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by dustyleary 9y ago
Yes, but this is qualitatively different from the AI being a 'person' whose motives you have to question. What are AlphaGo's motives? An AI judge will be optimizing for the things that we build an AI judge to optimize for, t
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by dustyleary 9y ago
Yes. Remember, this isn't an AI judge, it's an AI advisor. The actual judge who decides to execute someone is still human. The AI advisor has no wants of its own. It doesn't have personal opinions about politics, and we don
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by dustyleary 9y ago
An idea, I don't know if it's original or not: I think we can make AI that is 'intelligent' but has no personality or 'self'. An oracle machine you can ask any question of, but it's not an evil genie look
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by dustyleary 10y ago
And to the illegitimate people trying to reach you. But that's the point. Your spam filters probably catch the occasional false positive. This is pretty much the same tradeoff.
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by dustyleary 10y ago
Just like your salary compensation should be determined by the value you bring to your company, instead of how well you negotiate and get people to identify you as "one of us". Just like presidents should be decided by issues inst
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by dustyleary 11y ago
It might have been a link to 'Fischer Random' chess. This is played like normal chess but the arrangement of pieces on the back row is random, with some restrictions for game balance. The random starting position removes the adva
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by dustyleary 11y ago
Thanks, my mistake. I've been bit by this before. I sometimes wish you had to mark "reference-of" just like you have to mark "address-of" with &. It's obvious that blah(&foo) might modify foo, without
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by dustyleary 11y ago
It looks like the examples are broken. uint32_t fetch_multiply(std::atomic<uint32_t>& shared, uint32_t multiplier) { uint32_t oldValue = shared.load(); while (!shared.compare_exchange_weak(oldValue, oldValue * mu
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by dustyleary 11y ago
I'm interested to know if this is really true. I don't think non-contact sports require someone to sacrifice health, except for wearing out their body... And I'm not convinced they wear out their body more than manual laborer
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by dustyleary 11y ago
What you (and the wiki link) are describing is plaintext -> CC (gzip) -> KC. This is different than the argument you're replying to which is plaintext -> KC -> CC.
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by dustyleary 11y ago
I need to see a citation for this. Something like the parent article exposing how things get mistakenly broken by applying this concept. It's important to be paranoid about implementing your own crypto, true. But it's not good t
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by dustyleary 12y ago
I almost commented on the reddit post at the time, but decided not to. Now that I see it repeated, I want to. This is a reading comprehension error, I think. I guess I'm not 100% sure. That "melting concrete and setting grass a
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Although I don't agree with you about their motives (wrt just trying to look superior to their peers), I won't argue that point. But even if you think their motives behind the charity are selfish, don't discount the effects.
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by dustyleary 13y ago
How refreshing, a correct usage of "the exception that proves the rule"!
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Counting graphemes and detecting "the nearest complete grapheme" are basically the same problem. The only reason counting graphemes is hard is because detecting grapheme boundaries is hard.
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by dustyleary 13y ago
For essentially all companies whose customers are paying consumers: The technical staff all talk about the dangers of Friday evening deployments. The company has ignored/overridden these warnings in the past, and sometimes experienced
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Can you reply with your Model Identifier? Click the Apple icon in the top left of the menu bar, choose "About This Mac", click "More Info", click "System Report", and on the first screen ("Hardware Overvie
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Let's consider that it might be a fair coin, or it might be a double-headed coin. Let's also say that every time you flip the coin and it comes up tails, you win $5. And every time you flip the coin and it comes up heads, you los
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Without the compartments/channels/separate entrances, wind blowing in from one direction would mostly just go around the central pillar, rather than down into the funnel.
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by dustyleary 13y ago
The graph is log10-scale, so it's difficult to see a 50% or 100% increase in volume. It's definitely not a 5x or 10x increase though.
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by dustyleary 13y ago
> In the final analysis, we may appeal to the Gödel Incompleteness Theorems and conclude that in every logic there are statements which are true, but not provable, or provable, but not true. Is this wrong? "true but not provable&quo
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by dustyleary 13y ago
I'm surprised to see the caffeine withdrawal horror stories: I drink what I think is a lot of caffeine. I just counted what I've had today, a normal day in terms of caffeine: 1 cup of aeropress coffee in the morning, which I mak
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Can you give an example of funds like this? Maybe instructions on how you would search for them?
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by dustyleary 13y ago
Not a "play"... But a common 'talking point' related by Bitcoin naysayers attempting to discredit Bitcoin. Mtgox.com really did start off as "magic the gathering online exchange", and was a site where people could buy/sell Magic cards. Ner
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by dustyleary 14y ago
It's a bit of a stretch to call it a Ponzi scheme IMO, but you could try to make the argument that all the early investors who got in for cheap/"free" are now cashing out with the money of new investors. But, the "Ponzi scheme" people are e
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by dustyleary 14y ago
A great set of stories from an amazing life: http://www.amazon.com/Amarillo-Slim-World-Full-People/dp/B00... Amarillo Slim engaged in these sort of prop bets all the time. Some of the more interesting stories where he "abuses the rules"
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by dustyleary 14y ago
> never once have I seen the messenger say "Here's how not to couple, but note that this takes longer so pick your poison." I agree, but this perhaps exposes a problem: All of the tutorials/approaches are green-field development. I'd
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by dustyleary 14y ago
> With experience, keeping behaviors decoupled doesn't cost more than the alternative. It's not a time to market issue. This is a strong statement. It should be backed up. But, supposing it's true, I think you're not considering: it t
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by dustyleary 14y ago
Both invocations take similiar amounts of "real" time because the task is IO-bound and it takes roughly 1.5s on your machine to read the file. But if you add up the "user" and "sys" time in the cat example, you see that it took 1.992s of ac
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by dustyleary 14y ago
He's out of touch with reality. Xanga, MySpace, Digg… the lists extends to infinity, and only fools could think that Twitter and Facebook, giants now, won’t be added to that list within the next five years. I wonder if his tune will chang

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