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by dmcginty 10y ago
That being said, I don't think the ability to learn and adapt. This is entirely a statement on semantics, but if I made a tic-tac-toe playing program that had every possible game state pre-programmed in, I would not hesitate to call it
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by dmcginty 10y ago
I don't think calling it AI is a stretch. It's a system with sensors, actuators, a knowledge base, and a ruleset; plus it can learn and adapt its ruleset based on success/failure. That's the textbook definition of AI.
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by dmcginty 10y ago
It seems like you're basing your judgement largely on your Black Friday shopping experience. You go from saying the "ENTIRE experience was dreadful" to "Aside from the trackpad I don't have too many complaints"
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by dmcginty 10y ago
Black bars are essentially free; I never got the reason to ration them. While Glenn may not have been a part of the hacker community, he's an international icon of science, technology, and space exploration. I would guess a nontrivial
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by dmcginty 10y ago
I'm not sure if we're talking about the same broadcast, but Abe did briefly address the situation from Argentina.
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by dmcginty 10y ago
I've been using Samsung phones for several years (currently still using a Galaxy S6), and my Pixel is supposed to come around the end of the month. Did they really get rid of app badges? That has been a thing for a while, unless I&#x27
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by dmcginty 10y ago
I've had several pet birds and I've observed the same thing from them. I just assumed they were just pretending to sleep.
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by dmcginty 10y ago
While I disagree with Peter Thiel's support of Trump, I believe that he is a very smart man, and quite qualified to be a partner with YC. To fire him over his political affiliation would be petty censorship. It's easy to look at s
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by dmcginty 10y ago
Blurring product labels isn't about censorship; it's usually because shows that go to syndication don't want to violate any promotional clauses. Like, if I'm a television station and one of my primary sponsors is Coca Co
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by dmcginty 10y ago
If you don't mind me asking, what are you doing now? Are you back to work or are you still traveling?
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I think the most annoying thing about the Coolest Cooler campaign is this quote: I'm just frustrated that people who live in my same town [...] who purchased their Coolest cooler AFTER I did [...] have received their shipment before I
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by dmcginty 11y ago
The bot learned from interacting with users. A bunch of people took to bombarding Tay with racist/sexist/antisemitic remarks which worked their way into its vocabulary. I'm not sure if you could really call it a vulnerability
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I don't see why this applies to mattresses specifically. The author seems jaded that companies are able to buy products cheaply and resell them like it's a new concept.
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by dmcginty 11y ago
Do you (or anybody else) have any advice on how to figure out how to come up with limits for things? Somebody else mentioned that Github limits stars to 5000/hr, but that definitely seems high. How would you decide on how to limit some
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I feel like this headline is misleading. They've solved the first three parts, but not the last. I was really hoping that this article was going to say something about progress on the last section, commonly called K4. If anybody is int
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by dmcginty 11y ago
This is what resonated poorly for me. Airbnb has numerous advantages over hotels that they can put into ads. No part of this ad compels me to stay at an Airbnb, and it makes them seem petty/smug.
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by dmcginty 11y ago
You make very good points, and I agree that having Elon as the spokesperson makes the event feel more personal and genuine. I still feel like his presentation manner is disappointing, though. I get that it's a petty thing to complain a
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I admire Tesla as a company, but I can't help but wonder why they still have Elon Musk do the entire presentation himself. Sure, he's their superstar, but he comes off as a very underprepared public speaker. I wish they had him do
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I'm really curious if he acquired the @snowden handle from somebody that was sitting on it, or if it actually wasn't taken until now.
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I use a standing desk at work every day (a Varidesk pro plus). For me, having monitor stand is just as important as the standing aspect. Using a laptop on a standing desk causes me to hunch over and slouch, which leaves me with worse neck a
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by dmcginty 11y ago
My notepad of choice is the Rhodia dot pad. They're bound on the top of the page so they're good at laying flat, and I've never had an ink bleed through the paper. As far as pens I use a Pilot Metropolitan with Noodler's
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by dmcginty 11y ago
I'm in the United States. To my knowledge online gambling is not strictly illegal, but it's illegal for online casinos to send or receive money to or from any banking or crediting organization, therefore preventing users from tran
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by dmcginty 12y ago
There's a John Cage piece called "Organ^2/As Slow As Possible" that is currently being performed on a specially-made pipe organ in Germany. Note changes happen every few years and the piece will finish in 2640. https:&#
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by dmcginty 12y ago
I've been there a couple times. The pizza is really good enough to deserve this sort of attention. The biggest warning I could give would be that the wait times are typically really long, the place is really cramped, and there are only
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by dmcginty 12y ago
I think $100 would be a reasonable price to pay for a keyboard that you use for many hours every day over several decades. The Textblade seems like something that I'd use in short intervals here or there for a year or two.
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by dmcginty 12y ago
I don't think Disney cares about what you eat or drink outside of the park. They care about how you and others behave when you're spending money on their property. I don't think it's any creepier than when a store tracks
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by dmcginty 12y ago
Of course status products work. The author does a horrible job of showing why a status product works. A year of gas heat for a home is not a status product.
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by dmcginty 12y ago
The author makes decent points, but uses a very flawed method of arguing to get to those points. First of all, she is arguing against a faceless hyperbole. Who is the person that actually said the words, "Nobody will pay $10,000 for an
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by dmcginty 12y ago
I'm also seeing duplicates of the 'Add "Magic" to Your Business' post on the front page.
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by dmcginty 12y ago
This reminds me of Litographs, a company that puts full text of books in poster form. While the concept works fine for prose it doesn't translate well for code.

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