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by daly 5y ago
"MIT researcher Tamay Besiroglu joined OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever in warning that some machine learning AI may have achieved a limited form of sentience," The definition of "sentience" is missing which means the phr
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by daly 5y ago
As far as I'm aware, the only way to run a game on an iPad is through the Apple store. The company did not want to publish their educational games through the store because they were only to be available to students of the company.
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by daly 5y ago
Prior to being acquired by Microsoft, github did not require two-factor authentication. You could either use a password or a public key.
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by daly 5y ago
Wow. This "history" misses a LOT of other major efforts, muMath (Rich and Stoutemyer), Derive (Rich and Stoutemyer), Maple (Geddes and Labahn), Axiom (Griesmer and Jenks), SageMath (Stein), etc.
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by daly 5y ago
"See? You were able to use the hardware you bought, what's the problem?" "You bought a dishwasher that only allows soap purchased from General Mills. You figured out how to bypass the restriction. what's the problem
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by daly 5y ago
"Dual-boot is unsupported by both Windows and Ubuntu"... what? I have dual-booted almost every machine I've ever owned, including my Mac boxes. It is one of the standard options offered during installation. How does that &quo
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by daly 5y ago
> Microsoft motion to lock-in developers, now requiring a Microsoft account. I had a github account very soon after github was introduced. The github account was protected by public key encryption. A Microsoft account is much more intrus
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by daly 5y ago
> it required a "lock in" to the Apple Store The company distributed its own games as a full education program. However, the only way to install them on the iPad seemed to require that they be hosted in the Apple Store. Android
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(Part 2) Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Free Software
5 points by daly 5y ago|10 comments
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Ah, such innocence. tl;dr "Don't Trust Anyone Over 30" White T Cotton T-Shirt ( https://www.amazon.com/CafePress-Trust-Anyone-Cotton-T-Shirt... ) >>> And I can't help but think that it kind of mak
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by daly 5y ago
I have no opinion about the politics of this protest. However, it seems to me to be a tactical mistake. In the city it is very difficult, if not impossible, to stop truckers from getting fuel, food, and bathrooms. They can create a public p
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by daly 5y ago
That depends. If you are an expert in the area you can pretty much find out the important information in a well-written abstract and conclusion. For most papers I find that it takes a single read, partially to pick up new ideas, techniques,
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Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and Free Software
7 points by daly 5y ago|2 comments
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Russell defines "intelligence" as "machines that achieve their objectives". My toaster certainly achieves its objective of making toast. It even uses feedback from a sensor to know when it has achieved the goal. It is no
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by daly 5y ago
I've been involved in things originally called "AI" for most of my "career", such as it was. I've worked in a lot of, as they were called at the time, Artificial Intelligence projects. Of course, once they move
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by daly 5y ago
If you want a wide range of symbolic integration it would make more sense to use Rich's pattern matching method. Visit https://rulebasedintegration.org/ There is also a theory of integration, the Risch integral algorit
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by daly 5y ago
I used this book to teach compilers. Good book.
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by daly 5y ago
I have followed the EV market for the last year or so. (For excellent coverage look for "Electric Viking" on youtube.) GM delivered 28 EVs in the 4th quarter. Rivian delivered a couple hundred. Claims of EV pickup trucks in 2024 a
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by daly 5y ago
If I set my cruise control to 45 in a 45 mph zone and then cruise through a section that is 30 but still maintain 45 then I shouldn't get at traffic ticket? If I set my car to automatically choose the speed based on map data and the ma
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by daly 5y ago
There are reasons that favor occupational licensing. Consider, for instance, Electricians. There are standards which exist based on past failures, a sort-of institutional learning. I'll admit that it can be annoying when the inspector
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What Is the Dawn Project?
1 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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by daly 5y ago
The LORAN long range navigation system placed transmitters all around the world. The hardest part of constructing the transmitter was designing "high Q" notch filters for any local frequencies. Perhaps the 5G transmitters can inst
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by daly 5y ago
Do 5G cell phones in the plane have any effect, especially if they are "noisy" near the altimeter frequency?
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by daly 5y ago
This is where a ham radio network would be useful.
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by daly 5y ago
There is the "moral" side of the question and the "ethical" side of the question. Morals are rules YOU live by... so, if you feel you should make a known damaging change to your FOSS project and that fits your "mora
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by daly 5y ago
I interviewed at Google. I passed the phone interview. I did an in-person interview. They told me I was "not a good culture fit" (i.e. I'm too old but they can't say that). Then they contacted me a few months later and a
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by daly 5y ago
Are you of the belief that Dr. Fauci has some sort of absolute control over funding decisions? If so, please show your source.
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by daly 5y ago
Wow, you're REALLY going to have to work on your punch line. Perhaps you could do something with a theme about how you didn't find the result "creative"? :-) Or requiring a GMO tattoo? This is an attempt at humor. Someth
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by daly 5y ago
You're aware that regen braking is an option, right? You can turn it off.
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Once a program has been developed and the developers have moved on to other tasks it needs to be maintained. The fundamental problem is that if you modify code you didn't write, you don't see the big picture and you don't und

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