JamesArgo

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by JamesArgo 13y ago
There is that pesky issue of machine vision. But no worries I've got one of my graduate students ready to spend a whole summer on it.
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In Defense Of Inclusionism(gwern.net)
1 points by JamesArgo 13y ago|0 comments
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Bas Steunebrink on Self-Reflective Programming(intelligence.org)
1 points by JamesArgo 13y ago|0 comments
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Notice the performance in the following description of Pollock at work: >A dripping wet canvas covered the entire floor … There was complete silence … Pollock looked at the painting. Then, unexpectedly, he picked up can and paint brush a
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
It’s funny he contrasted Banksy with Pollack. I’ve always thought of Pollack (and many other modern artists) as a sort of charming guy who figured out that the art industry is a weird product of status games and so decided to create positio
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
>if i believed that more open information was the solution to factual journalism, then i'd have more sympathy for this report. Translation from Newspeak: access to the facts would prevent their dissemination.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Competing with Coke and Pepsi, the surest way to make a billion...
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
That quote makes sense enough in context.
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FBI seizes underground drug market Silk Road, owner indicted in New York(theverge.com)
9 points by JamesArgo 13y ago|1 comments
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
It's possible with RFID. Just not cheap enough yet.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
In case you run out of ideas: http://www.1728.org/buzzword.htm
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Stories like this make me brood on quantum immortality.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
We need to separate instruction from assessment, allowing an ecology of assessment companies to filter potential employees through whatever gauntlet they chose. So many start-ups are focused on instruction. What we need is evidence-based, i
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
That type of feudalism isn't sustainable in a world with increasing automation. A better model would be slavery in Rome immiserating both the slaves (obviously) and the people who used to work the land, but on a far larger scale. Speak
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
I've never seen the numbers worked out. Also, you'd certainly need to adjust birthrate globally to keep ahead of Malthusian pressures. I'll remain sceptical until I see an actionable proposal. Have a link?
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
I was agreeing with him with a bit of sarcasm, but it does seem (looking at it) that I was replying to him with sarcasm. I apologize. Patents make me so angry my brain deactivates.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Ahh, to live in a free society, where men and woman can own their ideas and stop all others from thinking and acting on similar lines. What liberty we enjoy. How free we are. We own matter, energy and land, yet we can't use them in the
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Hushmail is a similar service. There's been some speculation that authorities could compel the owners to perform a sort of internal phishing scam to get the passwords.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
As someone with terrible face recognition ability, I was really disappointed Google disallowed the feature. Such a device could vastly improve my life. I hope there's some open alternative to Google glass soon.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
When did reductionism become a dirty word?
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
They are, however, good at sounding cool.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
>I've had nothing but pleasant experiences going through security. Surely "pleasant" is too strong an adjective.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
There’s decency and then there’s charity. A desire for decency doesn’t imply a desire to give charity.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
That one's just depressing. Reading her snarky comments below the pictures of obvious poverty made me feel physical pain. Tell her to stop the blog. That particular blog feels worse to me than the crime that spawned it. Maybe I'm
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
It will really be heartbreaking if Danny Hillis becomes a patent troll.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
Perhaps she's just really, really smart.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
> We’re Status-Obsessed And Seek Attention This is just a general fact about humans. We're social animals who care for status almost as much as we care for food and sex. If you don't notice the status games of other cultures, y
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
To become an evil dictator, it's often necessary to be a clever politician.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
This is basic rational behaviour, and would disincentivize companies from discrimination once a few began exploiting the inefficiency. Nothing would destroy the wage gap quicker than widespread exploitation of said inefficiency.
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by JamesArgo 13y ago
This was pretty common behaviour in Rome.

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