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by axilmar 12y ago
I do not think that there can be a Grandfather Paradox. If one goes back in time, he/she will simply be removed from the state of the universe as it is now and be added to the state of the universe at the target past date. He/she
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by axilmar 12y ago
You seem to have not understood what I said. I did not say time travel would replicate anything. You would simply be transferred to the past, without any connection to the outcome of that past. I.e. Let's say that you are transferred b
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by axilmar 12y ago
If time travel exists, then it cannot be a simple rewind of the universe's tape. Because if that was the case, then rewinding the tape to a time that your father was not born would mean that you will also not be born, and thus there wo
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by axilmar 12y ago
Has this sort of mega-simulation envisioned at the end of part 3 materialized yet? I don't think so. Why? is there no interest in it or the technology isn't there yet?
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by axilmar 12y ago
Absolutely true. Students shouldn't be forced to memorize facts, they should be encouraged to memorize those facts are that are necessary for problem solving and pattern recognition.
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by axilmar 12y ago
My opinion is that having a long queue, possibly longer than any of the competitors' queues is more important for the owners than a few more bucks, especially in the long run. Amongst their peers, chefs are more interested about their
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by axilmar 12y ago
I do not think that it is possible. Any physical system that can be described by a set of mathematical laws is bound to have some axioms that simply cannot be proven within its context. Godel's incompleteness theorems prove that. Hence
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by axilmar 12y ago
The first paragraph of the article says: "Physicists have devised a way to take pictures using light that has not interacted with the object being photographed." Then in another paragraph it says: "In the first path, one phot
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by axilmar 12y ago
We don't have two days of rest. On Saturday we need to go shopping for the rest of the week in the morning, in the afternoon we must prepare the family for the night out, and in the evening we must take care of the family as they are o
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by axilmar 12y ago
If only parents taught their children to behave in a civil way, bullying wouldn't exist in schools. In the modern society, parents do not pay enough attention to their children, and so the children grow up without learning how to behav
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by axilmar 12y ago
If we can have a common time between two points in space, even if for point A the time is corrected with relativity, doesn't that mean that we can have a common time for the universe? i.e. in other words, simultaneity is real for any t
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by axilmar 12y ago
Given the following: 1) the psychological pressure put on Brazil's players to win the cup in their home turf by their local fans, worldwide fans, media and history of the team. 2) the injury of their most valuable offensive player. 3)
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by axilmar 12y ago
Nice, but they didn't follow their advice in the case of creating parent-less widgets up to Qt4. I.e. in Qt3 and previous versions, creating a parent-less widget resulted in a window frame being created. Why was that? If I am creating
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by axilmar 12y ago
Aren't algorithms like Shor's essentially faster than others in their respected categories due to parallelization? I.e. isn't quantum superposition just a form of parallelization? if the quantum step in Shor's algorithm
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by axilmar 12y ago
Neither debug logging nor any other unique system resource has to be passed as a singleton. All that is needed is the appropriate ApplicationContext structure to be passed to each object that needs these facilities, and the ApplicationConte
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by axilmar 12y ago
Not really. The term "complete replacement" does not refer to the implementation details, but to the features the language provides. It's quite possible not only to offer a complete C++ replacement but to also substantially i
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by axilmar 12y ago
It seems like the best of both worlds. I'd really like to buy one of these devices. I really do need a laptop and a tablet with me, depending on the use case.
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by axilmar 12y ago
What was really impressive in the arcades was not Dragons Lair but Ms Pacman and scoring over 600,000 points. I've seen some guys doing it and they kept eating all of the ghosts on power pill touch over and over. That's one of the
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by axilmar 13y ago
So destroying Switzerland is as easy as pretending to invade it. You just have to wait until they blow up their country, then land on their government's parliament building and take over.
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by axilmar 13y ago
After it is sold, I'll download it from the usual 0-day torrent sites :-).
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by axilmar 13y ago
> If you don't at all know what you're doing, you're gonna fail every time, anywhere. Not really. In programming, most of the time you think you know what you are doing but you really don't remember all the states and
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by axilmar 13y ago
> if you know what you're doing So it's 9 times of ten if you know what you are doing, which is hardly the most often case.
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by axilmar 13y ago
> Completely agree. 9 times out 10, something compiles and works as expected, and can stay working in production for years. I don't know of any other language where I can do this and keep developing (and prototyping) the codebase. H
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by axilmar 13y ago
It may seem like a large amount of memory today, but it may not be for tomorrow, just like 4 GB main ram seemed a huge amount of memory 30 years ago.
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by axilmar 13y ago
It's so nice you immediately want to go pool diving.
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by axilmar 13y ago
> Andrew Ng, who worked or works on Google’s AI, has said that he believes learning comes from a single algorithm - the part of your brain that processes input from your ears is also capable of learning to process input from your eyes. I
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by axilmar 13y ago
It all depends on the domain. In defense applications, software development methodologies work excellently. For example, MIL-STD-498, which I've used extensively in the previous decade, has worked wonders.
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by axilmar 13y ago
The way intelligence works, in my opinion, is this: 1) experiences are stored in the brain. Experiences contain inputs from the 5 senses as well as the sense of danger/satisfaction at that point. 2) at each given moment, the brain take
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by axilmar 13y ago
For that to happen the AI needs to be pointed to what is a cat. Children know cats by mimicking adults who point out the objects to them.
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by axilmar 13y ago
Actually, in order to write an app that runs on both desktop and mobile platforms, you shouldn't mess with visual elements at all. You should just tell the UI layer to display your data/commands/options, and let the UI layer

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