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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Well, yes. The Chinese Room claims that there is a gulf between being able to pass a Chinese Turing test versus being able to actually understand Chinese and have intentionality. Unlike intentionality, however, emotions aren't just for show
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Full paper: http://www.sendspace.com/file/942zjv I'll add my thoughts later, after I've read it.
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The fourth state of matter(newyorker.com)
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Getting a fair toss from a biased coin(billthelizard.com)
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Nokia to Offer Its Maps for iPhones and Android Phones(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Palm used to allow syncing through iTunes as well. Every time Apple updated iTunes, it would lock out the Palm Pre; Palm, then, would issue a software update that re-enabled the functionality: > Since the Palm Pre first became availabl
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Genetic Algorithm: Randomly generate algorithms, then evolve them(en.wikipedia.org)
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'Practical Vim' Book, from Vimcast creator Drew Neil, 40% off(media.pragprog.com)
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
> You also have little recourse if a buyer rates you poorly (I guess punish him back by rating him badly too?) Hilariously, sellers can't leave negative feedback for buyers: http://pages.ebay.com/services/forum/sellerprotection.html
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> The results were interesting, but the setups were mostly given to us, and we just had to code an algorithm that was in our notes. Right; I agree. I'm not sure how they would go about making it more challenging though. They can't exp
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
> This has 3 multiplications and 4 additions. We've saved 1 multiplication at the expense of 3 extra additions. Stratssen's algorithm, for multiplying matrices, uses a similar "trick". Naive matrix multiplication uses 8 steps for a (2x2
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
The Chinese character "的" is being used here as a possessive; it just means that the iPad belongs to the "Administrator", which is the default account name for many Windows XP computers [1]. Because iTunes activates iPods, iPhones, and iPad
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Aaron Swartz has a post on dishonesty: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/intellectualdishonesty > Dishonesty has two parts: 1) saying something that is untrue, and 2) saying it with the intent to mislead the other person. He goes on to
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
This could actually be a serious concern. By riding in a self-driving car, we're putting our life directly in to a machine's hands. Of course, this isn't very new: pacemakers, for example, are controlled by computers. They can be reprogramm
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Unicomps are pretty much clones of the Model M. They're available for 80 USD. I'm not sure how much shipping to Europe is, unfortunately. http://pckeyboard.com/page/category/UKBD
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
The class is starting again in three weeks: https://www.coursera.org/course/ml . I'm pretty much in the same boat as you. Looking forwards to it!
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Tangentially related, but still interesting: most people think hard drives have a bathtub curve when failure rate is plotted against time. Turns out this isn't true. Schroeder and Gibson: "Contrary to common and proposed models, hard drive
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
Every time I've tried returning an item less than $20, they don't make me send the item back in. They just give me a refund and tell me to keep the item.
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Chrome doesn't support blocking of third party cookies. You either have them, or you don't. http://db.tt/ldZUNuJo
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> However the reality is that almost nobody in the world or evn your town even knows you exist, much less is actively working to keep you down. If you grow up being told that life is (largely) what you make it, you will tend to do what
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
> i.e. conference tables have MagSafe power adapters zip tied to them semi-permanently, since that's what almost everyone uses. It's too bad that Apple is moving to MagSafe II with the new retina MacBook Pro. I guess we'll all have to
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by dvdhsu 14y ago
> Being able to connect with people from around the world and share content is not a big waste to society. That's correct. However, the ability to "connect with people from around the world and share content" is, as your parent post n
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Sunrise Hour(sunrisehour.com)
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The problem, though, is that I still had to take my hands off the keyboard. This doesn't require me to.
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Reminds me of what Valve did to Axel Gembe. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-02-21-the-boy-who-sto... Basically, Gembe hacked in to Valve's servers and obtained Half Life 2's source code. Roughly half a year later, after Valve had g
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by dvdhsu 15y ago
Is Google likely to acquire you? If they do, is it likely the acquisition will lower Facebook's IPO price?
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by dvdhsu 15y ago
> One recommendation that stuck with me is to avoid words ending in "ly". I now make that effort, and the results are an improvement. For those who are wondering at the rationale behind this: many adverbs end in -ly. "The brown fox qu
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> > I think people here tend to assume that [...] to be an empathetic and emotional person puts them at some sort of optimizational and productive disadvantage. Who? That's a foolish viewpoint that I cannot believe anyone here woul
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by dvdhsu 15y ago
Dgrove, quick heads up: you're hellbanned, and most people can't see your posts. Your recent comments have been positive, so I'm letting you know. Try e-mailing PG about it.
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It's partially because the technology industry moves, while the film or book industry doesn't. Film and novels derive their quality from their plots. Plots transcend time. Although the tools involved in creating a movie or book may change (

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