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by arketyp 5y ago
Great lectures. He even manages to cover chaos theory. Philosophy students should look into this series for some biology orientation, in my humble opinion.
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Yes, weird depends. PG's point is, again, about finding new pockets of programming, not necessarily finding the best tool -- meta or not -- for a task at hand. Fine, everything is binary code in the end; it doesn't mean there aren
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by arketyp 5y ago
Smart here is used as an indicator of a language with unique powers. So it's more about what the engineer can do to expand his own mind, to get new perspectives.
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by arketyp 5y ago
I bet that's an effective job ad. I have no idea of the significance of this news. (But I'm glad to hear Erlang is/was still in use.)
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by arketyp 5y ago
I stumbled upon this theorem after trying to come up with a mapping of color space, RGB to RGB, where each color maps to a new one. (It was for a mouse cursor effect in a painting app.) I couldn't come up with one, and indeed it is imp
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by arketyp 5y ago
SQL queries make me anxious. I don't pretend to know what optmizations the compiler does to my C++ code, or the details of the cache, but at least I have a mental model of what goes on under the hood which reflects the ballpark algorit
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by arketyp 5y ago
I can't think of any better entry to programming than making games. You get the loop, the variables, conditionals, functions, and gradual sophistication grows organically. For kids, I would look for a programming language where making
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by arketyp 5y ago
An ostrich feather duster. People ridicule it for only spreading the dust around. That's the point! It spreads to the floor where it's eventually sucked up by the vacuum cleaner.
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by arketyp 5y ago
I wonder to what extent intra-language selection of synesthetic words occur along these lines when there are competing synonyms/alleles. Onomatopoetic words could be favored for instance, but also words that in written form look like
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by arketyp 5y ago
Maybe the universe exists precisely because it's indistinguishable from its own simulation. Maybe that's existence per se. Maybe self-reference is more fundamental than void. Likelihood arguments assume some kind of bottom level,
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by arketyp 5y ago
Ideally kids can now be creative at new levels, but the cynic in me also sees children simply not coming up with their own design anymore. Anyway, while I can certainly romanticize the tedious search for pieces and perhaps getting ideas in
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by arketyp 5y ago
Fair enough. Anecdotally though I've gone to the printer's and had problems expressing the binary/1-bit color conceptualization.
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by arketyp 5y ago
With binary I meant 1-bit pixels; in mspaint.exe this is called monochrome bitmap. I find the distinction convenient because one dimensional color can be called grayscale or black and white. Maybe 1-bit could be called black or white.
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by arketyp 5y ago
GLSL is a fun environment for image analysis. You get a sense of being close to the metal as in the good old days. Horrible code to debug though. By the way. For me, monochrome == binary.
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by arketyp 5y ago
>Calling them all "Black" is just reductionist and frankly racist. But you just said actual racists care about statistical groupings of traits. Seems then that the "anti-racists" would be more prone to that kind of re
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by arketyp 5y ago
That's a bit besides OP's point though, which is about vacuous claims. Humans are the existence proof that there is some sequence of circumstances where evolution reaches GI. There's an analogous sequence of circumstances in
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This is what has been called Deep Shading: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06078
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by arketyp 5y ago
Good point. But I wouldn't rule out neural networks. They could still be used to derive efficient shader models that can be run in real time. https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06078
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by arketyp 5y ago
I do the exact same thing. Usually parts are rotated by things which come in season or on sale. After a day's work I enjoy spacing out doing something predictable.
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by arketyp 5y ago
This reminds me of the "Based on a true story" in the Coen brothers' Fargo. Looked at as an artistic effect, these (non-)facts elevate the Spielberg movie by adding a meta twist. Makes it even better in my opinion.
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by arketyp 5y ago
Floating on the ocean catching waves.
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by arketyp 5y ago
Yeah, it's a Yogi-ism. It's a sign of our time though, isn't it? Expressing absolute certainty is almost sacrilegious these days. "I'm 9.99999...% sure."
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by arketyp 6y ago
>A big new part of the book is that Hawkins and collaborators now have more refined ideas about exactly what learning algorithm the neocortex is running. [...] I’m going to skip it. And so did Hawkins, in large measures. Hawkins believes
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by arketyp 6y ago
Though I sympathize with your concerns, maybe that attitude is part of the problem? Why do you expect anyone else to have a vision for you/us?
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Everyone should at least try. It's part of being a decent human being.
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> I don't think technological progress can be stopped but economist, politicians and sociologist need to really step up and provide a meaningful future vision. No thanks! Providing a meaningful future vision is a task for each and e
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Someone needs to put a GAN on this.
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>Looking back, I feel like this trend of less aesthetic configurability has diminished the sense of user ownership from the computer experience, part of the general trend of the death of “personal computing”. This, and end of story. What
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by arketyp 6y ago
They mention SIMD support, but It's unclear to me in what capacity the GPU is leveraged. The hair segmentation example on the MediaPipe webpage suggests it's evaluating the graph on the GPU though.
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by arketyp 6y ago
"* Improved: [in_mod] OpenMPT-based Module Player (replaces old MikMod player)" The new plugin is not configurable. This is a shame, as I like to listen to my chiptunes without interpolation for instance. Hope this changes for the

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