armitron

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by armitron 10y ago
It's a lot harder to hide biases in code than you assume. Even if that takes place, code can be updated and those biases can be removed, easily . If they're not removed, at least we know what they are. Can you do the same with th
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by armitron 10y ago
This is obviously entirely false if one takes "genius" to mean someone who does things a non-genius would not be able to do. There have been attempts in recent years to roll back and debase the definition of genius to be more comp
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by armitron 10y ago
Making proclamations based on assumptions and projections without having any practical experience is foolish, and this is exactly what your post illustrates I feel. You assume Lisp macros make Lisp code hard to read because you project and
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by armitron 10y ago
Not by a long shot, Emacs Lisp is the most widely used Lisp dialect, by far. Clojure isn't even close.
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by armitron 10y ago
Hacking [breaking boundaries, making the seemingly impossible possible by pure force of will] is the archetypal example of this. Obviously, the discipline is not new and has been present for thousands of years, any sort of artistic/cre
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by armitron 10y ago
This is what hacking really is about. The discipline has nothing to do with computers and can be applied to everything. Those who are fixated on the technical aspects of the show are missing the elephant in the room.
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by armitron 10y ago
The brilliance of the show is that it portrays dissociative disorders in an extremely realistic fashion. If you didn't identify with that, then you're obviously not part of the subculture that the show portrays and is really made
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by armitron 10y ago
Unless you are projecting your own subjective mental map onto others which is what parent did with his proclamations. His definition of meaning is a popular one that stems mostly from "consensus reality" but it, as you and virmund
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by armitron 10y ago
Many reasons. Smoking coats the lungs with a layer of tar and heavy, chronic smokers have coated their lungs to such an extent where there is drastically reduced lung area in contact with the environment (and irritants/allergens). The
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by armitron 10y ago
Even if we assume that all the parts are present and connected (not clear), surely having 90% reduced neural availability would lead to observable defects (e.g. psychosis, dissociative disorders/schizophrenia) if the neurons were dir
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by armitron 10y ago
It is not at all certain that other animals do not develop consciousness. John C. Lilly's work with dolphins for instance points to a different conclusion. There are also other animals (parrots, elephants, various apes) that are widely
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by armitron 10y ago
It certainly challenges theories of consciousness that point to specific parts of the brain as responsible for the phenomenon. Same for theories of consciousness that point outside the brain or ones that look at consciousness as somethi
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by armitron 10y ago
You should check out what Alan Kay has to say about Tim Berners Lee (amateur) and the Web (disaster) in general before putting people on pedestals and worshipping them.
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by armitron 10y ago
Yes and this will without a doubt take place too. In fact, some would say it's already happening. My point is that the process, if we might call it that, will be osmotic and not discrete. Of course there is also the notion of people be
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by armitron 10y ago
Only because your mental map is old, archaic and will not allow you to see things any other way. So what is the right course according to you? Do we set an artificial threshold at some point in the future, where these jobs will be swapped t
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by armitron 10y ago
This is a very superficial point-of-view. What matters here is the concept itself (deep learning as a generic technique) but also scalability . Not the specifics that we have today, but the specifics that we will have 20 years from now.
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by armitron 10y ago
Terrible post, worst I've read today by far. Not only does the author completely NOT understand why the GIL is a problem, but he also misunderstands asynchronicity which is hilarious given his recommendations.
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by armitron 10y ago
Entirely content-free post. Click-bait most likely.
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by armitron 10y ago
Going through life together, trying to achieve shared goals. Why does everything have to be about children?
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by armitron 10y ago
It's a partnership that works on multiple levels. Not some disney fairy tale about unmake-able promises.
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by armitron 10y ago
This your (naive and/or totally fucked up) idea of marriage, certainly not what marriage is for the vast majority (i dare say) of the population.
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by armitron 10y ago
I totally do not understand the reason for starfighters existing. Who is it aimed at? Mediocre engineers? Those targeting hedge funds? First of all, as a boss, I would never hire someone from starfighters without an additional interview. T
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by armitron 10y ago
An example (QUANTUM) that became public with Snowden revelations, that is also very old by now (so who knows what their current capabilities are) gives NSA the ability to on-demand MITM ANYONE they wish with a minimum of effort. This is j
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by armitron 10y ago
It's great to see Pharo improving, it has tremendous potential. I think the groundbreaking changes in terms of immediate appeal will come in Pharo 6 (new widgets Brick/Bloc, faster graphics with SDL, better font rendering and so o
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by armitron 10y ago
http://github.com/atomontage/xterm-color
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by armitron 10y ago
The correct assumption to make in this case would be that the dice is loaded. Same decision, different reasoning.
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by armitron 11y ago
Given how much focus he places on code generation and metaprogramming it's ASTounding that there is not a single reference to Lisp to be found in that wall of text. I agree with a lot of what he says, but his total ignorance (must be
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by armitron 11y ago
Or you could have separate virtual address spaces for kernel / userland.
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by armitron 11y ago
This looks terribly overcomplicated/overengineered to me, to the point where I doubt many are going to adopt/switch to this style, esp when used to more convenient approaches [even the standard C++ approach, faulty as it may be].
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by armitron 11y ago
Not at all, SMP opens a huge can of worms both for userland and kernel security. Suddenly you have all sorts of weird race conditions to deal with and in some kernels ( cough XNU) logic bugs that stem directly from how kernel subsystems

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