AndrewOMartin

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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
We did. People have been doing impressive AI demonstrations before they're was hardware to run it. E.g. Turing implemented a chess playing program, but had to have his colleage execute it manually to play a game.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Just make sure you don't get sick.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
I'd also be keen to hear the exact reason, but the text message is probably going through layers of infrastructure and software, possibly even satellite, before appearing on a computer screen, whereas the shockwave is traveling at the
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
"Big Data is like teenage sex: everyone talks about it, nobody really knows how to do it, everyone thinks everyone else is doing it, so everyone claims they are doing it." - Dan Ariely (at least as early as 2018) s/Big Data&#
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
I think you can make an analogy with Casinos and their incentives to cheat. They could do all sorts of things and there are plenty of gambling scams that do those things, but most legit looking Casinos are already making money hand over fis
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Finally the Druids get a viable endgame armour set!
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
It's cute. Needs a pager ;)
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
Not only that but also you often want to anticipate or avoid some common responses so you make special effort to make sure you've tried all common techniques and referenced all available resources. Doing this is often the answer. E.g.
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by AndrewOMartin 1y ago
This is perfectly reasonable, but I think it is a bit general. The notion of a chain of trust leading to a curated feed can equally apply to YouTube if you stick to the subscribed channels view. There are also specific skills I've pick
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
I learned about this from YouTuber Angela Collier recently and, not too take anything away from the thesis of their video or from your point, a longer video of the same event shows Bezos giving Shatner his undivided attention immediately af
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Your common or garden philosopher will refer to the Ship of Theseus, or Theseus paradox, and those with a foot in the '90s will call it Trigger's Broom. Those truly tuned in to popular culture will indeed refer to The Sugarbabes,
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
> An argument, though, is an exchange of ideas that ought to surface insight and lead to a conclusion. No it isn't.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
The Hut 6 Story, goes into enough detail that Gordon Welchman (Simply put, Turing's boss) lost his security clearance. If you care about the human side, but are keen to take on the details there's no better book possible.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Because we know how it works, and we've seen how it fails.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
See also acoustic delay lines. Basically the same but instead of using phosphorous, they use mercury, or piano-wire, but never gin. Gin was proposed by some fanciful idiot [1] but never used. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Is it worth it though? You could build a half-decent base in Factorio in that time.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Ben Goldacre used to have a regular column against misleading health fads, amongst other things, called Bad Science. He was a practicing GP and whenever asked to give some advice himself he said that people and lifestyles were too varied to
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
They assume there's a fixed amount of wealth to go around and if they give anything up they should immediately get something more valuable in return else they're losing out. In reality, by making certain trades or investments new
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
There's also the fact that he did "life drawing" of a number of his students, which is completely unacceptable today, and wasn't exactly approved of at the time. I've certainly felt like I've taken a bit more o
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
By only reading HN in the shower I limit the time wasted on browsing HN to a couple of hours a day.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
The one where the cake is decorated with the phrase "Happy Birthday Bithiday"? Maybe that's her name. Seriously though, I completely understand. AI slop tends to have a "when you see it, you can't unsee it" iss
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
Remember, "predicted asteroid impact probability often goes up, then down" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_prediction#Imp...
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
This It shone, pale as bone As I stood there alone And I thought to myself how the moon, That night, cast its light On my heart's true delight, And the reef where her body was strewn.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
...and it's gone.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
The one written in Rust, obv.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
It's Turing complete, it can simulate anything any other Turing equivalent machine (e.g. a PC) can.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
The rebuild sourced the parts from other contemporary machines, and there's a decent chance some of these components came from the dismantling of the original Colossus, so some of the rebuild is probably also original :)
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
God bless whoever did the subtitles. Knuth's clarity of thought is unsurpassed, but, for me at least, actually hearing him speak is like the opposite of ASMR.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
The garbage in the last sentence of this comment is due to the second link including incorrectly OCR'd text from an image of a newspaper using a two column layout. Both links are very amusing.
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by AndrewOMartin 2y ago
If you have two minutes... Working on a Printer Paper Jam - Dylan Beattie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhlWSOQ4cC4

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