Dn_Ab

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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I am going to guess you have not heard of dunk contest winning NBA players Spud Webb (5'7) or Nate Robinson (5 '9) then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1pykLK_CUs
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Indeed. The most 'powerful' programming language will be AI complete.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
This cannot be argued. But many people conflate worth of skills and accomplishments with worth as a person. They over reduce the dimensionality of a superiority vector. And worse, assume transitivity of the elements composing said vector.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It is funny that you mention "game theory, maximize, benefit and central decision structure". Because I can draw a rough analogy from game theory and argue why a central decision structure likely exists at least implicitly. What we have he
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
"I'd been happy to have Java with closures, first class functions, and maybe better generics." But that would have made Scala just about equivalent to modern C#. That is, a language balanced for the current masses but still with some mode
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I can't tell if you're serious as yours is a throw away account. Now, I'm not applying to YC (wrong continent and other issues) But I disagree with your general sentiment. Clearly you can't put all your eggs in one basket and must always h
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
You're right and make an excellent point. But the other platforms are also going to have to work on increasing the revenue per app for the developer or obsolete themselves. So the current state of affairs might only hold for a few years or
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Off topic: On first reading I interpreted Application as in Program (computer) and was left wondering in confusion for a couple seconds how, why anyone would want such a thing. This sort of language ambiguity is Watson has to deal with and
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I don't know if that is necessarily ideal for Apple or any of the other platforms for that matter. What is to stop the next platform from offering 19%, 20% or even 25% non exclusive cut and 15% Exclusive? Competing over the percent of profi
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
See, the article is not arguing that. The article has nothing against latent variable(s) to account for what we observe as intelligence. What it is against is, misapplication of methodology. The myth is not in a latent variable summarizing
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Yes! This is what I am trying to say but in a much more muddled and round about way.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
Complexity is not equal because the hidden variables of g (I will use it as you do for now) is not equal to the hidden variables of pressure. The term statistical myth is appropriate because g is a myth. It is not backed by any direct exper
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I do not care about the downvoting. But I am guessing it is due to my saying that biology is harder than physics [1]. Perhaps I should clarify to say that a broad mathematical understanding of biology is a harder problem than doing so for
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
A flaw with your argument is that biology is harder than physics. That is, the interactions of the elementary constituents of biology are many orders of magnitude vastly more complex than those of the point particles found in newtonian phys
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I agree. Consciousness is not required for intelligence. Before I read your post, I was going to write to mention as well that people's definition is not only extremely wide ranging - running the gamut from memorizing digits of pi or spitti
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
You make a large mistake here. I feel that the only way your argument holds is by assuming its conclusion. Which would be: what is going on in [some/most] of our brain is something more than or very different from 'just' statistical inferen
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
It does no such thing, it is very likely that AI will be made up of a bunch of specialized interacting subsystems. As for No Free Lunch Theorem. See: Coevolutionary Free Lunch. Which by the way, is actually more akin to biological evolution
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
How is Godel's incompleteness theorems an issue here? AI does not have to model the human brain by simulating it. And it need not be rigorously/axiomatically defined as a decidable formal system nor does it need the ability to prove its own
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
You're right that it was formed by the 70's but my emphasis is in the early undefined formative stages. Its true that by the mid 70s the movement had already organized itself into an early form of what we know as hip hop. But prior, in the
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
1965ish. This is where, when Hip Hop was born. Probably a lot of you turn your nose down* at this angry crime glorifying inferior 'form of noise'. But look at the conditions of these kids and what they had to work with, is it any surprise t
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I see what you mean. It makes a lot of sense. Its just that I take a dual approach in looking at it. You can look at simple diagrams as subsets of UML as I think you do? But personally, I would say that simple effective diagrams are a super
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
mm I don't know about UML but I take two approaches. When going through concepts I use boxes with arrows and texts - I bet UML people would laugh derisively if I claimed what I drew was UML, my shapes arent even consistent from diagram to d
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
An even more interesting extrapolation of the genre is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrioshka_brain .
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I do bboying. I love to dance. used to do it 3 hours a day, 5 days a week for a few years. these days i only have time for a couple hours a day, 2 or 3 times a week. Planning to up it back to about 4 days/week.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
There is also template haskell. Nemerle is another non-homoiconic language with powerful metaprogramming abilities using hygienic macros. It really is quite impressive what those guys are doing. And it is such a contrast (not all inferior I
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
it's interesting that you say this because Nemerle, another language on the .NET platform implemented LINQ into the language using Macros.
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I know very little about trading but even I can see a whole bunch of red flags here. Firstly, if it has just made it to the news then its probably a decade too late to take advantage of. Recently there was a news article about how firms hav
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
As do Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury. Allow you to order online to your home that is. Its more common than uncommon amongst the larger chains. It also seems self-check out is more prevalent/caught on quicker here. Tesco also has an API i think. Cur
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
But then it does matter. While choice of language is not the end all be all it will affect run time, scalability, resource usage, correctness and time to market. And if you have a choice in language to use then do not forget we are humans w
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by Dn_Ab 16y ago
I do believe so as the technique that Scala seeks to utilize to tackle parallel programming "is to use "language virtualization", combining polymorphic embeddings with domain-specific optimizations in a staged compilation process." . -----

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