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by dhs 17y ago
Apparently Google's Peter Norvig does, e.g. http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-6754621605046052935&... (he starts talking about the relationship between Google and AI at 06:40).
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Reverse Engineering the Brain and the ELIZA Effect: Is Believability Ethical?(eis-blog.ucsc.edu)
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by dhs 17y ago
Maybe users who must use IE because of the policies of their company?
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by dhs 17y ago
Thanks for digging up this link.
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Why capitalism fails(boston.com)
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Microsoft to issue emergency patches next week(theregister.co.uk)
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by dhs 17y ago
Did you try http://www.archive.org/web/web.php to retrieve your poems? It worked for me on several occasions, particullary if I still remember the year and the domain name under which a text I searched for where published.
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by dhs 17y ago
I found the claim that "you can't get rich in Sweden" quite interesting, so I looked up some data. Here's my calculation: Rank Nation Number of billionaires Population People/Billionaire (rounded) 1 Germany 54 82,210,00
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by dhs 17y ago
So what do you suggest? "Ban 'em all - let God sort 'em out!"...or what?
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Buzz Aldrin: Cancel Ares, reprieve shuttle, colonise Mars(theregister.co.uk)
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by dhs 17y ago
So compared to the 777, the 787 is claimed to reduce fuel consumption by 20 percent, but it only carries 250 passengers instead of 300 - about 17 percent fewer. It seems to me that surprisingly little energy per passenger is going to be sav
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by dhs 17y ago
Pssst...read it here: http://design.caltech.edu/Misc/pirsig.html
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by dhs 17y ago
Whats pedantry to some is quite an interesting aside for others. Thank you, and keep it up :-)
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by dhs 17y ago
According to the World Association of Newspapers [1], they are Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, and Mainichi Shimbun; also, those are the largest newspapers in the world. In terms of political leanings, Yomiuri is conservative, Asahi is libe
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by dhs 17y ago
I like that feature a lot, but I'm sometimes tempted to do CTR-A, just to see what others have "censored". Must...resist...
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by dhs 17y ago
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition, summarized the philosophy as follows: This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing
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by dhs 17y ago
Here it is: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7cedl/dear_reddi...
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by dhs 17y ago
Thanks for bringing altlaw.org to my attention; lately I've been looking for examples of Clojure being used to do lots of string processing. I've found a presentation of the altlaw project here: http://files.meetup.com/1228907/altlaw-hado
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After the 1929 stock market crash, did investors really jump out of windows?(straightdope.com)
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by dhs 17y ago
I didn't understand your comment until I enabled Javascript for the occasion and found that they use photos. And corny ones, too; I'm looking at "Hot air ballons over Cappadocia" (I still don't get the "panther thingy"; maybe because I'm in
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by dhs 17y ago
[P]eople's [...] first association with Microsoft will never be search. Not only is this not about Microsoft, it's not about Search either. It's all about Decision now, in a sort of semantic landgrab.
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by dhs 17y ago
One of the things I appreciate about HN is that once or twice a week, I come across a submission which is a journalistic piece that has truth and beauty in it. Whoever claims that journalists "produce only instrumental" and not intrinsic va
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Is Teaching Hacking in Academia Ethical?(sigint.ccc.de)
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by dhs 17y ago
That paragraph lists exceptions to patentability - inventions that infringe on "public order" or "moral conventions". In particular listed are human cloning, methods to modify the human germline, industrial use of human embryos and modifica
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by dhs 17y ago
In the preview Wolfram gave a couple weeks ago at Harvard [1], he mentioned two sources of income: 1. sponsors (in the sidebars) 2. subscriptions (the main benefit being that you get to upload and run your own data) [1] video: http://cyber
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Colored parentheses highlighting for Emacs(nschum.de)
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by dhs 17y ago
There are no 'unknown unknowns' in a gaming environment Tom, meet Leeroy: http://www.spike.com/video/world-of-warcraft/2671154
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by dhs 17y ago
The traditional way of financing print media was to have the advertisers pay for the paper, printing and administration, whereas the purchasing price went to pay for the actual journalism, the researchers, writers, editors. That way, at lea
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by dhs 17y ago
Google asks its employees to spend 20 percent of their work time to basically design stuff that doesn't have to be accounted for by any data. I assume that they get a steady input of raw design that way, and that they are not dangerously im
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by dhs 17y ago
Formal verification works for algorithms, but not for interactions.

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