drcode

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by drcode 7y ago
So, for the every-pred example, I'd prefer to use clojure piping for better readability: (->> people (filter :admin?) (filter :mod?)) This is admittedly a matter of taste, though. For the some-fn example, I would argue tha
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by drcode 7y ago
Hmm... I guess that's a valid point, though I would never use them for logical composition simply because the names of these functions really hurt readability: They are basically higher-order versions of "and" and "or&qu
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by drcode 7y ago
The thing to understand about Clojure is that its creator/maintainer believes software tools should almost never deprecate features. Because of this, there are a few esoteric functions and features that were created in the language alo
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by drcode 7y ago
Madoff was a product of the artificially low interest rates established by the US Fed, causing people to participate in all sorts of risky schemes to see some investment returns. So yes, one could argue that the Fed "succeeded" at
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by drcode 7y ago
Nobody is forced to buy Bitcoin.
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by drcode 7y ago
No, there has never been a "fad" that had a 100 billion dollar market cap.
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by drcode 7y ago
Satoshi used his/her economic theories to create a 100 billion market cap asset from literally zero... what would they have to do to convince you folks that they were on to something with their ideas? Also cure cancer?
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by drcode 7y ago
Wow, that really obliterates two major assumptions I had about chess (1) that you can't win without 100% dedication to chess (2) that the skills are highly domain specific and not transferable.
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by drcode 7y ago
FWIW, here is the same example in clojurescript qlkit. It doesn't use "reactive atoms", just the usual state map approach. Of course qlkit's selling point (like for Om) is when global state needs to be synchronized to co
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by drcode 7y ago
Actually, my understanding is that light field is actually the ONLY way you could have ar with opaque black. However, you'd need orders of magnitude better light field tech than what's available.
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by drcode 7y ago
You actually can't do that: People have tried, but the plane of focus makes the LCD too blurry. It's an unsolved technology problem.
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by drcode 7y ago
I like the folks involved with Honu and new language initiatives are always great, but to me this reads as "Honu's real trick is supporting something I don't want, using something I don't want"
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by drcode 7y ago
Yes, I agree that they should remove a layer of management to achieve a more focused vision around their products. (sarcasm)
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by drcode 7y ago
The fact that a layer of management can be eliminated with everyone remaining on amicable terms seems like almost uniformly positive news for google.
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by drcode 7y ago
I'm not making any legal claims about his situation, I'm just pointing out that the language being used may be intentionally misleading.
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by drcode 7y ago
Maybe he realized he was in deep s t and thought (wrongly) that cooperating would help his situation.
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by drcode 7y ago
I don't have any real wish to defend this guy since he likely did some really boneheaded things, but "advise them to evade sanctions" could easily just mean "explained to them how to install a crypto wallet on a computer
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by drcode 7y ago
By installing the fork you agreed to the statement "everything is exactly as before except the balances of two addresses"
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by drcode 7y ago
If by "everything" you mean "the balance in one address was moved to one other address" then that would be a correct statement.
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by drcode 7y ago
Proof is stake has been running fine in production for a long time as part of the tendermint project.
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by drcode 7y ago
Like me, you probably live in the vast majority of the Midwest that is as flat as a pancake. I would argue in that scenario 4x4 is not very important: if there's no incline, two wheel drive will work in almost any weather situation. (s
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by drcode 7y ago
People assume trucks are safer in accidents, even though that is by most measures a wrong assumption- Humans are irrational in that way. (the other big reasons for their popularity is status signalling, and perverse incentives created by re
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by drcode 7y ago
No one is allowed to complain about anything anymore in 2019 unless they are exactly the most unfortunate single human being on the entire planet.
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by drcode 7y ago
Carmack is a pragmatist- I'd doubt he'd be doing this if he didn't feel like he had some initial promising directions in mind, though I agree he's probably very early in the process still.
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by drcode 7y ago
LeCun is more accomplished and smarter than I will ever be, but his thoughts on the term 'AGI' just seem like dumb pedantry regarding word definitions to me.
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by drcode 7y ago
There are few AI researchers (maybe around 5 or so) that could credibly claim technical accomplishments of any sort in the same ballpark as Carmack's. People with this level of track record should not be underestimated, there aren&#x27
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by drcode 7y ago
Carmack is someone who has proven to be an almost unequalled productivity machine when working on medium-difficulty problems... Now, for the first time, we'll see if his approach to problem solving can also work on a truly difficult pr
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by drcode 7y ago
What would be awesome is if he just said one day "I need 100 million dollars for my AGI project to buy hardware, anyone who wants to share in a 20% cut of the business just send funds to bitcoin address ### or ethereum address ###&quot
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by drcode 7y ago
I think many people expect that a lot of the missing "special sauce" for AGI (if anyone can figure it out at all) is going to be something for which massive GPU power isn't a key factor.
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by drcode 7y ago
> you'd have no problem giving such consent. I, however, would not be willing to give such consent. That logic only works if you don't still benefit from the research findings that are obtained from my data. e.g. "tragedy

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