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Controversially, that would be ‘woke’, but obvs the term is now somewhat tarnished.

As the right has an immovable Evangelical wing, so now does the Left. A good word for such people is currently unoccupied.

What is the utility of denying it?

What do you or anyone else actually get from such obvious absurdity, I wonder?

If it helps - and I have doubts - does (say) a working knowledge of Galois theory require more advanced mathematical cognition than arithmetic?

Would it be immoral to introduce such ghastly, hierarchical language? Etc.

I see you ignored the obvious rejoinder downthread, which stated that the utility of classifying behaviours or capacities is to help you predict outcomes.

How much more help do you need here? It’s not very complicated, but you prefer to showboat.

Good grief. This is what 20 years of language policing has wrought. People who are nervous (hiding behind ‘skeptical’) about words like ‘advanced’ when, by any number of dimensions, human cognition is uncontroversially superior, more advanced, more fluid, more deep, more adaptive, more various (pick one, nervous people) to that of spiders or cows.

Or is that all just a ‘myth?’

An absurd take. The ‘trauma’ people, baggage handlers de nos jours, have already weaponised the phenomenon for political points, before we even know definitively if it exists. Hey ho.

Incidentally, nobody yet I see has suggested that epigenetics could lead to better outcomes. I wonder why?

Here come the police, ever-vigilant for perceived or potential slights. Bless you, Officer.

Does anyone know if are.na supports private sharing of content within groups? I’ve looked and I cannot see if this simple thing is possible, or not.

Then I could use it share moodboards and screenshots with my team: I somewhat dislike Miro and all those similarly over-engineered services.

Do yourself a big favour and read the article before commenting, perhaps?

Hint: Schmidhuber has amassed solid evidence over years of digging.

The real shame of it is that OP claims affiliation to two respectable universities (UCL and Cambridge) and one formerly credible venue (CHI)

Mock scholarship is on the rampage. I agree: this stuff does make me understand the yahoos with a defunding urge too - not something I ever expected to feel any sympathy for, but here we are.

What a great story: remarkable how the New Yorker of 1995 has the same efficient but easy-going clarity as 2025.

This is what a company running out of ideas looks like

Looks cool! Very polished, I appreciate just how much effort it takes to get something like this out of the door.

Couple of questions for OP

What is it written in? What will the license be?

Context: Currently evaluating the venerable SVGEdit (MIT, JavaScript) for a project

https://github.com/SVG-Edit/svgedit

How can invest in money laundering? Serious question. No crypto please, I do have some limits.

Thank you. I will explore.

What of it? The Loved One (1948) was a bit of a squib at best, tonally a throwback to the earlier Waugh. It’s not very good (imho) so you can see why Terry Southern - who had not much taste - liked it enough to make a film of it, also unsuccessful.

The Sword of Honour Trilogy written over the next decade or so is much more representative of the later Waugh: the original article has sketched him out correctly.

The general continuity in Waugh’s life and writing is contempt for modernity: a turn to religion makes perfect sense in that light.

The diaries are worth reading too. He really was quite an unpleasant fellow, as well as a fine writer.

Very cool, and great selection of tracks.

It would help a lot if a track had breaks and fills as well as the main rhythm.

Just curious: why?

It wouldn’t be more funny ha-ha, just more funny strange.

I’m trying to understand what the ‘spectral’ interpretation of IMM is: but perhaps I shouldn’t

https://sander.ai/2024/09/02/spectral-autoregression.html

Ach. You seem full of (unrelated, unwarranted) ragefulness, and you stand ready to handwave away both scientific studies and actual user experience. Without, I see, providing any grounded counterpoints. As a bonus, anyone who disagrees with you is a ‘tool’ of sinister ‘bad actors’

Are you quite sure you’re on the right forum? That’s not generally how we do things here.

Not being able to get your kid to sleep because the upstairs flat is now a weekend party place for tourists is… a non-problem?

‘Wonderful’ convenience for tourists, sure. Writing off reasonable objections as ‘ideological zealotry’ from ‘bad political actors’ is a very weird take.

Case in point, I recently backed out of buying a house when I found out the house next door was an Airbnb, and the neighbours were not digging the thoughtless visitors. Is that an ideological preference or a pro-sleep one?

Rather a lopsided article that misses the point somewhat. Humphrey Smith may be an eccentric and unkind loon, but Sam Smith’s pubs in London are far and away the best chain in town, by some distance.

Beautifully maintained or restored interiors, good beer, low prices and no music so you can actually talk to mates while enjoying a pint.

Humphrey Smith is stepping down by the way, and according to the barmaid at my local, his son is taking over. He’s apparently cut from the same cloth, but if he keeps the pubs the way they are, I don’t mind a bit.

https://pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2024/10/passing-on-torch....

See comment above. You are replying to the wrong person

Despite all evidence to the contrary.

Why is it a shame exactly?

What is the name for #26?

It’s somewhat perfect for something I need to visualise, wondered if it has a name and/or a d3 implementation

What are splats actually useful for, and where are they used?

Douglas Adams was here in 1982 with the invention of the SEP field

‘An SEP is something we can't see, or don't see, or our brain doesn't let us see, because we think that it's somebody else's problem. That’s what SEP means. Somebody Else’s Problem. The brain just edits it out, it's like a blind spot.

The narration then explains:

The Somebody Else's Problem field... relies on people's natural predisposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain. If Effrafax had painted the mountain pink and erected a cheap and simple Somebody Else’s Problem field on it, then people would have walked past the mountain, round it, even over it, and simply never have noticed that the thing was there.’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else's_problem

Alas, poor Jurgen! I knew him, Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy…

Cuttle is v cool, congratulations! I had previously seen Apparatus and liked it, so I can clearly see the genetic resemblance now ;)

I’m wondering how many of you are on the team, and does it actually support you as a business yet? Even for a quite niche-y app Cuttle deserves to be better known, and higher-priced, imo.

The point on interpretability is scientific applications is in symbolic regression - MLPs cannot always spit out an equation for some data set: KANs can.

Guy writes 10 bazillion sub-lit-crit words on rollercoasters, fails to mention Euler spirals and clothoids, where the beauty is, where maths guides and protects meat. A depressing lack of curiosity by the author.

https://thatsmaths.com/2014/04/10/rollercoaster-loops/