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gradschoolfail··on I Am Herman Melville
https://www.phillyvoice.com/ss-united-states-eviction-south-...

https://archive.ph/E5pce

gradschoolfail··on Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination
??No one going to comment on the link to

https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/17584/what-are-s...

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Thx for both!

That was the best blurb anybody could have written. Lumper, in my mind, is now a 50’s pinup candidate..

gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
https://archive.is/QrowT

Once upon a time in Odessa, Schiller or Hoelderlin might have been the rage.. ?

(You might have missed that Sir William above hacked (together) the gentlemen’s dues that gate-kept riffraff)

gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
https://archive.is/Ubbfx

i recall a soviet movie whose title was something like “King and Cartman” but i can somehow neither find it nor recall the romantic era poem that it was based on

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Ive known a maybe a half a dozen of born into money types who have technical obsessions. Imagine the Duke of Montrose still hacking his own lisp while VCing on the side to compliment his hobbies. (The guy who built the titan sub also comes to mind). Plan was to lasso some type of liminal nerd, approximating weirdpro gentlemen scientists of our neoEdwardian age?

(BTW)

most distinctive part is that the first gen, and maybe the 3rd gen*, take time out to consider whether things are still working in theory. But i suspect you only care about the practice.

*https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkxapm9Ekdz3_kiyvo_14pOzNY_cga...

(Another “lazy” response)

An insanity inducing game that i’ve sometimes had the misfortune of playing is when I try to discern whether a particularly hard-to-parse paper by people i only know in passing in my subsubsubsubsubdomain (classified by dot product of tags) in a highish impact journal is spam or advertising. Wondering if that feeling approximates what you feel when encountering Yarvin. (Luckily, these havent ever appeared on the HN fp - but there were a few close calls)

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Currently trying to read^W skim Pynchon’s buddy Farina to get an 1960s inside outsider’s perspective on that..

>the second kind is capable of indefinite extension

Rather i took the hint from here. But his third class does seem to have some overlap with [my intended] type IIIs. E.g. (esp?) technicals from the cadet branches who feel (attribute guilt? stereotype threat?) the need to do some legacy-laundering..

(Compare with the social origins of SPJ)

Stronger connection to founder mode is that YC is in their own words (having a hard time locating exact quote) modelled after Harvard. So while the coarse-grained view from the POV of hoi polloi does look like your music video, our “local deities” were inside-outsiders, once upon a time in New England (as well as Ithacan transplants, for a couple of them)

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Im probably still obsessed with having you riff more along the outlines of the footnote here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41481141

insanity-inducing games are very intriguing! for the purposes of formalization

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Okay, i interpreted your previous writing on TA to mean that TA-guided attempts to stay in ST mode would still be unstable towards insanity.

as a contrived example to argue that point, the advantage has been adapted into YC’s metric for equity transferees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9239203

In order to keep things simple, lets forget abt memes, because i’m more interested in the failure modes of Straight Talk no BS OG TA.

gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
[0] probably not, if i stick to the optimal interpretation that Old Ben is Orwell incognito. (Jura & the pistol under pillow could well be merely prudential, but i dont see it)

Gotta drop the discreetly placed marshal’s baton angle for now since i cant even find a half decent example pair lol

gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
For a moment i thought you were talking abt Group Captain Pete Townsend (& Senex Lascelles) - dont know an equestrian/squadron leader Townshend?

Peripheral (conflationary?) debate from the reams of orthographically- or otherwise challenged HN scholarship:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2470933

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Thus Q -> dandiness makes Transactional Analysis compleatly dandy then?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_analysis#Outline

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Just a clarification here.. there i assumed the readingmode (like you?) in which scientists are to be identified with the badfaith-clueless

So, if i understood ww4 correctly, it is more like,

  dog reports correctly that theres no person, but the rescuers are actually looking for a horse.
Whereas the lazy (=theoretical) engineerdonkey might say, i detected scent of a horse but didnt actually look, was thinking about that windmill, sorry!
gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
[With reference to whatever i could dl of the NE pages you linked, Junot didnt seem to love danger but was merely unfazed by it..]
gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
i see..? What if I prefer my donkeys without midichlorians but also sans peur ?

