dncrane

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   by dncrane 15y ago

   The intelligence explosion discussed in the original LessWrong post is a separate issue from exponential growth, only loosely related, although folks like Ray Kurzweil constantly conflate the two. Please don't dismiss all ideas about AI, in
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   "This all sounds reasonable, however they are held back by the idea that AI must look like a really smart human that is remotely controlling a robot/computer interface." I think you misunderstood their position. The only assumption is that
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   This isn't exactly the same thing, but I launched a search engine for programmers (that is, it doesn't ignore special characters) a few weeks ago: http://symbolhound.com/ It doesn't search code repositories, but rather tutorials and quest
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   Thanks. The adbrite signup had me list a bunch of keywords, so I figured the ads would be somewhat relevant, but you're right, they do seem generic and unrelated. Maybe that's because of the low amount of traffic so far. I've removed them f
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   Thanks! Please email me if you can't find something you search for so I can try to improve SymbolHound's search results!
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   Clickable: http://symbolhound.com/
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   Shown HN: A search engine that doesn't ignore special characters, SymbolHound

   9 points by dncrane 15y ago|7 comments
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   Thanks! I do plan to post it on HN, I just want to wait until it's a bit better (right now stackoverflow dominates the results, so I need to adjust the ranking system and index more sites). BTW, I don't see your email in your profile.
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   by dncrane 15y ago

   I launched a search engine that does exactly this just over a week ago, you can see it here: http://symbolhound.com/ I freaked out when I saw this headline and thought it meant google had finally decided to implement this feature a week a