IC4RUS

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by IC4RUS 6y ago
Maybe it was a purposeful reference, but PlayStations have indeed been linked to create a supercomputer: https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...
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by IC4RUS 6y ago
Interesting point - I think the Ted Chiang novella 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects' also include AI pets that develop to the point that they start asking their owners that they be incorporated so they may be given basic rights.
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by IC4RUS 6y ago
It might seem a bit exaggerated, but I'd expect that's because he's comparing it to growing up in a generic suburb where going on simple errands likely requires a car, and anything other than rows of similar looking houses ca
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by IC4RUS 6y ago
I see what you're saying, but the oddness may feel apparent even to those growing up in suburbia. I can distinctly remember watching miles and miles of suburban settlements sprawl out from where I grew up and telling a friend that I fe
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
I met Dr. Murphy through a mutual friend in 2018, and attended a presentation that he gave about his prTMS treatment. I thought it was a bit odd that someone who had a radiology / oncology background would be pushing TMS, and was very
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
That's like saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you don't have anything to say
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
The article mentions that, if you are not free to go, then the police must read you your Miranda rights. This appears to be a common understanding as well. However, other sources I've read state that police don't necessarily have
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
I was surprised too, but it appears that the post has negatives votes, so I take it that it wasn't quite rational enough for the rest of the community.
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
"Gore Vidal, who’s had his dick sucked more than a few times and been taken to task for it, has written far more persuasively that the novel as an art-form has become a cultural irrelevance, but you don’t hear him whingeing about ‘arti
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bustbright/3329503525/in/album... Yeah it's not so subtle in some...
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
Reminds me of these science and tech ads: https://www.flickr.com/photos/bustbright/albums/721576129433... Wish there were more ads like this today - they're much more visually impressive than the ones I
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
This isn't necessarily a problem with the analysis, but one thing to keep in mind that the type of student that a college accepts might have a large influence over their graduates income. So, it's difficult to say whether or not s
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
I think you're missing another possibility (and some other posters are too): maybe it is the case that a simulation can produce consciousness, by simulating a brain for example, but that it takes a sufficiently powerful model of comput
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
Even if those fields completely stagnated, there's great progress to be made in high performance computing, security, bioinformatics, and human computer interaction (just to name a few).
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by IC4RUS 7y ago
I agree that it might not be a large portion of all CS students, but it does appear that many of the incoming CS PhDs have chosen to go into ML (of my class, maybe 1/3), which serious distracts from interest in other subfields. It&#x27
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Regarding #1: From the point of view of the company, if other companies are educating their employees, then the company will likely stop spending the resources on their own employees while still taking advantage of the workers educated at t
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
They're not saying they want it to be easy, they're saying they don't want to do it and don't have to (which ties into the rest of what they're saying) I think you're missing the point of the comment.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
I think that's an interesting thought. I struggled with DP/DR for a couple years, and the alarming part was that I felt like I was just watching myself perform automatic actions without any need for conscious oversight (this is wh
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
I looked into the citations and they seemed reliable, so I trust it. Just put it there because it presented the point succinctly.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Wikipedia entry on ayurveda: Although laboratory experiments suggest it is possible that some substances used in Ayurveda might be developed into effective treatments, there is no scientific evidence that any are effective as currently prac
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Is the data anonymized when they send it? And is there anything I can read about this practice further? Not trying to challenge you, just curious.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
I can't speak to the legality of it, but I don't believe that this is immoral in any sense, especially because it sounds that you have to be approved as an affiliate by the company that displays the data you're scraping.
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Illegal how so? Maybe I'm misinterpreting what he is saying, but isn't he just getting publicly displayed product information from multiple companies, and then comparing it? This is the sort of site I'm imagining: http:&#x2F
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
See https://developers.facebook.com/docs/marketing-api/adgroup/f... for IDEALIZED_BODY description. I was skeptical of this tweet at first, but it appears legitimate.
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Facebook Censoring Ads Depicting 'Ideal Physical Body Image'(twitter.com)
1 points by IC4RUS 8y ago|1 comments
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
Yeah, I concede that it's greatly surpassed in terms of volume. And that bubble probably wasn't the correct term. However, my comment was more arguing against what you said with the context in a previous comment: "What's
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
" AFAIK, the web is mostly used to 1) browse memes and 2) get informed on new things to be outraged about." Well that's an argument from ignorance if I ever heard one. Much of anything I've ever learned is from the inter
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
"You can't judge China's actions towards a situation that you don't face" So, if one isn't facing a certain ethical situation, they can't make judgements about the response? This seems like quite poor reas
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
So you see humans through this dark lens, but advocate for these same humans to decide who gets sterilized, then carry it out forcefully? I don't see how this happens at all. Dystopian military force? And if someone tried, it'd be
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by IC4RUS 8y ago
You don't think that a forced, mass sterilization is morally horrendous?

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