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I just don't enjoy his writing style at all. I only ended up doing a couple chapters and probably won't go back.

Maybe part of it is the translation, but it feels like a huge slog. The only translated series I can really think of that I really loved is Millennium (Lisbeth Salander/Girl with the Dragon Tattoo). I think translation can be a challenge, because you're trying not to vary from the author's intent, but different language choices in a book are made for different choices at different times, so even a really great translator can be constrained by the original work. It's hard to match both the flow and intent of native writing.

It shouldn't. There's nothing to fix.

The fact that the vast majority of quality mobile apps in existence are iOS only, because development and distribution on Android are complete and utter dogshit.

Why would they provide physical controllers on the early version when the mass market won't have physical controllers?

Apple's dev tools are fine. It's not dumb luck that's the reason iPhone's software ecosystem takes a giant shit all over android's.

My favorite is that everyone sends you a silly preview saying "we'll have your stats soon".

Just send one.

They were a $3500 dev-kit to enable some base level of preparation when the costs come down. They were never going to be mainstream.

Yes.

Science is built on a shared, standardized base of knowledge. Laying claim to a standard term to mean something entirely incompatible with the actual definition makes your paper objectively incorrect and without merit.

The paper is not entitled to redefine a scientific term to be completely incorrect.

A bit is a bit.

No, I am saying that I do have a meaningful working knowledge of how the brain works, and information theory, beyond the literal surface level it would take to understand that the headline is bullshit.

You don't need to be a Nobel prize winning physicist to laugh at a paper claiming gravity is impossible. This headline is that level. Literally just processing a word per second completely invalidates it, because an average vocabulary of 20k means that every word, by itself, is ~14 bits of information.

Argument to authority doesn't strengthen your argument.

A piece of paper is not a prerequisite to the extremely basic level of understanding it takes to laugh at this.

The headline is completely incompatible with multiple large bodies of scientific evidence. It's the equivalent of claiming gravity doesn't exist. Dismissing obvious nonsense is a necessary part of filtering the huge amount of information available.

But I did read the abstract and it makes the headline look reasonable by comparison.

The point is that it's literally impossible for the headline to be anything but a lie.

I don't need to dig further into a headline that claims cell towers cause cancer because of deadly cell signal radiation, and that's far less deluded than this headline is.

The core concept is entirely incompatible with even a basic understanding of information theory or how the brain works.

(But I did read the abstract, not knowing it's the abstract because it's such nonsensical babble. It makes it even worse.)