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by arketyp 8y ago
Sure. But if fidelity to C style was not a concern then I don't see why the '==' syntax was adopted in the first place.
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by arketyp 8y ago
How so? Syntactically, or from a pragmatic point of view?
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by arketyp 8y ago
I feel the colon is unnecessary, especially considering how C deals with this. A plain '=' inside a conditional is already invalid syntax in Python.
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by arketyp 8y ago
>You could argue everything above machine language is syntactic sugar. The sugar is sprinkled on top of syntax, the stuff the parser deals with. Typing a += 1 instead of a = a + 1 is sugar because it parses the same. This assignment synt
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by arketyp 8y ago
Indeed. Here is a recent realization of those ideas by him and his team: https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJWLfGWRb
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by arketyp 8y ago
I dream of a passively cool stationary machine with a heat sink case that is essentially a Menger sponge. For maximizing the surface/volume ratio.
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by arketyp 8y ago
I always thougth the point of those cages was to keep the wheel in its steady angle, but it seems it's rather the opposite -- to spread the angle around. I think you're observation is right, and I suppose that's the compromis
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by arketyp 8y ago
And if there is any gene the causes babies to cry when they are in an exposed situation, preventing it from being snatched by a predator or bit by a nasty bug, it too would propagate. Not sure if you were making a prediction though. Tightly
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by arketyp 8y ago
A serendipitous typo though, putting emphasis on the parallellism. It's the same prefix anyway.
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by arketyp 9y ago
"Sparse Distributed Memory" is a lovely book by Pentti Kanerva in which he hypothesizes that high dimensional binary vectors (hypervectors) is key to understanding human memory and cognition. To a large part Kanerva is concerned w
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by arketyp 9y ago
I think this is to the point. The senior names will help propagate the news. Due recognition will follow; those who have influence will look further than the NYT.
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by arketyp 9y ago
MSPaint had some hidden treasures. The first thing I tried was the right-click-while-drawing-cancel feature. Alas. Love seeing the old graphics however.
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by arketyp 9y ago
This adds a new dimension to the chai latte as a token of globalization. Breaking borders.
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by arketyp 9y ago
I did some work [1] on constrained Delaunay triangulations similar to this where visually important, and constrained, edges were automatically determined by Laplace-like filters. [1] https://femtondev.wordpress.com/
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by arketyp 9y ago
What's the difference if it's proportional in the end anyway? Then some Belieber is paying your favorite artist in return.
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by arketyp 9y ago
I sympathize with this being in a similar professional situation and having once been introduced to this field via Hofstadter. His musings are usually on a distinctly symbolic level however, and though it is not my intention to defend a kin
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by arketyp 9y ago
Out of curiousity given your seemingly strong sentiments, what is your background and what authors/researchers would you say have influenced your thinking the most?
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by arketyp 9y ago
That's brilliant. With phones getting thinner this would feel even more natural. It would probably allow for better tactile feedback technologies as well, and even thinner devices.
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by arketyp 9y ago
Throwing out the selfie cam, now that would have been a compromise and a move in the spirit of Jobs. Think different.
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by arketyp 9y ago
Unsupervised and on-line learning has to be figured out first (perhaps by finally abandoning backprop methods, perhaps by finding some hybrid approaches); after that, I look forward to seeing veritable reinforcement learning and creature-li
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by arketyp 9y ago
Robert Axelrod's The Evolution of Cooperation is a good starting point.
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by arketyp 9y ago
I feel that name has got to be a double entendre.
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by arketyp 9y ago
Yeah, they're ordered like the flow of text. Took me a while.
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by arketyp 9y ago
I think the somatic marker hypothesis is relevant to what you're describing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_marker_hypothesis These managerial decisions have, by their very functional nature, a heavier body
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by arketyp 9y ago
>This kind of "glitch" was formative for a lot of slow motion in films. I like that, that's a fantastic idea. Are you referring to something in particular? I remember this effect from childhood gaming, back when you could
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by arketyp 9y ago
Looks like the Rock Paper Scissor cellular automaton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lt9ihcg-bZc
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by arketyp 9y ago
You know, I'm even fond of the quirky keyboard layout, in the end. I will dearly be missing the backspace/delete combo once I upgrade.
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by arketyp 9y ago
Back in the Dileep George days Numenta sought mathematical support for their theory in a Bayesian approach à la Judea Pearl. But I don't think they ever had any illusions that the brain explicitly performs statistical calculations. Haw
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by arketyp 9y ago
Remarkable similarity between the '39/'40 logo and the logo of the Swedish wooden toy company BRIO used until quite recently: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_BRIO.svg
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by arketyp 9y ago
My apprehension was that the computer vision community has been suffering some serious cognitive dissonance lately because here they spent all these years mapping problems to feature spaces of manageable dimensionality, backed by theory say

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