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by bmh100 10y ago
One way to define that is in terms of the customer: quality (no defects), calendar time to deliver, benefit to customer, and value (cost-benefit ratio). So you can say things like, "if we refactor this code now, we can schedule less ti
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by bmh100 10y ago
It would actually be very straightforward to do so if the costs of testing solutions weren't so high. CPU architecture and JIT code can both be represented as unstructured (non-tabular) data. I even recall a circuit having been optimiz
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by bmh100 10y ago
The poster is referring to control theory (often seen in ML as reinforcement learning), while also touching on the explore-exploit tradeoff in optimization more generally.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Last I read, there is too much uncertainty in measurement to tell them apart. It will have to be resolved theoretically, since a heat death will only be the final result when omega exactly equals -1.
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by bmh100 10y ago
My limited understanding is that the pilot wave is more of a concept regarding embodied in the exact state of the universe. In other words, the pilot wave is the seed in the pseudorandom number generator of the universe.
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by bmh100 10y ago
I appreciate your points about the mathematical side, but what about the physical side? What is the embodiment of the energy that is being infinitely divided? We know of matter, dark matter, and dark energy. Is there a fourth form of energy
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by bmh100 10y ago
Yes, a belief which relies on logical validity and self-consistency of memory and thought, which would in turn need to be the result of a "simulation". And by "need", I really mean "much more likely than the alterna
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by bmh100 10y ago
You could, and that's a fair point, but you're more talking about philosophy of science and epistemology. My point is that Many Worlds seems to die to Occam's Razor, because of all the additional requirements to accept Many W
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by bmh100 10y ago
But you also have to consider the probability of the brain containing precisely the self-consistent information that would allow you to develop a false theory. To me, the probability argument is more compelling than attacking the circular n
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by bmh100 10y ago
Intuitively, I feel that it is extremely more probable for a Big Bang, giving rise to life that knows science, to randomly occur than for a Boltzmann Brain, self-consistently simulating the evolution of such a universe for billions of years
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by bmh100 10y ago
What is your preferred interpretation? Mine is pilot wave, treating the wave function as a purely mathematical and nonphysical concept.
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by bmh100 10y ago
What makes it seem imaginary to me is this: in what dimension(s) do all of these infinite "universes" reside? Why do they not interact in any way? What causes this creation of matter and energy?
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by bmh100 10y ago
Dark energy suggests that a big crunch is unlikely.
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by bmh100 10y ago
These divisions are very important. As long as mystical beliefs towards Eastern thought are used to cause real harm through herbal remedies and supplements, the public must be taught to give it less importance. Among critical thinkers, it i
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by bmh100 10y ago
In what physical processes?
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by bmh100 10y ago
Why does increased time dilation imply decreased precision? If we can precisely measure the energy deployed, can't we also precisely estimate time dilation and account for it?
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by bmh100 10y ago
This is beautiful. Higher order functions and closures are a big reason why I enjoy functional programming languages. To see these applied with method chaining is very exciting in a systems programming language.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Why are you jaded with the JVM? Would that lead you to choose Joxa over Clojure?
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by bmh100 10y ago
That's a good point. I didn't realize that it was also introduced into 2.7 at the same time.
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by bmh100 10y ago
I'm specifically referring to OrderedDict in this case, which does have guaranteed, insertion-based ordering. It was introduced in 3.1, circa 2009, via PEP 372.
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by bmh100 10y ago
I think I know the chart you're referring to, but I can't find it. I remember Python 2 was in the majority in that case. Do you have the source handy?
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by bmh100 10y ago
You gain access to continued language support in 2020. New features involving strings will have less risk of bugs. The "range" function is more memory efficient. Integer division automatically floors, reducing bug risk. Dictionari
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by bmh100 10y ago
Python 3.0 was released in 2008. Python 2 will EOL in 2020. You've had about 9 years to start the transition to 3.0, and you still have 3 more years before EOL. A 12-year upgrade window sounds pretty reasonable.
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by bmh100 10y ago
My point is really that you seem to be imposing characteristics which will not necessarily exist. Why would the AI have ambition? Maybe the AI only cares about leisure and simply wants to play against a program that always concedes, this tr
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by bmh100 10y ago
Your second sentence makes sense to me. That capability is a clear advantage.
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by bmh100 10y ago
How would a strong AI learn to influence humans? How would it come to the conclusion that influencing humans would achieve its goal? How would it develop the ability to socially engineer humans in useful ways before the people monitoring it
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by bmh100 10y ago
You have identified a chain of events. Here is a list of questions I have about how that chain of events occurs. I am asking these in good faith, not being snarky, just in case it seemed otherwise. How would the AI learn that more processin
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by bmh100 10y ago
For an AI to become "uncontrolled" requires quite a lot of assumptions. I don't dismiss the concern as invalid, but I don't think the assumptions implied by the question are necessarily plausible either.
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by bmh100 10y ago
Okay, I will go along with your scenario. Suppose we have a system with human-level intelligence, according to your definition, and we set up the following conditions: 1. The AI is embodied in a computer the size of a laptop. 2. The AI is g
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by bmh100 10y ago
Under what plausible circumstances would you consider DNA-based or chemistry-based computation to be a superior solution compared to silicon-based computation?

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