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by gnode 7y ago
> Not sure how one would even measure the "intelligent behavior" that you mention. I meant behaviour in the general psychological / cognitive sense; how an actor responds to stimuli. Current popular IQ tests are designed t
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by gnode 7y ago
> Why wouldn't IQ tests be great for studying short term cognitive effects? IQ testing is designed to test for intelligent behaviour, which is largely based on long-term neurological development. The connections in the brain, densit
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by gnode 7y ago
These goals blur together. R&D effort, and usage of die area are all justified by market potential. Knowing how large the market for a technology or tradeoff actually is has value. > I'd hope this could be measured without colle
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by gnode 7y ago
I think the anecdotal comment was actually meant for a different discussion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21565841 ).
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by gnode 7y ago
> “Sometimes we think crafting the perfect email will be the best way to persuade people,” he said. “But what we find in our work is the voice can be quite impactful.” Conversely, I think this is a large part of why I agonise over emails
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by gnode 7y ago
Although not about noise pollution, it does bring to mind the question of how well some of these studies might have controlled for the effect of noise pollution, which would likely have an effect on cognition, and correlate with air polluti
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by gnode 7y ago
The original post doesn't mention IQ. IQ is a terrible metric for studying short-term cognitive effects.
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by gnode 7y ago
Or more analogously, how the agricultural lobby opposes legislation on immigration, animal welfare, and food standards.
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by gnode 7y ago
Google et al often stand to benefit from privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR), because they can bear the cost of compliance, while smaller competitors copying their business model can't. Increased costs in return for a stronger monopoly. It
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by gnode 7y ago
I think buboard was referring to how the most prominent voices heard in political discourse today are not humans speaking for themselves, but corporate entities; lobbyists (correct me if my interpretation is wrong).
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by gnode 7y ago
It makes perfect sense to me. Electric cars from traditional manufacturers have a reputation as substandard vehicles for green activists, largely owing to the compliance car. Ford want to emphasise that this car has a focus on performance a
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by gnode 7y ago
You should turn it off; others won't, and their sacrifice will help Intel design products for real world usage.
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by gnode 7y ago
Usage data could be very useful for decisions on what to dedicate die area to, and how to price products. They might find that a market segment doesn't do a lot of playing 3D games, but does spend a lot of time watching Youtube on batt
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by gnode 7y ago
Human drivers have less sensory capability than a machine driver can have, but we compensate with situational awareness from general intelligence. For a machine, direct sensory knowledge of what's solid and how far away everything is h
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by gnode 7y ago
"It's not a bug, it's a feature."
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by gnode 7y ago
Going beyond the obvious motive of child car seat manufacturers wanting to undermine the second-hand market, I expect design flaws could also play a part. In case there is a flaw, e.g. poisons; unexpected decay of material strength; mold gr
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by gnode 7y ago
Basalt fibre reinforced concrete looks promising. The tensile strength is greater than steel rebar, and inexpensive when compared to carbon fibre. The environmental impact is much lower, as it's a melting process similar to fibreglass
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by gnode 7y ago
Reactors primarily use uranium, but plutonium is routinely used in the form of mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel (about thirty reactors in Europe, at least). One reason is to spend the plutonium from decommissioned nuclear weapons. Using MOX in conjun
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by gnode 7y ago
Despite nuclear being statistically the safest power source per electrical energy generated, people will always complain that it isn't perfect, and that we must wait for X speculatively perfect technology to be developed before we can
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think the concern here is the abuses of companies, or technologies like mobile phones. The concern is technologies like thermonuclear weapons (much worse than even nuclear weapons used against Japan), which we are just very luc
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by gnode 7y ago
> find 1-3 bad non-ECC DIMMs The problem of faulty memory is separate and can be addressed by memory testing (which can even be run while computers are online). My understanding is that ECC's main purpose is to guard against corrupt
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm not sure that it's a bad thing that regulation has made it hard to compete at surveillance capitalism. Arguably, a few accountable, regulated companies is better than many judgement-proof, unregulated ones, with zero being bet
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by gnode 7y ago
> Too bad they didn't just let objects take anything as a key They do, except they get coerced to strings in whacky ways. Objects can be used largely like arrays, and Arrays are Objects, but Array is more suited for an ordered colle
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by gnode 7y ago
Stability was the main issue. My personal experience is that the kernel would crash frequently and unpredictably. If I remember correctly, this would depend to a large extent on drivers, and so vary depending on your hardware. The kernel an
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think this is a problem specific to autism. Schools, at best, are focused on preparing people for employment, or, more typically, on preparing students for exams. Neurotypical students are set up poorly to manage their mental a
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by gnode 7y ago
> there's absolutely no reason to ever consider a stablecoin Although Tether's purpose has largely been to avoid regulation, and participate in cryptocurrency speculation, a stablecoin would be superior for actual commerce. Bit
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by gnode 7y ago
> How many node developers are going to fire up an alternative operating system and learn a new debugger to be able to find a memory leak? I don't think this is much of a barrier, especially when "fire up" means: run a VM
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by gnode 7y ago
You portray encryption as a magical energy. To the best understanding of cryptanalysis research, current TLS is secure. Hypothetically it could be broken and publicly unknown, but this is not a matter of "power". > the other en
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by gnode 7y ago
As I suggested at the end, you could still employ OCR and have a barcode checksum. The checksum would ensure a misread of the human readable text would fail. As long as the checksum was not error-correcting (so could not be engineered to au
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by gnode 7y ago
This seems to be the worst of both worlds. It's not easy for a human to read a square (compared to a line of text). The pixellated font is also not easily readable compared to a vector font. It's also not easy for machines to read

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