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16411.
by api 16y ago
That's sort of like "problems in space elevator design" or "problems in cryogenic preservation of near-death human beings." It's a field so advanced and hard that it's a barrel of fish when it comes to open problems.
16412.
by api 16y ago
This is an awesome project to look at to learn how to write a JIT. BF is simple enough that it's easy to see what's going on. Learning is silly and useless?
16413.
by api 16y ago
Actually the point I was making is that people routinely do the opposite. They confuse asshole with tough .
16414.
by api 16y ago
I remember reading a paper a long time ago about traffic engineering. It turns out that when there's a traffic problem you have three choices more or less: 1) Add something 2) Change something 3) Remove something The paper talked about how
16415.
by api 16y ago
I've read that, and that's much, much better. I went back and re-read the blog post, and I can sort of see how I might have been misinterpreting it a little. But I still dislike "toughness," and I think using that term invites the sort of m
16416.
by api 16y ago
Elaborate about "toughness" then. Maybe it could be a good essay topic. Toughness is such an opaque term... to continue with your analogy, I'm sure "strength" is a deciding factor in successful mountain climbers. But that's so coarse graine
16417.
by api 16y ago
This is really the great insight of science: the irrelevance of social status as a determinant of truth. Science was all about replacing mammalian hierarchy games with observation, experiment, and reason in determining the truth. People don
16418.
by api 16y ago
"We call it grit: when the going gets tough, a person's tendency to grit their teeth and keep going." Startups (and other intellectual and business ventures) are not sports though. This is a double-edged sword. Sometimes "grit" means that
16419.
by api 16y ago
"There's nothing worse than a motivated idiot." - German saying
16420.
by api 16y ago
"More than just the quality, I was amazed by the toughness of the founders. These guys (and gals) were not the young, sheepish, technical founders you’d expect. These guys are operators – savvy, confident, operators." Stereotype much? In
16421.
by api 16y ago
A leader is supposed to be someone who has gotten very good at doing something and now leads it. The problem is that we've created this parallel track called "business" that has separated leadership from any practical experience. There are
16422.
by api 16y ago
There sure is nanotech. It's called biology, and it's five billion years old.
16423.
by api 16y ago
The "two bay areas" still dominate, though Illinois was interesting.
16424.
by api 16y ago
Yeah, true, but I still predict the creationists will be all over it. But you could add much wider error bars to carbon dating and it still wouldn't support creationism. Maybe something 20 million years old is just 7 million. Fine. It's not
16425.
by api 16y ago
Startups are stepping stones. Where I grew up in Ohio, there were two kinds of jobs: entry level jobs that paid nothing, and jobs for older people and experienced professionals that paid well. There was nothing in between. If your city has
16426.
by api 16y ago
OMGWTFBBQ THIS is making headlines about Internet innovation? Is the net over?
16427.
by api 16y ago
The average IQ is 100.
16428.
by api 16y ago
"Methinks you doth protest too much..."
16429.
by api 16y ago
Isn't this just the revenge of the analog computer? Not saying it's a bad idea... I'm really for the idea of revisiting assumptions in computer design.
16430.
by api 16y ago
Could be. It sounds like I'm making a new-agey argument against reductionism, but I'm not. What I'm arguing against is overzealous reductionism... the idea that you can get a grainy image of something and quantize it and you're done. You mi
16431.
by api 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie What if the background stuff that you neglect from your model is where all the interesting stuff happens? Some people see the philosophical zombie as an argument against consciousness bein
16432.
by api 16y ago
You're confusing literal translation with development. Here's a very loose conceptual analogy: Translation: translating Lord of the Rings into Chinese. Development: hearing a short plot synopsis of Lord of the Rings and writing your own fan
16433.
by api 16y ago
Where that falls down is that it fails to consider limits. Exponential growth cannot continue forever. At some point, something will limit it. It may be a physical limit, a supply-side resource limit, or an economic demand limit, but there
16434.
by api 16y ago
You may be right about that, and I don't think the quantum point is essential to what I wrote above. But... I do tend to sympathize with the minority view here. The problem is that I don't think the majority are looking at the complete syst
16435.
by api 16y ago
Totally different thing. The java program encodes each decision and computation that it performs directly.
16436.
by api 16y ago
That's what's so beautiful and elegant about it. When "executed" it evolves, so it maintains itself.
16437.
by api 16y ago
This is quite correct. The real problem with JavaSchools is the lack of higher-level concept exposure... things like higher mathematics, machine learning, combinatorics, really deep algorithm analysis, etc. We all have supercomputers on our
16438.
by api 16y ago
"DNA can encode everything the brain does with N bits of information" It doesn't directly encode the structure of the brain. Development is required. "Involved" is a serious weasel word when it comes to the brain, especially when AI is u
16439.
by api 16y ago
You're right. It's a software problem and a hardware problem. Our hardware is not up to the task, and even if it was we wouldn't know how to program it. Evolutionary computation and non-von-Neumann architectures such as stochastic data flow
16440.
by api 16y ago
#!/usr/bin/ruby vapid_pronouncement = "#{dictionary.get_noun} is dead."

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