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by criddell 3mo ago
I like the debate because I've learned a lot of stuff about consciousness, thinking, free will, determinism, agency, intelligence, emergence, problems with reductionism, qualia, etc... Lots of these concepts may be related but it migh
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This person is a US citizen. What happens if he just said nothing (beyond identifying and answering basic questions) and refused to cooperate? How long could they hold him? As a citizen they have to allow him to enter eventually. According
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Why is off-grid a requirement? I’m in central Texas and it isn’t uncommon for rooftop solar to generate enough power to cover central a/c. Peak sun and peak a/c happen at the same time.
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Oh that’s pretty interesting. Thanks for the link.
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It’s so weird to think how computers have mastered stuff that we used to think took intelligence (like chess, go, mathematics problems) but are doing so poorly at things any idiot can do (like drive a car).
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I keep wondering why there aren't more real world tests. Maybe hook up a bunch of the AIs to a stereo camera and a couple of microphones and give them control over actuators to so they can drive cars. Then lets race them around a somew
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I wish somebody sold a remake of the original PC case for modern hardware. It’s such a great design.
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> « he strange boxes at the electronics store labeled “Amiga” and “Atari ST” (the last gasps of dying giants) » > That is not merely unfair, it's wrong. It’s close enough. 1990 was pretty much the start of the end of Commodore an
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In 10th grade (1985/86), I had a friend who worked in a small computer store. I was into computers so I dropped in one time to check it out. He introduced me to his boss and after a brief conversation he asked if I was interested in pr
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Riding a bicycle is good for your body. Writing by hand is good for your brain.
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It's a bummer that Apple Pencil support isn't better in the iPadOS version of Obsidian.
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In my first job, my supervisor gave me a Day Timer binder and set of pages for it and I very dependent on it within a few weeks. That thing was always with me and I was a little terrified that I would leave it somewhere. If I were hit by a
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by criddell 3mo ago
Why would I ride my bicycle anywhere when I have a car?
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It's so much easier than Vulkan or writing shaders and the performance is more than good enough for a lot of applications. I wonder if somebody has written a adapter layer to write old OpenGL and translate it on the fly to Vulkan?
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The Remarkable tablet is so close to what I want. I just wish it was 13". My iPad is 13" and having a a display about the same size as a sheet of A4/letter paper is nice. It's so nice to have a full size display for mark
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As I understand it, that's more or less what Benjamin Franklin says he did to become a better writer. https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2017/10/02/how-ben-franklin...
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If writing by hand is good for your brain (and I suspect it is), the slowness may be part of the reason for that.
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Sometimes a lot of it is in their rolodex. Important people in government or banking or VC firms or other companies will take their calls.
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I keep hoping interoperability becomes something the European Commission decides to tackle. I can't see the US ever doing anything about this.
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When I think about the glory days of radio, I think of American Graffiti. I live in Austin and there's a pretty good station (I think it's actually a group of stations across Texas) called Sun Radio. I pretty much only listen in t
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by criddell 3mo ago
Are there any serious legislative efforts to fix the ebook market? I know getting rid of DRM entirely isn't likely to happen, but at this point I'd be happy with just vendor-neutral DRM.
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People here use meaningless titles all the time. That somebody calls themselves an artist shouldn't raise eyebrows anymore than somebody calling themselves a software engineer.
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> you just turned on the TV, selected your channel, and there was your show You've just described the media experience. When I was a kid I spent so much time just flipping through channels. The same activity today is a vastly differ
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> god-like So would you say we are months away from full self-driving cars that can out-drive a human being in any situation?
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For now. I wonder if we will ever get to the point where the computer starts doing mathematics that we just can't understand. Surely there must be some limit to what we can understand (like how a gorilla will never understand prime num
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"Content" is giving in to the idea that what you make only has value because it can fill some hole between ads in somebody else's CMS. What it is doesn't matter, it's just content . Meh. > The alternative is &qu
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High school, central Texas, public school. I think the idea was to teach appropriate use of devices.
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My kids were basically required to have a phone for school. In theory they could use a laptop for everything but in practice it was assumed you had a phone. They were supposed to use the calendar for assignments (and were given time to use
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If the tomb has been looted and desecrated, then in what sense is it sealed ? Edit: I'm asking about the title of this article.
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The knowledge could be contained in a book yet we would never say a book can drive a car. I know how a violin works yet I would never claim to know how to play violin and if you put one in my hands it would become painfully clear that I kno

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