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Thirdly, it turns out this is all actually brilliant because that's exactly what the real world is like . A handful of assignments (read: good teams) where everyone's effort actually matters, but it's mostly sort of just blundering around until everyone limps past the finish line, declares mission accomplished, then all the savvy people leave... See more
Breaking My University's Machine Learning Competition — Ludicity
One thing I'd argue as a starting point is there is no "theory" or a "model" of addiction as a disease. The arguments associated with that claim are actually not that cohesive. A common position associated with addiction as a disease is that it is an essential category, which is an idea we can get our arms around a bit better and which I discuss... See more
Toward a Unified Field Theory of Human Flourishing
The contrarian’s enemy is not only random conformists. It’s also ridiculously smart people who have studied the topic in incredible depth and concluded that they’re wrong. And as we all know from certain creative offshoots of rock, paper, scissors, high-IQ mega autists beats public intellectual.
Bentham's Bulldog • Losing Faith In Contrarianism
In particular, there is no such thing as “general” intelligence. On an abstract level, we know this for a fact via the “no free lunch” theorem — stating that no problem-solving algorithm can outperform random chance across all possible problems. If intelligence is a problem-solving algorithm, then it can only be understood with respect to a... See more
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Snapshot of a “theoretical” life
– Loves learning for its own sake; regards wisdom as a permanent quest.
– Accepts leisure (scholē) not chiefly for recreation but for reflection.
– Feels reverence for what is permanent and overarching—nature, being, the divine—rather than for shifting public opinion.
– Skeptical of power when it threatens the
... See moreBut this is self-refuting. “If ‘good’ means only the local ideology,” Lewis continued, “how can those who invent the local ideology be guided by any idea of good themselves? The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike.”
Will to Power - Claremont Review of Books
This pattern (set up, do work, clean up) is common across many different problem domains, so Python has a language feature to help with it. Context managers, defined using the with keyword, manage the setup and cleanup processes. Python's file objects support them, as do most database libraries.
Execute Program
When it comes to the quality of our thoughts and judgments, the amount of information a communication medium supplies is less important than the way the medium presents the information and the way, in turn, our minds take it in. The brain's capacity is not unlimited. The passageway from perception to understanding is narrow. It takes patience and
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