LesZedCB

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by LesZedCB 11y ago
> And the primary cause identified is the effect of mass amounts of hormones, pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers used worldwide by homes, businesses, cities, and the agricultural and farming industries. I personally am very very afr
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Yes, in writing ruby during my day job, I often have conflicting feelings about dynamic typing. The other advantage would be being able to do real static analysis, I would love that.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I thought the whole point of Asimov's exploration of his three laws was that they were fundamentally insufficient for any real ethical security.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Totally agree! I think we have deviated too far from biological models in order to achieve marketable results. Google is satisfied with probabilistic machine learning because it will still make them plenty of money being able to tag images.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
yeah, absolutely. But that's the power of millenia of evolutionary tuning, which we have to intelligence to design ourselves, removing the inefficiencies. That then drops the computational power required for equivalent behavior.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I would agree that the computational complexity of every single quark in every single atomic particle in every atom in every synapse is far far greater than the computational power we poses at this day. I just think it's a red herring
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
Why do you think that would be the case? You could say the same about every tool that we use, which we don't totally understand. It just needs to work.
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
I tend to disagree with the idea that we don't have the computational power equivalent to the brain. The reasoning is that, yes, all the things you say are true about having billions of slow neurons, but that makes the assumption that
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by LesZedCB 11y ago
GPUs will continue improving. For now, upscaling would still be very good, especially for screen door effect. Though, I have a gtx980 that is just fine pushing incredible frame rates at 4k.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
what happens to the 1.5 billion in profit? It certainly isn't trickling down to the workforce. Bonuses, dividends, some in the bank.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
That basic math assumes that you add on the cost of raising the minimum wage by $1.00 instead of reallocating it from one paycheck to another. Person A now makes $999/hr and Person B now makes $11/hr from 1000 and 10 respectiv
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
W1LZD checking in. Just did my first volunteer comms event this weekend which was really really fun and a great experience. It's a great community to be a part of! 73
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
> I am looking forward to what _they_ can do I also think these are incredibly cool! I want to be able to play with these and pick them up at the store like an arduino. The internet of things is hardly internet connected Nest home system
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
sure, I didn't mean to make it seem impossible, just that for now, it's not facing the same danger as other much smaller ones.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
He called it a paper. It doesn't need to appear in a peer-reviewed journal to be a paper...
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
My girlfriend is a linguist with a particular passion for dying languages and cultures. I often find myself asking the same question every time she talks about it. I think the more important factor than usefulness in society is the fact tha
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Take it one battle at a time.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Yes, like you say, only allowing that one definition of success is exactly the moral framing that the author is talking about! I would say that any person is successful if they feel like they have been successful. Additionally, they should
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Because it's in interesting article about the human condition in the social technological culture we currently exist in. Though if you're genuinely curious, you could just slog through the article.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Both. Both make perfect sense to the people within each system.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Wow this is really helpful. Nice find!
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Ok, I have to ask. Geniune question here. How the fuck do you people do this? I hear stuff like this a lot, especially in the software community. Do you guys actually log 80 hours a week of doing stuff? How on earth do you "start loosi
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
I need to get one of these for my casper to have a fully start-up sourced smart sleeping system
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
No it's a good thing to allow people to make their own choices about how they live and how they treat themselves. Not allowing that is unethical.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
I actually have the opposite reaction in a way. When I hear ice cream in my head, I hear something like Julie Andrews saying it, and it sounds sweet and light. With cracker it has a thick American accent and sounds harsh and dense. I am fro
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
That's basically Serge from Caprica! [1] It would be cool to actually have one of those. We just need them to be hosted on our own servers... [1] http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Serge
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
He's saying he hopes one day it's not a culturally jarring thing to say "I'm gay and I'm religious." That should just be normal and accepted.
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
While I totally agree this is important to know, CurrentC isn't a startup, it's a new program from an established company. These guys have made themselves a target, and it is very likely that no amount of good security would leave
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
The reason you are getting downvoted (I believe) is that you are posing a false dilemma.[1] It is not the case that Apple is most likely going to leave Swift closed source based on the evidence that we've seen. ALL the evidence we have
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by LesZedCB 12y ago
Wow, I was excited to be upgrading to a 4k monitor soon, and before I even get one I'm obsolete. I can't wait to try out the new display. Hopefully DP1.3 will be out soon with good video card support as well.

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