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by gambler 8y ago
The sheer fact that you need to involve a third party for encryption shows that the web is fundamentally, conceptually broken and no longer lives up to its original design goals.
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by gambler 8y ago
>[About a third of all "popular" (ie top 10 million) web sites are HTTP/2 today] Don't forget that a huge chunk of them are hosted on megacorp cloud platforms. Everything became so "simple" and "strea
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by gambler 8y ago
Reminds me of The tale of the neuroscientists and the computer: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.783... Seems like these researchers are using techniques similar to what is used in neuroscience.
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by gambler 8y ago
After playing SOMA, I recall it every time I see moderately glitched images. Using digital "distortion" as part of the visual aesthetic was absolutely brilliant. I feel like it started a trend, although maybe multiple developers s
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by gambler 8y ago
It's downright hilarious that now, when IE is dead at last and browsers finally have APIs and CSS support to do things cleanly, developers are completely abandoning "vanilla" JS development in favor of frameworks and per-pr
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by gambler 8y ago
I don't know how many websites like Medium it will take for people to realize that for quality content a website needs: 1. Well-defined subject. 2. Some standard for quality. 3. Editors with a stake in the website who filter out things
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by gambler 8y ago
This project actually proves the point of the root comment. The community spent tons of time on tuning/training this network, and it still routinely loses to Stockfish, which runs on inferior hardware. It illustrates that: 1. Deep mind
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by gambler 8y ago
http://blog.fogus.me/2018/10/25/soup/ http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay...
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by gambler 8y ago
They are dynamic and late-bound, for starters. Ruby always supported the notion of methods as message handlers. JavaScript added some support for that in ES6.
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by gambler 8y ago
If you're talking about GoF design patterns, then I think they are a waste of time. They are low-level and extremely class-oriented. This is exactly the area where FP wins over Java-like languages hands-down. And I'm saying this a
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by gambler 8y ago
1. What you see in Java is not OOP. It's static, late-bound class/interface oriented programming. Mostly just a set of subtly bad ideas. 2. Real OOP and FP do not operate on the same level. Functional, logic and imperative program
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by gambler 8y ago
It's not the accomplishment that people knock. It's the spin, the inaccurate article titles and the hype.
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by gambler 8y ago
When your algorithm needs to be changed to generalize, it does not generalize. If people stopped moving the goalposts and spreading baseless hype, actual AI research would be much father along right now.
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by gambler 8y ago
>You mean like chess? And go? What a clever reply. No, like the ones I named in the post above. >Can you name one that is played professionally (important for balance and comparison to humans) If you pause to think about it, thing
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by gambler 8y ago
>There are limitations they put on the AI to try ti restrict to human levels. Such as having an action counter. Which is exactly why StarCraft is not a very good game to test AI on. It's absurd to put arbitrary limitation on somet
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by gambler 8y ago
Stuff like that is why StarCraft is not a very good game to test AI on. It's good for publicity, because it is well-known and has a pro scene so you can claim to "beat humans", but it's too complex in some ways (ruleset)
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by gambler 8y ago
Can you provide some links?
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by gambler 8y ago
Which paper? How did they address it?
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by gambler 8y ago
>This is an AI playing starcraft. Starcraft! Yeah, it's not like computers were ever able to play StarCraft before. Oh, wait...
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by gambler 8y ago
>You honestly do not consume any news about current world events, whether local, national, or international? Not intentionally. Information about big things still leaks through websites like HN and Slashdot, through articles/inter
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by gambler 8y ago
I will start taking research like this seriously when authors will start discussing media spin as part of the problem. If you think bots are a problem, but news websites engaging in blatant, Orwellian language and fact bending are not... yo
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by gambler 8y ago
Except there is hard empirical data showing that something is actually going wrong. Like rapidly rising teenage anxiety, depression and suicide rates.
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by gambler 8y ago
I highly recommend everyone to read the book The Coddling of the American Mind. A large chunk of it is dedicated to this very question: why children have much less play time today than in the past, how it's harming them and what to do
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by gambler 8y ago
> Any system that can be achieved with humans can also be achieved with AI. I hope you meant it the other way around.
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by gambler 8y ago
Depends on how much you know about SmallTalk. Here is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baxtyeFVn3w
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by gambler 8y ago
>I couldn't understand the fascination with the integrated environments though. The only thing I can recommend it watching some Alan Kay videos or Pharo demos. Windows and Linux UI conditioned everyone to think of UI as a crutch f
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by gambler 8y ago
I don't see discussions of any of the things you mentioned. I see people falling in love with "clever" code. Quines can be made straightforward. You have two copies of your code. Copy 2 then prints copy 1 twice, creating the
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by gambler 8y ago
I don't get people's fascination with quines. If your language supports at least two ways of quoting strings and some basic regex replacements, you can cook up a quine just by starting with an empty string and using double-cursor
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by gambler 8y ago
I wonder how all those column-based database deal with salability. I've heard some miracle stories about their performance and they seem to be used for really, really large data sets. I've never heard anyone complain about lack of
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by gambler 8y ago
>Step 1: Define the access patterns you think you’ll need What happens when they change?

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