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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
The eye of an octopus shows intelligent design; the eye of a human, not so much. There is a god, but not ours.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
It is unique to old languages. Young languages are easy to get started in. Ruby used to be. Though ruby has a separate problem of breaking changes . The back-compatibility crowd can run old code (e.g. java), but at the cost of their soul.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Hunger is the best condiment.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Working memory isn't just for words. Perhaps revelations don't require working memory, but are connections between known things? Hence their instantaneousness. The expression "fully formed" suggests a whole, without step
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Just to unpack "electronic signals", what propagates is the disturbance ("signal"), not the electrons themselves. Like waves propagating at the beach, where water only moves back and forth a little, and slower.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
We can't know what would be new to you, without knowing what you already know. If you'd known this, you'd have given some idea of your background. Therefore, the above is the only thing that we can know is new to you. :P
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
The first version of erlang was written in prolog. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_(programming_language)
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
can also use name instead of name:.name I think jq is very elegant - genius even - but whenever I use it, I have to look up the docs for syntax. But I guess that's true for any infrequently used tool.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
It will be an interesting foreshadowing of how he will govern the Mars colony.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Surely stay-at-home covid was a boon to Netflix?
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
link to paper https://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~glauder/reprints_unzippe...
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
It takes time for an industry to absorb technologies that require changes in behaviour, organization and values. Even longer if multiple industries are involved, general physical infrastructure, institurions, and consumer culture. Perhaps e
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
I bet nature is full of these resonant dynamics, that life exploits - including in neurodynamics.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Where anonymous confession is good, robonymous is better. Like ELZIA. The answers themselves aren't helpful, but their perspectives are: they pick up on different aspects of your post, and see them as instances of different patterns of
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Bicameral mind has a very different idea of how people were. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameral_mentality \tangent Becoming aware of how differently the same words can be interpreted, even in person, makes me questio
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
So small cafe owners won't mind, provided they are smarter than Starbucks was.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Wild theory: most of the human brain is there to harness untrammelled intelligence to the organism's best interests. There is so much, because intelligence needs a complex cage - without the cage becoming sentient itself. A bit like a
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
A scientist, encountering evidence contradicting theory, thinks that's interesting... MDs don't practice science; they apply science.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Perfect for write-only code.
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Here's a photo http://imgur.com/7Pulqtau Apparently, not jellyfish, but sea snail egg sacs https://www.google.com/search?q=sea+snail+egg&source=lnms&tb...
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Regarding the fine detail, firstly I think people generally had better eyesight back then. Secondly, jellyfish. One type, always washed up on my local beach, is a 3pi/2 arc - about the size and shape of a 3/4 donut. And perfectly
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by hyperpallium2 4y ago
Look into the early history of Airbnb. They did anything to survive - even selling politician-themed breakfast cereal. Yes. pg exclaimed, you guys are like cockroaches, you just won't die. Don't know if that's the origin , b
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
Is he a genius or a crackpot? Yes.
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
Why isn't visual programning more popular? If a picture tells a thousand words, and diagrams and figures are so helpful, why hasn't visual programming taken over? The problem is the complexity of overlaid graphs. Text, thr
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Ask HN: Did vacuum tubes help develop transistors?
2 points by hyperpallium2 5y ago|2 comments
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
Wait, we'll build an AI dumber than us to build an AGI? I do agree that AGI will improve AGI, but such qualitative statements can mislead. Quantitatively, it may be slow, like the old joke about a computer that can forecast tomorrow&#x
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
These ones aren't random, because they build on previous ones. In nature, you get a sigmoid because you run out of resource, I think? True at any scale. Pragmatic people point will out one limit on GI is all the accessible matter in th
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
I think AGI will turn out to be pretty simple (but still could take a long time). And it has arisen many times in other species, but didn't take off because not tied to survival value. If you put GI in charge of an animal, who knows wh
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
Vernor Vinge coined the term, and he was a computer scientist (though more famous as a science fiction writer, a profession which I guess TBF makes money from visions...). An exponential looks the same whereever you are on it, so arguably w
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by hyperpallium2 5y ago
BTW IIRC The tree version of levenshtein distance has (proven) terrible complexity. But so does lcs, and diff itself performs great in practice so maybe...

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