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by cfcef 11y ago
Your friend might want to look into Archive Team, then. See how well their current tools support a crawl of Soundcloud, that the documentation is up to date, plan out how a pre-closure crawl would go, and do a small test run to check that e
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by cfcef 11y ago
I look forward to seeing this paper cited for decades to come as experimental proof of the misogyny of the tech community.
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by cfcef 11y ago
That's averaged over weeks or months or however long it takes for repairs, and over however many thousands of cars pass by (the US drives trillions of miles each year).
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by cfcef 11y ago
So music is a superstimulus for learning?
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by cfcef 11y ago
It does not say it only took the name in 2012, it implies that it was named Midori by November 2007 when the name leaked, and if you are doubtful, you can check Google Books and find multiple published mentions of the MS Midori OS in books
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by cfcef 11y ago
Midori, the operating system whose development he is retrospectively blogging about, began sometime around 2003: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) and the name was leaked in 2007.
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by cfcef 11y ago
Should this be considered an example of entryism, or just opportunism?
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by cfcef 11y ago
Exercise: imagine this was written in 1989; how many edits would you need to turn this into an optimistic defense of the long-term prospects of the Japanese economy?
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by cfcef 11y ago
No effect size? > Mice whose senescent cells were killed off over six months were healthier, in several ways, than a control group of transgenic mice in which these cells were allowed to build up. Their kidneys worked better and their he
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by cfcef 11y ago
Do we expect computer assistance to make much of a difference? Right now they handle the easy tasks like highway driving which don't account for many accidents, as far as I know.
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by cfcef 11y ago
The saying is that no one on their death bed wishes they had spent more time at work, but there's always a counterexample.
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by cfcef 11y ago
There's also Neuroskeptic's hilarious argument: > As for the “excessive synaptic pruning” model, it’s very far from new: it was proposed in 1983 and has since been discussed in 3580 papers. So it’s simply untrue to imply that S
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by cfcef 11y ago
Unlikely, as on the astronomical time-scales involved, that implies that some rare risk will eventually wipe them out - asteroids, pandemics, resource depletion, collapse.
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by cfcef 11y ago
It's not clearly the point at all. If the solution to the Fermi paradox is 'they existed at one point but stopped before colonizing', then that implies they don't exist now and is why we don't see them.
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by cfcef 11y ago
Fermi: > ...technological civilization doesn’t last long enough for it to happen.” Writer: > Both York and Teller seemed to think Fermi was questioning the feasibility of interstellar travel— nobody thought he was questioning the pos
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by cfcef 11y ago
Are these advantages reflected in electrocution and house fire rates?
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by cfcef 11y ago
Similar to how people mention the Terman study didn't enrol two future Nobelists because they just barely missed the cutoff and so this proves IQ tests are bunk. It would have been much better to cite the SMPY longitudinal results for
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by cfcef 11y ago
But think of all the efficiency & security by obscurity I would gain by implementing my apps in AVR assembly! Plus it'd be hosted in the cloud.
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by cfcef 11y ago
It always astonishes me to see graphs of yields for all these different plants and animals skyrocketing upwards under the pressure of selection on additive genetic variation, despite their totally different biologies, lifecycles, and even o
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by cfcef 11y ago
That does surprise me. Chrome is a cross-OS application, it runs on Windows/Mac/Linux, right? And things like extensions are all internal to the browser. Why is a scanner for bad settings and bad extensions bound to a single OS?
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by cfcef 11y ago
> Much higher (but still short of general intelligence, obviously) would be beating the best humans at language translation, proving math theorems, or answering factual questions phrased in natural language. Then, if and when computers c
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by cfcef 11y ago
> Any chance DeepMind may publish some of the internals about how many instances were used, how computation was distributed The computation requirements for training and running are given in the paper in both the body and the appendix de
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by cfcef 11y ago
When in March is the match? Will it be broadcast live?
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by cfcef 11y ago
DeepMind does about everything in Torch, which is Lua. Although I'm not sure about Torch's distributed support, so the use of 50 GPUs and Distbelief may mean another language?
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by cfcef 11y ago
Also consider line counts, driven by functionality demands. A Unix from the 1970s has a kernel with maybe <10KLOC? Linux is more like 15000KLOC. If due to bugs, Linux crashes twice as often as that old Unix, then on a line for line basis
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by cfcef 11y ago
> Compare this to handwriting and uploading html files, and it seems like we've gone backwards. But this isn't apple and oranges; a blog with themes and whatnot is much more sophisticated than the HTML CSS rendering defaults. I
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by cfcef 11y ago
What is complicated about it? I'm not sure what you have in mind - there was never any Edenic period where you could run dynamic web blogs for free on your own server without any configuration or investment of time and dedication. All
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by cfcef 11y ago
Ethical entanglement: if you try to make a problem slightly better, then by not fixing it entirely you are now to blame. Happens all the time: http://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethi...
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by cfcef 11y ago
> The testing of a GPS-free version of JPADS is yet another example of efforts to develop alternatives to satellite guidance. “GPS is very expensive to launch and operate,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said during an April 24 podcast fro
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by cfcef 11y ago
> The pessimist in me says "because these things would last centuries with a little upkeep, and we don't build that kind of thing anymore". They wouldn't. You're building miles of thick stone walls exposed to the

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