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'sudo make me a sandwich' has become a reality(willowgarage.com)
127 points by bfrs 15y ago|63 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
Here is an authentic source for Markram's critique of the "Cat out of the bag" paper: http://news.discovery.com/tech/cat-brain-computer-hype.html
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by bfrs 15y ago
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Ok, so now for some people
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by bfrs 15y ago
I hope this doesn't end as another "cat brain" fiasco: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2898229 Since the original critique by Henry Markram has been removed from the bluebrain website, I wish if anyone can confirm that the pasted exch
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by bfrs 15y ago
For me this computer provided one of those rare aha! moments. I finally got what all the fuss about Cellular Automata (CA) and Conway's 'Game of Life' (GoL) is all about. I'm aware that the GoL has been proved to be Turing Complete too, but
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The WireWorld Computer(quinapalus.com)
20 points by bfrs 15y ago|3 comments
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by bfrs 15y ago
Thanks for your feedback jarek. My intuition suggests that the rents being so damn high is yet another case of the 1%, already rich, screwing the rest of us to maintain their cash flow. However, as the late John McCarthy cautioned, "he w
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by bfrs 15y ago
The availability of water is one of the limiting factors to the population density of a city. A lot of land implies large catchment areas over which to collect enough water to support a large city population. Location still matters, or else
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by bfrs 15y ago
I wonder when we will cross the post-scarcity point on housing. Considering that about 50% of my monthly expenses goes to rent, I think reducing the cost of housing is where most of my mental energies should be devoted, instead of yet ano
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by bfrs 15y ago
Oh god, the rent! Thanks for the reminder. I wonder when we will cross the post-scarcity point on housing. Considering that about 50% of my monthly expenses goes to rent, I think reducing the cost of housing is where most of my mental ene
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by bfrs 15y ago
Are you a Carrier IQ shill or something?
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by bfrs 15y ago
Current U.S. immigration policy can be summed up as: The only way you can immigrate is to be a bitch for an approved company for as long as it pleases to keep you as a bitch. If you are a good bitch, i.e., will work long hours and sleep un
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by bfrs 15y ago
A GC grants economic freedom to indentured servants (H1B visa holders is the politically correct term). The longer freedom is denied the more profitable it is for the corporate masters. One of the tricks of this modern day slave trade is to
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by bfrs 15y ago
I was using "Liu Liu's algorithm" in a colloquial way. Should have been more specific and used, "the algorithm which Liu Liu implemented". As far as robustness is concerned I guess a lot depends on the quality of the training. The haar-caas
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by bfrs 15y ago
Looks like more evidence for Atwood's Law: Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript. I have a couple of questions: 1. How does Liu Liu's algorithm (which I think he calls "deformable part
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by bfrs 15y ago
Is that Cthulhu [1] hiding at the bottom? [1] http://www.southparkstudios.com/guide/episodes/s14e13-coon-v... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulu
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by bfrs 15y ago
auto-complete.el does a great job for Python in emacs. To install it check out: http://bfrsblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-emacs-first-clas...
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by bfrs 15y ago
---------------------------------------- From Malcolm Gladwell's "The real genius of Steve Jobs" [1]: Jobs, we learn, was a bully. "He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to
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by bfrs 15y ago
---------------------------------------- Jobs, we learn, was a bully. "He had the uncanny capacity to know exactly what your weak point is, know what will make you feel small, to make you cringe" . Jobs gets his girlfriend pregnant, and th
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by bfrs 15y ago
...but business I really just don't get excited about. Neither do I. But, I'm willing to put up with it if other alternatives piss me off real bad.
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by bfrs 15y ago
Matlab is a very flexible and productive environment for doing exploratory programming. In my experience it even beats python (ipython + (emacs+auto-complete))[1]. The ability to execute small blocks of code in sequence using the %% notat
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by bfrs 15y ago
In the 60s the dominant ideology was that symbolic manipulation was all there is to AI (Society of Mind)[1]. Lisp (List Processing language) was the obvious choice for this as it is very good for string manipulation (emacs and elisp are pro
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by bfrs 15y ago
To an extent some parts of the article can summarized as: Ok, I don't work on cool stuff like the guys at Google do, but you know what, all that doesn't matter, as I'll make way more money over my CRUD career than those guys will. And by t
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by bfrs 15y ago
I guess its only a straw man who thinks difficult problems are good for their own sake. As dlo and pg have pointed out, difficulty is a good heuristic to guide decisions. If what you are doing seems easy but is paying good, then sooner or l
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by bfrs 15y ago
... And am, gosh, approximately ten years behind my peers career-wise. Oh, those expensive hobbies! That is the hardest part to stomach. I've also wasted the better part of a decade, pursuing what seems to now be "pie in the sky". Guys wh
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by bfrs 15y ago
90% of programming jobs are in creating Line of Business software: Most software is not sold in boxes, available on the Internet, or downloaded from the App Store. Most software is boring one-off applications in corporations, under-girdi
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by bfrs 15y ago
To the list of articles to read before heading for grad school, I'd add Philip Greenspun's http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science I have a summary of it here: http://bfrsblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/what-every-prospective-...
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by bfrs 15y ago
To me Zen seems like a lot of vague mumbo-jumbo. It can be interpreted any which way you want, making it sometimes seem wise and profound. The Buddhism I learned is quite simple and clear. It just boils down to two Golden Rules: 1. The Gold
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by bfrs 15y ago
The energy problem was solved by Freeman Dyson et. al. in the 50s at Los Alamos [1]. Here are his paraphrased proposals: Kardashev Level I ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale ) Dyson fusion engines. He's not talking about unvi
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by bfrs 15y ago
Thanks for the link.

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