Jennifer RM

@almostlikethat

Artificial intelligence, biotech, blockchain, paper books, semantic archaeology, policy/ethics, meta, and citizenship points.

Joined November 2011

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  1. 11 Nov 2019
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    Maybe... Internodes structural spans and nodes put out branches AND leaves? Then any "node rule" gives a fractal structure. Then wind and light add 3D stress and rewards, "autopruning" rebalances the fractal? Some rules are likely better than others...

  2. 21 Sep 2019

    In subdunbar groups, doing normal human stuff, science says: "Trust your gut, human people!!" For everything else, there is mastercard... and an empirically grounded theoretical literature with some counter-intuitive results ;-)

  3. 30 Jul 2019

    Will gave me a safe out with a "maybe", but you socked me *right* in the feels by playing the maternalism card.

  4. 29 Jul 2019
  5. 20 Jul 2019
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    I'd agree "it all GOES THROUGH the money" but Turchin thinks it ALSO goes through elite culture. "Unsound money" may be a product of an elite culture that doesn't care about non-elites, but that culture is likely a "common cause" of many similar policies :-(

  6. 20 Jul 2019
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    Directly: workers didn't get economic progress pass through after "supply" exceeded "demand". Ultimately: Turchin blames "elite" policies, which are blamed on elite DEMOGRAPHY. Relevantly: *He* mentions the Trade Balance (which *I* suspect is downstream of monetary policy).

  7. 12 Jul 2019

    2/ Basically, a person sortof(MUST) sortof(understand) THAT words after "that" sortof(refer) to nebulous mental objects... The (mostly failed) attempts to translate "NL-to-logic" very systematically often mention "intensional contexts" as jargon:

  8. 3 Jun 2019
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  9. 13 May 2019

    Wikipedia categorizes the "Symphonia" among the "Lost or extinct musical instruments". Plausibly(?) it evolved (through Islamic and Christian medieval religious music, then minstrels, beggars, peasants, noble fads, and a folk music revival) into this:

  10. 26 Feb 2019

    Geoff Hinton's 2012 fog analogy (regarding the challenge of predicting exponential processes like technology) holds up pretty decently in the rear view mirror of history.

  11. 7 Dec 2018
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  12. 12 Nov 2018
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    I assume you're asking rhetorically, but in case you're not, there are some straightforward cognitive science theories here. 's theory (while admittedly explained in a partisan way) is quite accessible and makes non-trivial predictions.

  13. 30 Oct 2018

    I could watch videos like this one on the Voynich Manuscript basically forever. (HT ) Phonological detective work FTW :-)

  14. 26 Oct 2018
  15. 16 Oct 2018

    Then 's version is explicitly cited in an awesome mechanical engineering take from , that begins to point to uses of these curves in a metrology context :-)

  16. 28 Sep 2018

    I can find a LOT of studies with humans having three and four digits of ng of PCBs / g of tissue. I found a nature review from 2000 with a table where the lowest # was 147 (voluntary cord blood) and the highest was 124753 (fat basis of amniotic fluid).

  17. 7 Sep 2018

    Oldschool Colbert on Comedy Central was so nuanced and friendly as a "fake bad conservative" that some conservatives thought he was doing 2nd or 4th level irony and was secretly "on their side" *against* his mainstream liberal audiences. Maybe he was really doing 5 levels?

  18. 7 Sep 2018

    This GIF is pitch perfect 3rd level irony. Baldwin portrays a caricature of 2nd level irony. He doesn't care if typecasting hurts his noob audience appeal. To SAVVY anti-Trump audiences he (1) shows confidence vs typecast risks and (2) loyalty to the cause of bashing Trump.

  19. 29 Jul 2018

    Annotated old school modem protocol sounds! Been going around in various forms. Here, the video gives decent audio and the pic has enough resolution to read the text :-)

  20. 29 Jul 2018

    I took the suggestion seriously and hit paydirt! appears to literally be printing tablets, putting them in a salt mine, and dispersing ceramic coins with a map to the salt mine! Not *live* backup, but still interesting!

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