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by hacker_9 11y ago
Well, of course. I imagine it's done to see if they can see it reflect off the plane for amusement, not realizing that it could distract pilots and be potentially fatal.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
What a knee jerk reaction. I agree that people shouldn't be shining lasers at planes, but ban them outright? I think that really there just needs to more education, and perhaps make people register if they want to buy the powerful lase
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Looks pretty sweet. I can't see much use case for it though to be honest. Animation's while reading is distracting, but maybe it could be useful for some interactive tutorial.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Anything built with Unity, such as Cities Skylines. Additionally anything built with unreal engine [0] like Gears of War, the Arkham KNight series etc [0] https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Garbage_Collection_Overview
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Minecraft is a special case, as the amount of voxels in memory and the constant loading and deloading of blocks of the map every few seconds, means that memory management is incredibly important to the game. That's why the C++ version
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by hacker_9 11y ago
When we look at Lisp we see archaic user interfaces, legacy keywords such as car, cdr and cons which bear no meaning to us mere mortals. Also no clear consensus on what extensions to use. Why are there so many dialects? Can you not agree on
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I'm surprised this surfaced on HN, which is usually crazily in love with all the 'innovative' new web technologies that keep popping up. Some of my favorite quotes from the article: "You see the Node.js philosophy is to
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I admire what you're doing, but I can't help but see gaping holes in your card wiki idea. 1. Your examples all seem to suffer from the same problem all of Bret Victors ideas do too; they don't scale. Sure I would like interac
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by hacker_9 11y ago
From your link, compare the red RBG bar to the clearly orange bars at the side of the screen. Additionally the 'Analogous Colors' contains an even more obvious orange, and pink, but no sign of red.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Whilst colour can be subjective, in this case it is clearly yellow and a mistake by the OP, because the preceding bar is clearly orange.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
what 'revolution'?
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by hacker_9 11y ago
1. In a virtual environment the computer knows about all the objects in the scene. It's a whole other level to have the computer interpret the world through light alone. 2. If you meant that it learnt to play 2d games through watching
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by hacker_9 11y ago
People were worried about losing their jobs back when computers first became widespread too, but actual statistical evidence suggests that the amount of jobs available actually rose.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
"Human or superhuman performance in one task is not necessarily a stepping-stone towards near-human performance across most tasks. By the same token, the ability of neural networks to learn interpretable word embeddings, say, does not
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I know, I was approaching it from your angle, the current state of ML, and explaining it from that context. You support ML but then refer to humans as 'just apes' in a derogatory fashion. I was just pointing out that in fact these
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Well technically yes, but I could counter argue that we have 'living memories' that we can not only replay at any time (any of them, without any buffering or delay), but also change and combine with other memories to create new me
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by hacker_9 11y ago
What? The brain has not only solved the vision problem (reconstructing depth from still images, recognising the objects in the scene, and filling in the occluded parts), it has also solved the motion problem of coordinated the movement of o
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by hacker_9 11y ago
There is a reason for this: it makes us able to adapt to _any_ environment on earth. We learn everything from our parents/guardians who have learnt all the 'right' ways of doing things. Look around, are we not the dominant sp
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Not true. Humans can adapt to many environments by pulling in training from other related environments and applying it to the new data. Some call this generalised learning, but I think it points more to our ability to shape everything we kn
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by hacker_9 11y ago
The creation of what is essentially an ethics committee for a technology that doesn't even exist yet? With people such as Elon Musk on board who have publicly said 'AI is our biggest existential threat' ? Additionally the sec
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by hacker_9 11y ago
"we've also started to see what it might be like for computers to be [creative], to [dream], and to [experience the world]." All three of those links are about neural networks.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
This is about 100 years too early. Seriously why do people think neural networks are the answer to AI? They are proven to be stupid outside of their training data. We have such a long way to go. This fear-mongering is pointless.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Really enjoying the graphics on this page!
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by hacker_9 11y ago
How is this article front page HN news?? The GUI Link People think of gui elements as seperate objects (scrollbar, list, tree, textbox etc), so why is it a bad thing that the software also reasons about them as objects? Author just seems to
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by hacker_9 11y ago
new what? Usually you'd say newItem for example. Also, if you really want, in C# you can write @class.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
..sorry but this is a non-problem. If you insist on not using an IDE, then the compiler will still catch any keyword clashes as errors. Also most languages use contextual keywords so it's even less of a problem.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
I can't believe the first comment here is making a problem out of it not being free. Sadly the vocal majority of HN will berat you for not making all your code open source and the product free; but don't think for a second they kn
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by hacker_9 11y ago
There's an app for that.
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by hacker_9 11y ago
this feels... wrong
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by hacker_9 11y ago
Sorry to break it to you, React is not great. Angular neither. They fill a void that they should have never had to patch up, and are flawed because of it. The fact that the 'newest hotness' breaks your GUI each time is an alarming

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