles thing seems to be cookie-dependent
There’s a theorem known as the Convolution Theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolution_theorem Much used in simplifying kernel operations and convolutions (and some other nifty tricks.) Another useful idea is…
If we break AI apart and look at it; Artificial - human made. (As opposed to something emerging from nature) Intelligence - ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills, (oriented agency modulated by prior…
..and high performance athletic achievements are typically beyond the bellcurve of health over activity. i.e. if you draw health as a function of activity/performance, it forms a bellcurve of some sort, and high…
Something I found interesting when running analysis on Ising models; if you do an FFT (2 dimensional) on it, you get what amounts to a wavey star-like blob in the middle (assuming you center the lowest frequencies) If…
After thinking about this for a while, there’s a pattern to games that might be useful to think about: Games generally follow a pattern of: - presenting a pattern to look for. - presenting tools to solve that sort of…
Loved the Zachtronics games, but at a certain point they hit the issue with becoming 5+ h investments into a single problem, and cross the boundary to tediousness. Only fully finished exapunks, which somehow didn’t…
Same here. Early Lucasarts adventure games drove me and my younger brother to learn english as a second language from around the age of 6.
Of course. Yeah, what I was trying to illustrate is that with enough contextual knowledge the amount of things one has to memorize becomes comparatively smaller. Basically if one learns and remembers Euler's Identity…
normalized, not normal. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_vector) theoretically if you add the value-vector of all people together you end up with a long vector that represents the direction of society (even the…
I was recently thinking about this, but on a slightly bigger scale. There’s a term “off-kilter”, which is easy to explain using vectors like this. If we take the general vector of society, just sum up all personal…
I’ve read most Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett 3 or more times. Finite and Infinite Games, by James P. Carse is another philosophical favourite when it comes to getting something new each read through. Book of…
Second this. In the ongoing protests etc. I’ve realised how much the stories about Vimes have shaped my ideas of what a policeman should be.
taylor of e goes something like 1 + x + x^/2! + x^3/3!... Well if we look at cos and sin, we know that these correspond to e^x if x = i x So then it’s easy to plug that in to the expression for e and get e^{i x} = 1 +…
Society values education, not necessarily teaching, it seems. For an outsider looking in at the US, it looks like they do not really value teachers (compared to professors) much. Not by the economic measure at least.
I just remembered reading something years back about how “because” is a magical word. People are surprisingly more susceptible and accepting of any request if you add a “because X” where the reason can be almost…