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by amatic 11y ago
In a lot of countries in the world, medical institutions or individuals don't have enough money to pay for access to research and books (lib-gen, the sister project of sci-hub also serves pirated books). And I agree, that might not be
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by amatic 11y ago
> Getting useful people (for many contextual definitions of 'useful') to care about your success could be a direct reason for your success. That is what it seems like. In the early phases of a company, founders meet a lot of ch
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by amatic 11y ago
In the case of copyrighted books or research papers, it could be a matter of life and death for the user, if we are talking about access to various types of medical research, for example.
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by amatic 11y ago
There is nothing unethical in braking the law. It is illegal to disregard existing laws, ethics is a different matter. There were many racist, sexist, oppressing laws in the past that we consider unethical today, and may even celebrate peop
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by amatic 11y ago
What is the difference, asside from someone deeming copying 'illegal'?
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by amatic 11y ago
Very smart comment. I've had a long brake from programming and all this functional and lisp stuff is new, and it is not always clear what is the benefit. But is great to see a diversity and experimentation.
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The Nature of Robots, Part 3: A closer look at human behavior (1979) [pdf](livingcontrolsystems.com)
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by amatic 11y ago
Don't know what is the intended application, but one possible use is industrial object recognition and localization - add a robot arm and you can start making a pick-and-place machine.
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by amatic 11y ago
The original article paints Hotz as brilliant, arrogant and reckless, the archetypal young hero, as what writers often do to make the story interesting. Tesla's PR fell right into their assigned role of the big, rich, dumb rival. Which
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by amatic 11y ago
They seem sort of defensive and needy. "Oh, the didn't reaaally make a better car then we did, we had that two years ago, and ours is so much better and ... ". Of course it is, the guy made it in his garage. The classy thin
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by amatic 11y ago
Something like windows? It should treat any newline signs in the pasted text as starts of new lines, not as "enter command". The person would need to press enter after pasting.
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A General Feedback Theory of Human Behavior (1960)(amsciepub.com)
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The Neglected Phenomenon of Negative Feedback Control (2001) [pdf](livingcontrolsystems.com)
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by amatic 11y ago
It is a book of some 300 pages, I skimmed it. Doesn't seem true to the promise from the introduction - "to explain control theory without much math". It is also quite long. For an introduction to control theory, I'd reco
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by amatic 11y ago
Cybernetics is not control theory. Control theory existed some decades before Wiener and Ashby, and continued to develop separately from cybernetics. I am very interested in both fields, though less in modern cybernetics which is mostly phi
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by amatic 11y ago
Why is this relevant today?
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by amatic 11y ago
John Cleese, of all people, summarized our current knowledge of the nervous system best in this video: https://youtu.be/FQjgsQ5G8ug?t=20 We are clueless. A lot of what is published is just neurobabble, even in 'serious
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by amatic 11y ago
IP communism is not in conflict with belief in private property rights. The trick is in denying IP the status of property, because you cannot own ideas in the same sense you can own a car. Cars are fundamentaly scarce, two people can't
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by amatic 11y ago
Yeah, agreed. There was a wonderful website called "Guru ratings" where this guy read a whole bunch of self-helf literature and rated them and posted a short review. Can't find the site now, seems to be down. edit: https:&#x
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by amatic 11y ago
The advantage is in reduced computational load on the calculating machine. Not so much for a small number of DoF, but for multi-jointed arms or humanoid robots, or hexapods and similar. If you use inverse kinematics, the computational load
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Show HN: Alternative to inverse kinematics (?)
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by amatic 11y ago
oh, man...
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by amatic 11y ago
Noup. They move by themselves. Cool page, though, keep it up!
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by amatic 11y ago
> There really isn't a place for people to put this other than their personal blogs. That is a great idea! A place like that should exist.
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by amatic 11y ago
It is, but there are situations where speed of execution and use of memory are less important criteria for choosing a language. For example, when developing very large and complex programs. Lisp(s) allow encapsulation (hiding) of complexity
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by amatic 11y ago
Same here. I used to read articles from mises.org, but they seem to have some fishy characters as contributors and authors. Note, however, that Menger is not a columnist or blogger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Men
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by amatic 12y ago
Here is something from my todo list, build lisp in C: http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/