ddewey

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by ddewey 16y ago
If you want AI literature treating human-level intelligence, try searching for "artificial general intelligence". Also, here are some links to the proceedings of recent AGI conferences: http://www.atlantis-press.com/publications/aisr/AGI-0
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by ddewey 16y ago
I just read and enjoyed The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton.
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by ddewey 16y ago
Pro: I understand the reasoning behind affirmative action better after reading this quote: "People mistakenly assume that affirmative action is about granting minorities undeserved privileges. In it’s purist form, affirmative action is abou
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by ddewey 16y ago
I particularly like the plain-English design from JJ at Graphicology, though I wish he'd used AM/PM instead of 24-hour time. Using full sentences reminds me of a UI element* that replaces a form with an interactive sentence. The example (fr
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by ddewey 16y ago
Go might have a chance, I think, particularly because of its interface system. Defining interfaces based on an object's methods gives the programmer compile-time assurance that objects can do what they'll need to without requiring an unstab
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by ddewey 16y ago
Wow, I've been looking at Perl 6 stuff for a while and this might be the most awesome post I've seen. It's like Perl 5, but Perlier :) Reeally looking forward to golfing in Perl 6. I can't imagine how I will remember all of the Ways To Do I
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by ddewey 16y ago
You're probably being downvoted because you're stating an uncommon opinion (humans are no more morally relevant than other species) as fact, and your only support is an argument from similarity to child-like selfishness. I'd argue that huma
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by ddewey 16y ago
Wow, that's an inspirational read. Thanks. Maybe I won't try to fix my "problem" :) Hamming's Questions ("What are the most important problems in your field? Are you working on one of them? Why not?") are great, but somewhat daunting. Maybe
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by ddewey 16y ago
PG talks about the problem of having a top idea that he didn't want, something practical like making money or impractical like disputes, stealing his ambient-thought time. I have the opposite problem: practical things that need some ambient
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by ddewey 16y ago
It seems like an obvious idea in retrospect, and it fits with the iPad concept-- not a necessity, but a much more satisfying way of doing some specific tasks. I wonder what its integration with the browser is like? I'm not sure if it'd be b
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by ddewey 16y ago
To pick out one particular point: "3. We need more than just the imperative mood". The author states that all programming languages are in the imperative mood (which is pretty shaky, considering the long history of declarative languages), a
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by ddewey 16y ago
I don't quite understand the "blueprint:building :: X:code" idea. It helped when I saw (in a comment at the bottom) that the author doesn't consider regular expressions, SQL, or other DSLs to be code. Is this article really just a call for
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by ddewey 16y ago
Fascinating! It looks from Google Scholar like Karpinski has spent at least 10 years studying reactions like this in Arabidopsis. Biological systems are so densely packed with survival information. We'd better figure out artificial food pro
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by ddewey 16y ago
Anyone know what the original source Seth's referring to here is? Did Kevin Kelly elaborate on this somewhere?
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by ddewey 16y ago
Counter-warning: I liked it :) but I tend to like more fanciful, meandering approaches to CS topics, like Why the Lucky Stiff and Clifford Pickover. Or Lewis Carroll, for that matter. Notable concepts from the article: a "fixed-point" of la
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by ddewey 16y ago
Pardon me, my formatting was terrible. I'll go read the docs.
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by ddewey 16y ago
I like my Nexus One: - Has 2.2, and since it's Google hardware maybe it'll be kept up to date - Build quality is solid - Stock Android, no extensions by carrier or hardware company - Battery life rarely less than a day for my medium usage C
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by ddewey 16y ago
Another way their evolution could have affected them is if their reproduction strategy was different than ours. If they had extremely large numbers of offspring (instead of the few we humans have), they might not emphasize individual surviv
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by ddewey 16y ago
Anyone else bothered by the shallowness of this article? Maybe Predators are not technically biological predators, but the biological definition isn't the only use of the word (e.g. sexual predators). Using the word "Predator" instead of "H
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by ddewey 16y ago
"This, then, is your exercise: spend five minutes thinking about why your choice of monogamy is preferable to all of the other inhabitants of relationship-style-space, for you." With most "decisions" about my lifestyle, I keep the societal
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by ddewey 16y ago
Anyone still looking at this besides me? Applying the "project" model (6) to a programming career: with 3 or 4 small projects a year on Kickstarter or App Store(s), you might be able to make a modest living. I guess that the special challen