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Discussion article for the meetup : Ann Arbor Area Amalgam of Rationalist-Adjacent Anthropoids: March 11 WHEN: 11 March 2017 04:30:00PM

http://radar.oreilly.com/2014/11/the-robotic-worm.html Summary, as I understand it: The connectome for C. elegans's 302-neuron brain has b

A common mistake people make with utility functions is taking individual utility numbers as meaningful, and performing operations such as ad

Edit 11/28: Edited note at bottom to note that the random variables should have finite variance, and that this is essentially just L². Also

Or, yet another obstacle to WBE. http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33350/title/Neurons-Talk-Without-Synapses/ OK, ap

I assume it's the same as before, but I don't recall where that is and it doesn't seem to be listed on the about page anymore.  One of my co

Recently came across this blog post on Language Log summarizing this recent paper by Laran et al. Super-short version: When people are aware

Edit: I think the P2c I wrote originally may have been a bit too weak; fixed that. Nevermind, rechecking, that wasn't needed. More edits (

EDIT: Argh, I really failed to read this closely. Rewriting... Just saw this over at Not Exactly Rocket Science. Chessboxing (or similar g

EDIT: This is now on the Wiki as "Quick reference guide to the infinite".  Do what you want with it. It seems whenever anything involving