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by eggie 9y ago
Even if we claim that "real AI" is a system that can actively perform at human levels in creative tasks, I wouldn't believe that it will always be in the future. However, I don't think this is very near, and I think this
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by eggie 9y ago
So we are breaking off small pieces of a bigger thing. If that thing is AI, does it already have a form and an older name in the world? Would agree that in this article AI is a stand-in for what used to be called Math, Statistics, and Compu
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by eggie 9y ago
> I'm also fairly sure Musk has already considered doing this, and reached a conclusion that it wasn't feasible. Do you have evidence of this? Or is it just a hunch...?
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by eggie 9y ago
You could still do something fun and support a bunch of student science projects. They could be thrown together in a hurry, and at low cost. The risk of failure isn't a problem.
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by eggie 9y ago
It's too bad he can't joke about sending a scientific probe to Mars and then doing it.
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by eggie 9y ago
I have done this. I will suggest the same process to others who have been locked out despite providing positive identification.
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by eggie 9y ago
This is rough. I've run into a lot of people who have been locked out of their accounts, with the same kind of vague "specialist working on it" message being copy pasted over and over into support message. Hopefully I can con
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by eggie 9y ago
It's true that there isn't necessarily much difference in typing speed between QWERTY and Dvorak layouts, for trained typists (even the same typist). However, we might say that we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater w
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by eggie 9y ago
I expect us to use the long reads from ONT and PacBio to discover that structural variation is even more important and common than previously appreciated. If that's the case, you'd be silly to use the Illumina technology for anyth
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by eggie 9y ago
The biggest development in single-molecule sequencing (aside from the steady improvement in PacBio's methods) is the arrival of the Oxford Nanopore devices on the market. These are also pretty rough around the edges, but they suggest a
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by eggie 9y ago
> Particularly in humans, can get a highly accurate reading of your variation across your entire genome, including insertions and deletions which are even easier to spot. Insertions and deletions are usually harder to spot with the short
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by eggie 9y ago
It remains difficult to observe genome variation in transposon content. The situation is improving as we get longer single-molecule reads, as these let us reach through these sequences into bits of DNA that let us anchor the position of tra
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by eggie 9y ago
I think the question is if you've considered that not sneezing completely may encourage a situation where you sneeze more often. If the sneezing is actually a helpful thing, it might be a problem to inhibit it.
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by eggie 9y ago
> The brain is slow and redundant. It has to be like that because it is not produced in a factory - it is created by self replication. Self replication imposes strict limits and requirements on the type of brain that can be created. It i
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by eggie 9y ago
I'd love to read your thesis. Would you please a link?
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by eggie 9y ago
> This means that they will judge the risks/harm to the benefits and make a judgement, and receive informed consent. We should remember that it's not just the individual whose genome is edited that may be harmed, but all of the
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by eggie 9y ago
Why would you throw away the biodiversity of our species? You're forgetting about the huge bulk of mutations that have been tested (and were embryonic lethal). Our rapidly growing species has only accumulated mutations that don't
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by eggie 9y ago
We would need a very particular set of conditions for embryonic editing to be justifiable under a medical dogma that aims to "do no harm." Both parents would need to carry a large common set of recessive deleterious alleles, as th
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by eggie 9y ago
> Zuck's genius is his execution ability and making a prime product combined withthe exclusivity of elite Universities. For what it's worth, the Winkelvoss twins came up with exactly this business plan. Maybe his genius was to
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by eggie 9y ago
The compressed suffix tree (CST) supports a number of search algorithms that run in the order of the query length irrespective of the size of the corpus which is being searched. That the suffix tree is compressed allows it use space that is
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by eggie 9y ago
It is very likely that this will eventually end up in sdsl-lite and/or other compressed data structures libraries https://github.com/simongog/sdsl-lite
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by eggie 9y ago
> Counterproductive because monopolists have scale that allows programs and research that cannot develop in companies engaged in perfect competition. If you have enough resources, it's often it's cheaper to quash-and-copy the c
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by eggie 10y ago
> Most current and future audio DAWs and apps are going the down the multi-touch route (Bitwig, Presonus Studio One, etc). Multitouch on Ubuntu is not fantastic, but it does work. I can use Bitwig without trouble on my touchscreen laptop
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by eggie 10y ago
And yet control of the food supply is dominated by a tiny number of slow-moving, conservative companies who appear to spend most of their efforts engineering crops to behave like biological instantiations of intellectual property. Yield is
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by eggie 10y ago
What about chromium browser? Google's tracking features are disabled there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differe... The author might argue that this is weak resistance because it's jus
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by eggie 10y ago
I also can't find any proof that the e2e crypto is broken, but crypto nerds sure love to shit on it. I'd love a source indicating otherwise. The unencrypted messages are certainly not secure, and it's disingenuous of Telegram
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by eggie 10y ago
That's not the e2e encryption protocol that they hacked, but the SMS-based authentication and unencrypted chats that are stored on the server in the plain. The state has control of SMS, so it can impersonate you. This would seem to be
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by eggie 10y ago
Do read the linked article. It describes the situation quite a bit better than I can.
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by eggie 10y ago
> Many of the things listed in these articles, such as making GCM optional, or supporting distribution outside of Play, are not "completely out of bounds." We've expressly indicated support for them and enumerated the work
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by eggie 10y ago
> I do not feel like the FOSS community is a "burden," however I do wish they recognized that many of their desires are unique to a very small minority of Signal users. I wish that they'd take more responsibility for manif

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