ghjyui

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by ghjyui 7y ago
How is random memory relevant here? Today we can run entire Linux in a web page and we can surely run a simulation of IBM PC.
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by ghjyui 7y ago
Irreducibility may be a thing, e.g. turbulence. For example, we can easily make an ML model that recognizes an image or speech and we can explain every little detail about how it works, but we can't explain the high level emergent dyna
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by ghjyui 7y ago
Image recognition needs no storage or retrieval of data: it's a single pass thru a series of matrix multiplications. Yet, image recognition is the very definition of data processing.
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by ghjyui 7y ago
That's easy to disprove. A calculator isn't sophisticated enough to simulate itself, but a modern computer can perfectly simulate itself.
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by ghjyui 7y ago
There is also an unending quest to explain foobar. Hard to explain something that's not defined. We can still talk about what meaning we put into this term. My favorite analogy is the flow of electrons in a processor chip is its consci
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by ghjyui 7y ago
Calling it something that's beyond us is a lazy argument that merely hides unwillingness to put an effort to understand this.
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by ghjyui 7y ago
Am I the only one who sees the elephant in the room? 15-30 is the prime time when women make relationships and men make money. Software engineering needs full time commitmentent and no personal life is a part of the deal. Someone who learns
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by ghjyui 7y ago
No. For example, I have a .org email domain. In order to make this work, everybody involved, that is dns, email hoster and various dbs, ssl certs infra, browsers and email apps, they all need to properly resolve my .org domain. It's un
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by ghjyui 7y ago
It's the opposite. Iirc, icann was a semi gov entity and everybody complained that the internet is effectively controlled by the US gov via ICANN. So the gov decided to yield and give ICANN freedom. Sure enough, icann was quickly captu
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by ghjyui 7y ago
You guys are polishing the steam engine, while we need some real progress. Typing a search query isn't much better than typing a SQL query. This should be the last resort thing. We need a service that would organize the information for