@Outlaw__Mike @CalumDouglas1 They usually do the math on check-outs. No check-outs in a N-years -- to the deposit library it goes (storage), a few more years and its gone, unless it gets a label.
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@CalumDouglas1 'withdrawn from a university library'
Which proves that universities are not immune to having complete idiots on the payroll.
As has become abundantly clear the past few years, I might add.
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Yes that is what I’ve got, the all five volumes of the immortal Ker Wilson vibration books.
THE definitive knowledge base for all vibrations of rotating machines.
You will be lucky to find a full set for any money. Vol 1 is readily available used or as pdf online but the full set is incredibly rare and very expensive.
Of course they were all withdrawn from a university library 😑 and I bought them for peanuts as the seller thought they were a load of obsolete doorstops.
Do not withdraw these from your engineering department library !!!!!!
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@robbertleusink @grok was this an act of sabotage by Russians 😾
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A worm ended 600 years of Dutch engineering...
Dutch coastal dykes used to be made of dried seaweed
Compressed seaweed base, wooden framework, and topped with boulders
Flexible enough to absorb wave energy
They lasted six centuries
Until the 'paalworm' (shipworm) arrived...
It ate the wooden foundations from inside
And the dykes collapsed...
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How can we best learn about the world? A new paper applies the scientific method to itself, finding that some common strategies that scientists consider gold standards for designing experiments perform worse than random choice.
In other words: random exploration may produce better theories than carefully-planned experiments. “These results contradict some common intuitions about the scientific method,” says lead author and SFI Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow Marina Dubova (@dubova_marina).
santafe.edu/news-center/ne…
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@JohnDCook If drugs/therapy worked to keep people functioning, you'd expect a similar chart.
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I’d like to believe the people who would otherwise be in mental institutions were healed, but data say they’re either in prison or living on the street.
End Wokeness@EndWokeness
The most insane chart you'll see today
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The churn in the Python-based time series forecasting world is crazy. These are commit counts for a bunch of packages I went through this morning.
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I can do a derivative. I can do an integral. But I can't solve a complex two-variable integral that requires substitution or any other tricks.
I think solving integrals is like long division. You should spend a month doing it by hand to understand how it's done, and then use a calculator.
Solving calculus functions is now easy. Knowing how and when to APPLY calculus is hard. THAT is what they should be teaching... not symbol processing.
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@SterlingCooley @StuartHameroff If they prove it's conscious, then it's unethical to unplug it, and all the world must be taxed to keep it alive, and the founders rich to feed it power. It's a shakedown play.
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@StuartHameroff What I want to know why are these people so desperate to claim AI is conscious ?
Could it be... idk, money related ?
Would someone financially gain big time if the majority of people believed that ChatGPT was conscious ?
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Alex’s argument here is: 1) we’re clueless about consciousness, 2) therefore panpsychism must be correct, 3) and then AI must also be conscious.
You’re not following the clues. The neurorepresentation of Alex’s ‘mental triangle’ is a distributed interference pattern encoded in dendritic-somatic microtubules inside brain neurons. When a coherent recall signal illuminates the interference pattern, a three dimensional hologram of a triangle is projected.
That’s consciousness.
pubs.aip.org/aip/jap/articl…
Big Think@bigthink
Is AI conscious? | Alex O'Connor @cosmicskeptic
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@NonsenseIsland I think he's saying "shinny sticks" as in Native American hockey game of shinny.
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Speaking of films from 1930 now that they're in the public domain... I've always wondered, is comedian Charley Chase saying "shitty" in this scene from ALL TEED UP (1930)? I'm not sure what else he could be saying.
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@PhilosophyOfPhy Someday string theory will not be an opinion, just you wait! Someday all that money won't have been wasted on destroying the opinions of others.
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The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!
- Brian Cox
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New Science paper: pigeons sense Earth’s field via induced currents in inner-ear hair cells—no cryptochrome, no magnetite, just pure EM induction. Do those signals ride microtubule quantum rails to the brain?
Asking for a pigeon with a PhD in consciousness
@StuartHameroff
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surfeit of lampreys
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Medieval England had laws dictating who could eat what based on social class. Nobility: Venison, beef, mutton, game birds. The fattiest cuts. Roasted whole. Peasants: Barley, oats, peas, beans. Meat maybe twice a year at festivals. This wasn't preference. This was LAW. You could be punished for eating above your station. The aristocracy understood that diet determines class more than birth. Feed someone like a peasant long enough, they become one. Weak bones, poor teeth, stunted growth, no energy for rebellion. Feed someone like a lord and suddenly they start acting like one. Strong, aggressive, capable of demanding more. Now we don't need sumptuary laws. We just price meat out of reach, run fear campaigns about cholesterol, and convince people that quinoa is premium nutrition. Different century. Same suppression. Better branding.
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@kristoph @VoidAsuka You can't run a model like that on a every single surveillance camera on the street. It has to be good enough to trick simpler machine learning models
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Adversarial examples sweatshirt may save our lives in the future.
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"...internal Slack messages and emails discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset."
OpenAI caught destroying evidence, oh boy.
Futurism@futurism
Brace for impact. trib.al/5R5WoqI
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@LedermanHarvey “owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk” -- we don't get to know who the greats are yet
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Wildly false presupposition: Kripke, Lewis, Parfit, Putnam, Williams, Nagel, Nozick, Stalnaker, Williamson.
Antigone Journal@AntigoneJournal
Why have there been so few great philosophers born in the last 100 years? Answers of no more than one sentence please.
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@No5mallf3at The most avant-garde film yet, a surreal DMT-inspired landscape visible to the audience (with Machine Elves and entities), while it cuts back and forth to Kant's inner lens which turn it into boring Newtonian reality as he strolls the entities interact with his thoughts.
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I find Kant admirable in how he lived, but I think a Kant biopic would be the most boring thing imaginable.
Kitsumute@kitsumute
Are there any good films about philosophers? Either biopics or fictional?
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