(With specific reference to the lore about Junot, what sort of mentalism afflicted the Duke of Abrantes? Compared to Bessieres)

gradschoolfail··on The Race for Lambeth Palace
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2024/06/26/politics-analysis

Any luck with the Schuetzenberger thm?

Will get back to aristotle when more bw thanks!

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Pls pardon the attempt at Hebrew! I just thought that little bit of interfaith/international interjection might not detract from getting your attention. Slyly, it was a signal to my first responder (who is unusually tolerant of linguistic posing) that I identify with “whisky priests”* (Mexican, but invented by Graham Greene — while avoiding the US?) and that this was a metaphorical swig of whisky before i jump into risky territory :)

The bad vs good faith is a theoretical curiosity of mine, which i can unpack later if either of you are so interested. This theory, as well as the inaccurate epithets, can be said to originate from my reading of 2 comments by you!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41205833

So clearly, you’re not middle management, even if you claim you are clueless, but your uh, soul, was “salvated” — by virtue of working on something the experts dismissed. [If we take seriously your claim that you weren’t being clever, then that’s good faith in my book. I will say no further about my theory except that it could be a “dial” for scientists to consider.] If nothing else, i would like (quixotically?) to condense your chain of thoughts in that situation into something worth propagating, into science-curious folks’ realities.

As to the curiosity i was deferring to.. (it could also be related to the revolutionary approach of yours, if i’m being very presumptuous — and wrong???) 082349872349872 expressed his inspirational feelings on the matter here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600845. Mariatta, child of beauty)

[PDF] A representation of antimatroids by Horn rules and its application to educational systems http://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.05465

Specifically, i wonder if anybody has tried to apply these supposedly efficient algorithms, which model states of teacher+learner, in “real life”.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_priest

gradschoolfail··on The Race for Lambeth Palace
Hey.. Eric Schmidt , and reportedly DJT exude eudaemonia. [cites available] I dont know about autarky and honour in those cases; might be deformed to work. Those are examples you might be familiar with, plenty anecdata of sociopathy back-inferred from distant effects being incommensurate with local affect.

Fwiw i still find it hard to dichotomize banter of Sir H & Lord H, instrumental locally, but not overly excessive, and often returns to the status quo antebellum. Formulaic?

server error on those links coukd be bw on my side..

gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
Due to b/w limitations i havent figured out in which mode to interpret this dark benjamin..

J stands for Jesus, the supreme head of church but otherwise nothing up my sleeve

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
AIBO (the entity that tirelessly turns my typing into mindfeed) knows roughly what i was looking for :)

2024-09-06 Dogs with prior experience of a task still overimitate their caregiver https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-70700-3

(With suggested related content)

However, a direct comparison of overimitation timing with humans is necessary to understand if this approach is indeed partly what differentiates dog overimitation from that of humans.

Yes, will consider the 3-way communication styles at some point (and the Rao talk chart) but right now exploring what a purely dyadic interaction can bring us, e.g. how to model the occasions on which Sir Humphrey/Hacker considered rewriting their firmwares post-startle (with or without npc intervention from Annie or Woolley)

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
0][1 This is analogous to your selfjoke version of Rao’s threeway comedy? My curiosity was more towards the >2-agent transactional game, i.e can the dog guess at what the human wants?
gradschoolfail··on Contraption Theory
Placeholder:

  I watched J-nuts glitching in the gap near the Tannhaeuser Gate..
gradschoolfail··on The Race for Lambeth Palace
“A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.” S03E04 Y,M

Oratores tend to overrate their own compute (wrt Hackers), mistaking gametalk for powertalk & vice versa (also: does the sage engage in PT), or, more rarely, tripping up in decidability problems (looking at you, Berne)

Maybe a more parsimonious model is thus: labrats(nerds?designers?) are sometimes preferred over the bellicose(noncom jocks?hackers?) because oratores bet on them grokking accountability/accounts/accounting. In our worldtree/conjoinedtrianglesofequiodsuccess, however one cuts it, the nerd-jock & the weird-normie (as well any head of church?) provide glue.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41338777

