bjornjaja

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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Interesting thing about AI is no matter how you spin things, the more advanced it becomes, unfairness grows proportionally. After all, isn’t that the point of AI? To perform better at certain tasks than humans? We are visitors in the digita
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
If that’s the case the money can go back to a pool of resources like healthcare and whatnot IF it’s not privatized like the USA. Otherwise, it’s designed to line the pockets of investors, etc.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
I could but it’s faster to type “fixed that for you” so no thanks!
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Acronyms are typically used for long-winded domain-specific terminology not easily typed common-language terms. Why create all these acronyms? Is typing not easy on a modern swipe keyboard?
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
What does FTFY mean? Please use proper language so the rest of us can understand.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Curious, what does PyTorch do for embedded when Torch uses Lua? Can’t imagine python for embedded is better than Lua?
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
It’s a shame people don’t know how to print out paper tokens and keep them safe.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Hence the benefit of open source products. Imagine if everyone who bought a photoshop subscription supported some great open source software. They’d get dividends on their investment as equal owners of the software!
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
They also build—knowingly—on flood planes without concern for buyers. They also use shitty materials. Compare a modern house with century-or-more home which are often timeless art pieces.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
AI won’t have to do much— humanity already on course to destroy itself.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
At its core Facebook is a great and useful tool, but like everything else that is sold to corporate influence its primary purpose rots away. It _should be_ a way to interact with close friends and family, but it’s become a breeding ground f
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
The problem creating a language that “anyone can get started with quickly” has the problem that it invites a host of people who have limited idea how concurrency, among other things, works. It’s important to understand C++ for that very re
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Honestly not everything is business-centric—if I’m working on something for pure love of it, that’s going to turn up the best quality I can muster. Those big companies run by business people usually just thinking about dollar signs. Just an
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Question: how many of the articles do you read in their entirety? Do you spend 1 or 5 or 20 minutes thinking about the content? I’d like a comparison between, say, a library where you can find a nice book and sit-and-read for a good 2 hours
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
I think newspapers are the best—say you get a daily or even weekly summary of events. That’s been good enough for centuries. The problem today is all the rehashing of events. Professional journalists honestly do a better job than all the re
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
I would say it depends on the rich person. Vladimir Putin is rich but I doubt he is “soft”
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Some of this stuff is common sense—it’s amazing what length people go researching certain subjects. For instance, if your brain does a particular type of action (like tracking fast moving objects) it gets better at doing that in general. Sa
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Agreed, but it’s recursive nature does make it appealing in ways other ratios do not.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Definitely not bullshit with respect to art—it is used in many aesthetically pleasing and well balanced designs.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
The dialup era makes more sense actually—services are designed more bandwidth-conscious and ad networks don’t masquerade on every website in existence. As for streaming media, well people consume too much media to begin with so less is more
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
We probably need to actually look at what the newly open-sourced processor architecture looks like before making assumptions. Perhaps it’s got some amazing merit beyond x86, ARM, etc? Open sourcing it reveals something new and possibly bett
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Free as in Freedom to download CentOS
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Yeah, it’s pretty lame these days when web apps don’t bother to go the extra mile. The text chat feature still works so maybe they’ll add video support soon? Honestly I’d rather use Skype in the browser instead of installing it. It’s nice t
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about blockchain here... we need democratization of information. How can one trust the vote counters? Put it in a distributed ledger with checks and balances.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
Pretty sure this would be a good application for blockchain technology, which would work better than pen and paper and open to the public!
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
What is Blockbuster?
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
If one is marginally literate, one cannot read or write coherently.
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by bjornjaja 7y ago
The problem with any language is most people don’t spend time to actually learn it to proficiency. They don’t read the books, just google a quick solution. Perl is great because it has nuances many languages don’t, for instance sigils which