PascalsMugger

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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
It annoys the hell out of me when I see articles referring to Valeant's "acquisition and cost-cutting" strategies. No, they were slashing and burning. What they did to the companies was not "cost cutting", it was co
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
It would be nice if all links to a paywall had a "(Paywall)" in the title, that way we'd get less complaining about paywalls, and less complaining about complaining about paywalls.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
What exactly is the atrocious precedent here? This wasn't speech about someone, it wasn't noteworthy speech of someone's actions, it was speech about someone's very private actions. In many states it's illegal to re
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Tightening the Screws on Anonymous Sources(publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by PascalsMugger 11y ago|0 comments
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
What's Apple's lawyer talking about the JFK assassination for? That's kind of weird. He could have talked about the various things Hoover did without going into conspirac theory land.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
Mankind was harvested... every man, woman, and child forced to play Go for the rest of their lives.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
I had a feeling after yesterday's win that people might be tempted to call it a close win by AlphaGo and predict that Lee could overtake it with a bit better play, but that we'd find no matter how good Lee played, AlphaGo would ad
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
Since AlphaGo's architecture was published in nature, wouldn't it be somewhat straightforward to reproduce something similar to it given the resources of Facebook and an already existing team of people tackling Go? I would expect
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
The recent video of Boston Dynamics Atlas robot looked like it could walk about as well as a human, maybe even better at recovering its balance (see it heroically walking through snow).
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
I look forward to a future when the only remaining occupation is hotel maid.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
Do you think it's better to propose we won't, and not start preparing for a smarter-than-human intelligence. Or to propose we might, and that we should prepare for it to happen?
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
I think, almost by definition, you won't be afraid of anything until it's already coming for you. By that time it will already have the capability to decide your future.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
And when that happens I guarantee someone will be on HN saying it is "trivial" and "not a real advancement" and "we already basically knew how to do this". Because that's what people say every time somethi
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
Doesn't the action actually prove the point? At the very least, it's proof that the network is vulnerable to this kind of attack. Seeing as it has been ongoing, it can't be that expensive to do, since it isn't really goi
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
The uncanny valley was (I think) first observed in graphical rendering for movies and games, and has since been generalized to many artificial constructs that approach but don't quite hit the real thing they are attempting to mimic. It
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
If we an AI that was capable of carrying on human level conversation it's probably fall into the uncanny valley because of how fast it could respond with fully formed sentences, without all the filler and pausing that humans are used
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
He seems to be suggesting that the FBI (and maybe law enforcement in general) is in charge of deciding what our civil liberties are . They've simply decided there's no right to create an unlockable lock, when there's clearly
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
> go against company value I wonder how it would go down if they said it was against their religion, a la Hobby Lobby.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
Maybe AIs attacking AIs is a Turing point, and your autocorrect was trying to pass the Turing test in the only way it knew how.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
But not if you're speaking to them over the Internet.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
It's missing Chrome, weirdly.
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
The nightmare scenario is as follows. Sure, unlocking this one phone sounds pretty reasonable. Apple will maintain control of the unlock mechanism, the FBI gets it warrant obliged, end of story. This is what the government side is spinning
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by PascalsMugger 11y ago
And the New York Times says "The Islamic State, also known as ISIL, ISIS, or Daesh". Every. Single. Time. It gets kind of annoying.
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U.S. Hacked into Iran’s Critical Civilian Infrastructure for Cyberattack – Film(buzzfeed.com)
1 points by PascalsMugger 11y ago|0 comments
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Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by PascalsMugger 11y ago|0 comments