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by bfrs 14y ago
Did prozac sales go down during the last few qtrs?
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Artificial General Intelligence Conference 2012(agi-conf.org)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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Hofstadter: What are the letters 'A' and 'I'?(stanford.edu)
6 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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Why I stopped working on the Bongard Problems(foundalis.com)
107 points by bfrs 14y ago|106 comments
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George Polya: How To Solve It(godofthemachine.com)
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by bfrs 14y ago
If people take your advice too seriously, then maybe most marketing folks would be out of a job ;)
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by bfrs 14y ago
Some highly rated movies that I didn't like: - Bladerunner - Memento - The Prestige - Old Boi
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by bfrs 14y ago
These are some movies/tv series that I deeply enjoyed and (some I) wish I had known about earlier. 9.9 Hitchhiker's guide to the universe, BBC TV series 9.9 Contact (1997) based on a novel by Carl Sagan. Very few people seem to know about t
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by bfrs 14y ago
The section on Legacy [1] is especially illuminating. Looks like Cicero is of the big guys referred to when they talk about the wisdom of the ancients . [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicero#Legacy
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by bfrs 14y ago
I have browsed through the The Harvard Classics [1], but totally missed Cicero. I read XII. Lives, by Plutarch , but IX. On Friendship, On Old Age & Letters, by Cicero , must have seemed like a bunch of platitudes at that time. Now I
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by bfrs 14y ago
This Cicero guy seems like a very good writer. That is a nice presentation of stoic(?) philosophy.
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by bfrs 14y ago
If this is true, then I have no more doubt that Microsoft is a zombie company.
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by bfrs 14y ago
Such housing already exists in the US. See http://shine.yahoo.com/green/simple-life-in-manhattan-a-90-s... But, why do you think so small, when what is possible is a BIG, clean , modern , beautiful , 2 BR apt for $50/month!
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by bfrs 14y ago
As a former Civil Engineer [4] and advocate of commodity-housing [1], I can tell you that rent control [3] is the minor issue here. I'm glad that HN is finally paying some attention to the elephant in the room ...zoning laws. I bet that fo
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by bfrs 14y ago
ROTFL! These lines made me almost burst something: ...X windows. That was such a bitch of a graphics system,... All that job security, just through one mistake of judgment . Remember the typedef? Remember how long it took to grope through
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by bfrs 14y ago
Don't you get too much strain on your left pinky if you remap CapsLock to Ctrl? I shifted to: CapsLock -> Enter Keys next to spacebar -> Ctrl This feels a whole lot better. As Xah Lee [1] points out, the original symbolics keyboard
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by bfrs 14y ago
Some background on this post. It is a discussion on the AGI (artificial general intelligence) or OpenCog mail list regarding the use of virtual credits. One of the late comers to the project (Yan King Yin) feels that given the effort that n
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What motivates people to work on opensource development?(mail-archive.com)
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6½ Fundamental Principles of Cognition(foundalis.com)
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by bfrs 14y ago
I read it. Thanks for taking the time to reply.
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by bfrs 14y ago
If siri 5.0 or Cyc 1000000.0 passes the Turing test, it will be the same story all over again...the goal posts will be moved one more time. People will say that passing the Turing test is not really a mark of true intelligence, its just an
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by bfrs 14y ago
I'm somewhat skeptical if AI can be built by extrapolating the Cyc project. At best we'll get a sophisticated QA bot. I feel that vision is central to human cognition , and the Cyc project seems to be all about relationships of words to wo
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by bfrs 15y ago
matlab has a lot of these features, and so did genera for lisp machines. Proprietary development stacks win when it comes to solid documentation.
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by bfrs 15y ago
I guess it has more to it than time management. For time management, I think its way easier to use emacs org-mode to make a queue of websites to browse and get to them later.
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by bfrs 15y ago
I guess understanding the full implications of this is what Lisp Enlightenment is. http://xkcd.com/224/
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by bfrs 15y ago
A more convenient approach might be to remote desktop at random to a pool of machines that aren't his and that other people also use, the way he uses Google search. By the way, isn't this what TOR is for?
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by bfrs 15y ago
I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundametally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. When you start Lisp, it does `read', `eval', and `print', all of which are missing in Python. Lisp experts,
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by bfrs 15y ago
Can someone help me understand what the purpose of this is: I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally do not look at web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me.
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by bfrs 15y ago
I don't mind going to Mark's camp, but its huge size sometimes frightens me. What if a black swan event happens to it? Say a stupid virus penetrates and wipes it out? A more distributed social network, like the failed Diaspora project, mi
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by bfrs 15y ago
dime going as "TKAOEUPL" reminds me of this: http://i.imgur.com/EFzu9.png

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