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  1. Mar 2024
    1. if you’ve ever heard of the futures cone, it’s this idea of you know, this kind of widening aperture; the further out you look, the less predictable things are.
  2. Jan 2024
    1. How soon could such an intelligent robot be built? The coming ad-vances in computing power seem to make it possible by 2030.

      In 2000, Bill Joy predicted that advances in computing would allow an intelligent robot to be built by 2030.

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  3. Jan 2023
  4. Oct 2022
    1. Intellectual readiness involves a minimumlevel of visual perception such that the child can take in andremember an entire word and the letters that combine to formit. Language readiness involves the ability to speak clearly andto use several sentences in correct order.

      Just as predictive means may be used on the level of letters, words, and even whole sentences within information theory at the level of specific languages, does early orality sophistication in children help them to become predictive readers at earlier ages?

      How could one go about testing this, particularly in a broad, neurodiverse group?

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  7. Apr 2022
    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2020, November 5). @ToddHorowitz3 2/2 so I would prefer to treat this as an opportunity for empirical observation and learning. Evaluation should focus on trying to assess actual contribution, not a priori judgments. [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1324367278352355330

    1. (7) ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: “@ToddHorowitz3 probably- and I think there are many interesting questions around why he is there and whether he should be there. But to answer those properly, looking at the performance of the model seems important and interesting to me- that is all I am saying” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved March 6, 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1324389147050569734

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  9. Jan 2022
    1. Top Tech Trends For Web Developers in 2022 Jack Herrington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5JvHGFv3A

      Highlights

      • AI Coding tools
      • Lightweight Frameworks
      • Classic Frameworks
      • WebAssembly
      • Headless UI Libraries
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  12. Nov 2020
    1. Industry experts believe that deep-ultraviolet lithography will reach its limits around 2004 and 2005, which means that Moore's law would also come to an end without a new chipmaking technology. But once deep-ultraviolet hits its ceiling, we will see chipmakers move to a new lithography process that will enable them to produce the industry's first 10-gigahertz (GHz) microprocessor by 2007.

      hilariously wrong

  13. Jun 2020
  14. Dec 2018
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      This chapter establishes new characters and the suspense inherent to the convention of the marriage plot, which we have seen in all Austen novels thus far. Sidney Parker is introduced and appears to be a potential love interest for Charlotte, because she is our main female protagonist who has yet to meet a potential match (she clearly is not interested in Sir Edward or Arthur Parker.) Sidney is described as “seven or eight and twenty, very good looking with a decided air of ease and fashion and a lively countenance,” and is known to be single from the account of Mr. Parker. He is around the same age as Austen’s typical male love interests and although older than Charlotte, not by much. His introductions to her are described as “very well-bred” and “proper.” Although this information is largely the narrator’s perspective and Charlotte’s impression of him is not revealed, he seems like a contender in the potential marriage market Sanditon seems to suggest. Like other Austen love interests, he comes from outside of the original plot, later than other characters, similarly to Darcy’s introduction as a friend of Bingley’s in Pride and Prejudice. Also, he expresses opinions quite different from those of his family or the social circle to which he belongs. Earlier, Mr. Parker speaks of Sidney’s feelings towards his siblings and his propensity to ridicule their dramatic schemes and exaggerated illness. This and his relationship as brother to Mr. Parker, suggests a similar situation to the Knightley and Emma dynamic in Austen’s, Emma. However, Charlotte seems more like a Fanny Price character (Mansfield Park) than an Emma. Although she is more opinionated that Fanny, she is a quiet and observant character most of the time who has been minimally active in the plot thus far. Another reason to suppose their match is that Charlotte also rapidly recognizes the faults of the Parkers as hypochondriacs and sees through the schemes of Sir Edward Denham and Miss Denham. Her and Sidney seem at the very least, like they would be a compatible pair.

      Furthermore, in the latter half of the chapter, Charlotte sees Clara Brereton and Sir Edward speaking intimately by the water, clearly intending their conversation to be private. Although Clara Brereton seemed to reject his affection in discomfort earlier, she speaks to him “composedly” and they seem engaged in “gentle conversation.” This contrast in Clara’s behavior is quite suspicious and seems to suggest an actual connection between the two, which could be a secret engagement similar to that of Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill in Emma. However the rivalry the Denham’s have with Clara over Lady Denham’s inheritance could play into this attachment. This suggests a potentially duplicitous and coercive match similar to that of Mrs. Clay and Mr. Elliot in Persuasion.

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        This chapter establishes familiar character dynamics that might elucidate the trajectory of the personas Austen presents in this unfinished text. The chapter begins with the introduction of Miss Esther Denham and Sir Edward Denham, a scheming sibling pair reminiscent of Mansfield Park’s The Crawfords and Northanger Abbey’s The Thorpes. Austen explicitly establishes the bald aim of the two to obtain wealth and status from advantageous matrimony, a characteristic that similarly mirrors the Crawfords and Thorpes. Sir Edward, in particular, resembles Austen’s past villainous men; throughout the Austen canon, coxcomb-esque behaviors are the cardinal sins of bachelors. Indeed, Willoughby, Wickham, Henry Crawford, Mr. Elton, Thorpe, and Mr. Elliot all receive biting characterizations by Austen, and thus, given the fates of these men in their respective novels, we can predict that Sir Edward is not the male love interest of this story. 
       Sir Edward’s dynamic with, and apparent longing for the affection of, Clara Brereton, additionally reverberate into the Austen canon in a meaningful way. Other Austen works present relationships between gentried men and pseudo-adopted young women; notably, Emma features Jane Fairfax and Frank Churchill’s secret engagement and Mansfield Park depict Henry Crawford’s arguably predatory pursuit of Fanny Price. These relationship both demonstrate wealth and class incongruities as interpersonal complications. Further, these dynamics are also characterized by the ignorance of other characters to the details of the relationship. Therefore, we cannot know from this unfinished account of Charlotte’s observations if Clara Brereton is a Fanny Price or a Jane Fairfax; we cannot fully know if the behaviors and dispassion Charlotte Heywood witnesses are evidence of a painful resistance to unwanted advances or red herrings to disguise an intimacy. Since speculation is the nature of this activity, however, it is notable that in both Mansfield Park and Emma, outside perceptions of the aforementioned relationships were incorrect. Therefore, paradoxically, Charlotte’s perception of Clara’s distaste for Sir Edward might in fact evince a returned affection and eventual marriage between the two. 
      
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    4. Miss Charlotte Heywood

      and so the marriage plot begins and the heroine is born.... I suspect

  15. Sep 2015