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by downer 19y ago
Some punk-ass bitches from MIT? The rest of the world just says AI. It's like a million to one, we win. Don't make me have to call M.C. Hawking.
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by downer 19y ago
> the AI community hasn't been seriously trying to construct strong AI for 25+ years. Now that's an excuse if I ever heard one. "Uhh... we weren't seriously trying... uhh..." That's also why I'm not dating Natalie Portman! >
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by downer 19y ago
The difference between the field of AI and the field of aerodynamics is the state-of-the-art in the latter has produced working results -- to say the least! Meanwhile humans farm gold and solve CAPTCHAs.
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by downer 19y ago
Bill and Ted can't do math. - I thought the terms were confidential. They really got 18?!? Now I am trying to decide if that really pisses me off to no end or not!
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by downer 19y ago
> Then you're hopelessly out of touch with what most people mean when they say "AI" Hopeless? Doc, are you telling me there's no cure?!? In fact, when most people talk about AI, they mean it in the sense of, "do you think computers w
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by downer 19y ago
> I'm starting to think we're saying the same thing in different words and with slightly different emphasis. It is thus with most interesting conversations. I LIKE TURTLES
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by downer 19y ago
You don't really understand something until you implement it. And AI is unlikely to be an algorithm like those we are familiar with...
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by downer 19y ago
> The idea that you have to learn everything before doing anything is a strawman. If you don't learn everything, then you must have some independent criterion with which to pick and choose; and having such a facility, one may as w
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by downer 19y ago
(response: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=90481 )
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by downer 19y ago
The price isn't the only thing that's high. Bill: Dude, are we better than Reddit? Ted: Like, yeah, man, totally. Bill: Dude, like how much better? Ted: Like a hundred times, bro! Bill: Then we should like sell it for... like... a
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by downer 19y ago
float f; unsigned u; char c; key_t k; That's how I swing, man.
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by downer 19y ago
When someone says "AI", I think they mean AI, not e.g. path-finding for writing a Quake bot. Of course a real AI would be much better at all those things you mentioned anyway -- like deciding which of my e-mail messages are spam. Or carry
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by downer 19y ago
It's pretty hard to learn something just by reading. It takes doing. That's where you get stuck in someone else's mindset.
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by downer 19y ago
Speculatively, Quercetin (a bioflavonoid, available as a supplement) might help: https://www.alzinfo.org/newsarticle/templates/archivenewstem... Alzheimer's is also speculatively related to CJD, i.e. mad cow. That is, many cases of Alzhe
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by downer 19y ago
If you follow your own path, you will later find various areas of overlap and intersection, but you may avoid sinking into the tar-pit as you would when starting out with ALL the dead weight. It takes tremendous effort to load your brain w
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by downer 19y ago
Many, many people have gone into the field to study the traditional techniques, and glorifying this knowledge has not led to AI. I don't think a beginner is going to create AI by "luck". But a beginner's mind is not cluttered in the same
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by downer 19y ago
That's referring to refusing to use something you KNOW works, simply because it is traditional. Quite different from seeking your own path. If you follow the classical path, you will become bogged down in the vast field of AI. Ramanujan
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by downer 19y ago
Or you might come up with something that works, by avoiding having your mind crammed and distorted by the classical mess.
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by downer 19y ago
"Doubt clouds the family itself: 70 percent of Italians between 20 and 30 still live at home, condemning the young to an extended and underproductive adolescence." Cost of living. In the U.S., most college graduates can't afford to live
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by downer 19y ago
Doing what has been done in the field would repeat the mistakes. Doing something original might actually be, you know, original.
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by downer 19y ago
I recommend starting from scratch and ignoring the field. All the field will teach you is very complex ways to NOT have AI.
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by downer 19y ago
"That foot that's rapidly approaching my balls hasn't caused me any problems yet."
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by downer 19y ago
Will It Blend? http://www.willitblend.com/
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by downer 19y ago
"These requests for information from Facebook generated error messages and were detected as unauthorized attempts to access and harvest proprietary information." They're being sued for getting HTTP 403 error pages? The suit alleges Fac
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by downer 19y ago
I hope they can get over their PHP addiction.
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by downer 19y ago
That color scheme still has got to go. Django needs a design that at least approaches reasonable aesthetic sensibility.
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by downer 19y ago
> funding an army of startups and small research-oriented firms, both with much lower overhead costs than academia The big advantage in academia is access to prohibitively expensive equipment. What option was there for Google back th
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by downer 19y ago
Yeah, but making a new "most complex piece of engineering" is fire-and-forget (at least if you move out of state and change your name). >apt-get install human-2.0 Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Afte
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by downer 19y ago
Nice that YouTube's player can finally skip forward.
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by downer 19y ago
Try "kludge". I never write "temporary hack".

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