Craiggybear

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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Of course, and then some.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
A lot of (very serious) people, I've found.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
An AI developed by the military and without oversight would be a very bad thing. A very bad thing indeed. Ask about the motives. It wouldn't be an Asimov machine for starters
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Treading carefully here ... I love DDG and find it yields far more useful results than anything else. Besides, I like not getting tracked all the time and I can switch off ads without needing any extensions. That in my view is a very civili
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Most mathematicians I know are highly competent programmers and are easily on a par with pro software engineers and often outshine them totally.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Definitely a case of Less Is More. A program should be no bigger than it needs to be. First rule of engineering anything - bridges, dams, roads, software.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Yeah, I do this as well. It is often very useful.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Which is why its a highly specialised field of enquiry. AI has very little to do with CS or programming. Natural Philosophy, formal logic, linguistics and biology are more useful in the long-run. Personally I liked it because it was somethi
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
troff is for me far harder to read by eye ... TeX and LaTeX are far easier to read and more versatile. Its just a personal thing, I'm sure, but I found taking to TeX an instantly productive thing to do. Modern TeX/LaTeX packages for distros
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
The world has gone mad.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
You can actually remove traumatic memories using drugs but it has to be done very soon following the traumatic event. It is in fact an arena of medical ethical conflict between those who advocate it and those who (properly, in my view) don'
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I don't believe a word of this. It isn't proof of any such a process. This to me appears as inappropriate reductionism. The brain is highly volatile both chemically and physically and is changing minute by minute. The notion that a memory
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I'm not assuming anything - you are the one who is assuming. I made a support or mutt as a more than first class email client.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Simply hook up your RND to the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny sub-meson brain, give it a fresh cup of really strong tea and plug it in!
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I, too, use mutt. Its my idea of what an email client should be. Text based. What is wrong with words?
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
An EEG cannot and does not provide conclusive evidence of brain death. Far from it. It is merely a diagnostic tool to assist a diagnosis -- the actual diagnosis of death is medically and legally dependent upon a physician. There are criteri
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
We haven't even started exploring anything. Not even our own planet. In universe or galactic terms we simply don't even register.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
What you really want is a netbook hackintosh running OS X. All the benefits of a small form-factor -- but its a 'real' computer, can run a compiler and a webserver and doesn't put any artificial obstacles in your way. Program development
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
You want to hear David Sedaris on this. He was amazed that his visits to the dentist and to hospitals in France where so cheap they didn't even bother to charge him. He had to force them to bill him and it would be for tens not hundreds or
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I agree that involving beginners with OOP is a distraction -- albeit a very important principle. But they must be able to write their own modules, functions and classes first then be comfortable with exporting those then OOP can come natu
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I have always loved pysdm -- it is very handy for when you have a separate /home partition and want to remount it as /home on a new or re-installed partition (thus keeping all your files and settings) ... of course you can do it via the c
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Very interesting, however it makes Firefox 10.0.2 crash if you refresh the page or click off the collusion tab then back on to it. At least it does in Linux. Will try it out on OS X later ...
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
" There is the factor that a lot of the code scientists write is hacky, one-off, and fragile " Oh, absolutely. But the same goes for expensive, commercial software, too. In all walks of life, not just scientific software.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
All scientific software should be totally open and transparent -- indeed a lot of it already is. For years, for example, people were erroneously making the mistake of trusting Excel's statistical functions without being aware they were deep
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Many thanks for the link to pandoc. This is incredibly helpful.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I'd not think that at 52 I was anything that could be remotely described as a 'hipster'.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"and the movies are years old." ... and, that's bad? Personally, most of the movies I might want to watch are certainly in black-and-white anyhow.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Perhaps a better title would be "advertising on TV is broken". No one pays any attention to it anymore. And most people I know, like me, don't even have broadcast TV. Or cable. I watch shows, yes, on DVD -- and largely on my own terms. No a
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Well, I'd probably agree with that. There are some truly bizarro API implementations.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Hyper anything sounds terribly retro to me, circa 1992. But I agree: it is an uninformative term for anything which merely establishes a connection and sends/receives data as opposed to specifically delivering content. REST is just fine as

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