JabavuAdams

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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Huh, I was going to do that. Do you think they can patent this?
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Though I don't agree with all of it, this is an insightful article. The people are the problem. Technological solutions that ignore our human foibles are extremely likely to fail. What it ignores is that by acting as a lever, technolog
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The Long, Winding Tale of Sperm Science(smithsonianmag.com)
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I worry that the attempt to impose a schema on one's knowledge isn't that useful, and will run into natural obstacles in the same was as ontolgy-building (CyC/OpenCyc). The real world doesn't have a consistent schema. I
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I currently use Evernote, but am feeling the limitations. It's just become slow. E.g. time between opening app on phone to being able to take a note > 10s. I've grudgingly switched to just using flat lists in my phone's pr
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
"Declassified could find no NED grants awarded in any of the six US-backed dictatorships in the Gulf, such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. By contrast, the NED spent $9.4m on 162 grants in Venezuela – where the US seeks t
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Scripting Raspberry Pi Image Builds(geoffhudik.com)
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Automating Raspberry Pi Setup(geoffhudik.com)
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I'd be interested to know the distribution of sizes of organizations that write software. What proportion of all software development orgs are < 5 devs, < 10 devs?
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Perhaps more modestly - how far are we from just being able to translate from one high level language to another, assuming the ability to refine the translation as opposed to a one-shot job that has to correctly interpret the intent? I.e. w
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Inventing programming languages is super-fun, but aren't we almost post programming language? In 30 years, do we really expect to be programming in some machine-human intermediate language? I hope that we'll be having an open ende
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
They will be unproductive. Yeah, it's fun to micro-obsess over some hand-rolled code. Save that for side projects, or maybe you can do it if you're dev cog N+1, N > 20.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
If you're a visual person, you can basically just fuzzily re-walk the tour. Also, he presumably wrote this right after the tour, not weeks later.
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Magawa, the landmine-sniffing hero rat, dies aged eight(bbc.com)
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Decay: A real time experience made in godot engine(cybereality.itch.io)
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I like your friends already.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
This just highlights that we need our agents to work for us, not for some other entity.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Wait to vest, and then leave. Don't put too much of your identity into who you work for and things that are out of your control. Start some cool side-projects or whatever it is that makes you happy. Basically, don't leave in a huf
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Lol, so on re-reading this, my tone comes off as patronizing and dickish. Unintentional demonstration.
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Unless one is socially inept, it reads as a veiled threat. When someone asks one a question, it is likely to the point of certainty that social humans will consider (1) who is asking (2) why are they asking (3) what is the tone and (4) what
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
This struck me as I was visiting Munich, momentarily agog at the guy in front of me walking down the street drinking beer like it was no thing. Meanwhile Americans were protesting that mask mandates were an infringement on their freedom (Ge
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I had no idea there were still Dilbert strips. What!?
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
There are also important questions about warning time and strategic responses. Let's say an upstart AI or group decide to wipe out humanity, or at least a country or continent. What is the time from initial detection to the realization
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I've read that, but am not convinced. It's very dependent on the particulars of the situation, the goals, the acceptable losses, and the belligerent forces. A couple of situations: 1) Tyrannical government or Upstart AI wants to d
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
I dunno. Chemical plant seems relatively crude and cheap compared to the equipment needed to design and build a reliable, effective, and controllable bio-weapon. Two-photon microscopes and nanopore gene sequencing aren't cheap. If it d
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Thanks, that's great info. Am I mistaken in remembering that the video shows the thing standing? Is it actually not capable of this? Or is there some very short time-limit?
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
Energy weapons are expensive to build. Chemical weapons are cheap. The War of the Machines is going to be all nerve gas, all the time. :(
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
That "Hi there! Can I share a cool thing I'm working on with you?" avatar at the bottom of the page is cute! I usually hate pop-ups or chat bots. Nice! Maybe part of it is that it doesn't obscure what I'm trying to
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
> But GoL is purely mathematical Is it though? Humans play GoL on computers made out of matter, think about GoL using brains made out of matter, and learn or communicate about GoL using artifacts made of matter. We can port GoL to variou
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by JabavuAdams 5y ago
> It's the investigation of that question itself that is of interest, and I think quite valuable, both in principle as well as useful from a programming point of view. I agree, but I believe our progress in this area is hindered by

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