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Twittering the earthquake in China(scobleizer.com)
1 points by dhs 18y ago|0 comments
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Twitter and the China earthquake(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by dhs 18y ago|0 comments
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Technology Strategy & Entrepreneurship - Case Report: Apple's Newton (Jan08; PDF)(blogs.epfl.ch)
1 points by dhs 18y ago|0 comments
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by dhs 18y ago
Didn't work for me, either.
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by dhs 18y ago
I tried to find a free PDF version of that paper, but no such luck. However, I found an earlier one by Michael Spivey and Rick Dale, ON THE CONTINUITY OF MIND: TOWARD A DYNAMICAL ACCOUNT OF COGNITION (59 pages, < http://www.cogstud.corn
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by dhs 18y ago
So the fact that I can much more easily remember the lyrics to some pop song than the differences between the complexity classes BQP, BPP, ZPP, and PCP is actually a sign that my brain selects intelligently ?
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by dhs 18y ago
Maybe we can. I hope we'll invest in finding out, and soon. Then again, John McCarthy doesn't seem to agree, as this answer suggests: Q. Is there anything in principle that would prevent a computer from thinking as a human would? A. No IOW,
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Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops(pcworld.com)
25 points by dhs 18y ago|32 comments
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by dhs 18y ago
"Why should there be a general solution?" Why indeed. However, finding one was very much on the agenda for GOFAI, and remains on the agenda for various AGI efforts, e.g. by people like Pei Wang, Ben Goertzel, and Eliezer Yudkowsky (who comm
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by dhs 18y ago
I admire McCarthy a lot, but I'm with you there in being a bit disappointed. As for humans being able to know truths that cannot be discovered computationally, there is some evidence [1] supporting the hypothesis that animal brains do what
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by dhs 18y ago
You're wrong. At least I think so. Because you're not meeting your opponent at the same level of argument. I'm simplifying somewhat, but...you appear to be saying that, for some definition of "cause", the evolution of man is "caused" by "la
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by dhs 18y ago
Even if the problem of generalized natural language understanding were solvable - which I doubt -, my bet would be on Peter Norvig and the Google team solving it way before the Facebook guys.
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by dhs 18y ago
The metaphor still works for me even with your example: I think of the people who behave as you describe it as "investors" hoarding cash under their mattresses. The important thing, for them, is to make sure that nobody else can have their
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by dhs 18y ago
Caught a typo on the front page, 2nd paragraph, last line: "...and intrests well organized." Nice concept, though. Will check it out now.
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by dhs 18y ago
No doubt. But is my choice to work so I can buy a new gaming console for my kids instead of spending that time playing with them using the old one really one that is sure to have no negative impact on their (and my) life?
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by dhs 18y ago
I'm sure that object decomposition does not per se, automatically, lead to code obfuscation. If the design is decent, it should be, if not obvious, then at least possible without too much ado to determine where in the file tree methods shav
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by dhs 18y ago
>Do you think AI progress is going to continue accelerating for a while? From where I stand, it looks like the more recent progress in AI is due to a shift in research hypotheses. It used to be like "AI is the attempted simulation, or
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by dhs 18y ago
For the record: It just occured to me that, with memristors, we would be able to implement large parts of the computational characters of the future directly in hardware. Which would really be swell.
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by dhs 18y ago
If this is how it works, then here's another shameless attempt to hasten acceptance into your beta program (I've also applied for registration by the regular means you provide :-). If Dropbox works as advertised, I promise I'll pay a monthl
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by dhs 18y ago
"If Yahoo did have a dual-class share structure, Yahoo's cofounders would have been much better situated to block Microsoft from attempting a takeover." Great cautionary tale: Yahoo's cofounders were really smart people with access vast inf
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by dhs 18y ago
True, of course, but I wasn't talking about friendliness not happening in New York homes and offices. However, from my experience, in public life there you can get more easily punished for not sporting a pokerface than elsewhere, and it's o
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by dhs 18y ago
Nice concept. I swapped a PDF on Pi-Calculus against a photoshopped Sumo wrestling match and "The Logic of ARIZ" against a photo of a very wrinkly old man. Personally, my interest would be sustained for longer if it were a bit more speciali
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by dhs 18y ago
There doesn't seem to be much evidence supporting the claim that people who earn more money are therefore more friendly. Particulary not in NY, where being nice in public can mean not being taken seriously.
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by dhs 18y ago
I think the point Godin's trying to make is that people who habitually "play nice" with others, even if starting out as pretenders, supposedly end up living a happier life. This might be a contested claim, and I'm not sure whether there's a
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by dhs 18y ago
Out of habit - most blog comment systems I know allow for it - I just used a couple HTML tags in a comment, to no good effect. I think that changing the little label I discovered afterwards on the profile page from "help" to "formating opti
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by dhs 18y ago
<blockquote>"[O]ur job is make sure that we have as perfect as an impedance match with the rest of the world as possible, so that we are part of the resonance and not part of the dissonance."</blockquote> As a starting point
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by dhs 18y ago
MachineEnglish - a (self-)reflective subset of English which allows computers and robots to describe themselves by explaining their algorithm(s) to their users in natural language. Human-machine dialogue can include, but isn't limited to, t