alquemist

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by alquemist 6y ago
In small doses, OOP is invaluable, especially for defining modules and their interfaces. Alas, OOP advocates, especially in the old days, oversold it. Several major flaws: * "Everything is an object". This creates unnecessary conf
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by alquemist 6y ago
It's a bit more complicated, and the facile 'luddite' retort doesn't help. Humans need something to do. In times immemorial, something to do entails running around the savanna looking for edible scraps, collecting them,
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by alquemist 6y ago
True. Yet humans are embodied beings in a physical world. This affects their mathematical taste in at least two ways. Humans will prefer axiomatic systems / problem spaces that have some bearing onto the physical world. Humans will als
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by alquemist 6y ago
Short term, runaway hostile killer drone swarm. Medium term, it's an arms race to build the smartest, strongest, most ruthless global killer drone swarm. The outcome of that race is anybody's guess.
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by alquemist 6y ago
Where the game is 'total world domination'. Through any means necessary, in particular by utterly destroying one's physical adversaries. Arguably the human brain development is a byproduct of an arm's race between social
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by alquemist 6y ago
An object capable to completely shade Earth must be larger than Earth itself. The Moon can only shade a small fraction of Earth at a time, see eclipse path maps, for example https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/
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by alquemist 6y ago
Great idea! User accounts are locked by default, and can only be accessed if unlocked, for a limited time period, by the user themselves. For extra security, though more friction, the unlock process generates a time limited access token, pr
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by alquemist 6y ago
They use evolutionary search [0] to create programs for image classification, specifically 'binary classification tasks extracted from CIFAR-10'. They do it from scratch, though they use a pytorch-ish programming language with di
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Algebraic datatypes started with Hope, in the late '70s at Edinburgh. Rod Burstal, David MacQueen and Don Sannella. https://smlfamily.github.io/history/SML-history.pdf https://dl.acm.org/doi/1