Merrill

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by Merrill 3y ago
The opposite of "open" isn't necessarily "closed". It could be "classified". There was classified public key encryption before there was open public key encryption.
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by Merrill 3y ago
There is a SR-71 at the Cosmosphere museum in Hutchinson, Kansas.
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by Merrill 3y ago
I think the shift began before the Clinton administration. By the late '70s it had become apparent that: - raising the US median standard of living without raising the rest of the world was politically unstable considering the ongoing
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by Merrill 3y ago
Interesting, because based on my wife's stroke, it appears that the human brain implements language and math somewhat separately. She was a physics major and had completed 4 years of relevant college math courses. After her stroke she
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by Merrill 3y ago
Based on the article and the loyalty shown by openai employees, he appears to be the "difficult to manage" type, rather than the "difficult to work for" type. That's not necessarily a bad thing in employees. I was o
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by Merrill 3y ago
Ethicists seem mainly concerned about thwarting technology to ensure that no harm occurs, rather than guiding the development of technology to deliver the most benefits possible.
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by Merrill 3y ago
Technology that may cause existential risk or risk of systemic collapse are one category including nuclear weapons, engineered pathogens, global warming, etc. Robotics disrupting the workforce and devaluing labor are another category contin
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by Merrill 3y ago
A good test would be whether it can read drawings, get tools and components out of the truck, and wire a house so that it will pass inspection.
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by Merrill 3y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology results in an academic/media establishment opposed to it. For example, nuclear energy, vaccines, hydrocarbon extraction, pesticides, food additives, artificial intelligence, ... Openai's fundam
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by Merrill 3y ago
An organization bent on making progress is incompatible with governance by a board drawn from the professional worrier class.
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by Merrill 3y ago
Does Kant focus this way on the individual's experience and reason? It seems to me that we only reach some provisional truth when communicating minds agree on their experiences and how they are reduced by reason to concepts. Only by fo
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by Merrill 3y ago
Higher animals, including humans, seem to have free will in the sense that they can imagine alternative futures, choose among them, and plan their motions accordingly. This is essential to being able to efficiently forage or hunt for food.
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by Merrill 3y ago
>>Remarkably, two recent discoveries from around 1500 BCE do show scribes using the alphabet. But these exceptions prove the rule, because these scribes used alphabetic writing just as sloppily or playfully as its other users did. In
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by Merrill 3y ago
It would be nice if word processors had a feature to translate documents to International Phonetic Alphabet. Your second paragraph would be: səʊ waɪ dʌznt ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ juːz ðɛm? ɪts klɪə ðə ˈlæŋɡwɪʤ niːdz ðɛm wɪð wɜːdz sʌʧ æz θruː, ˈθʌrə ænd θɔː
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by Merrill 3y ago
University of British Columbia: Chinese Thought: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Science - Part 1 Part 1 introduces the basic philosophical, religious and scientific concepts that will be drawn upon throughout the course, and then goes on to co
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by Merrill 3y ago
Most writing on paper is short lived, and it is generally inaccessible while it is retained. For example, a lot of writings authored by lawyers such as contracts, mortgage documents, etc. have specific retention requirements, and they are d
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by Merrill 3y ago
It is more efficient to hire a native speaker educated in a foreign language who speaks good English to teach the language than it is to educate an English speaker in the foreign language well enough to teach it.
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by Merrill 3y ago
Had the US government not forced IBM to get out of the centralized provision of computing by consent agreements and eventual divestiture, and had the US government not forbidden the Bell System to enter the centralized computing business by
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by Merrill 3y ago
I thought that the population in the earlier centuries was not as large as at present due to hunting by the original bow hunters and because much of the area was mature forest. Mature forest canopy shades the ground to the extent that under
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by Merrill 4y ago
C was a small enough language to allow compilation on a mid-1970s 16-bit minicomputer with limited memory and a small removable disk pack for storage. PL/I compilers ran on mainframes.
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by Merrill 4y ago
1939 First Motorola Two-Way Radio In 1939 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation introduced its first Motorola two-way radio. Public safety officers used the radio to transmit and receive voice communications from their cars. From A Timeline Over
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by Merrill 4y ago
In the early 1980s, DoD pushed back vigorously against the breakup of the Bell System, but the breakup happened anyway. Once the anti-trust suit is in progress, they have little influence over the legal outcome.
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by Merrill 4y ago
Move functionality into custom ICs blocks. Write software that runs on bare metal, rather than on top of inefficient stacks.
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by Merrill 4y ago
Slaves/serfs make economic sense primarily on a plantation/manor where they can be given use of a small plot where they construct a shelter and raise their own food. They receive little or no subsidies from the planter/lord.
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by Merrill 4y ago
The industrial revolution was enabled by the rapidly declining price of first iron and later steel. Making iron requires bringing together iron ore, coal, and limestone in a furnace. These are heavy, and transporting them by horse drawn wag
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by Merrill 4y ago
If it is not "Ships from amazon.com" and "Sold by amazon.com", I don't usually buy it. Sometimes I'll buy a "Ships from amazon.com" and "Sold by XYZ Corp", but only if I recognize "XYZ
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by Merrill 4y ago
This is only a problem for the incurious who stop when they solve the immediate problem. The curious will often descend into conceptual rabbit holes and acquire conceptual knowledge as well. It's sort of anticipatory yak shaving for fu
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by Merrill 4y ago
High-speed rail requires a new railway that has no grade crossings of highways, has wider-radius curves than freight lines, can have higher grades than freight lines, and has better rails and sleepers. There is no chance of getting new high
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by Merrill 4y ago
Ease of use and ease of learning are often at odds with performance. A go-kart is easier to learn and to drive than a Formula 1 car.
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by Merrill 4y ago
System engineering is the art of specifying the general, overall characteristics and design of the thing to be produced without overlooking any detail which may later turn out to have been important.

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