drob518

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by drob518 2y ago
You sound like ELIZA.
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by drob518 2y ago
Many years ago, I went on a quest to read as much about AM and EURISKO as I could fine. Unfortunately, Lenat kept all of his work very private (secret, even), and there was very little to read other than high level papers and articles. I al
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by drob518 2y ago
Grifting suggests a level of cynicism, that one knows that one is selling snake oil. I don’t know Lenat and don’t have an opinion one way or another. But be careful suggesting someone is grifting verses just believing in an idea that ultima
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by drob518 2y ago
I hope it doesn’t die in obscurity. Surely, it’s still valuable even if it failed to deliver on its original promises.
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by drob518 2y ago
librsync, anyone?
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by drob518 2y ago
Exactly. Within a given field, there is always a shorthand for things, understood only by those in the field. Nobody describes things in natural language because why would you?
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by drob518 2y ago
This is being studied. Phage research is active.
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by drob518 2y ago
Well, you actually want the body to clear things. That’s not a problem, it’s a feature. If the phage is able to target the bacteria before it is fully cleared, that’s all you need. Humans have been injected with phages and it has been shown
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by drob518 2y ago
To expand on what you wrote, the challenge with phages is that they’re highly specific to certain bacteria, in the same way that some viruses target gorillas and some target humans. We have yet to find broad spectrum phages. While humans ha
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by drob518 2y ago
If you haven’t read Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture, I highly recommend it for addressing some of these issues. It’s vintage now but all the arguments are still relevant. Lessig was one of the drivers of the Creative Commons licenses.
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by drob518 2y ago
I’m sure the best independent Star Wars movie would be infinitely better than what Disney has been shoveling out for the last couple decades.
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by drob518 2y ago
I actually like the default looping. When I’m learning and trying to train my ear, I need to listen to the phrase over and over and it’s helpful to not have to click play again.
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by drob518 2y ago
Exactly. There is a lot happening implicitly in a C program that the programmer has to be aware of and keep in mind. And it’s made worse by valid compile implementation choices. I remember chasing a bug for a day that was based on me forget
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by drob518 2y ago
Exactly. C started off as high level assembly language. That was both a strength, at first, and a weakness, later on.
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by drob518 2y ago
Typically, Lisp is quite flexible, via macros and reader macros, but the smallest core is still fixed in function (the part that implements special forms, order of evaluation, etc., basically eval and apply). This makes even that core repla