anonmeow

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by anonmeow 11y ago
It's more straightforward to tax snapchats and facebooks some more and put the money into cancer research.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Looks like I hit a nerve here, haven't I? Note that my advice is rational and completely unironic. It is rational to follow the clique if you want to succeed in tech. I act like that too.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
>Just having a 'compiler' will not change much about that understanding The compiler is called "genetic engineering" and it's a 30 years old field. In particular genetic engineering allows you to knockout specifi
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by anonmeow 11y ago
It may not be the solution you expected, but you could try upwork. Pay can be decent and it allows you to live while traveling across exotic countries. I know a programmer that lives this digital nomad lifestyle.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
To use the YC/dev culture to your advantage you have to play your cards in a smart way. Make yourself a name (make a cool html5 website promoting yourself as a professional). Make trendy silly things in javascript, post 'em to git
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Sadly, skills won't make any difference if you don't meet requirements for visa. You could take your time and get relevant degree though (anything CS related should work). Also you can play DV lottery. It's a small chance (1.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Start with researching visa laws. H1B is a very common way to come into US for work. EU has alternatives. Note that these visa require BS degree. As to what to write in your resume there are much better guides online than anything I'd
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by anonmeow 11y ago
The Moore's law has ended (doubling time has become longer than 2 years, and looks like 10nm-7nm will be the last manufacturing process for a long time). From now on we will see more special-purpose hardware.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
The same could be said about startups.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
When the civilization is confined to one small planet while hitting the physical limits to growth, the fixed pie is a good analogy. There is fixed and diminishing amount of arable land to grow the wheat and apples. You can make only so many
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Server CPUs have >2x memory channels when compared to consumer CPUs. IBM Power CPUs show that it's possible to get even more memory bandwidth than in mainstream Xeons. Looks like low RAM bandwidth in consumer CPUs is a mostly artifi
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by anonmeow 11y ago
If the PR is good this could create a positive public attitude towards life extension. You'd get more funding in the end.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
If governments and FDAs of the developed world were more cooperative it wouldn't happen this way. Startups don't have a billion dollars for FDA trials.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
There is a quite large database of genes that affect aging in model organisms: http://genomics.senescence.info/genes/stats.php In this database there are 126 mouse genes. It looks like (science funding) politics is the
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by anonmeow 11y ago
>In fact, there’s actually no such thing as big science; we should really be calling it big engineering. This is so true. Engineering is undervalued in comparison to science. It's easier to sell multi-billion project to the general
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by anonmeow 11y ago
>It's a really, really, really big sea of possibilities nowadays for developers. If you are in the silicon valley or at least in some 1st world country - sure, you have a lot of possibilities and ridiculously high pay. The sad truth
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by anonmeow 11y ago
You can 3d print a relatively decent actuated humanoid arm: http://www.thingiverse.com/search/page:1?q=inmoov&sa= looks quite disruptive compared to your average web-mobile-whatever intangible.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
The Diamond Age is a great book. Neal Stephenson is known for researching concepts he writes about, so the technology present in the setting is based on Drexler's thesis. I wouldn't call it "a dream" in a sense that it&#
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by anonmeow 11y ago
If someone is interested in real technical description of molecular manufacturing, you may read Eric Drexler's "Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing and Computation". Most parts of this book can be read on the auth
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by anonmeow 11y ago
The ribosome, DNA replication complex and ATP-synthase (and other complex enzymes) qualify as precise molecular manufacturing, if you relax the definition a little. Ribosomes are already being engineered, see expanded genetic code. How far
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by anonmeow 11y ago
It is entirely possible http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy5g33S0Gzo , but there is no market for a domestic robot. Not even for an AiBo. You see: poor people are accustomed to doing these chores by themselves, while the rich
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Given enough data and a good model (recurrent neural network can model arbitrary algorithms, for example) you can learn algorithmic regularities in data, including learning itself. There is a paper just about that: http://link.sp
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Small volume of mouse cortex is already successfully scanned at 3x3x20nm voxel resolution, with smallest synaptic details being visible http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674(15)00824-7 The tool is called ATLUM. The p
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by anonmeow 11y ago
If you want a hard science-fiction novel about digital humans you could read Greg Egan's Permutation City, it's a masterpiece.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
If someone can pay for these computing resources, why shouldn't he do it? Also there is no physical law that forbids cheap brain-scale computing. 1 exaflops could easily fit in less than 1 cm^3, given sufficiently advanced logic techno
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by anonmeow 11y ago
They should just call it copying/copies. The prospect of having your copy managing your assets could be desirable, for example.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Because brain is a highly nonlinear system, and these are hard to model. You cannot model every metabolic process in every neuron and astrocyte, you have to take computational shortcuts and use approximations. These approximations may have
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by anonmeow 11y ago
With modern ML techniques it looks feasible to recreate at least online behavior of an individual - facebook likes, comments etc. The datasets are here, in facebook/google datcenters, and DL models are already used to model conversatio
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by anonmeow 11y ago
This age won't come anytime soon in a world where hundreds of billions $ of capital are thrown into social-media-mobile-app economy.
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by anonmeow 11y ago
Enjoy your capitalism where people working in advertising and meaningless app businesses get huge sums of money while phd postdocs researching molecular biology (which is necessary to at least have a chance of finding a cure for cancer) are

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