benrbray

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by benrbray 6y ago
The answer is simple: electricity is a prerequisite to artificial intelligence, and fire was necessary to provide us with the nutrition we needed to harness the power of electricity.
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by benrbray 6y ago
If you're the kind of person who wants to play the entire PlayStation catalog, I can see the value. For me, I paid for PS plus just to play Battlefield One. I downloaded the plus games every month (when I remembered to) and most of t
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by benrbray 6y ago
I feel this way about machine learning. Back when I was a high school student around 2010-2011, I really fell in love with classical AI and classical NLP, which led me to focus on these topics in college. By the time I graduated in 2017, d
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by benrbray 6y ago
The hard part about this isn't the crypto, it's the coordination between game companies on how to store and render assets.
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by benrbray 6y ago
> The advisor doesn’t pull them through the program; the student pushes and the advisor guides. I think we are in agreement about the role of an advisor, but I sense that maybe we disagree about how active a role the advisor can be expec
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think you are perhaps downplaying the role that mentorship and collaboration can play in one's career. All of the most successful graduate students I know are very driven, yes, but they also, more often than not, have an advisor who
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think this is part of why many people stick with Electron instead of Qt in the first place. Nevertheless, a really cool idea. I will jump ship from Electron as soon as the first viable alternative emerges. However I haven't yet se
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by benrbray 6y ago
> "Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics" by Wisdom and Sussman I come across this book every so often and find it really tough to read due to the complete lack of "types" in any of the code. Math, espe
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by benrbray 6y ago
Since VS Code is open-source under an MIT license, it's hard to complain! I'm glad to be using a single editor for almost all my coding, customized just the way I like.
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by benrbray 6y ago
It seems like the solution is to improve the accessibility tools. The information is all already there.
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They localize all the unsafe type casts to one place, where you can inspect the logic, though. Much better than having `as string` sprinkled throughout your code.
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^ < OK! > v
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by benrbray 6y ago
Hi systemvoltage! We heard you like remotes, so how about a remote with dedicated, non-reprogrammable buttons to open apps you never use that don't even exist anymore? Sincerely, Roku
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by benrbray 6y ago
I'm unexperienced reading poetry, but I'm not sure I would treat it any differently. Poetry to me seems like it requires a lot of context to really understand. Who is the author and what kind of life have they lived? Who are the
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by benrbray 6y ago
Yeah, that's why I started taking notes. For topics that are important to my work / hobbies I write my own wiki-style summary to synthesize information from all the sources I've read. When I inevitably forget later, I basic
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think this is missing an important fourth objective: reading to remember. I'm not sure how much others can relate, but I am hopeless at remembering most of what I read or watch. Even when I spend several days pondering the same boo
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by benrbray 6y ago
I can think of at least one bearded individual from Germany who would likely agree with you. :)
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by benrbray 6y ago
My theory is cars. Everything is spread so far apart that local businesses can't rely on foot traffic to spur interest, and a 15-minute driving radius doesn't include all that many people. For many people living in suburbs there
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by benrbray 6y ago
> do the eaters care? I think those who are aware of the problem definitely do care. Many people just don't think about it, because they're not old enough to remember a time where the local diner baked its own pies, simmered i
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by benrbray 6y ago
I don't really want to see politicians giving bitcoin holders too much weight when making decisions about how the economy should function. Anyone who owns Bitcoin is gambling. There was never a guarantee that value would go up, or tha
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by benrbray 6y ago
On the weekend when there's no traffic, it's easy enough to drive to a park, sure. During the week, when I would want to relax outdoors after work, all the parks you mention are a 30+ minute drive in stressful rush hour traffic.
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by benrbray 6y ago
> As usual the ethical burden should be on the user of the tool, not the tool itself. I dunno. Suppose Acme, Inc. starts selling a giant red button. When pressed, it means my boss will decide to give me the rest of the day off, no stri
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by benrbray 6y ago
> lots of parks I have to disagree, after living in West Midtown Atlanta for the past 3 years. There's one large park (Piedmont) downtown, but beyond that I have to drive 30mins-1hour for any park of comparable size.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Sure, Google search is technological progress, but to the best of my knowledge they aren't doing any fancy natural language understanding every time you enter a search. It's a big, supersized information retrieval system that has
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by benrbray 6y ago
Most of these systems are so far behind any real understanding of your words, though. They behave like Text-to-Speech followed by a Google Search, whether that's how they're implemented or not.
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by benrbray 6y ago
Wikipedia is bad for the web? Their whole policy is not to editorialize, and instead to provide direct citations to their sources. I often find interesting technical articles by looking at Wikipedia citations. > People will find your i
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by benrbray 6y ago
Is this... legal? How on earth was a patent like that approved, and surely it wouldn't hold up to scrutiny, right?
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by benrbray 6y ago
Sorry, what? The situation we're complaining about is more like this: > Steve can't normally afford nice things, but he saves up to buy a nice coffee maker on Amazon, paying close to $100 and expecting to receive a product th
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by benrbray 6y ago
Actually, most music produced on physical instruments in the west doesn't have such nice ratios. I suggest reading about equal temperament (or watching some Adam Neely videos) if you're interested in learning more about how our t
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by benrbray 6y ago
I think you have it backwards. It's nothing like a mathematical theorem, since you can't really prove anything about the subjective human experience of listening to music. Physics on the other hand, though it relies on mathemat

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