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Java streams 16. Filter, skip, or sort

An intermediate operation returns a Stream object that emits the same or modified value(s) of the same or different type than the stream source. In this installment, we will discuss operations that do not change either element value or type. They just do not allow some elements to propagate downstream.

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Send me your consciousness – your connectome

Eventually, brains will be measured in minute details and digitized. The connections in your brains (connectome) will become reproducible. It well may be that the complexity of the connectome facilitates the emergence of consciousness.

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Java streams 15. Stream factory methods.

The Stream interface factory methods are the methods that create a Stream object. Their implementation includes call to a class constructor and that is the advantage of factory methods: they can do much more than just a constructor.

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Java streams 14. Stream factory methods and operations

Some of the Stream interface methods create a Stream object (we call them factory methods), while others process the elements emitted by the created Stream object (we call them operations).

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Limits of AI

If talking to AI via an intermediary, we are not able to distinguish between a human and a robot, does it mean that such a robot is conscious?

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Java streams 13. Create using BitSet.stream(), JarFile.stream(), or Pattern.splitAsStream()

Create a stream using IntStream BitSet.stream(), Stream JarFile.stream(), or Stream Pattern.splitAsStream(java.lang.CharSequence).

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Create stream using BitSet.stream(), JarFile.stream(), or Pattern.splitAsStream()

Create a stream using IntStream BitSet.stream(), Stream JarFile.stream(), or Stream Pattern.splitAsStream(java.lang.CharSequence).

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Living vs nonliving

The living can create a mental model of the world, plan, predict, act based on the prediction, and correct the model based on the result of the action or based just on the observations.

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Java streams 12. Create numeric stream using class Random

The Random class provide methods ints(), longs(), doubles(), and their overloads thus allowing creating a numeric stream IntStream, LongStream, or DoubleStream correspondingly.

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Mind and body united

Imagine humans in savanna a million years ago. Everything is subject to survival, whether they hunt or listen to stories sitting by the fire. What are these story about? About hunting, of course.

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