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Kant

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  1. The view from the top of St Johns tower is good and worth seeing. Also the big wheel.
  2. I was having a chin-stroking discussion (while drunk) the other night about Zeppelin and I said I couldn't split these two for their best work. Couldn't get anyone to agree with me at all. Repped.
  3. I'm another who sees myself as not having a creative bone in my body when it comes to the arts etc. However, I enjoy puzzles and am very good at problem solving.
  4. Interesting to hear Klopp's comment yesterday that he doesn't expect to do a lot of business next summer. So: smash the league this season, add a couple of players and then smash it even harder next year?
  5. Yep. You never know how important goal difference might be come May.
  6. ^^ The editing on that is pretty funny. I particularly enjoyed the "rubbish" at 0:34 and "I'm stunned" at 2:46
  7. How's he going to leverage any synergies until he gets all his ducks in a row and everyone's singing from the same hymn sheet?
  8. ^ Ha ha the look on her face in the first one is superb.
  9. I still don't agree with your first sentence. I think if they were performing some kind of technical analysis of tennis in their spare time I'd still expect them to be applying the scientific method. Agree with your last sentence though. I guess trying to close the gap between "at this point" and some future point is the aim of the exercise.
  10. They're scientists. Just because they're doing it in their spare time doesn't mean it's not science.
  11. Yeah, I've read it. He makes a compelling case - he's a good writer - but it's one I still can't fathom fully. From memory, it seems to rest on a narrow point - that the results of some neuroscientific studies appear to indicate us making choices in a way which can be determined by our physical reaction *before* we are able to consciously express them at the level of neurons firing in the brain. Daniel Dennett spent a couple of hours on one of Harris' recent podcasts completely disagreeing with the premise of the book, and while Harris defended his work I didn't think that either of them managed to land the killer blow I hoped for. It's an interesting topic; I might go back and listen/read again when I have time.
  12. I read Bostrom's book on AI, and it was pretty good - if a little hard going at times. My favourite bit was in the introduction when he says something like "most of this may turn out to be wrong (*I don't know which bits)"
  13. I thought Ming did terribly for their goal. He was right in front of Costa with his hands down by his sides and he got nowhere near it. Compare that to Courtois and the speed he got down to the floor to save Origi's header. We need a keeper who'll make us some points over the season, and I don't think he's it.
  14. Terrific performance and a brilliant goal, made even better by the fact he'd already tried something from similar distance and missed badly. No safe sideways passes or fear of fucking up, just...bang.
  15. "Checking the details of a second-hand car is very much like making love to a beautiful woman. First of all, verify her year of origin. She may look like she rolled off the production line in 1990 but who's to say the fellow before you didn't give her a good spraying"
  16. Repped for taking the trouble to look that up and work it out.
  17. I'm having that. In fact, I'm looking forward to doing it already.
  18. My missus sends me for specific things that they don't even sell in the shop she's sent me to. Then gets the hump when I get something else instead.
  19. Unbelievably, she played for the Pope the other day.
  20. Only if the baby doesn't sign first.
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