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I agree with the conclusions of the article. A concert pianist can only add his/her creativity to the piece if he/she totally internalized the piece.

Does this happen a lot? This was on front page one year ago today https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36920622

Thanks, enlightening comment. You are right.

I like the word scientism, but what he describes is really academic scholasticism. Maybe we should call it neo-scholasticism. The practioners of this profession is the same old "learned doctors." They make their living by selling (in this field "selling" means "teaching") the knowledge they have hidden in a proprietary language. Academic education is a ponzi scheme. You are forced to pass formal exams in order to gain the right to enter the next level of exams. When there are no more exams to take you are given a piece of paper and thrown out of the system. This is an exaggerated and pessimistic view but it has some truth in it.

Is “canvas” a technical term? What does it mean?

This is great. I wish something similar could happen where I live but civic consciousness is very low around here

"In this paper Turing gives a topological argument that every written alphabet must be finite."

I searched Turing's paper and the word "alphabet" does not appear. I guess the author interprets Turing's use of "symbol" as an "alphabet". Can anyone familiar with Turing's paper clarify?

Neither finite nor infinite is defined. I don't know what those words mean. So the assumption of an infinite alphabet doesn't make sense to me.

So is this the same thing as dividing a problem into its smallest pieces?

"The twins underwent behavioural analysis, speech therapy and a strict gluten-free diet and nutrition programme as part of the trial to reduce inflammation."

"The diet was casein-free, a protein found in milk; low-sugar; had no artificial colours or dyes; zero ultra-processed foods; primarily organic; and locally sourced."

Once again, this shows how important a balanced microbiome is for good lealth.

This MSN link has no paywall https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/autism-can-be-reverse....

Was on front page 5 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19146767

I'm curious to know what people here think about this 5 years later

I see, there is a distinction. Good point.

"children with autism tend to be finicky eaters..."

I haven't read the research but this sentence from the article suggests that there may be a relation to the microbiome. Because what we eat is controlled by microbiome. We crave sugar because organisms in the gut that feed on sugar are hungry. But I agree that the composition of the microbiome changes all the time and it's hard to draw conclusions.

Blogger is still around. Themes look very old fashioned but I think overall it's good enough to publish. This blog https://www.filfre.net/2024/07/the-later-years-of-douglas-ad... was on first page on HN a couple of days ago and it is blogger.

I'm not an expert on Forth. I just play with it because it is different than other languages. I searched a quote by Charles Moore about the topic but the best I could find was this:

https://www.ultratechnology.com/moore4th.htm

> A Forth word should not have more than one or two arguments.

> This stack which people have so much trouble manipulating

> should never be more than three or four deep.

"All programming is about breaking complicated tasks down into reasonable-sized chunks."

I think Forth forces you to do this.

"Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory."

I also think that set theory has many problems

I loved his low-tech white board

"Engineers rarely speak of 'will' or 'purpose', but they speak frequently of 'control' and 'utility' which are parallel concepts."

Interesting observation.

"This concept of the infinite in a sense contoured the need for naming its mirror-image counterpart: nothingness."

Is infinity the mirror image of nothingness? I cannot conceive infinity let alone its mirror image. Same with nothingness.

Original paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.12641

“Once I realized they were often just defined…”

I think definition is fundamental in nature because we need to define a unit in order to measure.

published 2010

I wonder if there are no colors at that scale

What is the actual formula you are using to plot the graph?

Emacs browser eww does the same thing.

Fascinating topic. But as far as I know the patterns in cats are not related to skin. I think they are related to genes. After all what we see as patterns are individual hairs of different colors. Some animals like zebras have the same stripes through generations. This is not very interesting. In cats I'm sure there is a random process in effect. But this random process is also "aware" of the symmetry of the body, like having the same black patch on each ear. Or having a black tail in otherwise white cat.

But there is a huge difference between film acting and theatre acting. In film you just memorize your daily lines. What I find magical is how these actors go into character and deliver a line naturally for that character. I assume for serious work they practice with their own acting coach behind the scenes and then also practice during the shoot according to the directives of the director. Here Nuri Bilge Ceylan shows how to eat walnuts https://youtu.be/G6_pwltI85Q?si=2NXm1HP54YbAhepV It looks like the delivery of lines are the least important part. (In Turkish, but you'll get the gist of what he is saying.)

What is interesting is that the Church never changed or amended its definition of a miracle. Miracles are still medical problems. But today it's hard for me to define something like a pancreas problem as a miracle that can potentially be treated by modern medical profession.