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Ruby and Elegance: Transpose(onthebalcony.wordpress.com)
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
It's not about fear. It's about having long stretches of time to just think without distractions.
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Can Science Fiction Wake Us Up to Our Climate Reality?(newyorker.com)
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Another instance of confused language. One can not converse with a program because a conversation implies some notion of semantics and understanding. Software, represented as a binary sequence, has no semantics other than encoding some numb
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Leray in Oflag XVIIA (2000) [pdf](klein.mit.edu)
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
His book "The Act of Creation" is also very good. Somewhat related to prison experiences, John Leray invented sheaves while in a prison camp: > Jean Leray (November 7, 1906–November 10, 1998) was confined to an officers’ prison
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
One can not be loyal to an entity that has no conception of what it means. Language like this is why people are constantly confused about where their loyalties should actually be. One can be loyal to people, one can not be loyal to a workpl
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Cloob: Modern Hopfield Networks with InfoLOOB Outperform Clip(arxiv.org)
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
It's definitely in a gray area because the AI models are essentially compression engines that encode the code samples/data into the weights of the matrices that represent the ML model and then "uncompress" it to serve qu
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
This is the inevitable endgame of financialization. People think financial instruments have meaning when the reality is its just a bunch of numbers in databases and fluffy narratives about GDP and growth.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
That's called socialism.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Do you know who Rodney Brooks is?
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Google will eat itself: https://googlewilleatitself.com/ .
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
The marketing hype has overtaken reality. The current AI technology is not ready for real world deployment and it will not be ready for the foreseeable future: https://rodneybrooks.com/my-dated-predictions/ .
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Their next earnings report is going to be even worse and the one after that even worse than that and so on. They're in a death spiral.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
> The infamous thought experiment, flawed as it is, does demonstrate one thing: physics alone can’t explain consciousness Neither can math by the way and by extension, computation. There is no such thing as a computational theory of cons
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
This is straight out of blade runner 2049.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
> "It has improved my life," he says. "My thoughts are freed up from constantly being cognitively connected to a machine that I need to feed with energy and money. I think that the danger of technologies is that they are e
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Facebook has been a zombie for a while now. Maybe the market has caught up. Their stock price didn't make any sense to me when it was high and it still doesn't make sense to me. With stalling growth and lower overall engagement th
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Then you must think it's undervalued so you should buy some FB.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
There is definitely a lot of magical thinking involved but I wouldn't call that imagination.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
It'll soon be worthless. VR is not a moat and it's unlikely Zuckerberg will manage to convince people that putting on a VR headset and hanging out in a virtual space is going to be preferable to hanging out in real life. I'm
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Thanks, I like peanuts so this is very helpful. I've been fighting squirrels for them but if I can make money then that seems easier and less work than the squirrel fights.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
So if all that value is gone now does that mean WhatsApp ceases to exist? Or does it have negative value now?
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Objective reality is an axiom, it can neither be verified nor disproved.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Sounds like it didn't exist before either.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Where did all the value go? Furthermore, where was it before it just up and disappeared.
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
What's fascinating is that people knew that Facebook's business model was based entirely on targeted advertising and yet they did not see this development. What did people think was going to happen when Apple decided to enforce mo
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by flowtheorist 5y ago
Don't fret. Pandemic restrictions will be lifted entirely in a few months so it will be easier to get out and meet people.
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Basic logic of social media platforms [pdf](github.com)
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