planck keyboard feels 98% natural to me now. I’m using stiff tactile grey cherry switches on them, which feel great to me, but my fingers need to build up strength for long-term use.
Something being ‘natural’ might make fixing it more difficult, but it is not an excuse not to fix it. If inequity & injustice are ‘natural’ – i.e., happen without conspiracy – that just makes it more important to fight them.
Random link from the archives: https://worldwritable.com/https-worldwritable-com-natural-language-processing-for-programmers-world-models-b01943959830 originally archived Wed Jun 20 10:37:12 EDT 2018
On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Language
the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.
GitHub - pcyin/tranX: A general-purpose neural semantic parser for mapping natural language queries into machine executable code https://github.com/pcyin/tranX
There is No Nature-Nurture War - Scientific American Blog Network https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/beautiful-minds/in-the-nature-nurture-war-robert-plomin-is-fighting-a-losing-battle/
Natural Processes “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/natural-processes/
It’s probably a mistake to believe we know what ‘human nature’ entails & how consistent or flexible it is.
Controlled natural language - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_natural_language
Band name of the day: rejecting the natural
This is an interesting take, but the author fails to note that the primary result of speculation is fantasy – i.e., price deviation from ‘natural’ value: https://meltingasphalt.com/wealth-the-toxic-byproduct/
No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision
“Eco Grime” Artists Blend Natural Sounds & Electronics to Depict a Polluted World « Bandcamp Daily https://daily.bandcamp.com/2018/11/13/eco-grime-music-history/
GitHub - opencog/link-grammar: The CMU Link Grammar natural language parser https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar
303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07118-1
QOTD: ‘For Lovecraft, if all horror can be explained by natural law, then the obvious inference is that natural law is horrific.’
Can somebody with access to SciAm or Nature summarize the substance of this SciAm article ‘Subliminal Messages Can Cause Forgetting’ for me? Is it just something stupid like ‘priming can interfere with reencoding via jamais-vu’?
Band name of the day: a creeping naturalism
The Secret London Exhibition for Spies’ Eyes Only - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/exhibit-for-spies-at-natural-history-museum-london
Bursting stovepipes creates an intellectual explosion, but it’s short-lived. You don’t get scenius without tribes, but you also don’t get it without potlatches. The periodic nature of the potlatch is necessary, & so is the discarding of material work.
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
Band name of the day: naturally occurring-interaction of gears, levers, and pulleys
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303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05773-y
Humans are natural magic-users because their cognition is grounded: Whenever they meet an ungrounded cognition (say a spirit), that spirit is grounded through them and the resulting flow of energy can be harnessed
Seeing into the True Nature: Have You Tried Solving the Problem? http://grognor.blogspot.com/2016/12/have-you-tried-solving-problem.html
Art project if you have too much money: Anonymously buy some 95% to 100% of your city’s ad space for a month and make it display only art and nature pictures; then hope for protests once the ads are back
Any Sufficiently Advanced Civilization is Indistinguishable from Nature https://www.nextnature.net/2012/02/any-sufficiently-advanced-civilization-is-indistinguishable-from-nature/
Please describe the precise nature of the absurdity.
Band name of the day: the nine springs of our nature
A nature god by the name of “it”, hidden in plain sight where the monotheists can’t exorcise it: It rains, snows, thunders
Ouroboroi are natural self-sustaining summoning grids: Circle and blood are already included and when they yawn, they catch drifting worlds and the occasional demon
303 See Other https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-07220-w
nature: (n) […] etymology uncertain, possibly a contraction of “not ture” (“not human”)↵vulture: (n) […] etym.: vult+ture (“wants human”)
📚 Finished reading On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
📚 Finished reading On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
Sarcasm Corpus V2 | Natural Language and Dialogue Systems https://nlds.soe.ucsc.edu/sarcasm2
The correct mass noun for a swarm of pixies is ‘jpeg’, often occurring near windows since they’re naturally drawn to them
The most common werecreature is the werehuman, transformed by the sun. Only those who flee the solar system revert to a more natural form
A Whimsical Wordsmith Charts a Course Beyond Twitter - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/magazine/a-whimsical-wordsmith-charts-a-course-beyond-twitter.html##%E2%80%9CI+was+able+to+be+funny+and+natural+through+the+keyboard+and+awkward+and+quiet+and+weird+in+person%2C%E2%80%9D+he+told+me.+%E2%80%9CI+wonder+how+many+writers+of+this+generation+figured+out+how+to+write+through+chat.%E2%80%9D
GitHub - shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning: Syllabus for Part 2 of Nature of Code: "Intelligence and Learning" at ITP Spring 2017 Edit https://github.com/shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning
Humans cultivated in a matrix will eventually build a web (xtüI et al. 7330; Sol3 7441). Research into the nature of their prey is ongoing (
@kas@enotty.dk But then we wouldn’t be a decentralized network anymore. Or do i misunderstand the nature of keybase?
In the Middle Ages, they made their screens out of a special bee’s hive. The larvae, naturally bioluminescent, were their hexagonal pixels.
“List of countries by fractal dimension”↵https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fractals_by_Hausdorff_dimension#Random_and_natural_fractals https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/820401966501294080/photo/1
If nature is boring, change nature. Do not be complacent, do not be a mere spirit. Craft yourself a vessel worth inhabiting, and shine.
The natural forces that have a direction and formulae to describe them↵The forces that are system-imposed, seemingly random, and illegible
*billions of them*↵%the fabric of the universe itself must’ve strained%↵*but what killed the others?*↵%well you know of its warlike nature%