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by _yosefk 11y ago
I dunno, Bobby Fischer was kinda deranged, for instance, and that often hurts outcomes in otherwise "lucrative" positions. Incidentally, he is credited with raising chess player compensation through his demands. Generally I'd
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As it happened in chess, machines will beat humans in Go no matter how much knowledge about their inner workings will be provided to the human. (I've watched this story unfold in chess and the various hopes of how humans are still some
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by _yosefk 11y ago
"How gravity ruined flying"? PageRank looking at links isn't some arbitrary thing, it's a source of information every good search will take into account.
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He also said there "you cannot argue with the evidence"... I'm glad someone is trying.
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Perhaps it would have been an error in my attempt at utilitarianism, if indeed it were an attempt at utilitarianism; to me however it does matter whether someone is guilty or innocent when executed, and I think it also matters to most peo
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I'd think that it matters how many innocent people are executed vs how many lives are saved by deterring potential murderers, and my trouble is I don't know how to get those numbers. Regarding just the second number - deterrence -
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To everyone criticising this or unimpressed by it - let's hope none of you ever becomes a victim of such a despicable act, and let's hope as well that the rest of us don't become less likely to either give or recieve in respo
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I've known a few drug addicts who died young and left no children.
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I dunno, often spaghetti code (long functions with plenty of scopes and conditionals) gets high complexity scores while ravioli code (lots of short functions with simple and almost-flat control flow calling each other - "lots" as
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by _yosefk 11y ago
You mean space invaders in real life wouldn't behave in the same way as space invaders in the game that DeepMind has mastered? Fancy that. Could this generalize to other areas where AI works on toy examples but fails in the real world?
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Hey, at least if Earth ever needs to fight real-life Space Invaders, Google's AI armed with the Pentagon's hardware should do well!
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To be "fair" (?), the opposite of Intel in this context isn't ARM but the sum total of IC fabs and designs done outside Intel, of which ARM is a small part.
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My favorite conspiracy theory regarding drug legalization is, "the rich" will want to legalize drugs to get rid of "the poor" on the theory that people who've been put out of work by machines are an unnecessary burd
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by _yosefk 11y ago
Erm... you totally ought to ignore the stated "desires" of victims when, say, going after a murderer, who may threaten the surviving relatives so that they say they don't want persecution. There are pretty good reasons for cr
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by _yosefk 11y ago
I think JSFuck beat you to it: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/02/ebay-has-no-plans-to... ('Clever "JSFxxK" technique allows hackers to bypass eBay block of JavaScript.')
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Why then does MS work on Bing? Bing is more likely to infringe on Google's patents than a Windows clone is likely to infringe on MS's patents, not? And Bing is certainly lots of work.
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Why doesn't Google make a free, compatible Windows clone, for the same reasons Microsoft as well as Google made free, compatible browser clones? I honestly don't understand it.
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Before that becomes the main problem, that other problem must be solved where you give it your picture and the Mona Lisa whose style is to be copied and the way it copies the style is it paints her eyebrow atop your mouth. 'Cause it&#x
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Actually many people have a preference for writing their Python libraries in C :-) Python was explicitly designed under the assumption that much of the heavy lifting will happen in C. And C programmers write their parsers in Yacc, etc. (Thi
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Interestingly, this thought experiment kinda works for company managers, too (try firing the CEO of a company where you're a minority investor.) Perhaps things converge to a state where, regardless of who's the nominal owner (citi
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Well, define "problem." Naive, correct C++ code will copy objects because it's the simplest way to make sure each object has one obvious owner and won't leak without having to write memory management code or fiddling wit
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Well, yeah, but if a guy from the CIA murders a doctor in the US, will he be punished? I kinda think he will be. Is he likely to threaten a doctor with murder in the first place, as a way to ensure his relative is properly treated? I kinda
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> I had an array of widgets. Those widgets had textures. Those textures were copied over and over and over again, because containers can do that, so I had to go back to rethinking the storage class for the widgets. Actually, he didn&#x27
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It's not without its merits, but the question then remains whether emacs suffers when closed if it accumulated enough state for Steve Yegge to consider it "conscious" the way humans are.
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How can one support the theory of people having feelings, except for assuming that people feel more or less what you feel yourself? Unless you can experience others' feelings yourself somehow, you can always call everyone else's
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Seriously - what do you think? If it was in the US, what would you bet on - it being a guy from the mafia or from the CIA? "Mafia", obviously (or whatever you'd call Israel's somewhat-organized criminals.) It's not
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I don't live in the US, but here's a story from Israel: a doctor I personally know was threatened by a relative of her patient, along the lines of "if he doesn't get well, I'll kill you." She told that to the p
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Google says Oprah's net worth is $3G, and Shaq's is $350M. If neither is "wealthy", then I guess the word is reserved for Bill Gates (but not that "white man signing Shaq's check", in all likelihood.) If h
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I suspect that the average person - actually, make it 99.5% of the people - is better off with advice along the lines of "if you can possibly help it, don't get into debt to buy anything that can't be used to make enough mone
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I'd say the opposite. * The typical bribe is, you do something in your role as a government official, and later you legally get a high-paying job, or they pay you $100K-$200K/hour in speaking fees (the low number is Bush Jr's

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