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by frig 17y ago
The entire essay fails at some basic level for me. Background Situation: you maintain a heavy internet presence in which you write lots of articles on various "issues" and have attracted a sizable community of hangers-on who like to argue a
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by frig 17y ago
Yeah, we're getting ever closer to the era in which: - you step out to home depot to buy a $20 hammer - when you get there "The Flash" (of dc comics fame) figures out you're looking to buy a hammer and buys all the $20 hammers - he leaves
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by frig 17y ago
The latter scenario is precedented; consider how many spreadsheets are out there versus how many industry-specific forecasting/bookkeeping/helper programs. Good thought.
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by frig 17y ago
Eh I can tell you that variations on the above scenario are actually useful. There's a handful of companies that essentially do more in-depth versions of these things at like the level of "h1n1 comes to small town america; what emergent beh
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by frig 17y ago
It wouldn't be that surprising. You put together custom regex-processing silicon (eg: what Tarari used to make) and related hardware (eg: entropy calculators, that kind of thing) and mix in various types of content-addressed memory and you
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by frig 17y ago
I forgot a couple other points. A noninfected can see a zombie and recognize that it is the zombified version of some "known" agent. There's two goals with the communication: - the first is that it opens up a lot of fun if you have pluggabl
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by frig 17y ago
Zombie invasion. Basic rules: -- VISION: - noninfected can see agents within radius R but can only determine if a seen agent is "zombie / not zombie" within radius r < R - infected can see agents within radius Z (r < Z < R) and
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by frig 17y ago
Minor point, but do you notice how there's not even "previous" / "next" (and also "up") links on each page of documentation? Attention to small details is the greater part of friendliness.
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by frig 17y ago
It is if it's just that. I was thinking it'd be also like pdf and that other format adobe's been working on for ebooks (basically similar to pdf but better about reflowing text for different screen sizes) would wind up having fine grained a
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by frig 17y ago
Hypothesis: adobe is the content-creation-tools company (and has flash). Omniture+Adobe leads to: deeply integrated content+analytics, eg the ability to author web or flash content with very fine-grained data capture and analytics.
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by frig 17y ago
I missed that; ctrl-f tendon doesn't find it, but ctrl-f cartilage turns it up. Thanks for bringing it up. When you hit a certain age "oh my aching joints" is far more relevant to your interests than "brains might survive motorcycle crash",
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by frig 17y ago
Anyone know enough to know if a similar approach has been tried for soft tissue repair (joints, tendons, ligaments, etc.)? EG: injecting nanoparticles with suitable coatings as a way of promoting faster joint repair (hips, wrists, shoulders
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by frig 17y ago
Does anyone know how hard it'd be to send up a proper digital SLR and/or a proper digital hd camcorder on a similar contraption? Assume you already have the fancy camera or camcorder.
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by frig 17y ago
Discussion I saw said it's two computers: one for public internet one for the high-security gov network (with no physical connection). Apparently that's the norm for very-high-security government setups.
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by frig 17y ago
Medvedev's office: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2453/3714584029_6d37f5a64e_o.... Oval Office: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/21/us/21obama5-6...
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by frig 17y ago
I guess what I'm asking is: is "People" just a default answer?
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by frig 17y ago
I put this in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C*-algebra The results are better than I would've guessed, but not really so great (this article is pretty degenerate I think, versus more "human-interest" type stories). One thing I'm curious o
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by frig 17y ago
You can hire PR agencies to do that kind of thing for you, you know.
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by frig 17y ago
Did you just cut-and-paste from the article comments? Posted by: quilner | 09/10/09 | 12:28 am Some questions about Nanosolar’s $1-per-watt claim: What happens at night? What happens when its cloudy? What happens during the winter-time? Do
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by frig 17y ago
Perhaps, but (to the best of our apparent knowledge) the difference between "doggy brain" and "human brain" isn't really that the "human brain" is orders of magnitude faster at thinking "doggy thoughts"; it appears to be at least as much a
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by frig 17y ago
You're framing this question in an unhelpful way. Better: what are the major arguments for the position that machine consciousness is not possible? What do I think of those arguments? Particularly taking care to distinguish: - does the argu
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by frig 17y ago
Why would I open the Squeelr app?
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by frig 17y ago
I don't know of another organization that, on balance, comes across as having a deeper well of general competence and organizational smarts than the marines (/not a marine). How much of marine philosophy and organizational style makes it in
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by frig 17y ago
This is fascinating material I didn't know existed; thank you for posting it.
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by frig 17y ago
The technical arguments for Dalvik I remember are twofold: (a, minor) the dalvik vm is a closer fit to the underlying cpu (being a register-based vm iirc) which makes it simpler to implement and/or a little more performant (b, major) the da
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by frig 17y ago
My point is that the means produce the ends and the means of realpolitik produce crappy ends. I'm still not sure you understand what I was trying to say; regardless of whether your take on realpolitik is correct or not (and I don't have a
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by frig 17y ago
And I'll lead by example. My underlying moral intuitions as relevant to the specific situation at hand are as follows: - generally speaking I don't expect real-world moral dilemmas to have parties unambiguously in the right and in the wrong
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by frig 17y ago
Actually I did, LOL. The request that you either: - explain how both ditches and knowledge share an identical classification along both of those axes (excludability and rivalry) - or explain not only that your little theory doesn't recogniz
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by frig 17y ago
I also want to point this out: It's also interesting that your response to the fact that it's not the actual beneficiary who is using the knowledge, but a speculator, was to invoke realpolitik. One problem with that is that the means produ
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by frig 17y ago
Let's rewind here, LOL. This is where we went off the tracks: Yes, my example is different. I'm using that difference to demonstrate that your argument fails. From here on out I've been saying: - (i) your example is sufficiently different

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