arvinjoar

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by arvinjoar 10y ago
All it takes is an Olof Palme... :P
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
How many SV angels can balance on a pinhead?
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what are some of these new facts about the world you've learned? I'm in my early/mid twenties and I've suddenly become disillusioned with a whole slew of things, and disgusted by things that didn't
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
Wow, this is ridiculously imprecise. As people here have already pointed out, "jordgubbe" is the commonly used word for "strawberry" in Swedish. This is a "smultron": https://upload.wikimedia.org&#x2
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
compare market cap to assets
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
I've been thinking about that quote from time to time for a while now, and what strikes me is that his generalization does sound very plausible, but we have to remember that his experience is from a very specific context. To me it seem
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by arvinjoar 10y ago
n=80 is actually not bad, if that's what you're implying. There are a lot of studies that are n=30 since that's the rule of thumb most follow.
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
I've spent countless hours creating botting frameworks/bots as well as client features for the Haven & Hearth client ( http://www.havenandhearth.com/portal/ ). The vanilla client is open source and pretty s
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The Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think(theatlantic.com)
3 points by arvinjoar 11y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft Neural Net Shows Deep Learning Can Get Way Deeper(wired.com)
4 points by arvinjoar 11y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
A bit of a nitpick (but I guess that's the HN spirit)? Just different levels of abstraction. The dream would be to be able to put all these levels of abstractions together, and have good mappings between them. Basically, I think you&#x
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
Probably http://flyclops.com/games/domino.html (looked through his HN description)
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
It's interesting that the comparison of the Gini coefficient between Sweden and the United States wasn't mentioned as one of Ezra's errors. Since, as far as I can tell, PG is talking about wealth disparity, generally, in his
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
Can you point me to, let's say, three of these studies?
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Metaphors Are Us by Robert Sapolsky(nautil.us)
1 points by arvinjoar 11y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
Here's a Radiolab segment about it (CRISPR) if anyone is interested: http://www.radiolab.org/story/antibodies-part-1-crispr/ I highly recommend listening to it
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
Cue blog post by Scott Aaronson, will be interesting to hear his take on this.
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
And not to forget, OS X, which still has significant market share (>5% of desktops/laptops) and is based on Unix (albeit XNU stands for X is not Unix). Looking at wikipedia, it still seems like a majority of web web clients are wi
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by arvinjoar 11y ago
Many filters aren't that sophisticated, it might just have been a single word that tripped it up. I remember "hackaday" being blocked at my High School because it was tagged as a "hacking website" by the filter.
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Google plans to build cities, experiment with social rules(afr.com)
1 points by arvinjoar 11y ago|0 comments
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Stanford engineers aim to connect the world with ant-sized radios(news.stanford.edu)
1 points by arvinjoar 11y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
On the same theme, Bret Easton Ellis [BEE] has been a vocal critic of what he has termed "Generation Wuss" and "Outrage Culture"[1][2]. BEE is obviously trying to be provocative, which might get some people to dismiss hi
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
I highly recommend this radiolab episode about it: http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/ for the story-telling if nothing else. :)
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Scott Aaronson – Comment 171(scottaaronson.com)
7 points by arvinjoar 12y ago|0 comments
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
Very cool as a pedagogic tool! The turtle example is also featured in Hackety Hack[1] which is supposed to teach kids about programming as well. [1] http://www.hackety.com/lessons/an-introduction-to-programmin...
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
Hm? "I think this was a huge step in the right direction." I guess what I am arguing is, that if there's any fair test, it has to be practical and not metaphysical, that's why I think the Turing Test is a step in the r
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
Seems to be critiquing the claim that this is "groundbreaking" and not much else. Nice to get some further context though. :)
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
You're essentially saying what I was saying. That Turing tried to throw metaphysics out of the window in favor of a practical approach (behavior-based = fooling a human). As for public perception of consciousness or "thinking&quot
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
I've got so much respect for Nautilus for their choice of content, they seem to make things that might seem hard quite approachable without dumbing it down. Off-topic: Their choice of navigation design for this multi-video interview wa
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by arvinjoar 12y ago
Yeah well, context is king. The aim of the Turing Test is to say that judging machines based on their internal structures isn't very fair, since that's not how we judge humans. There's no real way of knowing about other peopl

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