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New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

AngaraliTurk — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 11:38:09 +0000

It was a reply to your comment:

> However, Turkey to the north is really not keen on the Kurds having any territory, so they'll do whatever they can to frustrate this.

It's not true that Turkey is not keen on the Kurds having any territory because their friendly relations with KRG is a counter example.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

AngaraliTurk — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:42:29 +0000

The Iraqi Kurdistan (KRG) you mention has friendly relations with Turkey.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

AngaraliTurk — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:31:26 +0000

I was giving you the benefit of doubt all this time, but your comments about my country confirms to me that you're misinformed. For all I hate Erdoğan and his attempts to undermine democracy, and I want to see him gone sooner or later, Turkey is as much an Islamic authoritarian state as USA is a Christian authoritarian one under the rule of Trump. There seems to be a tendency to exaggerate the realities on the ground for some reason, and I suspect this is fueled by bots.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "The construction of the mafioso social capital and the Sack of Palermo (2023)"

AngaraliTurk — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:51:31 +0000

I've heard and read Greece being compared to the Middle East as well, more than one time.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Rhyme as Reason"

AngaraliTurk — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 09:43:49 +0000

You might be an exception, an outlier, like many on HN, in regards to this effect. What applies to most people is more probable not to apply to me or you because we're self selected here, a bubble. This is given you're not either bluffing or constructed an illusory belief.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Does fermion doubling make the universe not a computer?"

AngaraliTurk — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 14:17:01 +0000

It could be a recursive simulator.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

AngaraliTurk — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:38:39 +0000

It would be nice if you could report this on Github. You can do it here: https://github.com/open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki/issues/n...

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

AngaraliTurk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:14:59 +0000

The point is that you're looking for something that accounts for your memory patterns while reviewing things haphazardly, which goes against the former. It doesn't exist. I wonder why you just don't use traditional study methods at this point. If you dread the backlog (and you shouldn't if you have well formatted cards, which may be why it didn't work for you) you will dread the alternative even more.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

AngaraliTurk — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:57:11 +0000

I haven't made any assumptions about your goals. I simply reminded you that memories kind of have "expiry dates", so that review dates are necessary. The backlog you mentioned is the memories you're about to forget if not "refreshed" in time. If you just want to practice whenever you feel like it, there are tons of apps that use a simple Leitner box, but you may soon find that it becomes a burden to review your cards if you add an important amount of them. Anki already has ways to do what you want, while still working according to your memory patterns, such as using filtered decks and lowering desired retention.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "FSRS: A modern, efficient spaced repetition algorithm"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 23:12:12 +0000

But that's not how memory works...you can't put your memory on hold like you're suggesting. There's a reason FSRS follows a personalized memory curve.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "What does the cerebellum do?"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 13:56:28 +0000

Try to spend more time imagining and entertaining that thought. They both have the same function but execute it differently.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "What does the cerebellum do?"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 09:42:22 +0000

In all honesty, I believe the reverse is true. Our technology seems modeled after humans and the environment we inhabit. Airplanes being glorified birds, wheels being glorified feet, computers being glorified brains or neural networks...well.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Anselm's Ontological Argument: A Guide for the Perplexed"

AngaraliTurk — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 23:40:20 +0000

I am Muslim and the universe is what I identify God with. It seems "natural" to me and what I feel is actually being conveyed. Now I wonder how other adherents of world religions actually see God.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

AngaraliTurk — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 07:51:07 +0000

You and me think we are but we can't be sure, and many before us have raised a doubt.

As for the prompt(s), to use such a limiting term, they could as well come from a self-reinforcing loop that starts when we're born and is influenced by external stimuli.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

AngaraliTurk — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 15:50:14 +0000

I don't define X because it's highly variable.

It seems to me that on one extreme there are people easily anthropomorphising advanced computing and on the other extreme there are people trivializing it with sentences like "glorified x thing". This time around it's "glorified autocorrect" and its derivations. It's always something that glorifies another artificial thing, and I suspect that if and when we will have recreated the human brain, or heck, another human, it will still be a "glorified x thing".

As 0x0203 said, maybe it is to be ascribed to the religious substrate that takes offence at anything that arrogantly tries to resemble the living creatures made by God, or God himself.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

AngaraliTurk — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 12:01:13 +0000

I wanted to put the focus on the overused "glorified x thing" sentence, which to me seems to be applicable to just about anything. I didn't want to liken/compare AI to biological systems per se.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "AI’s big rift is like a religious schism"

AngaraliTurk — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:22:46 +0000

> And while LLMs are certainly an exciting new technology, it's not at all clear that they're really more than a glorified autocorrect.

Are we sure things like biology, or heck, even the universe as a whole and its parts, aren't "glorified x thing"? Can't we apply this argument to just about anything?

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Mixtral of experts"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 11:07:33 +0000

Same.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Paper vs. devices: Brain activation differences during memory retrieval (2021)"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:59:21 +0000

Spaced repetition software system? That's not the usual meaning of SRS, but good to know some people use it like that.

New comment by AngaraliTurk in "Paper vs. devices: Brain activation differences during memory retrieval (2021)"

AngaraliTurk — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:52:48 +0000

Just a very small nitpick, but "system" is redundant when you say SRS, as it would be like saying Spaced Repetition System system.