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   by edejong 7y ago

   "HTML on the internet has gone back to the dark ages because it presupposes there should be a browser that understands its format." This is the fundamental reason the modern internet is centralizing to a couple of entities. &quo
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   by edejong 7y ago

   The original ideas behind Smalltalk did allow a void, as in modern day Kafka would be a void or a multi-cast IP address would be a void. There is no clear receiver, there can be multiple receivers or there can be none. Communication is ephe
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Seduced sounds like it had a viable alternative. At the time, machines were mostly single-threaded, especially in the learning environment he was trying to conceive. In that case, there is no need for actor-like communication, except for mi
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Could a researcher chime in: is it possible that smaller models have a higher potential for mapping activations to abstractions that are present in our own language understanding and if so, could we use these makings to make our models more
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Solution in Scala, with JaCoP: import org.jacop.scala._ object Main extends App with jacop { def forAll(l: Seq[BoolVar]) = l.foldLeft[BoolVar](true) { case (r, m) => r /\ m} def forAny(l: Seq[BoolVar]) = l.foldLeft[Bo
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Part of maximizing profit is dependent upon being able to attract and retain top performing human resources. Another part is public perception: brand value and customer engagement. Yet another part in dependent on their network of partners,
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Oh, the shame. I've handed in my resignation as grammar nazi.
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   by edejong 7y ago

   And of grammar nazi’s telling you it’s “it’s” not “its”.
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   by edejong 7y ago

   Unless it is a semantic edit.
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    by edejong 7y ago

    I personally hate these very polluting moped abominations on the Dutch bicycle paths. They should’ve been banned (or heavily taxed) a decade ago when the Greens asked questions in parliament due to appalling emissions findings of a Dutch re
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Neither to me. Perhaps the elderly, mopeds and weekends might bring the average down, but still. We regularly go on long bicycle trips of +30km. Some of my coworkers regularly race +80km. disclosure: Dutch myself
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Well, that's the funny thing. The claim is: "No IP address == unhackable." So, for a second stop assuming we are in a nuclear bunker. There are many unconnected systems that are still hackable. For example, the Stuxnet worm w
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    by edejong 7y ago

    > You can't hack something that doesn't have an IP address. That's a very risky assumption to make. There are many attack vectors besides TCP/IP: social engineering, side-channel attacks, EM pulse, backdoors in ICs...
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    by edejong 7y ago

    I came to the comments just to voice a similar concern. We need to take ownership of our data, whether it is biometric, environmental or social. And once we have established this for ourselves, we should make it as accessible as the commerc
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Do you use a search engine? Social media? Any modern online game? A connected smart home? A smart phone without its privacy settings altered? A modern flat screen tv? A modern car? All of them do behavioral extraction in one form of another
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Love that illustration. Do you have a source? I'd like to pay attribution when I share it elsewhere.
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    by edejong 7y ago

    By correlating on a shared code. But please don't take my word for it, I don't even have a license. See this [1] excellent Reddit discussion. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/49yuwx
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Time to unpack those radios that operate slightly under the noise floor, using shared correlation codes and synchronized clocks. P2P for the win. [edit: grammar]
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    by edejong 7y ago

    > Who is disputing that? I am 99.9% certain that this is true. Well, the general horror story that is being told is that intelligence and the ability to use it go hand in hand. As soon as machines surpass our intelligence, all hell break
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Thank you so much. This comment is golden. I’ve been pushing similar thoughts for years. Also, we should take into consideration the power of our communication structure which has evolved over hundreds of generations. Even if there would be
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Perhaps you want to rebase your changes to the root of your Git repo (in other words, remove history). Now people can just check out the HEAD^ commit.
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    by edejong 7y ago

    I didn't read the article but skimmed. Guilty as charged <blush-emoji> Thought it was about RPA (Robotic Process Automation).
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Also, the 'clang' robots that come to mind have a certain amount of self-reliance. The 'non-clang' robots (which are basically macro's running in VMs), stop working as soon as an unexpected popup appears, the softwa
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    by edejong 7y ago

    There’s certainly no physical force applied, but using the right techniques, we can predictively force a large part of the population to work against their own best interests using psychology alone. Obviously, this is an amalgam of social e
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Borders to slavery in my books. It doesn’t even matter whether these are productive hours, it’s just forced labor using social anxiety peer pressure and FOMO to force people into doing your bidding. Thought we had labor laws for that...
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    by edejong 7y ago

    These are not my words. All I am arguing is that we should expect the simplest possible connection between nutrition and health. Although I do agree we should also understand the systematic effects of certain choices, we cannot make decis
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    by edejong 7y ago

    > Consumers don't want to spend more for appliances. They want cheap. Many consumers are smart enough to understand that 'cheap' is a property calculated over the lifetime of the product.
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Harvard Response: "The panel declared “considerations of environmental impact” out of the scope of their recommendations. This is a missed opportunity because climate change and environmental degradation have serious effects on human h
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    by edejong 7y ago

    Does ClassDojo provide supporting material with a didactic foundation on how to effectively use the app? Do schools or teacher associations provide such material? IMHO, without such guidance, it is irresponsible to use these apps.
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    by edejong 7y ago

    In other words: the value is in the extraction of human behaviour which previously existed in the private sphere.