MarcusBrutus

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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I am not convinced that that's the way to go. I know nothing about robotics but it seems to me that research into a chimp-donkey hybrid might have more potential for success and also for producing lasting results and solve real, elemen
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Ability to move independently, with their own power source, be able to navigate our environment, homes, use our tools and do our bidding, following simple commands. It is likely that some DNA-engineered chimp/machine hybrid will probab
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
Isaac Asimov type robots, not necessary anthropomorphic, minus the sentience / self-awareness crap.
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
> Babbage did invent the Turing machine - the design was Turing complete. No he didn't because he failed to abstract it and publish it in a way that would benefit the builders of the first modern computers in the 30-40s - they knew
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I am not talking about car factory "robots" (i.e. machines with articulated, arm-like, parts).
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
No, a similar statement cannot be made because there's a difference between hunting Chimeras and doing research when there's profit to be made (even when gambling with high-risk research). That's the litmus test. If there&#x2
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
They don't have to identify it and they don't have to know it's missing. My whole point is that the breakthroughs will happen in some other technology tree, and they will most likely occur in the context of some more mundane,
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I propose that they go fishing and wait it out till there's some game-changing breakthrough in some underlying technology. I'm not sure which are the right underlying technologies in much the same way as Babbage's critics cou
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
People 5 centuries from now will look into 20th and 21st century robotics forays in much the same way as we look at Babbage or Heron's steam-engine. Clever, perhaps ingenious, but hopeless with current technology.
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
I think the terminology you use is not right. Unicode maps integers to graphemes (not glyphs) and vice-versa (i.e. it's a 1-1 mapping). Fonts map graphemes to glyphs.
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
What's the equivalent for emacs?
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
the tilde notation is used for functions, e.g. you can say f(n) is ~g(n) and in that context has a rigorous meaning (limit of f(n)/g(n) is 1 as n goes to positive infinity). I haven't seen it being used with orders of growth notat
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by MarcusBrutus 13y ago
The Allies had broken most of the Nazi codes during WWII but they still withheld information from commanders unless the information concerned an absolutely strategic battlefield that hang on the balance. Better suffer a few dead or some min