TezlaKoil

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by TezlaKoil 8y ago
There is no credible documentation of EURISKO's achievements. No one has every actually seen EURISKO's source code except for Lenat. Despite huge advances in technology, in computational power, and in the amount of engineers and g
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by TezlaKoil 8y ago
It depends on what you treat as a complete action. One could equally well decompose it as two actions and two conditionals: if (volcano_status == GONNA_BLOW) refuel_car(); else if (volcano_status == NO_WORRIES) refuel_car(); else if (vo
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by TezlaKoil 8y ago
Scientists say that there's a considerable but not overwhelming chance that the volcano on my island might erupt in the next few days. If I knew that the volcano is going to erupt, then I would drive to the airport (with all my belongi
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
> What happens when the only housing available is for drug addicts and you just happen to be poor? The same thing that happens when the only parking available is reserved for the disabled and you're not disabled?
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
So what? You could equally well observe that most great scientists were men, but that doesn't mean that STEM education for women can be improved by sex reassignment surgery.
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
Diffie–Hellman key exchange? Oh gosh, this feels just like my crypto finals :(
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
Alas, spending time on writing production-ready software is career suicide in academia. Conferences and journals value novelty, and are not interested in incremental improvements. If you're really lucky (EvoSuite [1] / Google), Bi
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
This article about the bracelet is from 2015. No updates since then, and it does not link to anything peer-reviewed. All in all I would take this with a huge grain of salt.
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
"Mr. LastName was my father's name! Please, call me Dr. LastName."
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by TezlaKoil 9y ago
> I'm a trained mathematician as well. Mayhap. >A constructivist would state the result in a variety of ways. But none of them would involve a potentially self-referential construction based on the absolute truth of an infinite n
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
> Buy a hard-sided bag for checking your laptop? Think before you write? A hard case makes zero difference (or in some cases actively makes things worse) if the TSA fails to secure your laptop after inspecting it.
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
> There is very little actual food choice because the market optimizes for profits, not for health. Hold on! The market consists of both suppliers and customer. One would think that being fat is not profitable for the latter. Meanwhile,
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
Clevo is a huge Chinese OEM computer manufacturer which exclusively produces cheap, low-quality laptop computers. System76 selects Clevo configurations that are more-or-less compatible with Linux, puts a brand on them and sells them at a so
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
> In chess today, any sufficiently advanced chess engine can be incorporated into a (man+chess-engine) player to perform better. This worked between about 2008 and 2013; but those days are long one. Engines such as Stockfish 8 surpass b
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
Beware: historian R. J. Evans is known and controversial for having weird theses about Central/Eastern Europe and supporting them with misrepresentative, cherry-picked arguments. The essay quoted in the article is a prime example: He c
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
> Even simply the accent is almost impossible to overcome (women seem to have better luck defeating the accent than men and you have a chance up to the age of 17 or so). Accent reduction does not work for everyone (see e.g. Bela Lugosi),
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
Good idea, but badly needs a "wildcard" pattern and some way to generate rules by rotation.
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by TezlaKoil 10y ago
I don't buy this. Everyone had different handwriting in the good old days, and this did not make grading unfair. They used something called word count.