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJYa68AnECY

“I believe fiction much more than non-fiction”

(Clue to the real reason the gods/minds play with mortals — the [abacus] beads of the (demi)gods who are trapped in the Slow Zone or its border?. Think Greg Egan has a couple of shorts covering this angle too)

EDIT: bellator von Hammerstein-Equord bet otherwise (Ritterbarde?)

gradschoolfail··on Silicon Valley is an aristocratic culture
Ahhhh oops Patrick Collison’s a-level comments was orders more salient in my mind (my memory of 1984 is gaping, it was assigned reading and i’d been ever the underperforming loser?)

And you had participated in grade-charade gametalk track, seemed opportune for offending our half-clueful local deities, if only in principle (Beit S) (Citations ready if/whenever you need them)

https://archive.is/2lqju

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Fischer_of_Geneva (Cameo by gwern!)

I’d better ask you for that Schuetzenberger theorem now, i know about Lascoux-S, maybe you were thinking Chomsky-S, or simply S?

EDIT: basic problem with teleology is that its usually not framed as a “search” problem?

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
wizzwizz4 seems to be one of those salvated ex-losers* (in the world of Rao’s Gervais Principle), thus he may or may not engage, but here goes anyways (Shalom lakh Miryam!)

in deference to 082349872349872’s curiosity, human beings can, in principle, train dogs (in this very limited context) to walk the fine line between bad faith (not exhibiting distress) and good faith (exhibiting distress).

Can they, in reality?

*or, maybe like Athena, born fully salvated from a crack in Zeus (athenogenesis)

gradschoolfail··on The muscular imagination of Iain M. Banks: a future you might want
If you find Iain M’s characterization of his own work reliable, here’s an interview. My own question is, do humans not feel this need to be useful as strongly, as pervasively??

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/a-few-questi...

In the "Reasons: the Culture" section of the appendices in Consider Phlebas there's the line, "The only desire the Culture could not fulfil from within itself. . . was the urge not to feel useless." In that need alone it is not self-sufficient, and so it has to go out into the rest of the galaxy to prove to itself, and to others, that its own high opinion of itself is somehow justified. At its worst, it is the equivalent of the lady of the manor going out amongst the peasants of the local village with her bounteous basket of breads and sweetmeats, but it's still better than nothing. And while the lady might—through her husband and the economic control he exerts over his estate and therefore the village—might be partly responsible for the destitution she seeks, piecemeal, to alleviate, the Culture isn't. It's just trying terribly hard to be helpful and nice, in situations it did nothing to bring into being.

gradschoolfail··on Silicon Valley is an aristocratic culture
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvOARMOZ8qA

You said O’Brien… (Confusing Conan with Collison?)

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
[PS] B Russell, In Praise of Idleness
gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
Contrast also the scale of the engineering consultancies/art/design coops that are purportedly the talent-dense equivalents of Mondragon, eg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arup_Group

gradschoolfail··on Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows
SPJ’s innovation, was to keep it bipartite and below— making sure type IIIs didnt feel like they were a higher class & everyone else was type II (Imagine an army with only NCOs and officers, but the NCOs are type IIIs) No proles (grunts) in the orgchart of a very large design agency..culturally, designers often happy to work like grunts anyway! (Painters = painters)

This trouble with the proles (app store, actual store, icloud, contractor relations, PR screwups.. ) ultimately stems from that failed pancreas transplant, so that they no longer had an IV to keep entropy in its place..

[plus maybe the programmers n ee types started to feel they werent fully designers (Bret Victor, later, pple like Lattner?)]

[Check out the wwdc videos.. the sw engineers dress like.. they havent read the canon]

https://culturology-journal.ru/en/article.php?id=309

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/À_la_maréchale

See cultural references in the less misogynistic (misandric?) en wiki

Equoid Lagniappe: the surnames 司馬 and Marshall have a common origin

>the recipes in which are infamous for reducing the population of anarchist cooks

>I then began thinking about the other aspects of the bizarre parasitic life-cycle of the unicorn

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