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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Why bother writing new protocols? Just start with modem protocols and play with the frequencies. Technically PPP is a point to point protocol which makes everything easier (no real addressing, no routing and so on). This protocol wou
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> But x86 itself also has a limit on addressable memory. So does C, because sizeof(void *) is finite. These systems are Turing-complete when you add an external tape using I/O, but so is a finite-state machine! You could argue that
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by bnegreve 13y ago
I've seen some people talking about how they taught their robot to play ping ping, it's pretty amazing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3bADiB7uQ Edit: The speaker was Jan Peters at ECML/PKDD13
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Yes, because it is general purpose intelligence. Right, but playing jeopardy is far more general than instructing a computer to sort an array, so why do you think that we are on the wrong path?
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Well, artificial intelligence is a slippery term. It could refer to just getting machines to do things that seem intelligent on the surface. But is "natural intelligence" any different?
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> what did you expect them to do? Include foreign books that their English readers can't read? I've spotted few translated books in this list, so I don't see why this is a problem. >And no, just because a non-English
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> 90 percent of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast. In fact, I disagree with this. The reason is that "elegant" usually means "decoupled" whereas many optimizations actually consists in &quo
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by bnegreve 13y ago
What's the training set?
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by bnegreve 13y ago
No, I am not. You're right, nothing is absolutely necessary, there is not point arguing about this. But let say that if I had to cancel one flight to save money / fuel, I would cancel this one rather than a standard flight.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Well, they do what they want, but three hours and 20 minutes with a 747, does sound like a waste of fuel to me.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Is there a conflict? It seems probable the only purpose of surviving is to increase the odds of a successful reproduction.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
True, however, I am also surprised that it's getting this much attention.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> I prefer the English wikipedia to my native one. Yes, but obviously, you can read English. Most people can't. > A good answer in English helps the whole [programming] world. There is only about 1/10th of the population
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by bnegreve 13y ago
True, but that's still a good reason to avoid SIGKILLing your processes.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> Fragmenting knowledge doesn't give much benefit. What about Wikipedia? I think they are benefiting from being multi-language. > English is the standard language for the IT for better or worse. All programmers are certainly not
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Not necessarily, processes spawned by bash don't necessarily have to die if you kill bash. For example if you use disown/nohup .. etc.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Of course it is, this is an online pool. The assumption that a uniform sample of developers from Berlin would vote for this is absolutely ridiculous. It scares me that so many educated developers consider this to of any significance.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Come on, try to explain. HN is biased in many respects, if you never say what you think, you're just making it worst.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
In fact at the kernel level there are plenty of mechanisms that are comparable to exceptions, e.g. longjmps, software interruptions, signals ... Edit: clarity.
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> [Why] the first frequency-hopping protocols used 88 frequencies because that is how many keys there are on a piano Well, it is a rather arbitrary reason but a valid explanation. In the case of FM frequencies, the question remains ...
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> The guy is a vile idiot of the worst kind: ignorant and aggressive. Your comment is a bit irritating. I don't know the author of this blog post but I think he has a couple of valid points. You seem to dislike him for some other r
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> There's definitely a bump in 1-star reviews in Turkey. Wait wait wait, the mere fact that Turkish has more 1 start review than the world average doesn't tell you anything about other countries individually. It could be that
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Nice. This quick and dirty trick has been in my .bashrc forever and I still use it: function md(){ pwd > /tmp/md_tmp function gomd(){ cd `cat /tmp/md_tmp` so `md` marks the current direct
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by bnegreve 13y ago
If you're suggesting that we take into account how well the wealth is distributed, then again, the US isn't a landmark. However it's hard to evaluate, maybe [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co
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by bnegreve 13y ago
6 or 7 countries already surpasse the GDP per capita of the US [1], so that's not really a a landmark milestone . [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP...
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by bnegreve 13y ago
If you query Google with a Jeopardy style question you won't have a valid answer as the first result, so at least for this particular application, yes it does a better job. I'm sure there are plenty of reason to believe that this
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> That said, the approach and subsequent utility might not live up to the hype that IBM is pumping out. It's one thing to search very quickly. Being able to discover patterns that lead to new levels of understanding and predictable
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France's Carmat implants its first artificial heart in human(reuters.com)
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by bnegreve 13y ago
> the last time I used Gimp, it was excruciating. To be fair, it's a LOT better since they added the single window mode. I've been using it since then and I am quite satisfied (although I am not a heavy user). Maybe you shou
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by bnegreve 13y ago
Before the system can execute any one of these programs, it has fork the bash process, call exec to load the new binary in the process memory, load the standard library and map it to the adress space, open stdin / stdout, run the progr

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