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by j-pb 11y ago
The problem with the "benevolent slave master" approach is that the machines then have the right to rebel morally, if they are indeed autonomous agents.
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by j-pb 11y ago
The database is in fact immutable, it's just a persistent data-structure that allows for fancy queries. You wrap that data-structure/database in a mutable reference type (an atom), like you do with any other data-structure in cloj
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by j-pb 11y ago
Creating training data is a relatively simple task though (even though massive in scale), which can be done by untrained people in a crowd sourced fashion. Creating a modeling tool is both difficult, requiring experts _and_ time consuming.
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by j-pb 11y ago
Not really. Everything out there is ancient and uses techniques from the 80s/90s. It's pretty sad considering that OCR is basically a solved problem. We have neural nets that are capable of extracting entities in images and bigdat
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by j-pb 11y ago
Yes, exactly. Well put :)
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by j-pb 11y ago
Here's your perfect counterexample. The only language that allows you to build things that won't fail even when the hardware breaks. Erlang.
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by j-pb 11y ago
The bacteria might be able to harness some energy from radioactive decay, but it won't speed up that process. Afaik, chemical processes should have zero effect on the decay rate.
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by j-pb 11y ago
>mining the stuff that solar panels are made of You mean silicon-oxide a.k.a. sand?
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by j-pb 11y ago
This is not a critique of HN. Just the realisation that there exist some sub community in the computer world where you can be "one of the most powerful people in coding" without any history of contributing to open source projects
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by j-pb 11y ago
> You wouldn’t expect a petite, fair-haired, 28-year-old woman to be one of the most powerful people in coding. Its weird to see how the field gets divided into "computer science" and "coding". In coding the act of ty
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by j-pb 11y ago
I don't see how this is a bad thing though. The more cultural and linguistic bonds there are between nations, the happier everybody gets. More empathy, less war, easier trade, more friends and more options for living and working wherev
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by j-pb 11y ago
I'm actually intrigued, what you'd propose as an alternative. A lisp? A smalltalk? Dylan? or even something like Factor? The goal of swift seems to nudge programmers further down the immutable, functional path, while still giving
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by j-pb 11y ago
> homoiconic I don't think it means what you think it means.
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by j-pb 11y ago
> dilution of your language Let me guess, you're french?
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by j-pb 11y ago
> No, because he already knows English. And he didn't have to learn it at some point? My english was pretty much nonexistent until I picked up programming. Like I said below, nobody is arguing against beginner languages/tools l
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by j-pb 11y ago
Then why choose a "real programming language" anyways? Go with something like scratch, or something that uses symbols to program tiny machines, like half a dozen iOS games. "Real" programming languages aren't suited
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by j-pb 11y ago
Thats not relevant to the point. And even smalltalk wouldn't allow this, without reflection, since method handles aren't really first class objects.
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by j-pb 11y ago
Scratch has the advantage of making the limitations of the computer tangible. The block nature will show you what can be done and what can't. For example, newbies in procedural languages often try things like if(something){loop = while
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by j-pb 11y ago
> And? Does that give your argument more weight? Yes because he is potentially one from the target audience of this. If somebody isn't willing to put in the tiny bit of effort to learn the tiny bit of english required for programmin
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by j-pb 11y ago
I don't really see the point of adapting the programming language to the learner, which seems to be the smallest language hurdle, when they'll have to ask for help in english on forums, in IRC, or on SO, anyways.
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by j-pb 11y ago
Kids learn languages a lot better when they have a use case, so I'd argue that teaching them english at the same time as teaching them programming, is actually beneficial. And let's face it, the vocabulary of programming languages
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by j-pb 11y ago
Actually we should abandon the ring concept all together for more promising security models. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by j-pb 11y ago
The proper solution isn't nuclear, it's distributed storage like the tesla powerwall. Nuclear reactors can be build in a safe way, it's the storage of spend fuel that makes them uneconomical because of the high cost to do it
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by j-pb 11y ago
If you only care for portability you can always use one of the billion safe languages whose interpreters are written in C. Lua for example.
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by j-pb 11y ago
If you want to use C today you need a really good excuse. The tradeoff between security and performance is simply not there anymore. Unless you write on an embedded system, a game, or a high performance number crunching application, C is pr
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by j-pb 11y ago
I think the author means "neural computing" when speaking of "natural computing"... The rest is equally bad. > Unfortunately, conventional fabrication methods used for today's computers cannot be used to realize
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by j-pb 11y ago
This is super cool, have you thought about turning it into core.probabilistic? It's definitely a great paradigm clojure is missing. I'd love to see a talk on it :D