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by 13ren 18y ago
A bare-bones nondeterministic regular expression engine for Python in 14 lines http://paste.lisp.org/display/24849
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by 13ren 18y ago
interesting. I've noticed some famously creative people had a period of convalescence during their childhood. e.g. Descartes apparently formulated the idea of x-y (ie Cartesian) coordinates while bed-ridden. I don't know how strong the corr
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by 13ren 18y ago
"Non-consumption is your greatest competitor" I love this: In fact, your competitor may not be as entrenched as you think.
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by 13ren 18y ago
Competition also validates the market in that some won't buy unless there is more than one supplier; the first doesn't always win (Edison had the 19th light bulb patent); and your greatest competitor is non-consumption (not this competitor)
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by 13ren 18y ago
I was thinking that understanding the problem (the business's "IT needs") is hard to commoditize, and can't be done with 100% automation (unless all businesses were cookie-cutter, automatically formally describable - perhaps almost true for
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by 13ren 18y ago
A training algorithm selects a hypothesis from a hypothesis space. What happens if the hypothesis space does not include the true hypothesis? Defining the hypothesis space is tricky - though the training/search part is also tricky :-).
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by 13ren 18y ago
We can design/grow some things that we cannot understand. Does it follow that we can therefore design/grow all things that we cannot understand?
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by 13ren 18y ago
Well, I said " can have exactly the same expressive power", just meaning that a GUI is not more limited than a language just because it's a GUI. Perhaps misleadingly stated :-). Specific languages and specific GUIs naturally will vary in w
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by 13ren 18y ago
Just to be pedantic: a GUI can have exactly the same expressive power as a language, by implementing that language, i.e. allow nesting and iteration. I realize that by "GUI", the author refers to those GUIs that we usually see, that are lim
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by 13ren 18y ago
i have a timer too
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by 13ren 18y ago
> “I was convinced that something big was about to happen with software in India,” he explains. “I wanted to be part of it.” > Customers must be convinced that they can entrust their business to the software. The first kind of convi
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by 13ren 18y ago
disruptive adoption: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=297597
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by 13ren 18y ago
Yes, and more of them. But they're not fundamentally smarter than us; it's just another technology (which is a great thing).
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by 13ren 18y ago
You're right, if the difference is that great. e.g. your handwaving of 1/50 sec to 4000 years, is about 50*10^11= 5,000,000,000,000 = a factor of 5 trillion (12 orders of magnitude). I was thinking that 1 second's thought in a few months wo
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by 13ren 18y ago
I agree, in that I think we can't make a machine that is fundamentally smarter than us. But I think it's possible to create a machine that is as smart as a human. Now, since some human beings seem to be smarter than others, I think it's
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by 13ren 18y ago
You are assuming that the required knowledge can be presented in a modular way, to reduce its complexity. Knowledge can only be simplified so much... what if the knowledge required for AI, after being made as simple as possible, is still mo
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by 13ren 18y ago
Turing complete: "Get up to a certain threshold, and every machine can simulate every other one, albeit some slower and others faster". This view has always fascinated me: if AI is possible, it's possible right now (in terms of hardware
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by 13ren 18y ago
> Usually when I want to be really productive on my computer, the first thing I do is unplug the DSL router. :-) Is that literally true? (I've done it - but not for a while... maybe I should start doing it again)
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by 13ren 18y ago
cute: when the function is run, it calculates the value to be cached, then redefines the function to just return that value. This way, you don't need to check if the value has been calculated yet or not. Yay for self-modifying code.
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by 13ren 18y ago
When life gives you rotten apples, made cider. (a problem is an opportunity).
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by 13ren 18y ago
http://scrumy.com http://scrumy.com/demo
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by 13ren 18y ago
pg's opinion (it would seem): [9] There are two ways to do work you love: (a) to make money, then work on what you love, or (b) to get a job where you get paid to work on stuff you love. In practice the first phases of both consis
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Concentrated Solar: Simple, Cheap, Efficient(cleantechnica.com)
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by 13ren 18y ago
Hey, I didn't mean it would be useless, just a killer for mainstream success. I gravely agree that more internet --> less productivity. :-(
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by 13ren 18y ago
I think the wires would just be a single bus. A single bus works fine for moving data to/from one of many memory locations. Another method of using just one bus is TCP-IP packet-style communication. Of course, there's limited bandwidth, so
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by 13ren 18y ago
Moore's Law is exponential If you believe it will continue, and that clock speeds won't increase, then you get exponentially increasing #'s of cores (or some other use of silicon estate). An alternative scenario is that there will be no mai
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by 13ren 18y ago
Assuming it's the NB0700 from the manufacturer's page: http://hvsco.com/sp_qx.asp?id=75 It has a VIA C7-M 1.6GHz. Assuming this RISC is comparable to the 900MHz CISC intel processor of the eeePC, the eeePC is fine for (most) flash, includ
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by 13ren 18y ago
I love founder stories, and I hadn't noticed they setup the background with a "quest which is romantically appealing to the target market". Do they? It's a great way to appeal to that market. I mean, if your purpose is to inspire, why not m
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by 13ren 18y ago
Invention comes from (groups of) individuals, not institutions. But individuals can become institutionalized... Not all leisured aristocrats did creative work - but the system of aristocracy facilitated it. The giant monopoly of Bell System
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by 13ren 18y ago
next: Google netbook? It's perfect for Google's client-server model. The only reason they wouldn't do it is if they are happy with what others are doing in the space - such as the eee PC. But Google wants it to be cheaper , because that me

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