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by carapace 3y ago
I really didn't expect that comment to go over so poorly. I am trying to be constructive here, not critical. > Automating "correct" is still an unsolved problem. That's our job. Cf. "Augmenting Human Intel
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by carapace 3y ago
I think their hearts are in the right place, but IMO most of the concerns about user freedom are obviated or transformed by the existence of these new talking machines. (Just in the interest of disclosure, I'm a "Free" softwa
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by carapace 3y ago
My sister bought a couple of low-end HP laptops last year, the kind meant for college kids. The damned things wouldn't boot w/o connecting to your MS account!
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by carapace 3y ago
You're going to make me cry...
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by carapace 3y ago
> A wildlife corridor? Doesn't look like it... It's the bit between the grass and the buildings. If you turn to the left (downhill, West) you can follow it all the way along to Lake Merced. It's the very Northern tip of
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by carapace 3y ago
> pretty thoughtfully planned Depends on your goals, eh? > What kind of businesses could this realistically support, a 7-11? That's kind of my point, they built a pile of houses and nothing else . Even the yards are abbreviated
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by carapace 3y ago
I walked through it.
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by carapace 3y ago
I dunno what to tell you. Visit in person and get back to me? I'm not actually trying to shun or shame people who are happy to live in such a place, there's no use arguing over matters of taste, eh? FWIW I've lived in a few
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by carapace 3y ago
Twain: "Always do right. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
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by carapace 3y ago
> Throw in a small cafe, local pub, and corner store, and that looks like a really nice little spot. Where? As in, where would you "throw" them? The buildings don't have space. There's nothing for a mile or more.
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by carapace 3y ago
Check out this "Summit Park" development: https://goo.gl/maps/Eherg24AUS4V1aX67?coh=178571&entry=tt Someone finagled permission to build on Brotherhood Way and this is what they made. The houses themselv
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by carapace 3y ago
Oh yeah, I'm going to document the hell out of it. I've got a dozen little wi-fi cameras for streaming, etc. I'm also going to run the project on a open books basis (another review from TNWEC: "Honest Business: A Super
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by carapace 3y ago
I first learned about Permaculture from reading my parent's copy of "The Next Whole Earth Catalog", which reviewed Mollison's "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual" (which, BTW is one of the greatest books on
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by carapace 3y ago
I feel like my whole point has whooshed over your head. You're clearly intelligent and sincere, which is why I bothered trying to reach you, so it's disappointing that this turned out to be a waste of time, even though I feel it w
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by carapace 3y ago
Whose ethics?
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by carapace 3y ago
Man, I'm an admitted unabashed elitist when it comes to technology but this guy sounds warped . > Many of the new ideas are from ordinary people. ORLY? > a third faction ... open source. Open source is not a faction? It&#x2
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by carapace 3y ago
> I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the concept. It's worse than that: I've not even tried to understand it. > The main idea is that you don't move on to a later skill until you've shown high proficie
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by carapace 3y ago
Well met. (If you haven't, do read Wendell Berry's "What are People For?" or any of his work. His writing is so fine!) > there's no panacea in returning to an agrarian, village life as you seem to suggest. I agr
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by carapace 3y ago
Pretty good, but I would lump ALGOL, Lisp, and ML together as Lambda Calculus languages.
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by carapace 3y ago
> It's kind of annoying when people dismiss an idea without taking time to fully engage with and understand it. I expect more from my middle school students, let alone someone I'm taking time to discuss things with on HN. I ful
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by carapace 3y ago
Here's the argument that (as a USA-ian) persuades me the most: if these AI systems are weapons they we get to have them by the 2nd Amendment . It's the same as the we-get-to-have-strong-encryption argument, eh? The gov and the
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by carapace 3y ago
> The Wikipedia article is linked right there. Yeah, thanks. It says "a knowledge test"...? Anyway, this Bloom is clearly a crank: > Mastery learning is an educational philosophy first proposed by Bloom in 1968[8] based on
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by carapace 3y ago
> outperforms classrooms by 2 sigma ...by what metrics? Anyway, who cares? Why do kids need an education, let alone one that has sigmas, in a world where talking machines can outperform them in every area? What are people for? (That&#
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by carapace 3y ago
Broadly speaking, the computers should do the work to free up humans to do the important things like parenting and teaching. Letting the machine babysit our kids so we can... what? Do work that a computer could do? Party all day? Why are
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by carapace 3y ago
> Ideally I'd like to know how many people were reading my work, and whether they liked it -- but I really just want the freedom to write (in reasonable comfort). FWIW, I kinda figured. If you were really that into money you would
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by carapace 3y ago
Bit of a tangent but it seems to me that the talking, self-programming computers will make questions like 'what language to start with' completely obsolete. When I read the title I thought, "You're writing this for the A
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by carapace 3y ago
I'm not sure but I think he's putting humanure directly on crops that he then eats. It's a pretty tight cycle, and it seems to me (with ZERO expertise) that if human prions are a thing that's a good way to find them. Bu
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by carapace 3y ago
The prion thing was a joke. (Not prion disease , that's objectively terrifying.) > I would really caution against relying on any composting strategy that doesn't get hot for treating it. Oh yeah. If I were to use this system
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by carapace 3y ago
It's a good point. The "Humanure Handbook" guy hasn't developed a prion disease, so there's that... A quick search turned up this... > As for pathogens, while there has been considerable research demonstrating t
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by carapace 3y ago
I've done experiments (with items from the catbox, not my own) with vermi-composting night soil. A healthy colony of E. foetidia with vanish a turd in less than an hour or so.

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