didntreadarticl

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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
me too
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
He's 94, lets just be impressed he can have an opinion at all
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
To be fair, Noam Chomsky is 94 years old now
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Thats kindof why I asked. I tried to think of UK equivalent to FAANG and couldn't come up with much. But there's lots of interesting responses to my comment, and an idea that kept coming through is that the UK is good at creating
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Thats interesting. So like engineering basically
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
The UK hasn’t got any memorable tech company that is on the world stage that the public knows. Yes thats a good way of putting it
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
tell me about the big fintech and games ones
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Still in Cambridge but owned by Japans SoftBank Group. Does that count? When I look up 'UKs biggest tech companies' ARM doesnt get a mention.
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
The UK had Amstrad, Sinclair, Acorn (which sortof became Arm) What have we got now? When I look up the UKs biggest tech companies now its people like Aveva and Sage who make dull enterprisey software. Is there anyone else? edit: I guess we
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We are close to making Celery Man a reality(youtube.com)
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Its Canva, but instead of stock art its AI generated stuff
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Dall-E, could you add a hat wobble to that? .... And a Flarhgunnstow?
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
ooo they have PC version too https://superiorinteractive.com/ Original publisher in the 80s was 'Superior Software', I'd be interested to know if this is the same people 40 years later edit: yes its the same
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Where I'm from this was called Repton edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxzv1o1ngRw full screen scroll on a 6502-powered BBC Model B
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
What Shopping On Amazon Feels Like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQpxAvjD_30
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
From the title it sounds like research on humans but the paper is actually all about a simple software model of a group of entities going 'foraging' The model is using a program called NetLogo https://github.com/Ne
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Darius Kazemi - "How I Won the Lottery" - a talk at XOXO Festival (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw brutally hilarious
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Cmon guys, rocks arent processors, whatever Putnam may say Unless you're into panpsychism - which I can't discount because although its a ridiculous explanation of consciousness, all the other possible explanations are equally rid
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Notepad++
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
If its doing something with the result of the photon detectors, then yes I guess its processing the input and taking some action as a result. Bonus points if the incoming beam or light actually means something (e.g. perhaps it varies when s
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Its a complex system but I wouldnt say its processing anything. I suppose for what I'm calling processing there needs to be some order. Things that do processing (our cells, processors, etc) use energy to keep some order in the system
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
If you draw an imaginary line around the galton board and then if there was some outcome based on the balls falling into bins (the weight of the bins makes some other thing happen ...) then yeah I guess you'd call that a processor. It
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
most things can be interpreted as computing most other things Chalmers paper is behind a paywall but I dont see how your point makes any sense. A rock is not processing anything, an insect or a person or a calculator is. Seems pretty stra
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Doesnt have to be free will, just has to be information processing. A robot could also choose which side of a fork to take, based on programming or machine learning etc.
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
turbulence = complex system which isnt necessarily the same as processing. But perhaps you could build some sort of processor using turbulence.
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
So a glider in game of life doesnt have agency but you can build a computer in game of life that has memory and can base its actions on prcoessing and past input https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-computer
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
Ok so lets say the universe is a giant deterministic* computer calculating its own future one picosecond at a time. If something acts only due to external forces - a rock rolling down a hill, or a river flowing around some rocks, we say it
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
https://ncea.education.govt.nz/change-2-equal-status-mataura... https://ncea.education.govt.nz/mana-orite-mo-te-matauranga-m... https://ncea.education.govt.nz/explaining-new-ncea-materials
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
I've always assumed it but this guy actually tested it out, and so he gets credit for that
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by didntreadarticl 4y ago
You can't judge a book by it's cover, But you can tell how much it costs - Carter USM

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