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by andars 10y ago
"If you think about what engineers do, they are people that create new things that change the world. So we’ve concluded that an engineer is a person who envisions what’s never been and then does whatever it is to make it happen."
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Interview with Richard Miller, President of Olin College of Engineering(nautil.us)
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by andars 10y ago
I think it was a joke, seeing as SixSigma proceeded to anthropomorphize computers ("they hate that").
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A History of Storage Media(codewords.recurse.com)
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by andars 10y ago
A great quote, but another one that wasn't actually Einstein. Appears to be from Laurence Peter (eponym of the Peter Principle). reply
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by andars 10y ago
They definitely do. I've seen this while watching a Model S pull into a parking spot. I guess they figure that if you can afford the car, the extra wear on the tires shouldn't be a problem for you? Dunno
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by andars 10y ago
IIRC correctly (not sure on this one), there also used to be an IBM campus a few miles to the west and there still is another campus on Bailey a few miles east. Pretty incredible that there used to be 4 (maybe 3) large-scale IBM campuses al
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by andars 10y ago
The Almaden research center has a great location, but isn't in a state park. It's near a county park, which might be what you are thinking of.
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A guide to the Chicken Scheme compilation process(wiki.call-cc.org)
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by andars 10y ago
You could use this same quote for anything. "This revolutionary new toaster that prints memes/tweets on your toast in the morning will soon be found in every household" "That's stupid, no it won't" "W
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by andars 10y ago
Whoops. In that case, I think they are referring to http://danluu.com/learning-to-program/
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by andars 10y ago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=80LKF2qph6I
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by andars 10y ago
Is this a bot? This summary is nearly the length of the article, just lacking the actual images of Birkana symbols.
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by andars 10y ago
I would say your conclusion is right. Some bases don't really make sense to use in conjunction with binary (5, 7, 10, etc.) but any power of two "works". I prefer hex to octal because a byte splits nicely into two hex digits.
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by andars 10y ago
Does Anathem have an ending or just sort of ends like the rest of Stephenson's books? Just curious.
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by andars 10y ago
If anyone cares to share, I'd love to hear some opinions about at what point someone switches from "non-mathematician" status to "mathematician" status.
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by andars 10y ago
I would guess Piaget, because it reminds of this quote from Papert (who drew heavily on Piaget): > Slowly I began to formulate what I still consider the fundamental fact about learning: Anything is easy if you can assimilate it to your c
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The Implementation Square(camoy.info)
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by andars 10y ago
Except for when they aren't. There are several examples of ex post facto laws that have been upheld. The Supreme Court would definitely get involved.
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by andars 10y ago
I agree. I also noted in another comment that these things aren't mutually exclusive. Rather than "why try any of these things?", we should ask "why not try all?"
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by andars 10y ago
Seriously. "My question is if I can give you this gift!"
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by andars 10y ago
We have, to a good approximation, no clue how human biology achieves intelligence. I'd say it is far more realizable to go to Mars than to put a brain in a flash drive. Even if we achieve AGI, that isn't (necessarily) a human inte
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by andars 10y ago
I'm okay with that. You don't have to be inspired by it. I am, and I think many other people are as well. Human civilization has a lot of problems. I don't know how to solve them. I believe that demonstrations of human ingenu
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by andars 10y ago
I don't believe that AGI and transhumanism is any easier (or better, but I accept your opinion) than making a spacecraft that can carry people to Mars. The task is well understood, unlike artifical intelligence.
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by andars 10y ago
Redundancy. A bad backup is better than none at all. In addition, because I believe it is worthwhile to attempt difficult things to see what we can achieve. Inspiration is a valid goal.
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by andars 10y ago
This one is a little tricky. The battle of Fort Sumter, which is usually regarded as the start of the war, was actually after he was inaugurated. Secession, however, started well before his inauguration in March. In any case, the conflict w
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by andars 10y ago
Fun fact regarding (2). Buchanan, being such a great guy, didn't care that his signature was irrelevant and signed it anyway.
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by andars 10y ago
I'm fairly confident that you don't need to worry about anyone being confused and thinking that SpaceX has already launched a mission to Mars. Ideas always come before execution.
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by andars 10y ago
You are right in that Lincoln was no great moral hero. However, your statements are misleading. Regarding the Corwin Amendment: looking back through the lens of history, this seems like a huge deal. At the time, it didn't really matter
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by andars 10y ago
I fail to see how blaming the civil war on Lincoln is justified. Please elaborate. EDIT: The issue of slavery was only the spark. The conflict that escalated into the civil war was multifaceted and at its core reflected two very different v

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