BadThink6655321

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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
I love coding.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Of three news articles of which I have first hand knowledge, two completely misreported facts. They were exercises in reinforcing a narrative - the truth be damned. The third was accurate, but it was over 45 years ago.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
> There are currently things a brain can think about that a Turing machine cannot... Such as? Are these things forbidden by theory, or just simply beyond current engineering practice?
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Clockwork parts? No. Parts that select from a combination of inputs? Yes. Computability theory demands repeated combination/selection and memory. It doesn’t otherwise care how this is accomplished.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Men know this reference and find it funny. Boys don’t. //smiley_face
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
If Apple has to open their infrastructure then there needs to be reciprocity. I want Apple Pay. I don’t want Wal-Mart pay, Starbucks pay, CurrentC, ...
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Of course a neuroscientist can understand a microprocessor. That’s easy. Let me know when a microprocessor can understand a neuroscientist.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
A lambda calculus of two variables requires the law of the excluded middle, or it won’t work. The alphabet of the calculus has to be distinguishable and unambiguous.
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
First, the answer to whether or not an alien would understand the lambda calculus is no different than whether a dog or a dolphin can understand the lambda calculus. It depends on the wiring of their brain. The lambda calculus is recursiv
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by BadThink6655321 7y ago
Are you blaming the victim?
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
It has to agree with every prior measurement in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. That, in itself, is impressive.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
This is wrong in so many ways. First, I know the language. I’ve been doing this for almost 50 years. This isn’t a question of what the language allows but what the coder is trying to do. Second, experience has taught me that code and comm
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
The problem is trying to understand that it’s not a loop. The first line of the block says “this is a loop”. The last line of the block says “this isnt’t a loop.” The code is, if not outright lying, at least misdirecting.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
I'm reminded of two things. First, Knuth's article "On the Complexity of Songs", which features K. C. and the Sunshine band's "That's the way..." (Knuth, btw, is a Christian). Second, many years ag
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
“Bullshit” is in the eye of the beholder. One view is that if it makes money, it isn’t bullshit — because someone values it enough to pay for it.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
How do you arrive at an acceptable secular morality, especially since science claims that it cannot speak to morality?
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
The prices will stay hard to know because middlemen don’t like to be cut out.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Not according to my taste in beer, black coffee and gin and tonic ( https://www.popsci.com/psychopaths-may-prefer-bitter-foods )
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Humane to who? Ending one person’s life kills you a little on the inside, too. I have had to put three dogs to “sleep” and the fourth will come sooner than I want. I am not a better person because of it.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Is the problem of mindless censoring of content the “mindless” or the “censoring”? Or, as the first comment indicated, it’s not really a problem?
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
“... but nobody I know has actually managed to finish it.“ I’ve read it cover to cover, twice. It’s not a bad book, but it would have helped if he had used the Lambda calculus. YMMV.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
No mass transit system makes a profit, at least the last time I talked to someone who was heavily involved in the numbers. They require a subsidy of, what was it, 70%? That doesn’t make it wrong, but it has to be considered.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
No, freedom is against public transport, not the other way around. It may be a silly argument (personally, I like BART and Metro in D.C.), but you don’t get to erect a straw man.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Maybe we should care about beauty because Nature cares about beauty the way she cares about symmetry. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe Emily Noether’s intellectual heir will find a link between the conservation of energy and Kolmogorov
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
I’d use another, less charitable, word. Finding the laws of physics isn’t any different than finding a winning play in Go, except the search space is vastly larger. If we aren’t going to pay for things like the Superconducting Supercollid
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Necessarily. They make a claim that they then don’t prove. This really isn’t hard. Morality is just goal-based behavior. Paths that lead to a goal are called good; paths that lead away from a goal are called bad. Whether or not a goal i
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
You may have a chain of logic, but what is the first link in the chain anchored to? It’s not too hard to show that this first link is anchored in belief.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
Yes, jargon is just words. But words can clarify or confuse, enlighten or darken, convey truth or lies, exaggerate or be accurate. As someone famous once said, “if you can’t explain it so your grandmother gets it, then you don’t understand
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
You can signal virtue by actually being virtuous, or you can just talk about it. Give me somebody who can actually do the work instead of talking about how great they are — or about how unfair others are to them.
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by BadThink6655321 8y ago
The first is inefficient. The declaration statement writes eight zeros to dest. strncpy() writes len bytes of zeros to dest, then copies the string, stopping at fewer than len bytes if a NUL is found in the src.

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