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by dhs 18y ago
There are many steps. You have a set of different Turing Machines with alphabet {0,1}, each of which has, say, 4 states. You want to know which of these is the one that, starting from a tape filled with 0's, can write the largest number of
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by dhs 18y ago
Yeah, it's scandalous. Steven Pinker is in at 57, Craig Venter at 71, even Malcolm Gladwell made it to 77. But Steven Hawking is not intellectual enough, it would seem.
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by dhs 18y ago
The Busy Beaver is a classic example of a function which is not computable by a Turing Machine.
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by dhs 18y ago
I don't understand you there. Spivey can make experiments which lead him to conclude that there may not be any fixed representations of anything in the brain. Bringsjord can manually solve the Busy Beaver for 6-state Turing Machines, while
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by dhs 18y ago
Yeah, the candidates are not all alike, even though Barsalou cites Spivey, who is really in the analogue camp. In contrast, the "Grounded Cognition" idea revolves around simulation - which may or be not work in an analogue manner -, and onl
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by dhs 18y ago
I know the theory. I'm asking for pointers to experimental evidence that it is true. There are competing theories. One of them, which is backed by some empirical evidence, is "Continuity of Mind" by Michael Spivey http://www.amazon.com/Con
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by dhs 18y ago
From the article: One of the sacrifices that will have to be made is that we will have to admit that we could be emulated on a computer and are little more than self aware information. I don't have any problem per se with the idea t
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Viacom vs. YouTube: Beyond Privacy(businessweek.com)
2 points by dhs 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 18y ago
Hilarious. "The Hack of The Faithful". Muslims vote up their co-believers for "Best Intellectual" on the Foreign Policy list, until the The Top 10 is made up solely by - Muslims. Hey, they do care, while others don't! Noam Chomsky makes "Be
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by dhs 18y ago
The US Navy uses the following equation to determine the percentage of body fat: %Fat=495/(1.0324-.19077(log(abdomen-neck))+.15456(log(height)))-450 Appearently they did a study on how precise it is, "Comparison of Circumference-and Skinfol
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by dhs 18y ago
Cartman: "It should be perfectly clean now that my shit don't stink!"
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by dhs 18y ago
Very common. Extremely common. Albini isn't even saying much about publishing, and the zillion ways for musicians to get screwed there (never sign away your publishing rights!). For a good introduction, try Donald Passman's "All You Need To
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by dhs 18y ago
If you're spending lots of money on a never-seen-before shot, that ends up on screen, and the moviegoer benefits from it; the product gets better, more people go and see it, and that pays. If you spend a lot of money on first-class flights
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by dhs 18y ago
What happened to AI depends on who you ask. If it's Peter Norvig during his recent startup school talk < http://www.omnisio.com/startupschool08/peter-norvig-at-start... > he pointed out advances in image recognition, language trans
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by dhs 18y ago
On one page: http://edge.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend... I hate those multi-page ad-pushers (even with adblock - the clicking requirement is just annoying). It would be nice if submitters would check whether there's a
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by dhs 18y ago
It was only yesterday, when rincewind said that Neal Stephenson predicted it ten years ago, and got 3 points for that. jjfarren claimed it's a fake, and got -2. And for abstractbill, it was a windfall - two comments about the "novel and une
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by dhs 18y ago
The real PDF: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~bryan/googleFinalVersionFixed.pd...
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by dhs 18y ago
Music production usually works on roughly this schedule. Producers and musicians show up in the studio sometime in the afternoon, and work goes on until well past midnight. Most musicians are night owls because that's when they play live, a
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by dhs 18y ago
This headline so reminds me of a poem titled "Annonce" ("Want Ad") which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote A.D. 1811: "Ein Hündchen wird gesucht, das weder murrt noch beißt, zerbrochene Gläser frißt und Diamanten scheißt." Roughly translates
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Did Steve Jobs demo a Flash-enabled iPhone 3G?(iphoneatlas.com)
13 points by dhs 18y ago|5 comments
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Berners-Lee: Challenge of the Web is 'creative connectivity'(computerworld.com)
1 points by dhs 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 18y ago
Ever heard of Grace Murray Hopper?
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by dhs 18y ago
Well, there were banks which developed, offered, and sold the financial products you now call "Liar Loans". And those banks did so in plain sight of governmental institutions supposed to do checks and balances. The whole system obviously di
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by dhs 18y ago
Obligatory: correlation != causation
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by dhs 18y ago
Where to begin? Here, Michael Crichton links "global warming" with "eugenics", and the fate of critics of the former with the fate of critics of the latter. Yes, he's talking about "critics of global warming", not about "critics of the theo
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Captain Cyborg: Turing Test might be passed this year, at Reading U(reading.ac.uk)
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by dhs 18y ago
Then again, no. It's not noscript.
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by dhs 18y ago
I see! Sorry. I totally forgot about that.
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guest@goosh.org:/web> news daum Error: Operation timed out (1212416829830). guest@goosh.org:/web> news obama Error: Operation timed out (1212416850562). guest@goosh.org:/web> 1 aiml Error: Operation timed out (1212416867098).
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by dhs 18y ago
I use http://www.assembla.com/ . I've got a workspace for each project and ongoing process (e.g. "Taxes"), each with a wiki to collect notes and links, the ability to write tickets, assign tickets to milestones, send messages to the proces

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