Rhapso

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by Rhapso 9y ago
NEAT paper link I post a lot on HN: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/papers/stanley.ec02.pdf Looks like like a "not a GA we promise" on hyper-parameter selection (which is cool if unnecessarily obtuse)
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by Rhapso 9y ago
I agree that this is likely no better than placebo. I'd argue that a systematic method for _self-aware_ triggering of the placebo effect (without having to pay anybody money for it) is fundamentally valuable.
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by Rhapso 9y ago
No it is a prophecy: The rest of them will be less powerful.
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by Rhapso 9y ago
Modern music + ASL is a fun thing: https://www.youtube.com/user/1stopforasl I've been told by Deaf and hard-of-hearing people multiple times that they think they have more fun at concerts and clubs than hearing pe
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by Rhapso 9y ago
with certainty? no. There always exists the possibility that random numbers will follow a given pattern.
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by Rhapso 9y ago
Watching the video, it looks like it does stop a bullet but does not look like it spreads out the impact enough over time or space. also far from a new idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_Armor though they may h
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by Rhapso 9y ago
The "Tangle Approach" seems to do some awesome things: - Seems to have similar robustness to bitcoin in terms of double-spend/attack defense. - Handle high latency and network partitions gracefully - Scales better and wastes
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by Rhapso 10y ago
I think you are wrong. The reality is that It is an order of magnitude more efficient and safe to take the shotgun approach. We can stay here and try and push the half-life of our civilization out with ever decreasing returns or we can send
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Why not just use cjdns?
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Has he tried a increase in the cat's food intake? Seems low cost, low risk, and if it does not work you can resume armor plating the robot.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
The whole "colonize planets" won't pan anyway. By the time it is viable a O'Neill cylinder will be a better place to live and we can put them in ideal orbits.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
The region is wierd. I am about 20 miles from each of the 2 closest towns. Close enough to have hospital and walmart access. I am right against a TVA lake, which makes for wierd geopolitics. As the crow flys, i am only a mile or so from my
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by Rhapso 10y ago
My general expectation is to the contrary. I think people underestimate how psychologically ingrained the dollar is into the american people. Money will still be worth something, maybe not as much as I like, but something. People have so mu
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by Rhapso 10y ago
I own some land in rural TN, with a winterized trailer and access to spring water. that is backup water and shelter for minimal cost. A person/year of shelf-stable food (not fun, but indefinitely survivable) is about $1000. So if I am
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Yes, but only if the viewer proceeds to buy the advertised item.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
This has been one of the reasons life logging has been interesting to me. It might be a while before we can "upload" your brain, but we can build a predictive model of your behavior and leave an interactive "autobiography&quo
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Well, they are ALL on the label. So if you have a known allergy not on the label I can see the viability of using soylent to have a ready food supply known to be safe.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
This sort of thing is premature fear mongering to sell clicks. A useful summary: - Some people have gotten sick. There is no indication as to why or how. Likely possibilities include: - circumstantial/no causation - contaminatio
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by Rhapso 10y ago
I've allways found it odd that a culture that so values personal freedom: "the right to choose what to do with your life" so activity denies the right to choose how to end it.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~kstanley/neat.html
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Different fundamental goal. Putting 1% in another market is an amazing way to increase the odds somebody survives. In terms of optimizing for "maximum likelihood of humanity's future existence" local improvement are marginal,
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by Rhapso 10y ago
The question I always ask before replacing an n^2 process with an nlg(n) one is "Am I in that window where n^2 is actually faster?"
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by Rhapso 10y ago
This opinion really bothers me. The absolute best way to maximize chances of humanity's survival is expand off this rock. Improving survival chance here is of little consequence compared to essentially ORing the likelihood of survival
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by Rhapso 10y ago
I like the premise, but the foley typing sounds and look of the product make me feel like it is a mock up and the product does not exist. Anybody have crappy footage of a guy on youtube using one of these things? I would trust that more.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Reading the paper, there is a whole new theory of how vacuum and gravity work proposed. My dubiousness intensifies.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
I wonder if the pot hydroponics craze will be a gateway drug to growing useful things like food plants hydroponically in the home.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
We are born, we suffer a lot, then we die. Make sure to live a life well worth that suffering, and everything else will follow.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
Time to build new cities.
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by Rhapso 10y ago
In big-O senses Radix sort is one of those more persistent misconceptions. At scale Radix sort has to be nlog(n) because you should really consider the possibility all your numbers are unique. This does not even start on the reality that me
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by Rhapso 10y ago
It is an existential horror SciFi novel, but BlindSight by Peter Watts is the only book I've seen talk about this idea. Avoiding totally spoiling the book, it asks the question: "Is consciousness really a survival trait in the lon

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