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Also things inimical to slow are usually bad: social media (esp twitter), most politics / religious debates, advertising, tv and radio, etc ...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_movement_(culture)

Edit: things that slow me down the most are classical music + jazz (mostly piano or guitar solos) and mathematics.

edited: punctuation

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Gracchus

Edit: P.S. this is just my guess and any data on this would be interesting.

"ISDS would allow foreign companies to challenge U.S. laws — and potentially to pick up huge payouts from taxpayers — without ever stepping foot in a U.S. court. Here’s how it would work. Imagine that the United States bans a toxic chemical that is often added to gasoline because of its health and environmental consequences. If a foreign company that makes the toxic chemical opposes the law, it would normally have to challenge it in a U.S. court. But with ISDS, the company could skip the U.S. courts and go before an international panel of arbitrators. If the company won, the ruling couldn’t be challenged in U.S. courts, and the arbitration panel could require American taxpayers to cough up millions — and even billions — of dollars in damages" [0]

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kill-the-dispute-set...

And his analysis of Trump seems better than most who claim he is dumb and/or Hitler. I don't agree with Adams nevertheless he is thoughtful.

- Peter Thiel

- Scott Adams

- Nassim Taleb??

Who else?

Most thoughtful people I follow pick against Trump and more or less believe he is a threat to the Republic. I tend to agree with them mainly because of his attitude toward the press (even though I agree they are biased against him) and his proclivity to violent rhetoric.

Edited: formatting

Edit: I also want to clarify the biasedness of media was based on Wikileaks coverage and the [0]social media blackout after the Comey's letter to congress. I acknowledge their coverage of him probably helped him.

Edit: It is possible Taleb does not support DT, there is no direct evidence of this. I added '??' to him. See this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12838352

[0] http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-10-29/social-media-blacko...

Any more would send the wrong signal and establish a odious norm in our free society.

You do concede that people (including Thiel) can be decent and support Trump? I know plenty of good people who support him and for good reasons.

Now practical: I think the best way to learn is pick an algorithm & representation and implement it in your favorite language. Bonus if you have your own language to work with.

I would start looking into Decision Trees first, implement them and then implement some use cases(, which follow after implementing them). Do this for other approaches, like ANN, which you can have it beat you at checkers which is strangely satisfying.

But keep in mind Minsky. I think he is like Archimedes doing "Calculus"-type approaches without fully realizing. Maybe you could be Newton?

I guess he forgot the greeks and hellenization. Oh but the greeks were barbarians too.

The tone also angered me.

The title says it all. It's really a summary of several software systems with good ideas abound. I believe all the software is 80s or prior.

Edit: I also forgot to mention some psychology and math.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080414095646/http://www.polioe...

Who is too blame for advertising to children directly? Is it a few people? Probably not, in fact it brings in a lot of talented people, of whom each may in fact have a negative opinion of advertising to children when asked.

If you are talking about giant corps that can influence rule(s), then ok, but these are not individuals but are the stakeholders and can be large swaths of people.

people of the United States are heavily controlled by the elite is too simplistic and some "elites" make the world better.

Do you think eating 5 oranges is any different than drinking the juice of those 5 oranges?

"Eating fruits is not best" is something that not only goes against science but common sense. Perhaps eating high amounts of fruits could be bad and but im not aware of a study confirming this (when the fruit is eaten whole).

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365108 [2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22935321

Simpsons = ['bart', 'lisa', 'homer'], member(X, Simpsons)?

will do a for each over the list, with X bound to each character.

and the same member definition can also be used to answer Simpsons = ['bart', 'lisa', 'homer'], member('brian griffin', Simpsons)?

Major nitpick: declarative thinking becomes the dominant way of thinking not pattern matching. When you write prolog declaratively (w/o cuts at the expense of efficiency) your code can answer multiple questions/queries.