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Artificial topological matter opens new research directions(sciencedaily.com)
4 points by dwringer 9y ago|0 comments
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by dwringer 9y ago
I kind of agree and disagree with the criticisms in this thread. For a while in season 2 I didn't watch much of the show for pretty much the reasons given here. Nevertheless, I watched a good bit of the first and third seasons, inclu
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Elon Musk's discussion with Rick (and Morty) on simulations and singularities(syfy.com)
3 points by dwringer 9y ago|0 comments
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by dwringer 9y ago
I don't understand what you mean about formally specifiable postconditions. Genetic algorithms can have formally specifiable postconditions, they just aren't definable in terms of the problem space to which they're typically
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by dwringer 9y ago
Genetic algorithms are algorithms in that they are a description of a specific process or set of processes (which may used in heuristics, or studied in isolation) at an implementation level of abstraction. "Genetic heuristics" su
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by dwringer 9y ago
I fully conflated both words as well in my reply, don't feel too bad :)
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by dwringer 9y ago
A common complaint about Lisp code in general is that programmers tend to write code that is idiosyncratic [ED: I previously used the word "idiomatic" here in reply to the OP but was conflating terms, making this post rather irrel
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by dwringer 9y ago
> So if your approach is to "try to avoid interacting with them", it just automates that. Well, I didn't really mean that I don't read or listen to what they have to say. I just choose not to engage with it.
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by dwringer 9y ago
I will be perfectly honest, I found this hilarious because I clicked the link without even thinking about it, closed it almost immediately, navigated away, came back, and didn't even remember having clicked on it until seeing it greyed
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by dwringer 9y ago
I don't really understand the appeal of a friend/foe system. If I don't like a person, I typically try to avoid interacting with them unless/until I find a way to reevaluate them or myself so that I can find something p
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by dwringer 9y ago
I know others have downvoted you, but I want to thank you for pointing that out to me. I had absolutely no idea the word "wit" could be used in that way. Apparently it appears in some biblical passage(s), as well as in a Robert
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by dwringer 9y ago
"Wait. I've seen this. I stand here, right here, and I'm supposed to say something. I say, 'Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.' . . . What? What did I just say?"
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by dwringer 9y ago
FWIW the PDF of the book "Pharo By Example" is available for free. It has also been revised for version 5 - I tried using edition 1 with Pharo 4 and kept having to look up the new names for things, to the point where it was frust
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by dwringer 9y ago
That reminded me of another example of this I remember seeing in the headlines; I'm not sure if this [1] is the one I'm recalling, but basically this is a similar situation for a different structure in the brain that was discovere
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by dwringer 9y ago
That's definitely what those in favor of repealing the protections want you to think. Silencing dissenters by creating the illusion that their voice means nothing is one of the oldest tricks in the book.
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by dwringer 9y ago
At the time Facebook was created, there was a lot of talk about how private organizations already had such dossiers on the general public. Facebook is more like the "tip of the iceberg". At least it gives users some control over
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by dwringer 9y ago
If someone only has familiarity with AI from reading passing news stories, it is reasonable to think they would have such a perception of the field. I think your diagnosis of the downvoters might be correct, but "not even wrong"
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by dwringer 9y ago
In American English, both "grey" and "gray" are considered acceptable and it's not uncommon to see both used here in my part of the US. Personally I usually write "grey" but if it's a particularly da
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by dwringer 9y ago
The whole point of a doomsday device is lost if you keep it a secret! But, a little bit of polonium in your tea is nothing compared to the international conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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by dwringer 9y ago
Well... to that page's credit somewhere halfway down it does mention that the existence of a dead hand is only a hypothesis. I suppose it's just one more onto the pile of things from Dr. Strangelove that people interpret as absol
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by dwringer 9y ago
I think if the argument "people do not want to operate their own servers" were true, then ISP's like Comcast wouldn't have clauses prohibiting users from doing it, or filters in place blocking access to common service po
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by dwringer 9y ago
Modal interfaces are bad practice for software that will be used by people with minimal training, in a "pick up and go" fashion, but they are not necessarily counterproductive for skilled experienced users. Douglas Engelbart was
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by dwringer 9y ago
Another possible reason not outlined the other replies you received to this comment - If I were to say "copy the raw file" someone less experienced may think "okay, take the fresh jpeg file and copy it", interpreting &qu
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by dwringer 9y ago
"Also?" I was only bringing the subject up for discussion - I think it would be ridiculous to suggest that facial features could actually predict a person's musical tastes. These tastes change in some people from day to day
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by dwringer 9y ago
I wonder how relevant this perspective is to the discussion going on at [1]. Particularly, I am curious how people interpret the notion that a deep learning system could predict a person's musical preferences by their facial features.
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by dwringer 9y ago
There was a linked page here on HN a couple of months ago [1][2] with (I thought) an interesting overivew of this topic. [1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computation-physicalsyste... [2] https://news.y
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by dwringer 9y ago
I see comments suggesting that it wouldn't be worth the effort to translate this based on the author's hypotheses, but there has been a substantial community around trying to do just that for a long time. FWIW The NSA appears to
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by dwringer 9y ago
As much as I am confident many pump operators out there would do anything to make a quick buck at the customer's expense, all it takes is one time metering more gas into your tank than what your tank is able to hold, after which you kn
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by dwringer 9y ago
I've had different opinions on fonts over the years, sometimes with little to no preference and other times trying to use a single font across all my devices. I finally decided the only real preference I had was not seeing the same fo
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by dwringer 9y ago
OP edited the original comment to mention an alleged fist fight after getting a slew of responses directed at the "anger" aspect.

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