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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Seconding and elaborating on this: If your technique is underperforming, you'll be in a position to find out why instead of just throwing your hands up. You'll be better able to select which technique to use. You'll understan
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Awesome slides!!! I'd heard of Piet, but never seen the primaltity tester. It really looks like a Mondrian! Another thing I really like is Typogenetics, invented by Douglas Hofstadter. It's a formal system inspired by molecular bi
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Ah, there you got me wrong. I said that only capitalism has made post-scarcity even remotely possible. We're seriously discussing the possibility and implications of full automation within the next fifteen years; that never happened
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
... because only capitalism has made post-scarcity possible.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Machine learning, bro. The models have way more parameters than we can possibly justify. Our predictions are meaningless outsisde the extrema of our training set. It's the future. It's a /revolution/ in AI. It's so
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Something as fundamental as remote desktop should not be sacrificed for the convenience of a tiny minority of developers.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I hope someone has talked Mark out of it.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Consider getting a bread maker: Keurig for bread.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I find it amazing that CNN has been able to remain dominant in television news broadcasting. They're a vicious clique of bloodthirsty warmongering propagandists. You'd think people would have grown disgusted at some point in the l
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I'm a vegan. I don't drink milk, ever. It's not about ethics or health or virtue signaling anymore: I've been vegan so long that I can't comfortably digest meat or milk and I can't stand the taste either. Somet
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Programming is hard, but progress is being made. For example: I think Haskell is an order of magnitude easier to write than C++. It seems to me that programming languages are evolving to give programmers access to ever higher levels of abst
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Not many people know TikZ well enough to spin circuit diagrams or integration contours from a class on analysis as fast as a professor can draw them on a board. While I'm skeptical that you managed this, if you did, you're a rare
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I imagine they'd be less suitable for growing opium poppies though.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood. It has a few high-impact suggestions that you or someone you know might be able to put into action.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Frankly, I would be more worried about someone dying using a system that I had a hand in than whatever effect it might have on my career.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I wonder if this is age-related. I never drank much before, but since I turned 27, I've noticed that I can get drunk on one half to one-third the amount it used to take me.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
If he was a spy, would a 10-year sentence be unjust?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Have you read Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam trilogy? It's one of my all-time favourite works of science fiction. Human beings have the (rarely used) capacity to improve the quality and usability of our surroundings. If at some point
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
So people can self-promote (e.g. OP).
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Science can't express all of the truths about the universe. Scientists know this. What science does provide is a reliable framework for finding out some truths about the universe. So far the science approach has been very successful.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
I agree that conscious machines (if such a thing is possible) will probably not be carefully designed by humans. That said, I think you should be a little more critical of deep learning. So-called neural networks are more meaningfully descr
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Sure, but the dualist hypothesis doesn't explain any phenomena that can't be explained by the materialist hypothesis. There is no reason in principle why consciousness couldn't emerge from purely physical processes.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
There's another novel relevant to this idea: Bruce Sterling's Distraction [1] describes groups of people ('Moderators' and 'Regulators') who live under alternative, network-moderated social contracts ('rep
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
If I understand correctly, saying that Nazi scientists were experimenting with LSD is technically true, but very misleading. The "scientists" (read: professional torturers) were /former/ Nazis working for the CIA /a
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
> Nazi scientists were among the first to explore LSD’s psychopharmaceutical potential I'm gonna need a source for this. My understanding is that Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann discovered the psychedelic effect of LSD in April 1943 [
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
60 in 2017 => 20 in 1977. How many programming jobs were there in 1977? Plenty, sure, but not to the extent we see today. Is it really suprising that a brand-new industry is also full of young people?
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
It makes sense in a roundabout way. LSD was first synthesized as part of a study of ergotamine analogues. Ergotamine [1] is still used to decrease uterine bleeding after childbirth (but use has largely been replaced by a superior analogue).
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
GMO is not inherently unsafe, nor is it inherently safe. Plants can be engineered to produce additional nutrients and better withstand drought, but they can also be engineered with insecticidal proteins that may be harmful to humans. This i
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
As sympathetic as I am to anti-capitalist rabble-rousing, your comment comes off as a canned micro-rant which doesn't relate in any substantial way to the parent.
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by castle-bravo 9y ago
Pretty snappy website for a project that's in alpha.

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