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Where does the rating come from? Do you understand what all those words mean? It looks like you copied someone's rather subjective opinion. Because e.g. "bollo" and "caliente" aren't inherently profane in Spanish. Or do people think the hot water tap is leering at them? "Oye, tia, que caliente qu'et-ta!"

In case you're not trolling: to reproduce a paper means to achieve the reported result within an acceptable margin through independent replication of the experiment. Since nobody is referring to a paper which reports one million coin flips, reproduction is not in question.

There's also a piano player museum in Amsterdam, should they not be interested: https://www.pianolamuseum.online/en/

Also worth noting is that his music was rather avant-garde. A predecessor of "black midi," if you will.

Certainly I will. That's a great analogy, to the point that you could argue he WAS 'black midi', just on a related instrument. He was doing no-velocity black midi on a mechanical instrument.

Are you sure it rings the large bells? A carrillon usually has (much) smaller bells. The 50 bells of the carillon in the cathedral here weigh around 25.000kg in total, and are played by hammers, not by traditional "ringing" (which would make it hard to control rhythmically).

Yes it is hammers, but the big bells. The holes in the paper are 3×1 mm or so, and the hammers are about the size of a sledge hammer, but counter balanced. It definitely needs the vacuum amps.

Firefox offers multiple ways to do that: you can use containers or launch different profiles from about:profiles. The latter has no way of telling the windows apart, unfortunately. This tool seems quite handy, though.

Setting a different visual theme for each Firefox profile works well for me.

There are meteorological services with open data access: https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/cdo-web/, https://english.knmidata.nl/open-dat, https://climatedataportal.metoffice.gov.uk/

Mapping that would be quite a bit of work, I imagine.


Yeah, mapping it would definitely be a project. I looked into using open data from those sources, but ran into issues where the values didn’t match what MSN reports (which is what the Windows weather widget uses). Even small differences in temperature or how conditions are worded ("partly sunny" vs. "mostly sunny") can throw off the match. I’m planning to try using open data for historical screenshots eventually, but I expect it’ll reduce accuracy greatly.

Rescheduling instructions is not relevant, is it? Are there architectures which change the semantics of the instructions by changing execution order?

> Rescheduling instructions is not relevant, is it?

I guess it probably depends on why a user might want to think of C as low level. The user visible semantics shouldn't change, I hope, but the performance might.


I had my doubts before, but this was the proverbial drop in the bucket: I removed my account. People can still contact me via phone, sms, email, or Signal, or by just ringing at the door.

Embodiment started out as a cute idea without much importance that has gone off the rails. It is irrelevant to the question of how our mind/cognition works.

It's obvious we need a physical environment, that we perceive it, that it influences us via our perception, etc., but there's nothing special about embodied cognition.

The fact that your quote says "Mental processes are not, or not only, computational processes." is the icing on the cake. Consider the unnecessary wording: if a process is not only computational, it is not computational in its entirety. It is totally superfluous. And the assumption that mental processes are not computational places it outside the realm of understanding and falsification.

So no, as outlandish as Wolfram is, he is under no obligation to consider embodied cognition.


"The fact that your quote says "Mental processes are not, or not only, computational processes." is the icing on the cake. Consider the unnecessary wording: if a process is not only computational, it is not computational in its entirety. It is totally superfluous. And the assumption that mental processes are not computational places it outside the realm of understanding and falsification."

Let's take this step by step.

First, how adroit or gauche the wording of the quote is doesn't have any bearing on the quality of the concept, merely the quality of the expression of the concept by the person who formulated it. This isn't bible class, it's not the word of God, it's the word of an old person who wrote that entry in the Stanford encyclopedia.

Let's then consider the wording. Yes, a process that is not entirely computational would not be computation. However, the brain clearly can do computations. We know this because we can do them. So some of the processes are computational. However, the argument is that there are processes that are not computational, which exist as a separate class of activities in the brain.

Now, we do know of some processes in mathematics that are non-computable, the one I understand (I think) quite well is the halting problem. Now, you might argue that I just don't or can't understand that, and I would have to accept that you might have a point - humiliating as that is. However, it seems to me that the journey of mathematics from Hilbert via Turing and Godel shows that some humans can understand and falsify these concepts.

But I agree, Wolfram is not under any obligations to consider embodied congition, thinking around enhanced brains only is quite reasonable.


> It's obvious we need a physical environment, that we perceive it, that it influences us via our perception, etc., but there's nothing special about embodied cognition.

It's also obvious that we have bodies interacting with the physical environment, not just the brain, and the nervous system extends throughout the body, not just the head.

> if a process is not only computational, it is not computational in its entirety. It is totally superfluous. And the assumption that mental processes are not computational places it outside the realm of understanding and falsification.

This seems like a dogmatic commitment to a computational understanding of the neuroscience and biology. It also makes an implicit claim that consciousness is computational, which is difficult to square with the subjective experience of being conscious, not to mention the abstract nature of computation. Meaning abstracted from conscious experience of the world.


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