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Do dogs understand mathematics? What are the top 5 dishes that are easy to make and are healthy?

What is “|-”, what is Cj, what is “some set of observations”, is the index i in the range 1,..,n? Hard to judge a proof that uses a bunch of undefined symbols

There’s a concept in mathematical modeling called a markov chain, which is similar to what you describe; a process whose next state is only dependent on its current state. I would say there’s many aspects of biological organisms which are inconsistent with the markov property, e.g. homeostasis...

There was a time in history when there was moral virtue associated with conquering, with defeating your enemies and taking their belongings. Nowadays, virtue is buying a cereal box that has a speech about "saving the enviroment" on it. Everything is boring, mushy and bland, like a piece of...

That may be true, but it’s a conclusion I arrived at by doing a lot of introspection. I know what sort of nightmarish existence it is to be stuck in one’s own head, traversing labyrinths of one’s own making.

That was brilliant It kinda reminds me of the paranoid and bitter ramblings of the guy from “notes from underground”. Dunno if that’s the intention but anyways, it’s good

Introspection should serve a purpose and result in concrete solutions and actions in the real world. Otherwise it becomes your own private little insane asylum.

For some reason I found the descriptions of the unicycle humorous "Turning is achieved by leaning with your body"

if you're with a hot girl your have to put up with all kinds of bullshit regardless of your color. It's a jungle out there, man

@Cognisant thats a pretty cool idea. I know there have been somewhat successful attempts at building neural nets that can create classical music, but never seen one that can combine different genres. Would be very interesting to hear the result

It is a food made of 80% sugar, 19.99% chemicals, and 0.01% natural substances. I.e. a similar composition to the standard American diet.

I often hear a bunch of fragments of sounds in my head (especially when trying to sleep) but I can’t recall ever having an inner voice vocalizing my thoughts. I mean - thoughts don’t usually appear in the form of language

applied math, computational science, AI, programming, statistics, stuff like that

1) become a master of my craft 2) use this mastery in an aesthetically and intellectually appealing way to become rich 3) live as a financially independent flaneur My goal was to reach stage 3 at the age of 33 (which gives me about 4 years to go) – though I realized this time frame is probably...

People who describe math as a language don’t understand the difference between 1) empirical statements expressed mathematically 2) math itself 3) the symbols that describe mathematical expressions. Go back to school.

“Math is a descriptive language”... ok at least we have determined you haven’t done math beyond high school at best. Other than that I have no clue what you’re talking about.

Well, to see the beauty in a math theorem, you need to be up to speed on math. I guess it’s the same with art. I’ve been thinking about this in terms of music. Most people listen to music just for some simple titillation - they would have zero opinion on the aesthetics of it. In short, in order...

I recommend the thread called “Frankfurt school and the origins of the leftist mindset”. It’s one of the finest pieces from a great mind.

@Minuend Nothing to do with apathy... it’s about not wasting focus and energy on useless things

very nice I see that Kauf comes up as the top related artist to this on spotify, which is arguably my favorite artist

The entertainment industry, along with Keanu Reeves and all the rest, is what it is. No point in holding it to any standard - just take from it what you want and waste no time judging and analyzing it, for example whether Keanu Reeves is a worthy character or not etc etc. In the end, who gives a...

yup, and then I usually go with brown leather shoes. It's a genius way to look well-dressed with minimal effort.

I usually wear sport coats (which people often refer to as “suit jacket” but it’s a completely different thing.

From what I could see, john Wick is supposed to be inspired by the action parts of the Matrix movies. I recall the Wachowski brothers talking about how the action in the Matrix was supposed to be emerging from the actual action and not the editing process – e.g. in contrast to most action...

yes, and from what I understand, the process follows a relatively simple rule: the more you use certain regions of the brain, the more connections it will grow in that region (which is why practice makes you better at things).

the processing "speed" of the human brain will always be extremely slow compared to, for example transistor-based computers. So in practice, being able to think quickly and clearly has little to do with raw speed and more to do with gradually building useful mental structures (or on a more...

yes, people in Norway are extremely family-oriented in their lifestyle, and I guess this is a bigger factor than social norms pertaining to ambition etc.

Hasn't art become just a cesspool of people making political statements? It's like facebook for art students, where they use pieces of garbage instead of a keyboard to communicate. The actual craft of creating art seems to have been toned down.

Haven't seen the first two. To be fair though, I would have probably enjoyed it more if it weren't in a theater. To me there's too much annoying shit going on there. Weird smells, confrontations with people kicking your seat, people making noise with their movie snacks, making stupid-ass...

john wick 3. sorry Neo, but this stuff is garbage. Three fuckin hours of just boom boom, pow pow, ouch etc? Come on.. And the crazy part was that the theater was filled with grown-ups, many of them well above 30 and laughing hysterically whenever a dude got kicked in the balls. Definitely get...

12/14 2 child molesters got away

People want to be in the splash zone - my cum has medicinal properties.

I agree that you are an asshole

When I was a small kid I stepped into an ant-bed. The ants didn’t like that. Since that ants and I have had a complicated relationship. I do like other insects however, for example spiders and moths.

Newton himself made the point in Principia that he makes no claims as to what actually drives the various phenomena and that the math was just a tool to describe things. So there’s your answer; there’s no “mathematics of the universe”, just formalization of human perception.

Here in Norway working hard is frowned upon ..commonly referred to as the Law of Jante

yeah, to make a parallel case to Polaris', we humans think about other beings in terms of our own biologically built-in incentives; we either want to socialize with people, or destroy them and take their resources, or use them as a resource in their own right. Aliens might (and probably do) have...

So if you don’t expect anything from anyone, why do you always complain about how people treat you?

To me it sounds like you have major insecurities which you reframe as external circumstances; other people not living up to your expectations etc. You expect the world to treat you as royalty while offering nothing in return. A quintessential case of this mindset was Elliot Rodgers.

When I meet a person and talk a bit, I usually say to myself “god I wish something would swallow me so that I get away from this conversation”

Last time I watched a tv series was a couple of years ago, but that time I watched “The Knick”, which is arguably the best thing I’ve ever seen. A true masterpiece.

From what I understand, indigenous peoples and various groups who consumed grains and plants throughout history had varying outcomes in health depending on whether they developed methods for fermenting them or prepare them in certain ways like soaking them in water over long periods of time...

Problem with happiness is that it's fragile. When things inevitably go to shit, what level of self-hypnosis will you need to remain happy? Stoicism > happiness. (or maybe stoicism is happiness, in particular freedom from fear of being unhappy)

Sheep people – who will always be desperately in need of someone telling them what to do and what to think – will also always complain about the instructions and thoughts given to them. I guess one can consider this liberty to complain an added luxury. Others just see the freedom and...

How the hell is happiness a virtue. "I do not praise the land where milk and honey flow" - Zarathustra I'm happy for whoever is happy though

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X-ray vision which only works on granny panties

Apes are superintelligent creatures living in a 4-dimensional universe. The reason they seem dumb to us is that we only see the 3-dimensional projection of them.