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by deepnet 10y ago
In Ada's case I demand she deserves more credit. GP is right to insist she did not invent the 1st programmable computer, Baggage did, yet I argue she wrote the 1st program. Historian's rightly test the hypothesis of Lovelace'
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Usually an ensemble of both is the winner. Hinton has recommended ensembling diverse solutions (for Kaggle) & including random forests. The adage "The truth is somewhere inbetween." or wisdom-of-ensembles is profound in this d
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by deepnet 10y ago
SteamOS seems less hostile to users. In Sony's case upgradable has meant forcibly downgradeable. Many bought a PS3 solely because it ran Linux, this was removed by an update. Sony's famous battle over removing 'other-OS'
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Margret Hamilton, who made programming an engineering discipline by inventing system modelling & software testing at NASA, which famously helped save Apollo 11.
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They have the pre-Snowden & post-Snowden behaviour to compare, the diff of these highlights what individuals now want to hide. Chillingly, 'Grey-man'ing would require a fresh identity - if that is even possible.
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RAD own the IP completely so they can dual-license GPL and Commercial. No non-Free commercial product or game would touch the GPL version so license revenues would continue. RAD-tech could then be used in Free software too, gaining publicit
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by deepnet 10y ago
Mature free markets that entail paper thin margins are naturally disrupted and conquered. Jobs had seen Kay's Dynabook at Parc and had some vision of what portable computers could offer. Apple phones made $250 per phone, even with less
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by deepnet 10y ago
Thanks for the follow-up, it is interesting to see how/ or not the GPL works in areas other than code. So redesigning from scratch, following strict clean room protocols (fresh designer who hasn't ever worked on the GPLed design,
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by deepnet 10y ago
Extrusion 3D printers derive from the research of the RepRap project, by Bowyer of Bath University, it is GPL. The MakerBot derives from this GPLed work - the first MakerBot parts were printed by a RepRap. This is a RepRap tradition that a
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by deepnet 10y ago
Or a bag filled with numbered tiles, but a dice is a dice not the general category of random generators. I have seen both your suggestions used in games so fair enough, and the cylinder reminds me of the inelegance of the 10 sided dice, but
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The article states no higher sided fair dice can exist: "“ultimate fair die allowed by Mother Nature (i.e., mathematics!),” since a die couldn’t, practically speaking, possess more sides or more symmetry, and dice must be symmetrical t
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by deepnet 10y ago
But it did deliver results, confessions that were directly cited by the US Commander in Chief to justify the invasion of Iraq. This poses a further question. Was the invasion decided apon based on the belief such intelligence was true or wa
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by deepnet 10y ago
Caveat Emptor. If you can't fork you aren't free. The Makerbot rose up from a spirit of sharing and community goodwill, made money and employed local Brooklyites - so it was a flagship for the sharing economy and open hardware. No
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by deepnet 10y ago
When I first encountered the spinning dancer, it was hard to change - after much practice I can control her apparent direction at will. Similarly the lunar craters / mound effect once impossible to shake now subject to my intention. Pr
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by deepnet 10y ago
While you are technically not incorrect in your points, you also miss the entire point: if you can take it from me tomorrow I am not free. Paraphrasing Whedon "You can backdoor Google & surveil the net but you can't take my GN
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Professor Thrun changed my life, I and many tens of thousands around the world graduated from his classes, gaining an education that would have been impossible for many of us. I am forever in his debt for his tireless work as an educator an
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by deepnet 10y ago
Cryptography is useful for anonimity in that it doesn't have to be tied to a real identity and PGP keypairs can be generated by anyone. This allows anonymous accounts that are also verifiable. National ID databases or Government Overre
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by deepnet 10y ago
I am not sure I follow your reasoning. Key loss would require re-issue - under the present system that uses real details or a biometric these cannot be revoked so cryptography seems better. The current system the UK uses is a Nation Insuran
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by deepnet 10y ago
Suppose you read something while looking at a picture of Morgan Freeman ? This is a popular illusion because many people report finding it inescapably like hearing it in his voice. It is not involutary like the OP but it is hard to shake on
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What better way to prepare children for life under secret, quasi-legal mass surveillance by officials. If the innocent are caught up in the dragnet, the neologism collatoral intrusion exists. Freedom from warantless search never applied t
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by deepnet 10y ago
Answering your (perhaps rhetorical) question is hard without being there to see the actual guy. Morality is situation specific, OP was there, perhaps if you were there you would have done the same. There may have been other people whom most
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by deepnet 10y ago
Insufficient security at a national level has been frontpage of hnews all this week from various countries: Turkey, USA, Malaysia, Mexico, &c. From this and many other leaks and breaches from companies, governments & institutions on
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by deepnet 10y ago
Yes, Free software is not only your security but an investment in everyones security, rich or poor for generations to come.
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Fair point and well preempted. Proprietary software can offer some freedom but it does not ensure it will remain, nor does it offer the full 4 freedoms required. What you say is not technically incorrect, but practically Google, Apple &
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There was a cultural change when Bell was broken up and UNIX became less laissez-faire, a paradigm shift. Software became valuable and not just bundled with hardware. Stallman saw it coming early enough that he had completed his GNU Free t
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by deepnet 10y ago
> the market has spoken: The extent that the market is a free market is much debated.
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Foresight has been essential in this. Without Stallman's foresight of the need for public domain open source software, there would only be proprietary software, all subject to PRISM. Without the foresight of potential Government's
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"If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged" , Cardinal Richleu. 'Nothing to hide' privacy naysayers imagine innocence a perfect defens
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VizDoom provides access to the depth buffer. https://github.com/Marqt/ViZDoom
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by deepnet 10y ago
This looks great fun, I am working on a convnet to play Doom.

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