hacker_9

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by hacker_9 10y ago
Or you live in the other 90% of the world, who can't believe how disconnected from reality the US government is.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
So the extent of it is, Putin told Russia Today to bias their news in favour of Trump? I don't care for Trump (or US politics, for that matter), but this has gone so far into the realm of pettiness I cannot even believe what I am readi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Actually it is a superior design; hardware that can adapt to the needs of the software can optimise at will, enhancing the performance to ridiculously fast levels.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Why do I need a citation? Our hardware is an approximation. Think of it like this: Over the course of history we have built smaller and smaller tools, from dumb tools such as hammers and anvils that we could mold visibly. Then later we have
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Interesting Atom is first comment, I usually see it get a lot of hate. My usual environment is Visual Studio, as I work with C# mainly.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Not saying you can't run any kind of software on turing complete hardware, but consciousness is far more that just software. The only proof of consciousness we have is that a brain is required, where software and hardware are the same
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"It's one thing to play Starcraft or Go well. But implementing this is either mostly a question of luck, or an incredibly lifelike robot with incredible facial recognition skills." In terms of strategy though, it is the nex
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Hardware plays a massive part too; I don't see a static micro processor becoming conscious anytime soon. Our brains though are literally physical neural networks, that grow, move, and change physically all the time.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
" Take a written passage and output a recording that can’t be distinguished from a voice actor, by an expert listener. " Role Playing Games would explode if this happened. The ability to generate speech on the fly would create dra
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by hacker_9 10y ago
As a counter, stuff is posted to new every minute, but 90% of it doesn't reach the front page. In order to reach the front, you often have to do make up silly titles such as the ones you mentioned, which cause an emotional response (go
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Rust and Go are always on the front page.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Yeah without performance metrics I'm not sure what to think about this. I'm surprised they even used Python to begin with for their front-end server, for such high volumes of traffic.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I don't write my comments to appease people here, if they don't like them then so be it, that isn't a goal of mine. Rogue-like games plague the Steam store [1], though there will always be games like Legacy that rise to the t
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> Much of our comedy stems from how ambiguous our language is. Yes, but we laugh because we understand there is an ambiguity, not because we don't see it. > How many petabytes on the Internet are wasted with comments correcting s
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Completely disagree. In fact I hate Rogue Legacy and all 'rogue types' because they think randomness = interesting.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
If you read the research, there is lots of incremental progress being made. Mainly with pixels - classifying them into objects, matching object locations to text, attempting to predict future pixel values etc. But this stuff is very 's
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by hacker_9 10y ago
> language is terribly ambiguous I never get this argument. Sure, maybe it is from the point of the computer, but we humans use it just fine.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
In the case of C#, their previous compiler was built in C/C++ and was apparently very hard to work with. Since rewriting in C# itself, named 'Roslyn', they were able to build it with immutable structures, as well as expose th
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Westworld is also dramatized to make for interesting TV. For example, deaf people without a voice in their head would not be conscious by their definition. Consciousness, and suffering, are biological concepts. Computer code running algorit
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by hacker_9 10y ago
My thoughts: UK News: Getting worse each year, though usually high quality, they go so into murder details these days it makes you sick if you aren't already desensitized. US News: these channels are all a joke, honestly Fox and CNN? I
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Starting from a C# background: Scheme - prioritized a 1:1 between syntax and the AST. Reshuffle the syntax, remove the explicit type system. APL - prioritized arrays. Haskell - prioritized FP. Also introduced primitives to make things possi
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by hacker_9 10y ago
GANs seem really interesting, and a logical step if I'm right? As far as I understand they essentially make the fitness function more detailed, leading to higher quality output from the network as it get's more accurate good/
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by hacker_9 10y ago
"After learning a few more languages myself, I came to realize that they were all less diverse than I had anticipated. After some more study, I started appreciating some of the underlying models of computation and programming language
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by hacker_9 10y ago
No? I've worked in plenty of software developer roles in the UK, not sure where this is coming from.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Kind of sad people think they have to work past 10 PM, just to bump up their company image and bosses bonuses. This is what slave labour looks like in the 21 century.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Looks interesting, good luck with it. I don't have anything much concrete to add to what I last said, but I do think visual programming is still an unexplored space. I feel like the flowchart stuff is maybe thinking about the problem t
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Like I replied to your other comment; portable housing that can move on demand. AI bots that rewire water pipes and electricity etc. It could be a regular event to re-landscape whole cities and towns.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
One of the main problems with housing is it is stuck in place, which gives rise to lots of problems: 1. you have to build round existing structures 2. if the sea level rises, there is nothing you can do 3. small roads can't be widened
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by hacker_9 10y ago
I don't think anyone is saying you suddenly don't need money, because in our current society you absolutely do. But it is possible to imagine one without it, once we get over a certain threshold of technology.
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by hacker_9 10y ago
Perhaps with a VR setup like The Matrix, we could all have what we want all the time. Within the society of the world though, there are rules and hard limits so we can all live together peacefully. Besides everyone having their own stuff is

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