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   Building Brains to Understand the World's Data - Jeff Hawkins [video](youtube.com)

   8 points by gosub 14y ago|1 comments
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   by gosub 14y ago

   as DanBC said, the "canonical" definition of a computer is based on programmability. In that sense, the precursors to Babbage where some mechanical looms like the Jaquard Loom ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquard_loom ).
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   by gosub 14y ago

   > That'a a programmer-centric view of the matters. If every device is a computer, every device user is a programmer. > I want software that works so well that I don't feel the need to worry about how "restrictive" it might be. You s
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   by gosub 14y ago

   > Microsoft would go to any lengths to protect and improve morale. Like in "The beatings will continue until morale improves"?
5. 155.▲
   by gosub 14y ago

   Your phone has a programmable cpu, so it is a computer. What you want is just very restrictive software.
6. 156.▲
   by gosub 14y ago

   Or they could use homomorphic encryption. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
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   by gosub 14y ago

   Maybe a database with immutable data, like datomic?
8. 158.▲
   by gosub 14y ago

   I haven't found a way, but you could try downloading it with youtube-dl or get-flash-videos
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   Gerald Sussman - An Electrical Engineering View of a Mechanical Watch (2003)(video.mit.edu)

   58 points by gosub 14y ago|8 comments
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    by gosub 14y ago

    tstamp <- this ! "data-timestamp" >>> arr parseTime -< el This, on the other hand, is one of the thing I don't like about Haskell: there are 4 operators on this line, and no easy way to see, at a glance, their
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    by gosub 14y ago

    One of the things I like about Haskell is that there's never scarcity of new concepts to learn: Functors, Applicatives, Monoids, Monads, Monad transformers, Comonads, Arrows, Lenses, Foldables, Iteratees... And every one of these has a worl
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    by gosub 14y ago

    This is how wrong Kurzweil is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity_Is_Near#Predict...
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    by gosub 14y ago

    1 headphone = one ear covered 2 headphones = both ears covered
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    by gosub 14y ago

    "destruction" and "stealing" are both words with a physical connotation, that is misleading when used in a computational/digital context.
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    by gosub 14y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_the_Younger#Death
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    by gosub 14y ago

    There is also an emotion that I'm feeling now, for which I am a bit ashamed: here is someone who had some principles that are really similar to mine. Someone who had the guts to act according to those principles, and who faced the consequen
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    A Moment Before Dying(aaronsw.com)

    202 points by gosub 14y ago|20 comments
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    by gosub 14y ago

    I would like to live in a world where, what Aaron did, was neither immoral nor illegal.
19. 169.▲
    by gosub 14y ago

    dynamic third level domains could be made even more legible: movie-talk@green-dragon.breeze123.com
20. 170.▲
    by gosub 14y ago

    A fool and his liberties are soon parted?
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    by gosub 14y ago

    The good old straw vulcan http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawVulcan
22. 172.▲
    by gosub 14y ago

    todo app + fiverr integration?
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    by gosub 14y ago

    "Our design of this introductory computer-science subject reflects two major concerns. First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel
24. 174.▲
    by gosub 14y ago

    Maybe dna based life IS the self replicating probe.
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    by gosub 14y ago

    Would be against Kickstarters' TOS to sell micro-shares of the company making the product? It would be like a distributed yc.
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    by gosub 14y ago

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
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    by gosub 14y ago

    I''l give you an example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Italian.svg edit: a couple of funny things for italian keyboards, if you are a programmer or use linux/unix: there is no backtick, there is no tilde, '/' is shift-7, '/' and '
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    by gosub 14y ago

    I semi-seriously think then someone got the idea for the 'solution' from this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90cRyd4LpJo
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    by gosub 14y ago

    renice 15 `pgrep other_team_process`
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    by gosub 14y ago

    The effect of infinite audio tone descent is a Shepard tone http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_tone