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Money as a medium of exchange has no magical properties. But you need to think about what money represents - how it ties different people together. Some people make money, then spend it on their own subsistence. Others are able to use money to make more money.

If you can stop working for 8 years and not end up on the streets, then you're ultimately working for someone who _can_ stop working for 8 years. This is why less than 10 people own more collective wealth than the poor half of the world population. This is not even considering monopolies, corruption, state intervention, etc.

As for what we can do about it, I don't think redistributing wealth is a great idea. Instead I think we should encourage an entrepreneurial spirit, i.e. encourage people to do what so many in Silicon valley have done: start their own business in their garage. I suspect people find entrepreneurship to be worthwhile despite the risk because their work can translate to profits directly, and they're able to use e.g. LISP instead of Java, make an entire system instead of just writing the tests.

Why is Althusser's theory bogus?

I sympathise with your assessment, but I haven't read enough to justify my sympathies

maybe if you could somehow set up sensors in every axon, but the level of analysis you can do with EEG isn't very informative

yes, according tothe comment from rvz

Material wealth is not enough in itself - capital must have gained it through just means and emerge the victor of a fair competition. That’s the liberal conservative’s personal responsibility. I’m not sure about the Uber case, but try applying your argument to the case of tabacco - it still works.

you can call it whatever you want as long as we're on the same page

I thought it was ironic, because it starts out almost like a children's story and is very approachable. I'd rather read this than a textbook, that's for sure.

He said it was hypocritical, not immoral.

What did Saddam or Afghanistan have to do with 9/11? Saudi Arabia and (I think) Pakistan were connected to 9/11, both countries that are US allies.

Understanding why the US entered Iraq is not hard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOsWcEoKfp4

Differential equations and electromagnetism?

Maybe 30 years ago, but these days electrical engineers know how to code

It's demonstrating how to find the line that passes through two points x=a, x=b on the function y=f(x).

Without having read the actual page, I assume he's going to move a and b close to eachother to approximate the tangent of the function at a point.

edit: In higher level math, you use circles/spheres or parabolas/paraboloids to approximate functions, but in high school level calculus you stick to using a straight line to approximate a function

I don't know much about multics emacs, but the author's knowledge of baroque counterpoint and fugue is unparalleled outside of academe.

He's spread his knowledge of music theory with many, including me, on the (opensource) musescore website.

The most famous example of this is sickle cell anaemia, which offers resistance against malaria.

I just sent a message to the email on your website :)

This is just Ayn Randian reactionary propaganda, a society based on these hateful ideas is not one I would want to live in.

Thanks for this! I'm doing an undergrad thesis applying TDA to EEG.

Currently I've been trying out using a sublevel set filtration on EEG data using a sliding window. For some reason the total persistence (sum of barcode lengths) can classify seizure vs non-seizure time segments.

Do you have any idea why it's able to do this, or where I can learn more?

I know that seizure events correspond to less determinism, as opposed to more chaos.

what erroneous information is he providing? That communism isn't necessarily destined to fail?

That's a matter of opinion.

I don't support cuba or leninism, but I just don't see anything controversial with what the parent has said, whether you are left or right wing.

just because you don't agree with something shouldn't be a reason to downvote

"there are checks and balances and freedoms"

you are so full of child like innocence, I envy you

this but unironically. If I was Javert from Les Miserables the novel would last 10 pages because Javert didn't hate felons as much as I do

I'm not sure if genetics play as great a role as culture. IMO there is enough genetic variation in all cultures to produce Einsteins, but some cultures are able to cultivate that potential better than others.

You can't separate culture from religion, but culture is distinct from religion.

I'm actually really mad at Jordan Peterson for answering the Jewish Question and giving it a platform. I assume that's where you got your opinion from, but if you didn't, many will agree with you because of JBP.

This was posted before, but with the following URL:

https://www.jgoertler.com/visual-exploration-gaussian-proces...

Does anyone know the relationship with the URL I pasted above and the URL posted by the OP?

I'm currently doing a thesis using TDA. Excuse my shameless opportunism, but the topic I've come up with is using figure h [1] as a channel selection mechanism to select EEG channels [2]. I plan to then use a Gaussian process (similar to an SVM) to detect the time when a seizure occurs.

From your position of expertise, can you see any major problems off the top of your head?

[1] https://media.springernature.com/lw785/springer-static/image... - from the open-access paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13104-018-3482-7

[2] quote: "Step III... we applied the Vietoris–Rips filtration to determine which particular sensors (thus, which areas of the brain) are more “involved”∖“significant” concerning the spreading of epileptic seizures"

As an Australian, I'd just like to say, before the expert Americans come here on their high horse and lecture us about freedom and bald eagles - different cultures value different things.

There's a difficult debate between "freedom to" and "freedom from", between private tyranny and state tyranny. Different countries will fall along different points along the spectrum. This is okay.

You're right, maybe I should have said race instead of skin colour and added sexism to my list of accusations.

The purpose of your circumlocution is to remain ambiguous enough to fall back to a less controversial position when called out. Just say what mean, which is that skin colour correlates with IQ.

I hate it when your ilk make race vs IQ seem like an edgy new opinion that is being suppressed. It used to be mainstream globally, but we moved past that through dialectics. When the "bell curve" book was published, we resurrected the debate, then we moved passed it.

It seems to me that you have to go out of your way to bring up race and IQ. That's why, whenever the debate is brought up, one of the parties is accused of having an agenda.

IQ itself is not even close to science in the sense of physics, chemistry, or even biology.

Psychology as a whole is disreputable, literally half its studies fail to replicate. You might as well flip a coin.

Sure, IQ is the best that we have. But it's terrible.

I started out with polarized, but then I moved onto just putting all my pdfs in a folder and highlighting them in adobe reader.

What did you cover?

At my uni they only had communications theory, which covered stuff like software defined radios. Information theory was a significant part of it though.