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      "body": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiB4_s3TeA\r\n\r\nOne of the ways I've been procrastinating recently is by thinking half-heartedly about Rubik's cubes. I've never solved one, and don't want to learn the algorithms, so I slog through some trial and error with it every now and then. To inspire a recent attempt, a few months ago I opened up the chapters on \"Cubology\" in \"<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas\">Metamagical Themas</a>\", skimmed through some of it, then put on the Go Pro, and gave a newly acquired 2x2x2 cube the old college try. 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      "body": "Human beings face doom if they do not quickly reorganize society to improve their chances of survival. Inexplicably, business as usual---where we create, for example, arbitrary amounts of drones for personal amusement, deep-fakes to obliterate any definitive notions of accountability for what we may or may not have said and done, and a plethora of smaller and more exciting recording devices that, intentionally or not, record everything going on around them---is challenging our notions of \"survival beyond 2030\".&nbsp;\r\n\r\nGiven this state of affairs, it is infuriating that the public discourse has yet to realize that VR has all the answers. 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It is much better to integrate what you know about the number and size of the ships you need to hit,&nbsp; along with where you've already fired, in order to maximize the probability of a hit:\r\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">&nbsp;</div>\r\n[ngg src=\"galleries\" ids=\"8\" display=\"basic_thumbnail\" thumbnail_crop=\"0\"]&nbsp;\r\n<p><center>From <a href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbALFZoRrw8\">Vsauce2</a> and a <a href=\"http://datagenetics.com/blog/december32011/index.html\">blog post</a>.</center></p>\r\nWe know from work like \\textcite{Kahnmen1973, Holmes2014} that human beings often do not do the \"optimal thing\", yet they also seem to \"succeed\" nonetheless. This is because there is always an ad-hoc \"optimal\" way to have arrived in a situation, but to give the term any kind of prospective meaning requires specifying a commitment to a goal in advance. BST methods tell us that this specification requires a kind of \"imagination\". 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Rather, I wanted some way to go from a representational space with a fixed frame of reference for each field, like small-medium-large, to a relative frame of reference like small_fruit-medium_fruit-large_fruit, via a sequence of discrete operations on just the actual set of fields themselves. Naturally, this made me think of the Rubik's cube again, with the faces being a set of 6, 2-dimensional fields. I think it could be useful to think of each \"facelet\" location on a face of the cube as having a receptive field centered on a \"preferred\" distance for the transforms that move that facelet to a location on another face. The decision to rotate the cube in a particular way, would originate from integrating activity for each location, given that location's rotation distance \"preferences\"/receptive-field. It's weird to think of Rubik's cubes solutions as requiring decision procedures based on this. 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      "body": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiB4_s3TeA\r\n\r\nOne of the ways I've been procrastinating recently is by thinking half-heartedly about Rubik's cubes. I've never solved one, and don't want to learn the algorithms, so I slog through some trial and error with it every now and then. To inspire a recent attempt, a few months ago I opened up the chapters on \"Cubology\" in \"<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas\">Metamagical Themas</a>\", skimmed through some of it, then put on the Go Pro, and gave a newly acquired 2x2x2 cube the old college try. 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Now before you say \"it's not weird that the Rubik's cube solver would need a decision procedure using information like that, and it's irrelevant to what a Rubik's cube metaphysically is\", let me discuss the next time I thought of the cubes.\r\n\r\nThe second time I thought of the cubes since my failed attempt at solving the 2x2x2, was this evening, as I tried to wrestle my mind into focusing on something properly erudite. I opened Metamagical Themas once again and began reading \"Magic Cubology\" in earnest. In particular I was looking for the page containing that most interesting of anecdotes about Rubik's Cubes that I had never forgotten: Rubik's cubes are thought to be a model of quarks. I wanted to photograph this page for a new collection of curiosities that I'm putting together, possibly as a daily picture site.\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-938 [ftmt_id] aligncenter\" src=\"https://wootcrisp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MMT_Rubiks_quark_page307-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"629\"></center><br/>\r\n\r\nIt was just at this point, that my girlfriend came in the room and asked if I wanted to finish watching \"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles\" with Steve Martin and John Candy. This is where the coincidence happens. A few minutes into the movie, my mind conjured up an old picture of Steve Martin holding \"Metamagical Themas\":\r\n\r\n<center><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-937 [ftmt_id] aligncenter\" src=\"https://wootcrisp.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Steve_Martin_MMT-512x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"768\"></center><br/>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWhat are the chances? 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      "body": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiB4_s3TeA\r\n\r\nOne of the ways I've been procrastinating recently is by thinking half-heartedly about Rubik's cubes. I've never solved one, and don't want to learn the algorithms, so I slog through some trial and error with it every now and then. To inspire a recent attempt, a few months ago I opened up the chapters on \"Cubology\" in \"<a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamagical_Themas\">Metamagical Themas</a>\", skimmed through some of it, then put on the Go Pro, and gave a newly acquired 2x2x2 cube the old college try. 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