TheUndead96

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by TheUndead96 6y ago
An important observation. People forget that genetic algorithms and a whole swathe of classical machine learning strategies exist.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I agree with this, which is why the idea of fusion energy is both exciting and terrifying (and why governments may even be hesitant to disclose breakthroughs). In the theoretical ideal, fusion energy would provide such a surplus of energy t
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I see many comments saying that Git is still the best SCM system, which I agree with. Git can simultaneously be bad, and better than any other option available. To me Git has always seemed a little bit awkward. It works well when it works w
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
While it might be true that nuclear war will not end the human genome, it could set may communities back to the bronze age in a relatively short amount of time.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
This is compounded by the fact that consumer electronics are becoming less useful as general computing devices. Increasingly people "rent" their primary devices. You pay a monthly plan, or a fee upfront, to use a gated smartphone
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
groove shark, now theres a name I have not heard for a long time...
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Given the financial incentives, I see Mozilla's stance as an extension of Google's.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
The value proposition of Spotify doesn't seem all that enticing any more: - Does not have many famous artists, due to licensing, and the catalog is continually decreasing. - Actively anti-competitor behaviour. - For a little more than
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I watched this a while ago, and it did not fill me with confidence for the Slack backend at the time: https://youtu.be/WE9c9AZe-DY
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
In my mind it is now QTPy until the end of time
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted. Everyone is in a perpetual state of "we should start worrying about this". People knew about this problem in the 70s. Many of us would not have been born when actions should have been first taken.
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Halide: A Language for Fast, Portable Computation on Images and Tensors(youtube.com)
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
That's a good point, I had not thought of it in those terms. Snowden was much more "I saw something wrong and I did something about it".
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I feel the same way. The amount of times I slide into the dumb side of YouTube after a day's worth of work is a bit embarrassing. Some reading is sometimes possible, but I feel finished at the end of a day.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Either they are planning to kill him and frame it as a suicide, or his life has been made so miserable that suicide appears to be an escape. Both are awful to consider. I'm not informed enough to know whether any of the leaks he facili
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I've worked in these Agile teams for my entire career so far. I have begun to believe that standups, in the way that most companies conduct them, are against the interest of most developers. It feels like I need to justify my position
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
This is a good point. I think this can (partly) be explained by the significance of language in the evolution human communities. We can imagine how speech impediments might have a negative correlation with survivability, on both the individ
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Just responding to conversation above. I think this is important. What makes the HN interesting is sharing ideas. This is otherwise a boring corporate announcement.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Yes, I agree. My point (and that of one of the comments earlier) is that censorship does not actually do anything to reduce extremism in the real world, and can actually increase it, as you say. So these echo-chambers are bad, which we can
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
There are already protocols to control search results and the behaviors of employees. This is very different. This is controlling the discourse of everyday people. Just because the technology is not currently deployed to restrict topics tha
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Coming soon: Facebook gets exclusive deal to open source. I’m being facetious, but this announcement really does go against what feels like the core value of the OpenAI project.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I agree. The anti-book sentiment has felt quite strong lately, and this article is another example. I think people feel subconsciously guilty that they do not read more. It is thus easier to dismiss books than to acknowledge the fact that m
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
This is really awesome, I love it. I wonder whether we could procedurally generate novel writing systems that are maximally information-dense while still being legible.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Are the customers demanding work in Lisp creating new systems, or maintaining mature systems? I had assumed that the use of Lisp for symbolic reasoning and AI had largely disappeared. Is it making a resurgence?
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I'm surprised that GraalVM is not mentioned. I have strong suspicions that Oracle is lining up Graal to become the next default JVM, after watching some talks from core developers describing how fragile the Hotspot codebase has become.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification.
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Well imagine if there is only $55 worth of currency in circulation. Or better yet only $52. The lender ends up with all the currency in the end (and maybe some that does not exist yet). The response is that currency is printed. If the produ
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Inflation is like the metabolism of an economy. Money represents work done in the past. Inflation means that work done further in the past is worth less than more recently. So $10 today is worth less tomorrow. Some economies have a faster m
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
Just to be clear I was not making a value judgement, just an observation. I find it compelling that many traditional societies have come to this principle. I personally think that removing interest from a money system could go a long way to
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by TheUndead96 6y ago
I am curious about the events that have lead to the development of Sharia banking. It seems to be partly a shield against runaway interest/inflation. This has a parallel to the idea of usury in Christianity. Perhaps societies that avoi

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