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by ewjordan 16y ago
You need all of this information plus knowledge of the various interactions of the different environments to pursue Kurzweil's approach. Absolutely, and this is one reason why I think Kurzweil's approach overall is pretty foolish. But I d
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by ewjordan 16y ago
My point is that you can't write a little equation for a neuron (which is an entire living cell!) and wave your hands and say "done!" Kurzweil is way way way too hand-wavey for me. Yes, we're in full agreement on this, especially the part
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by ewjordan 16y ago
It's only 10,000 lines of code! How hard can that be? All we have to do is write the code, plus the frameworks, programming language, and operating system, plus do all the hardware design. Except that DNA doesn't even come close to bein
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by ewjordan 16y ago
FWIW, I'm not too far away from you on this - I don't think we are going to find a very simple algorithm to do whatever general pattern recognition the brain does. All indications suggest that while there may be such an algorithm programmed
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Absolutely, I never said that I think modeling the brain would be easy (I don't) or that building it up from DNA is anywhere near the best way to attempt AI (IMO it's not). I simply don't buy the argument that the algorithms of cognition in
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by ewjordan 16y ago
1) An estimate of complexity is what it is - an estimate of complexity. It's not a claim that the way to achieve AI is to figure out the details of the particular encoding that nature ended up using, so the precise nature of those rules
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by ewjordan 16y ago
DNA is not a program-- it is a molecule, and one that may very well do things at the quantum level that are biologically important. Sure, but Kurzweil's claim is merely that if DNA can encode everything the brain does with N bits of infor
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Don't Make Your Android App Free If You Ever Want To Charge For It Again(google.com)
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by ewjordan 16y ago
My favorite bit: So far, the vast majority of the programs I write have been single-threaded, refcounted (or manually memory managed), and deterministic. I think I'll continue to do it that way, thanks. Well, gee, I'm so glad that's clear
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by ewjordan 16y ago
As long as Oracle doesn't decide to scrap the set of promises that Sun had made for Java 7, that release will resolve many complaints and bring the language forward a bit, at least. It's not going to make Java the most powerful language ar
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Until a major chorus of experts chimes in with "Yup, this is curtains for this approach", I think it would be wise not to take too seriously any blog comments based on quick reactions to the paper. ...just as it would be unwise to take the
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by ewjordan 16y ago
The visualization at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870330970457541... (linked from this article) is just terrible - it's at the very least a pointless way to display the time data, at worst deliberately misleading as to wha
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Hashrocket are a bunch of great people running a great company and they went through a lot in the past few weeks. No. The majority of the people at Hashrocket may be great, but the people at the top that were involved in this mess are ju
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Because we saw pictures of their "advertisements", and they were quite obviously designed to trick people into thinking they were invoices, or at the very least make them think they wouldn't be listed in the real Yellow Pages without payi
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Nontransitive Dice(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Your math is right, but there's more to the story here, specifically to understand why the switching argument is wrong - this is commonly misunderstood, and has more to do with the implied "fairness" of the putting-numbers-in-the-envelope p
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by ewjordan 16y ago
That is, if you can't setup a CL system, you simply are not skilled enough as a programmer. Get over it. "Can't" is not at issue here - with enough effort, anyone can do just about anything. The question is whether it's actually worth th
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by ewjordan 16y ago
a custodian who actually cares to improve it, along with the insight and ability to say "no" to enough features that it has sharp unified direction and doesn't become a typical example of open source feature creep. Sun, in its ownership o
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by ewjordan 16y ago
In java private variables and functions are not accessible from outside the class. Not quite - using reflection you can dig into private fields and do your worst to them, you just need to tag each private member's Field object with with f
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Anecdotal again, but every worthwhile programmer I've known does not use an IDE. Not going to touch this other than to note that at Google, IBM, and Sun, most of the Java devs use one of the big 3 (Eclipse, Netbeans, or IntelliJ), you can
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by ewjordan 16y ago
IDE's are good for getting mediocre productivity out of bad programmers. No, that's what Java is good for. IDEs are good for maximizing the productivity that any programmer gets out of Java. Otherwise the best Java programmers wouldn
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by ewjordan 16y ago
And I enjoy having nice neat tight code as a result. Huh? Being able to look up functions and read the Javadocs without grepping somehow makes code messy, now? I don't need the completion, shortcuts etc, because I "know" the code base.
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by ewjordan 16y ago
If you're really a noob, I'd try to be a little less careful, personally. The best way to stop writing shitty code is to write a whole lot of it so that you realize why it's shitty, not to blindly follow best practices from the start. Of c
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Academics in some fields build up entire careers worth of work that all builds upon their "special sauce" super-secret dataset or software, which they've built up over many years, and while there might be enough information in principle i
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by ewjordan 16y ago
TRWTF here is who the hell at Intel thought it was a good idea to be making seriously large cash payments to another company so that they would not use a competitor's product...really, guys? I thought you were smarter than that. While I'll
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Yowza, Microsoft all over the place in that course...I weep for the commuter student that runs OS X at home and has no desire (or disk space) to dual boot Windows. That said, the restriction against Boost may be primarily to ensure that peo
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by ewjordan 16y ago
As someone who learned C++ few years back let me tell you that professors in Universities actively discourage use of Boost. I'm curious - why is this? Do they just not like students leaning on libraries at all, or is it something specifi
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by ewjordan 16y ago
No way this is real time, not even close. There's a frame rate counter visible in a couple of the videos (see http://vimeo.com/7455632 , for example), and it's going at about 3-4 fps for the lowest detail models, which only have somewhere
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by ewjordan 16y ago
None of this has anything to do with or any impact on Hashrocket. ...a company founded in part by some guys that run what is, at best, an ethically bankrupt company preying on the fears of gullible small-business owners, and at worst, an
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Did you see the actual advertisement? Illegal, maybe not...but malicious? Certainly. An advertisement just doesn't come out accidentally looking like it's an invoice from the Yellow Pages (the real ones), that takes effort. The intent is

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