ainot

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by ainot 10y ago
Yes the prior decade, starting in 1998 when Bill Clinton signed legislation that opened the financial doors which allowed the housing crisis to start. Bush didn't close that door and so it built momentum but it would not have been poss
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by ainot 10y ago
I wasn't saying that I literally or intentionally post garbage comments. That was rhetoric, to prove a point. I'd assumed HN readers and moderators would understand that.
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by ainot 10y ago
Could you explain Obamacare? That would be cool. Thanks.
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by ainot 10y ago
> The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which low-ability individuals suffer from illusory superiority High brow smack (condescension) like that and "basket of deplorables" are what America revolted against. If the l
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by ainot 10y ago
It was, they called it IRC.
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by ainot 10y ago
> Computers have less than a century of history so far That's actually the point.
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by ainot 10y ago
Would you play Russian Roulette with those odds? I wonder if an artificial intelligence would.
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by ainot 10y ago
If only the LISP syntax looked like a programming language and made logical sense.
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by ainot 10y ago
ERD's and Sequence Diagrams are helpful on occasion, that's it though. And those can be done in any drawing tool.
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by ainot 10y ago
The FP crowd is so vocal. Reformed math geeks who are trying to evangelize the world of programming to do things one way; their way.
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by ainot 10y ago
AGI sounds like fuzzy logic. We know how far that got. It will make some companies money though, it's snake oil. Computers even thousands of years from now will never be able to do what a programmer with 1 year of experience can do tod
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by ainot 10y ago
> There is a reason why digital circuit design has shifted to use of HDLs. Yours is so far the most insightful comment I've read on the page. Have an up vote.
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by ainot 10y ago
> handling edge cases in a way consistent with the original intent, etc. That's where we spend the majority of our time and always where things go horribly wrong in SciFi movies.