Retra

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541.
by Retra 8y ago
If reasonable people are disagreeing, then they have reasons to disagree. If reasons can drive a discussion, they can decide issues like this. So your question is misleading. It's not "who decides", but "what decides&quo
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by Retra 8y ago
That is not what it needs to do to pass a Turing test. It needs to sustain ongoing dialog and thought, while maintaining a consistent awareness of another human's perspective in real time. It needs to do what a human does while hav
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by Retra 8y ago
You grossly misinterpret what I mean by "power", because it has nothing to do with the differences between Nazis and Poles, as both of them have the same aggregate ability to make decisions.
544.
by Retra 8y ago
You're being ungenerous. The way they are using "basics" implies that they don't have the basics they expect to have for the problems they want to solve. The fact that someone else has the ability to solve other problems
545.
by Retra 8y ago
A proper Turing test allows you to ask questions whose answers must indicate novel introspection, learning, and social awareness. It's absurd to think any computer system today would pass such a test.
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by Retra 8y ago
That's not a Turing test. A Turing test is an ongoing dialog, not a one-shot filter.
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by Retra 8y ago
He knew I was bullshitting and he knew I knew that. There's no point in telling me what I got wrong when I'm well aware of it. If I had put more effort into studying, I wouldn't have gotten my analysis wrong. Or if I had come
548.
by Retra 8y ago
You can "act like an atheist" by not making decisions which are based on the presumption that a deity will intervene. Pretty basic stuff here.
549.
by Retra 8y ago
To be fair, there is an argument to be made that a person's beliefs are better represented by their actual behavior under the conditions of life, rather than what they profess about them in hypotheticals. In that perspective, the best
550.
by Retra 8y ago
Python basically acts like a subshell with its own language... I don't see why anyone would think unix shell scripts are really that different from Python scripts, especially if you're not doing the subprocess control things that
551.
by Retra 8y ago
I had a phsyics proffessor who graded my work with the following comments: "No." "I expected better from you." This is brutal. But it is also fair and honest, and something I respected deeply.
552.
by Retra 8y ago
I take it they found the advice incomprehensible, not the article itself. Like when someone says "always use the right tool for the job" but consistently fails to say what tool is right for what job and what makes it so. It's
553.
by Retra 8y ago
Undirected innovation can aid the business if the business follows the innovation, rather than expecting the innovation to follow the business.
554.
by Retra 8y ago
Some people will want something just because you're trying to sell it to them though.
555.
by Retra 8y ago
Mars is a gigantic frigid rock. You can't eat it, you can't breathe it, and you can't touch it. If you go to mars, you're going to be living in a bubble and it hardly even matters whether you're on Mars at that poin
556.
by Retra 8y ago
Doesn't look like it. Looks like they are just using it for artistic flourish.
557.
by Retra 8y ago
Civilization has only ever started in highly fertile ecosystems. It has never started in a place that basic plant life can't even survive.
558.
by Retra 8y ago
If your plan is to go to Mars and you can't even survive Tacna, AZ, you're going to be dead. I suppose some people prefer that to disappointment, though.
559.
by Retra 8y ago
On the other hand, any argument which proposes that we should explore space because we are unable to solve problems on Earth is entirely foolhardy and fantastical.
560.
by Retra 8y ago
Earth is unlikely to ever become less inhabitable than Mars, even under the most pessimistic scenarios.
561.
by Retra 8y ago
It's not clear what you're trying to say. All human colonization to date has been dependent upon fertile lands or extensive outside support. If we want to colonize Mars, we should prove we can survive without these things, and sin
562.
by Retra 8y ago
For one, "API" isn't a simply definable thing. It can entail any number of performance constraints and tooling idiosyncrasies. That's why the first step of using SemVer is to declare a public API.
563.
by Retra 8y ago
Well, I wouldn't have assumed that they said nothing more. I've personally never worked at a place where I only spoke my mind when handing in my resignation.
564.
by Retra 8y ago
I will be honest: just because someone doesn't have data to back up what they say doesn't mean they believe the complete opposite "deep down." It probably just means they're lazy and wishful thinking. What are your
565.
by Retra 8y ago
It's not so impressive if all you're doing is generalizing frameworks or cherry-picking the subsets that happen to agree with experiment. You have to show something new. For example, (going from memory here, so don't quote me
566.
by Retra 8y ago
What happens when a marketer sends out a brand message which reaches theoretically maximal returns? Why, nothing. They come to work the next day and try to beat it. Advertising isn't a job that's just "done" and people w
567.
by Retra 8y ago
I suppose if a business has a desk, printer, phone, and employee, we can count it as successful too.
568.
by Retra 8y ago
If half the lines in your programs are { and } it hardly does that.
569.
by Retra 8y ago
The irony is that building a language which avoids semicolons by automatically inserting them is arguably taking a clever short-hand in favor of unclear and ambiguous expressions.
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by Retra 8y ago
Quitting is "enough" to signal a myriad of things, but it just doesn't communicate any particular thing with any reliability. People quit for lots of personal reasons. "Fuck you" means they quit for outrage. Saying

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