Aron

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   Stephen Wolfram: Singularity Summit 2009 (vimeo.com)

   1 points by Aron 16y ago|0 comments
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   by Aron 16y ago

   I read so much and retain so little. Everything new pushes out something old. Jason Calcanis might be a dick. I'm still working on my conclusion about that.
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   by Aron 16y ago

   Out of some odd synchronization, I read this comment while Last.FM was playing some old folk crooner delimiting his life over a music-less backdrop.
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   by Aron 16y ago

   Hell hath no fury like a Hacker scorned.
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   by Aron 16y ago

   I think we'll evolve towards general computational intelligence, improving our calculating substrate as we learn more about fundamental physics. Eventually, matter and 3 dimensional space and time are all just one very narrow view of realit
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   by Aron 16y ago

   Let her create a fake husband account.
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   by Aron 16y ago

   Williams discusses briefly here (at 50 min) his hope that endurance would be significantly improved by moving from the lab equipment they use for fabrication to a more commercial quality system. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHJvp5MybkM&#
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   by Aron 16y ago

   This is only upvote worthy if it's premise is true. For that, we need evidence.
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   by Aron 16y ago

   He indicates at 0:33.30 that the endurance is slightly better than flash.
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    by Aron 16y ago

    *than
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    by Aron 16y ago

    Throw some pepper on a bowl of water, and touch it with a soaped finger.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I find it interesting how quickly the body appears to decondition when you stop exercising. I suspect the consensus is that this is intended to lower basal metabolism, which would make one better adapted to a food scarce environment. Howeve
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I predict education to finally start changing in the next decade or so. What's the value of having students fall asleep in lecture? Interactive education with a computer, even if done in a class-like environment, seems much more engaging an
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    by Aron 17y ago

    That's an interesting point. I imagine the topic of virtual vs. physical consumption would make for a good thesis from some enterprising econ student. You focus on the externalities of waste. I agree that's important. Of course, the very fa
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Doesn't second life allow people to develop their own in-game designs and sell them? Seems like a logical extension for WoW, where one of the principal motivations appears to be a virtual materialism (isn't the real one bad enough?) Probabl
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I believe stereo vision provides little 3D info at long distances.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Also, it's a lot more pleasant emotionally to have the excuse of work\family\money\other for holding you back from your 'dreams', than it is to actually have the liberty to pursue them and have to scrutinize why you aren't doing so. Usually
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    by Aron 17y ago

    "A pound of muscle takes ~100 calories a day to survive" This defies math when on the order of 1/3rd of your weight is muscle. The more commonly cited value is 50 calories a pound, and even that appears too high. This article cites 6 calori
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    by Aron 17y ago

    backup link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jpJKXrjBOe...
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I would say the article is aimed at people who have achieved a certain level of competence. This would be the entrepreneur that has already made a rather significant sum of money. For those still struggling, it doesn't offer much wisdom.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Man.. can we not just appreciate the fact that we now have WAGONS that move your STUFF without you having to CARRY IT?!
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Another decent use, embodying synaptic weights in neuromorphic engineering. A decent description: http://www.scidacreview.org/0804/html/hardware.html I think eventually, if we want software that performs like a human mind, we'll want hard
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I'm surprised there isn't a Google API or existing service somewhere for this. Google aggregates their news links already. I would start with just informing the link submitter of the similarity measure to other URLs, and give them the respo
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Glad I read the comments first.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    I've got more fear of Google (or the next Google) than the LessWrong guys do of paperclip loving AI's, although for approximately the same reason.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    They don't appear to actually quantify the difference between sucrose and hfcs-fed rats in this summary, which is the only part of interest to me.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    This is a good introduction. I'm interested in finding articles that speculate about just how aligned the design requirements are between graphics, and most matrix-based scientific and data mining computation. For instance, Nvidia has intro
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    by Aron 17y ago

    So let's see. Parity is kind of a large version of XOR right? Does a multilayer NN fail at this task or does the topology have to expand with the input dimension for that?
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    by Aron 17y ago

    Do you have a link(s) to someone who appears to be doing this? I'd like to see that this idea has been implemented, and how.
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    by Aron 17y ago

    You just wrote a program that loses money.