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Comment · 1 year ago
It's a reference to Murnau's "Nosferatu" where a letter from Orlok is written in a strange ideographic language that includes a picture of a house, evidently relating Orlok's request to buy a house.
Comment · 1 year ago
how did this garbage wind up here?
Comment · 1 year ago
I thought this was going to be about Yggdrasil. Why must every name in the world be destroyed by software labellers?
Comment · 2 years ago
> Leibniz's monads [...]have nothing in common with category theory monads except the name.[0]

The monad is something about which you can reason but you cannot look inside because it is windowless. No quibbling, please.

Comment · 2 years ago
>somehow turn an intellectually handicapped gardener into a psychic genius

waddya mean somehow? They got him to understand the Sacred Geometry. I saw it in San Francisco when it came out and the guy next to me said "oh shit! it's the SACRED GEOMETRY!"

Comment · 2 years ago
sure it did, the stuff around SOAR and John Anderson, production systems that aimed to model cognitive load, Case-based reasoning, etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
He is remembered for laffs, but he was a very very compelling composer.
Comment · 3 years ago
> Emotions are basically very fast predictions by the brain

This predicts that basically ChatGPT has emotions.

Comment · 3 years ago
>Capitalization Of Boilerplate Oriented Language

this is not only true of COBOL, my friend.

Comment · 3 years ago
Queinnec's attitude was that ALL forms of scoping are useful. In the 80s there was a class struggle between Lexical scoping, which prevailed, and everything else, which Q. detailed.
Comment · 3 years ago
> trial and error

There's a clip of John Cleese showing how Beethoven in fact composed the 5th symphony by trial and error.

Comment · 3 years ago
Reading Freud, Wittgenstein said "now here is something new."
Comment · 3 years ago
It would seem to be checking sentence structure, and if "too complex" -- embedded clauses and such -- it follows a hard-wired rule to report AI.
Comment · 4 years ago
If it all sounds the same to you it's because it is.
Comment · 4 years ago
So it's not about canned orchestration?

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