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by adjkant 8y ago
Would weather patterns / trends not qualify a need for AI in this context? What about prediction of food demand by type for the upcoming year? Those are the big unknown inputs an AI could pretty easily morally aid to here.
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by adjkant 8y ago
The geographical map of Rails vs Kubernetes is quite interesting: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=r...
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by adjkant 8y ago
> [AI] has an unrivaled capacity to be used unethically Does it? At a personal level, I'm much more scared of a bad person with a gun and access to me than a bad person with an AI and access to me. It's more important than the
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by adjkant 8y ago
AI today is that dumb, but I think the parent comment is discussing a theoretical AGI nearing or possessing consciousness. A bit irrelevant for today's moral conversation on AI but a very interesting one down the line if we ever do get
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by adjkant 8y ago
> There is no such thing as an ethical potential energy Yes there is, I just made it up on the spot and defined it! If you mean that it is not a commonly discussed philosophical term then yes, you'd be correct. > It’s not even a
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by adjkant 8y ago
Stumbled upon his twitter bio while reading the comments and thought it was appropriate to post here: "Square Co-Founder turned traveling photographer. Searching for the meaning of life and got lost along the way. Maybe it is hidden in
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by adjkant 8y ago
What is unethical about a farmer using AI to figure out the best arrangement of his crops to maximize the food he produces, maintain his land quality, and minimize his environmental impact?
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by adjkant 8y ago
> Is a gun less ethical than a syringe because it can be used for violence? A gun's purpose is to shoot bullets. A syringe has the purpose of delivering fluid into the human body. It's not hard to evaluate the ethics of the mos
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by adjkant 8y ago
Very fair, I'm editing the last part off.
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by adjkant 8y ago
Ethical AI is hard, but so are ethical laws, ethical taxation, and ethical advertising, to name a few more ubiquitous things than AI. The real answer here is that ethics is hard, and even if you know ethics and can get some agreement, getti
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by adjkant 8y ago
Since there are a lot of questions regarding language choice for functional languages here, I think I'd be good to share my experience here. I've learned from the ground up (since college) in a functional style through HtDP [1] an
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by adjkant 8y ago
I read that as "Series 1" and had to do a double take.
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by adjkant 8y ago
To me this sounds like a prime opportunity to have two repo pages: one for contributors/owners, one for everyone else, and the option to toggle the view for each account per repo. The danger would be overcomplexity/confusion, but
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by adjkant 8y ago
If that's the definition of CS we're using then my original post is a very egregious misnomer. I feel like that definition is way too restrictive though. CS can be formalized and informal, but both are still CS IMO.
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by adjkant 8y ago
Why wouldn't the author qualify as a self taught computer scientist though? To me your point more of a statement on the accessibility of computer science first, and I do completely agree that the accessibility is important, which the R
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by adjkant 8y ago
I'm not sure I'm fully following what you're getting at due to the terseness and my first comment was more of a fun note that you can always build on language features, but generally speaking you could inherit and use the typ
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by adjkant 8y ago
> Of course, that code itself will not be verified or typechecked. Easy, just used typed Racket :)
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by adjkant 8y ago
An interesting tangent I think about sometimes: I think when people think about "programmers/developers" vs "computer scientists", this is where the difference could really show up in the future. A developer who kno
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by adjkant 8y ago
A list of characters (a string) and a list of tokens are drastically different to work with. If you haven't worked with both and want to write programming languages, I would recommend filling the gap of the one you haven't to see&
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by adjkant 8y ago
Racket tends to be geared to writing lispy things because of the heavy reliance of the syntax parsing and macro transformation on s-expressions, so most/all being variants of lisp makes sense. Writing non-sexp languages in Racket tends
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by adjkant 8y ago
Do you realize that the NYC Subway is controlled by Cuomo, not de Blasio?
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by adjkant 8y ago
After using lambda and serverless myself over the past year, I really struggle to see where this lock-in is. If you're already writing a stateless API as most are these days, and the cloud platforms support many language options, going
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think problems like this is why we need to consider opening up the idea of what is a "public utility" in the modern world. There are simply many things that are valuable to a large number of people that don't have good busi
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by adjkant 8y ago
Seconding this.
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by adjkant 8y ago
> I guess critics will exist no matter what, but it really doesn't jive with my philosophy of "be good to eachother." I think it can be both - a finer art not mentioned here is the strong negative review that acknowledges
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by adjkant 8y ago
Over 90% senior positions is very interesting to me.
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by adjkant 8y ago
Related required reading: https://thecorrespondent.com/4664/why-do-the-poor-make-such-... Before judging at the title, read the summary: Our efforts to combat poverty are often based on a misconception: that the poor m
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by adjkant 8y ago
To developers, yes.
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by adjkant 8y ago
The thing is, this is clearly for marketing purposes in the end. The approach is complex and sophisticated, but certainly not novel. A good architect in any decent interview should get to a similar solution. This must be read through the li
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by adjkant 8y ago
I think your desire is right, but think about this every time you create a file, and how much slower your work would be. The question then becomes: "how much commenting exactly is needed before this becomes more time than the technical

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