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by avivo 11y ago
It would be fascinating to see if there is a correlation between potential signal strength of an external attacker, and votes for a particular candidate. This seems like the only good way to see at this point if there was any tampering by a
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by avivo 11y ago
I wonder if it would be useful to run emacs within a browser based editor like Atom. It even seems plausible to be able to seamlessly switch editors "containers" for particular operations without even leaving a file (using the edi
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by avivo 11y ago
I believe that the last time I tried running emacs in my browser, keyboard shortcuts didn't work well. With this they work flawlessly! It's also perfectly performant on desktop (chrome with os x, air 2013), though still unusably s
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by avivo 11y ago
Ideally, you could even have console demos "embedded" within the presentation itself, perhaps even multiple consoles in order to show how changing state in one system affects another system. You would need to set up gotty ahead o
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by avivo 11y ago
I'd guess there have been attempts to do something like this in most fields, and this is one of the few that worked. Why? One hint may be in http://plato.stanford.edu/info.html#policies "Contributions to the Encyc
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by avivo 11y ago
This is a fascinating example of the academic status quo being incentivized into creating valuable freely accessible knowledge. I'm curious how being invited or accepted to write an article on topic affects academic prestige and tenure
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by avivo 11y ago
What I thought this was, and what would be fascinating, is a tool that you give both the post and context, and it predicts the response and posts it at the ideal time. This could work by training an ML algorithm over the reddit corpus (espe
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by avivo 11y ago
I think it's a little more complicated than that. Would selling nuclear weapons to african despots kill the customers of of a mexican drug cartel? That said - I agree that lone wolves may be a much worse problem, especially in the long
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by avivo 11y ago
Scary stuff. Not because of the reasons cited in the article -- but because I hadn't previously realized that drug cartels have obvious incentives to invest in synthetic biology expertise. That sort of capability can later be directed
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by avivo 11y ago
That said, once you can automate this stuff, there are new types of policies you can make which would be too complicated otherwise, and that is a place where we can unwittingly innovate into new ways of hurting people . On the other hand,
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by avivo 11y ago
Exactly this. I often describe programming as creating tiny bureaucracies . You put some information into a "form" (e.g. a search bar). The front desk bureaucrat (mouse, keyboard, screen, etc.) sends it off to other bureaucrats a
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by avivo 11y ago
To expand a bit - in the car selling example, it's an information asymmetry, known and ignored by the seller. In the slot example, it's an "information-computation asymmetry" - the slot machine literally knows how you th
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by avivo 11y ago
I would add a caveat though that in some cases the addiction itself is a form of value. Broccoli that is as addictive as chocolate might be more inherently valuable than normal broccoli - since consumers of it are more likely to keep eating
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by avivo 11y ago
The moral problem may be when the value provided does not match the cost (in this case to the slot user). Just because a slot machine is able to rewire some neural circuitry in the user so that he thinks the value matched the cost...d
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by avivo 11y ago
https://sandstorm.io/ is working toward much (if not all!) of that vision.
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by avivo 12y ago
I can't tell from the description if the indexing is local or in the cloud. If cloud, then it's perhaps pretty similar to what Greplin/Cue was. (and involves giving another company all your data for their cloud...though it al
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by avivo 12y ago
That's a great point. I would love to see a modern lay persons guide to "How Congress Really Works", taking that dynamic fully into account. For something almost up to date, though closer to a set of high quality essays, I re
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by avivo 12y ago
Regardless of verifiability of the author, this seems like an excellent list of problems with congress. I've seen ~ all of these elsewhere from more clearly authoritative sources. It seems much interesting and useful to focus on the me
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by avivo 12y ago
Would one potential solution be to create a secondary optional gatekeeper? The basic idea would be - don't submit directly. First submit to the community gatekeepers, they will look over your work, and if they think it will meet approv
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by avivo 12y ago
I thought the ethnic/income quota was very surprising and did some more research. If others are curious, here is the Singapore "Housing and Development Board" website that spells out the details and through which you apply f
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by avivo 12y ago
This poses some interesting questions. Brushing away a lot of (critical) detail... - What is the range of efficiency across the glial cells of different humans? - Assuming meaningful variance, can we perhaps transplant "better" gl
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by avivo 12y ago
That link is great! Watching the page gives you a much more visceral sense of how wikipedia actually works, and ~all the things in the world that people might care about. Click "about" to read the key. (e.g. purple blobs are bots)
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by avivo 12y ago
I'd like to see more of a potential plan here - otherwise I'm afraid that making a drug un-patentable would make it /less/ likely that it goes to market. I believe I've seen evidence of exactly that happening as mar
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by avivo 12y ago
It is true that environment (and other non-intrinsic factors) have a huge effect on how much value a person adds to a company (or community, or friendship). I've definitely experienced this variance personally. That said, if I had my p
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by avivo 12y ago
These are good points. However, one of the main things that I've seen drive people from programming is frustration. Not just with setup tools but with their own code. So I would add ineffective "error handling" as one of the
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by avivo 12y ago
This is very clever idea. But why just look at negative predictions? We've also made so many steps toward utopia, and sometime utopian patterns are deeply linked to the dystopian patterns. (e.g. elimination of crime and ubiquitous surv
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by avivo 12y ago
This seems particularly useful for very small touch screens, assuming you can comfortably hold the device without miss-clicks. Perhaps a smart watch could even have its screen on one side of your wrist, and a "touchpad" on the oth
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by avivo 13y ago
I'm really excited that this is now public! Congrats to Manu, Jim, et al. FYI, a paper with technical details is available here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1403.1211.pdf
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by avivo 13y ago
I understand where this perspective is coming from - I could have thought the same thing when I first heard about it - but in this case it's definitely not vapourware. I have designed, cut, and built foldscopes, and I can confirm that
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by avivo 13y ago
There is a series of events this fall in SF based on this book. Details at http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2000615601 (organized by the San Francisco Public Library, but involving many other orgs) Everything from book discuss

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