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by infinite8s 2y ago
The only democratic president in the 2000s was Obama, and by the time he came into office the shit was already in the air heading towards the fan.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
I think you mean they are fraudulent but look valid.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
You realize Biden took office in Jan 2021? The money printing started way before during Trump's time in office due to the pandemic, so you can't really blame the previous administration for inflation (which happened everywhere aro
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by infinite8s 2y ago
It took about 150 years after invention before printing really took off in terms of how it changed the way people argued (which was critical to the early founders of the US - see "The Printing Press as an Agent of Change) - https:&#x
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by infinite8s 2y ago
This position underlies Trump's tariffs promise.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
>> The Greek-lish interjection says approximately "that is going to bite me in the ass down the line". Because it will. The better I get with Prolog the more I worry nobody will be able to maintain my code but myself, and my
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Completely agree. The next revolution in AI will be the person who can successfully combine both symbolic and connectionist architectures.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Working as a W2 employee from Canada would likely cause tax and filing headaches with the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA), although the salary differential between US/Canada might make this worth it (you just have to be careful). You may
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Any potential employer would need to have a Canadian presence (usually a ULC, which is a Canadian subsidiary of an American corp) or go through an EOR (Employer of Record), which would handle taxes, insurance, benefits, etc. "Quietly&q
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by infinite8s 2y ago
How are these companies able to employ remote people as W2 employees? Aren't the remote employees subject to their local employment law? For example, in Canada the GP would need to be employed as a T4 which requires the company to main
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Hinton is only one of two people in history to win both the Nobel and the Turing award (Herbert Simon is the other, although he won the economics Nobel).
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by infinite8s 2y ago
It's time for the bivalves to rise again!
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Maybe ghastmaster is a super-intelligent bivalve.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
That's because hardware has bent over backwards to maintain the illusion of the C memory model.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
What if eInk paper was as cheap as paper and each sheet had a small processor and could mesh network? What if computing was so cheap you could toss it out when you were done with it like a Kleenex (not a big stretch - an electronic toothbru
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by infinite8s 2y ago
He's thinking 50 years out, not 5 years...
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by infinite8s 2y ago
I think he just used it as a place to announce the new site. If you look at his posting history he's only made 1 per year for the past few years.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Wait till you realize the projectors and cameras are incidental to the whole thing...
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Slight correction - Omar (one of the main developers of folk) worked at DynamicLand for a few years.
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by infinite8s 2y ago
I don't think he's trying to be rich (except maybe to provide self-funding for his research).
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by infinite8s 2y ago
They released a tool to do this in a followup post: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/trufflehog-now-finds-all-de...
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by infinite8s 2y ago
> the aesthetic and usability are abrasive & brutal, both for static viz + interactivity UX Could you say a little more about this?
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by infinite8s 2y ago
> Like rules for assigning molecular mechanics force field atom types. Can you describe a bit more how prolog helped you here? Thanks!
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Hi Don, have you ever been tempted to reimplement the Hyperlook system in the browser (similar to the revival of the old Smalltalk systems pre Smalltalk-80)?
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by infinite8s 2y ago
Stewart Brand's twitter review was reason I went out and bought the book right away. So far it's an excellent read!
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Why not? Google's only been a powerhouse for the last decade or so.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
All models are wrong, some are just less wrong than others. For chemotaxis, while they can't observe the underlying processes directly, they result in phenomena that are observable, which can be compared with the same phenomena predict
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by infinite8s 3y ago
And it requires a different return that needs to be filed a month earlier.
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Omar has a new project in the same vein as DynamicLand called Folk - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39241472
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by infinite8s 3y ago
Sorry I meant Tesler's Lisp70 - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/stanford/sail/lisp70patmatch_Fe...

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