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Hemispherectomy patients do not decrease in IQ as much as one might assume. Typically less than 15 points. Some have no change and others even a slight improvement.

While not directly comparable, as these are brains with massive problems, you don't remove half just for the fun of it, it's still a testament to the resilience and redundancy of the organ.

The type of free will people often talk about is the type where if you rewind time to give you a second chance there is a potential for you to chose differently.

But whatever decision you want to make will ultimately be a function of your state of mind. How can you will something that isn't a result of your experiences? What else informs your will? The type of counter-causal free will people think they want probably doesn't exist.

You have free will, but it is determined. It's a result of physical processes. How we think may be difficult to computationally reduce, so it still might not be predictable. Counter-causal free will would force you to look outside the universe for causes. You get duality. Quantum randomness is not an escape for this.

You'd need some bits in the file telling you which trained decoder you need to get the proper image out.

What would the image of that girl look like if they used WaveOne Aerial?

How is this not cheating if the example image they used to compare algorithms is in the training data?

Seems like a slightly unfair comparison. Training the compressor moves data from the images into the compressor, making the bit per pixel evaluation slightly more iffy.

I don't think I know anyone that do TDD. Uncle Bob has indoctrinated a few zealots into that mindset, but it all comes off as crazy to me. A germ of a good idea taken way too far.

People of that school tend to write tests that test implementation rather than functionality. As a result you get fragile tests that break not telling you what went wrong but how the implementation has changed.

Good tests should test behavior. A change in implementation shouldn't break the test.

A variation I've heard is "Don't just do something. Stand there!"

I found him to be somewhat full of himself from the autobiographical works alone.

Then again, I probably would be too, if I was Richard Feynman.

Simians include all old world monkeys and apes, including humans. While you might interpret it as being an insult, and it may have been meant as such, it is factually correct.