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Lockheed Martin's Compact Fusion Project(lockheedmartin.com)
6 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
I spent a long time playing with genetic programming systems a number of years ago, and started to get an intuition for evolution and how it "thinks." It can be thought of as an alien form of intelligence. It "learns" an
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by api 12y ago
It's best to throw out all these value judgements. Evolution isn't purely random. There's nothing random about what works and what doesn't. Over time, differential selection and other effects (e.g. sexual selection) work
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by api 12y ago
A good but limited analogy. It's important to remember one critical detail: DNA is "executed" in a massively parallel and stochastic fashion. Everything happens at once, all the state is analog, and everything interacts liber
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by api 12y ago
"But this interpretation doesn't fit with the usual men-are-egotistical-narcissists-compared-to-women. So pay this comment no mind." I'm just reporting the patterns I saw. That's all. I wouldn't say "egoti
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by api 12y ago
I have often worked alone, but not always. I've never worked in a pair programming shop, and I would probably find it distracting for anything but debugging or syncing up. The trouble is that complex programming tasks usually have the
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by api 12y ago
Good. Free as in freedom does not necessarily mean free as in beer, nor does it mean you can just steal peoples' work without credit. OSS does not mean "public domain" unless that's explicitly stated.
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by api 12y ago
Those exist too. It's possible to be really good at something but to be so awful at everything else that the net effect is zero to negative. But not all "10X developers" are assholes.
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by api 12y ago
You're missing one final problem: it's easy for a bad developer to talk themselves up.
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by api 12y ago
There's lots of possibilities. It's really hard to tell whether any of these things are cultural or come from actual gender dimorphism (to use the technical biological term). Ultimately it doesn't matter if they are irrelevan
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by api 12y ago
Yes. Edited. It depends on the context of course. If it was your project alone, then you did it. If others contributed non-trivial amounts, it was a team effort. I noted that the males tended to bury that, while the females tended to highli
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by api 12y ago
"And it may be that it intimidates more women than men." I've been looking around for a developer recently, and in looking at the profiles of women vs. men at places like AngelList I noticed a few key differences in how they
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by api 12y ago
Hacker News: where a very human story of empathy and healing immediately turns into a discussion of what this can tell us about the brain's computational architecture.
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by api 12y ago
Just the title of this is along the lines of "check if the crocodile is real or plastic before sticking your head in its mouth."
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by api 12y ago
I'm too busy to disrupt the hater market. Anyone else is free to take that idea.
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by api 12y ago
If I had a dolla' for every similar throwaway comment about my own project, I would not need any funding. Hey, maybe this can be a new startup funding mechanism. I propose "haterade.io", a betting pool where you can bet that
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by api 12y ago
http://beforeitsnews.com/paranormal/2014/05/slenderman-proof... Have fun.
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by api 12y ago
Some Java code is rather remarkable for longevity. I also expect the core Unix and GNU tools to still be in use for decades at the least. The Linux kernel will also probably still be around in some form.
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by api 12y ago
This is one of the familiar "cycles of reincarnation" in software: main frame vs. local PC. First there was the main frame, with the "PC" being a dumb terminal used to access it. Then came the PC revolution, which put ev
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by api 12y ago
Sure, predictions are hard. We often get them wrong on the upside (over-hype) and the downside. As a result, "AI isn't going to happen" really is not a good argument against discussing the potential risks of it. (... and I sa
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by api 12y ago
He's too high profile to 'just disappear.' He would almost certainly face charges.
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by api 12y ago
I can easily create a Windows or Linux desktop machine in the cloud at Digital Ocean or Vultr.com for very little money and access it with rdesktop and/or a VPN. Amazon has a slightly more "enterprise" desktop-in-cloud offeri
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by api 12y ago
Well the NSA does employ more cryptographers than anyone else in the world, so that's kind of logical.
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by api 12y ago
Those require a fission trigger and have existed for a long time. The proliferation nightmare would be if we could figure out how to build one that didn't need fission, but I have never heard even a hint of success with that. If there
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by api 12y ago
Curious for a reference on fusion bombs. If you are referring to laser inertial, that takes buildings full of lasers.
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by api 12y ago
This is the problem with smart people. Here we have absolutely tangible existential threats like fossil fuel depletion and die off, and here we are fretting about aliens and AI-- two things not even proven to exist.
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Did YC Just Start a Campaign to License and Regulate CS Research?(adamierymenko.com)
2 points by api 12y ago|0 comments
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by api 12y ago
"This has basically the highest insanity * prominence of speaker product I've ever seen." (I edited this post to remove my shock-induced LULZ and other flapdoodle and concentrate on the important stuff.) The more I re-read th
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by api 12y ago
Okay. I hate to say this and I hate to put it this way but... WUT? How exactly do we define this kind of research in a way that doesn't encompass ridiculously broad swaths of computer science research? Here's one example: "
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by api 12y ago
My point was pretty general -- that there are multiple overlapping mechanisms at work, and some poorly understood. People often have this really simple flat "survival of the fittest" view of evolution, and that isn't accurate

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