HappMacDonald

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   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   But the real litmus test is and always has been "can a theory predict the results of empirical measurements (such as controlled experiments) more accurately than its competitors". The Danish-interpretation quantum physicists might
2. 62.▲
   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   I am curious what the correct algorithm would be, if for no other reason than to find out how on god's green earth it could be slower than using a division as an erstwhile shortcut. 8I
3. 63.▲
   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   Well, I use PICO-8 LUA. Where are my double-precision floats and 64bit integers at? XD
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   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   I'm the network admin for a small ISP that hasn't deployed IPv6 yet. We do have ARIN IPv6 space, but we also have thousands of customers who do not know what that is or care about it either. Twice in twenty years now we have had a
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   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   Well, I mean True(x) does = NOT (NOT True(x)), so..
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   by HappMacDonald 2mo ago

   I think you are making a lot of assumptions on what "practical purposes" even mean in that case. Please think carefully and then try to tell me whether or not some Trump-administration government agency would not in the "99.9
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   by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

   > There is very little pushback against grok being willing to write explicit descriptions of sex, or giving security advise. John Oliver disagrees with this
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   by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

   That's like asking "if someone is unwilling to practice abstinence, why would they be willing to wear a condom, or to flip a magic 'not fertile right at this moment' lightswitch?" A vaccine is something you do once
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   by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

   When one's primary handling of numbers comes down to either linear (single-dimensional) lists or money, then you won't use modulo very much. But any time you're walking over a discrete multidimensional list packed into a line
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Stallman?
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    I use the proxy feature extensively as a network administrator, it is quite frequent that I need to SSH tunnel to get to the Web UI of a remote resource (for security or at least as often to bypass a routing deficiency I am troubleshooting)
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    .. for a few days but now they can 8I
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Er.. on the moon you can also view the sky nightly. It's just that both the days and the nights are a lot longer.
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    This is what I want on my house and my car
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    > but not all AI is machine learning I will instead pick at this latter part of your claim. What is an example of something that is AI but that is not ML..?
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    But it is only a perk for the scam artists who benefit from that. Yes, it makes sense that the confusion aligns with their interests, and they are unavoidably a big part of the conversation. But it remains a problem for the non-overlappin
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Yay I saw Vi's video mentioning this old paper again recently :D
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    It fascinates me how many utterly critical foundational technologies have become specialist niches (while only ever growing more foundational and critical) over the past century. 8I
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    I'd have probably gone with "Apples and Orangutans"
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    "TL;DR" transformed into "TL;must be AI"
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    > but why, on a website called Hacker News, should I need to care about what most people choose to do with their lives? Well, when the question is "why did the blogs go away" the answer might be difficult to investigate by only
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    This is the first time in history that I have seen the shovel-sellers convince a supermajority of the gold-miners that "amount of gold mined out of the ground" is less of an indicator of profit than "amount of shovels purchas
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Infiniminer is the "parent" of Minecraft, because Notch made the latter after he was inspired by the source-leak of the former to port the code from C# to Java. Infinifactory is the "cousin" of Minecraft, because it was
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Your explanation still presupposes that a "true signal" even exists in the first place to be able to internally interrogate, though.
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    Well, he invented both the parent and the cousin of Minecraft.
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    I mean, isn't that just NextDoor?
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    by HappMacDonald 3mo ago

    If only someone would just bump up the size of the address space, so that there would be enough to go around again. I mean, it's kinda like Y2K, isn't it? We're stuck with this old addressing scheme that chose 32 bits per a
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    by HappMacDonald 4mo ago

    Well, primarily because surveillance is terrorism. Terrorists are not mustache-twirling villians planting bombs in old-folks homes just to provide a simple target for the protagonist to foil. They are simply anyone who uses terror as a me
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    by HappMacDonald 4mo ago

    .. "NOBUS" AGI with a moat at all costs..