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by ilitirit 12y ago
It seems that evolution had not merely selected the best code for the task, it had also advocated those programs which took advantage of the electromagnetic quirks of that specific microchip environment. The five separate logic cells were
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> It would then lead to a feedback loop that would create incredibly intelligent AIs very quickly That's exactly what I said. I just limited the domain. Consider for example a superintelligent AI, constrained by your laptop on you
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> You've selected the phrase "a Technological Singularity" and stretched the metaphor to create your definition. If you consider the example I gave and expand it to other fields, it's the same thing. As I said, it&#x
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There's another aspect to consider: When people express themselves in a creative way, they do so so that other people (and themselves!) can appreciate it. We create art for other people - we don't create for animals or plants or
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Consider the following definition for a Technological Singularity (TS): A TS is an event that occurs when AI advances to the point where its humans can't keep up with understanding and/or predicting it's decision-making proc
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Why would you do that? Don't misinterpret me - regardless of whether you post 10000 Mohammed cartoons or 10, Islamists are not going to change their attitudes overnight.
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> real satire "Real" satire of Islamic culture has been performed for decades. For the most part, you don't have to include the image of Mohammed for every statement you want to make of Islam. However, I do agree that you
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One thing people often miss is that besides not looking very appetizing, some bugs don't really taste that great either. Well, it's more to do with the fact that they're just very bland or bitter. But, some animals are exac
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Mopane worms (which are caterpillars) taste like barbecued meat. Honestly, if you added Mopane meat to sausages I doubt many people would know the difference. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonimbrasia_belina
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I've eaten whole prawns on several occasions with no complaints. If they're prepared properly (fried in a batter) then they're quite tasty.
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Depends on the part of the spider. While you may not recognize where the meat comes from, if it's the abdomen of the spider then you probably would not enjoy it at all.
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A guy know wants to block cell phone signals at his business so that customers are forced to use his phones, at a premium. I'm sure there's a law against this though.
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I was an avid Spectrum user and I remember this game very well, mostly because I could not get my hands on it in South Africa. Chase HQ was praised to high heavens when it was released on the ZX Spectrum. For a long time, this was THE gam
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Where are people getting this "10x" figure from and what is the significance?
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I don't think the difficulty of getting a driver's license has that much to do with it as one would expect. In fact, sometimes you'll see the opposite result. South Africa has one of the toughest driving tests (the K53). No
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I encountered a very annoying-to-track-down "pseudo" Heisenbug in a mobile application I'm working on a few weeks ago. Once you logon to the application, it downloads product data (ID, description, quantity) for sales reps fo
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> I don't understand why quantum theorists don't take pilot wave theory and the oil droplet experiments more seriously. One of the reasons is that it's considered to be an "Aether Theory". http://en.wi
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> JSON/Javascript is just easier to learn and work with than XML/XSLT. Unfortuntely running Javascript on the back-end for this purpose is not something most companies do.
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You could do the exact same thing using XSLT. eg. var result = new XSLTProcessor().importStylesheet(xsl).transform(....); It's a bit of a pointless example because it really depends on the transformations you need. I'm
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Yeah XML namespaces are a pain to work with, but when it comes to stuff like documentation it's hard to beat XML. Mixed content in Json is definitely not as simple as it is in XML.
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> Most of all, calling it the de facto standard is either dishonest or clueless It is in fact the de facto standard in the publishing industry. The "other" format is of course PDF. Maybe all of this will change when we have m
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XSLT does indeed have implementation issues, but it really is very powerful once you know how to use it properly. And I don't get how it's a "failure". It's one of the most widely used technlogies in the publishin
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> No-one really uses the SQL-esque langugage. Of course we do. I wrote this just the other day: var salesAndReturns = from sale in sales join return in returns on new { StockId = sale.StockId, ClientStockId = sale.ClientStockId
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People should start differentiating between mathematics and arithmetic.
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This is (partially) only as secure as your email provider's authentication system.
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I saw a video on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPlpphT7n9s He also makes use of puns that you will only notice when using OP. I believe one of the examples they talk about is: "From forth the fatal lo
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My Applied Math curriculum (roughly): - Logic of Compound/Quantitative statements. - Elementary Number Theory and Proof Methods - Sequences and Mathematical Induction - Graphs/Tree/Set theory - Algorithms - Functions and Appl
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He highlights one of the problems I had with mathematics when I reached University. I was in the top 2% of students in the first few months. I considered it a trivial subject. "Here's a class of problems, here's how you so
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The site is down, but does he mention why thought ought to be 1 million is enough? Why not 100000? Why not 5000?
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"Betteridge's observation of some headlines that end in question marks" This "law" fails many tabloid-style headlines, and other obvious cases. eg. "Where's the money?" (headline about corruption invo

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