Rangi42

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by Rangi42 12y ago
Analogies are a good spur for creativity, even if they have to be sanity-checked afterward. Someone who didn't already know that cockpits are sealed might consider it by relating hijacking to buffer overflows. Your own analogies both s
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Without disputing your main point about how philosophers typically behave, I want to clarify the is-water-H2O argument. As I understand it, it's making a point about how we use language: people have been using the word "water&quot
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by Rangi42 12y ago
The way to give helpful tips, as opposed to best possible moves, is to be more vague, not to recommend a specific less-than-optimal move. Imprecise help like "hold onto your high cards" or "don't gamble on drawing one pa
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by Rangi42 12y ago
It would be neat to add some randomness-measuring statistics of the last N bits: like counts of 1s and 0s; digraph counts for 00, 01, 10, and 11; length of longest 0/1 repetitions; or more sophisticated tests.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Or, setUpInstance looks like it's the setter for an upInstance variable, whereas setupInstance has an obvious connection to the "setup" action even if it's grammatically incorrect.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
"Some grammar knowledge" probably also tells you the structure of the verb, namely TREAT+ING(V,present progressive). "TREAT" is the 1,118th most common word, so that gives you: WNPHMMVF FOUND EFFECTIVE IN TREATING CUYROV
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Too many of these are quibbles about minor language warts and constructs that shouldn't be used in the first place. For example: Python: There is no "do ... until <condition>". Most languages don't have this eith
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by Rangi42 12y ago
There used to be a shirt with Tantek Çelik's box model hack (voice-family: "\"}\"";) for sale somewhere online. (I screen-printed my own copy on an old T-shirt.) This was back when IE5.5 was still in use. I wonder i
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by Rangi42 12y ago
If it were programmed to keep itself clean, and had an algorithm to do that ("scrape the dirty area against a shrub"), I see no reason why it couldn't pass the mirror test.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Paying for rights to the space behind a seat may not be a great solution, but at least it's a solution, and debating about its merits may lead to a better one. The current situation is that there is no right answer: neither the seat-
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by Rangi42 12y ago
That's what I thought of too. It could be tested by averaging a pool of images lit by fluorescent bulbs, LEDs, or LCD monitor glow.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
I'm stuck on set 1 challenge 4, detecting single-character XOR. I know how the cipher works, having solved challenge 3, but when I brute-forced all 327 hex strings in their challenge data with each of the 256 possible one-byte keys, no
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by Rangi42 12y ago
This article rightly points out that violence isn't actually much simpler to simulate than social interaction; it's just that players accept crude simulation because it's still fun. Space Invaders is essentially a game of Bre
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by Rangi42 12y ago
An iPhone-sized computer that can wirelessly connect to a monitor and keyboard could itself act as a mouse (with gesture recognition like Apple's Magic Mouse), a touchpad, a chorded keyboard, or any other peripheral that can be emulate
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by Rangi42 12y ago
People would probably underfund boring but necessary programs like the interstate highway system and industrial regulations, and would mostly check boxes for a few highly visible programs that fit with their politics (NASA, the EPA, new fig
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Brain damage can lower intelligence, and I see no reason why it could not be raised as well. Even if genes provide something "defaults" or "limits," environmental effects are still relevant.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
Do you mean that "moral" should mean "someone who cooperates with others" and "immoral" should mean "someone who does not cooperate with others"? Then "moral" and "immoral" would j
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by Rangi42 12y ago
I'm pretty sure it's sarcasm.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
I wonder what would happen in a similar experiment where a large sign makes it clear how high-status the violinist is. Would people be persuaded to stop, or are the passers-by in a Metro station naturally going to be too busy and hurried to
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by Rangi42 12y ago
The first one, "Crebase", turned out to be a Pokemon, but that's its Japanese name (クレベース); it's Avalugg in English, which sounds a lot less like actual technologies like Couchbase or Graphbase.
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by Rangi42 12y ago
I got to "You are dead. (Solve: -Body)" and was slightly cheered up by the fact that I would still have Hope left. Then it says "You are forgotten. (Solve: -Hope)". Great. Just great. Very realistic for such a simple gam
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by Rangi42 13y ago
I won! http://i.imgur.com/VOXJaOo.png My strategy was to give the AI a single 2 at the beginning, then only 4s. When the board fills up enough, there will probably be a space where you can put a second 2 to make it lose bef
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by Rangi42 13y ago
On some sites I see numeric ReCAPTCHAS, which are easy to solve. Others, though, have the sometimes-impossible alphabetical ones. Does the site developer have any control over which type shows up?
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by Rangi42 13y ago
For the common cases of "import foo" and "from foo import bar", having a keyword avoids repeating the module/function name, as in "foo = import('foo')" and "bar = import('foo').bar
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by Rangi42 13y ago
Aren't the employees' sales a useful contribution to the stock market? They're turning private knowledge about upcoming SEC actions into public information, assuming that the public bothers to correlate stock sales with SEC e
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by Rangi42 13y ago
I always used <table frame="border" rules="both"> for 1px borders.
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by Rangi42 13y ago
I'm not sure that democratic consensus is the same as democratic government. If the Silk Road 2 community grows and its new users have different ideals than the old ones -- maybe they don't support this kind of retribution again
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by Rangi42 13y ago
This list seems to exemplify Alfred Whitehead's statement that "the safest general characterization of the philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." (With many of those footnotes by Arist
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by Rangi42 13y ago
Richard Feynman mentions these in Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : > One mechanical engineer at Frankfort was always trying to design things and could never get everything right. One time he designed a box full of gears, one of
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by Rangi42 13y ago
Is AIXI capable of recognizing itself? If an AIXI agent were controlling a robot body, would it realize that the body's actions correlate with its own intentions? Would it pass the mirror test?

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