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Computing Machinery and Intelligence(loebner.net)
1 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
"Strong AI" is completely meaningless. Strong AI = whatever isn't human basically. The actual argument that "Strong AI" is meant to support is this: You can't create a Strong AI because Strong AIs can only exis
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Penrose's Gödelian argument(math.stanford.edu)
2 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
664.
by anaphor 13y ago
Others have explained why the Chomsky Hierarchy isn't particularly useful to people working on designing or implementing languages. What IS useful and which developed around the same time as Chomsky's theories is BNF notation: ht
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by anaphor 13y ago
It's not really Appendable though, because e.g. you can write a Monoid instance for various number-y things like Sum and Product.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Founders at Work is by Jessica Livingston (of ycombinator fame) and Coders at Work is by Peter Seibel (of Practical Common Lisp fame, who took inspiration from Founders at Work).
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by anaphor 13y ago
Coders at Work is probably a much better book with no code in it.
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by anaphor 13y ago
The FBI collaborates with other countries' federal investigators a lot (e.g. RCMP). I could definitely see them doing something like that.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Also, a language shouldn't use the same operator for declaration (initialization in dynamic languages) and assignment imho.
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by anaphor 13y ago
I don't think "these" was supposed to be referring to anything in the sentence or around the sentence there. It was being used as sort of a quantifier, as in "there are some women who haven't been hacking and we can
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by anaphor 13y ago
Here is a great one: http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Graph-Theory-Dover-Mathem... "A stimulating excursion into pure mathematics aimed at "the mathematically traumatized," but great fun for mathematical ho
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by anaphor 13y ago
I have used RPL (I have an HP 50G) and yeah, you can do some fun stuff with the stack. Although I wish they would just port Factor to it already :P
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by anaphor 13y ago
Racket can actually return multiple values rather than a product type, which is what Python does. However people don't usually use it because it's easier to just return a pair or whatever and then pattern match on it. http:/
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by anaphor 13y ago
Can the NSA open everyone's mail, make a copy of it, and put the original letters back without that being "collection" of the letters?
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by anaphor 13y ago
How is NoSQL both very old and immature? Can someone explain to me the definition this is using of "mature"? Is BigTable mature software?
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by anaphor 13y ago
Exactly. Things like this just deter people from becoming interested in "low level" things like compilers, runtime systems, databases, etc... and maybe becoming active researchers in these areas.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Any idea whether I can make SE show the "real name" field to anyone? I didn't realize that wasn't visible, and I don't see a setting anywhere to change that.
678.
by anaphor 13y ago
I haven't gotten around to writing much here, but this is my SO profile which has my real name and the school I attend: http://stackoverflow.com/users/903589/wes
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by anaphor 13y ago
I use my real name, and I quite frankly do not care if I get passed up for a job or something like that because of something I said online. I'm pretty sure any employer I would actually want to work for wouldn't care about me rant
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by anaphor 13y ago
On the other hand, with total freedom to think, most of us might not get much done, see: http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
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Innovation Act passed(eff.org)
6 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
Except it isn't a false dichotomy like many of those questions. Either you agree that it should be free software or you don't. Privately funded institutions can do whatever they want in my opinion, but I don't think public fu
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by anaphor 13y ago
Do you agree or disagree that all software/technology produced by publicly funded universities should be free (as in freedom)?
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by anaphor 13y ago
I'm not sure if this is surprising to people who are familiar with how universities often take the work of graduate students and make it closed and try to profit off of it. It is a huge problem that universities are forcing software in
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Innatist Nonsense(human-brain.org)
1 points by anaphor 13y ago|0 comments
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by anaphor 13y ago
The article mentions the NSA, but if you don't think this can be used by anyone (not just people with huge botnets or databases like the NSA) then you'd be wrong as well. Consider trying to find the address of a person that you on
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by anaphor 13y ago
Sentiment analysis is becoming pretty accurate so maybe you could take into account the number of negativew/positive comments as well. Maybe that will eventually replace voting systems, who knows?
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by anaphor 13y ago
Yeah but you didn't learn everything you know from poorly written PHP tutorial websites and W3Schools. The words "Key-Derivation Function" are nowhere to be found in the lexicon of these people.
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by anaphor 13y ago
Presumably someone who graduates from Stanford or MIT in CS will be preferred over someone graduating from Princeton or Yale in CS (Personally Indiana or NEU would be my first choices).
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by anaphor 13y ago
Scheme, SML, and Haskell are all >20 years old, and pretty strongly "functional". ML (the original one) is over 40 years old.

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