jacinabox

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by jacinabox 7y ago
Deliberately creating uncertainty around the copyright in ML-created works (through legislation), would be a low-key and indirect way of impeding the automation of creative work. Not that I'm advocating it.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
I would take what this author says with a grain of salt; on a different blog post she has a heterodox theory of gravitation based on electricity ("magnetic monopoles").
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Basically the whole web has no single point of failure, with the exception of DNS, and even that is decentralized. So what do you do with that?-- obviously introduce a single point of failure in the form of a private service.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
There's this thing called a checklist? might want to get a few, they're kind of a big deal.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Much to be made about Zizek's observation that there are false characterizations of the problems of a situation emerging from those same situations. Proposals are made to solve the problems that society faces, which are broadly in agre
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by jacinabox 7y ago
I was waiting for somebody to goerdlize that
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by jacinabox 7y ago
What should I do if a genius in my employ comes up with an innovation of benefit to society?
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by jacinabox 7y ago
At any event insisting on a moderate solution now can still be smart because it moves the Overton window making more complete solutions politically feasible in the future.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Right when you or I look at it we say that the biggest producers need to buy the most carbon credits. When coal and manufacturing look at it they say those industries need the most exemptions because they emit the most carbon.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Still this sort of expansionary philosophy in library design does give some cause for optimism. In general library authors want to make their specs efficiently implementable, so when an method has this sort of semantics in an official spec
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by jacinabox 7y ago
The way I look at it this kind of phenomenon is like Liar's paradox; as soon as someone sets forth a system describing what constitutes rational behavior, it's human nature to think about that system and relate to it in various wa
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by jacinabox 7y ago
To my mind the problem is structural. Any algorithmic method the details of which are completely explicable is always going to seem not deep enough to constitute the true core of intelligence. But this doesn't call for not doing the cl
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Sixteen T's is too many T's. He needs a plan with less T's.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
To steelman what you said, you could fly a polar route over the south pole (say from the Horn of South America to the Cape of Good Hope) and time it out, then fly a polar route over the North pole and time it out. Both flights are short on
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by jacinabox 7y ago
To my way of thinking this is a paradox; on the one hand the measurement outcomes of the experiment are conditionalized (in a global sense) on the choices of the experimenter; on the other it's easy to believe that the experimenter&#x2
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by jacinabox 7y ago
A lot of AR applications depend upon centralized map and street level info, which is susceptible to information siloing.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
In the early aughts I was kicking around an idea for minimization of binaries/libraries. The idea was to take a compiled binary plus debug information, and use disassembly to work out which code paths are reachable from a selected set
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by jacinabox 7y ago
I'm starting to be convinced that data races don't matter if the variable being raced is in the machine word size.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Whether or not an invention is really covered by a current patent is not the issue; the issue is that patent holders can keep anyone who tries to exploit an invention in perpetual legal jeopardy, by continually filing patents on _related_ i
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by jacinabox 7y ago
It makes me think that whole software projects (and popular ones at that) have fallen prey to the XY problem. For instance, are containers really necessary, or are they shoring up a lack of robust dependency management allowing different so
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by jacinabox 7y ago
I think there must be some kind of tradeoff between waste and decision paralysis in large organizations. In other words, there's some kind of "waste quota" that gets distributed between productivity and decision making.
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Right, so technically there is no reason to deal with monads directly. Andrej Bauer's Eff, is an experimental language, which feels a lot like Standard ML, but incorporates the power of monads (really, algebra effects and handlers) und
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by jacinabox 7y ago
Wow what a hit piece, who knew that the venal politics of corporate America extended all the way down to the knitting circle level.
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by jacinabox 8y ago
IMO what is needed is a preprocessor with reference semantics that are conformable to the modern notion of modules. I.e. a preprocessor that thinks that a reference is defined when it's defined in a module included by this one, instead
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by jacinabox 8y ago
Yeah this is probably a pretty common phenomenon. Somebody claims to have a billion dollar artificial intelligence; what they really have is a file full of frigging regular expressions.
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by jacinabox 8y ago
A while back I developed an approach to this in haskell; the idea is to use a logic monad transformer ("Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers" 2005), working at a monad which implements a type class '
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by jacinabox 8y ago
OK I'll say it. It's describing the next gen. VR headset from Ready Player One.
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by jacinabox 8y ago
In order to make a serious comparison of textual and visual programming, you'd be better off using a serious system such as Labview for the comparison, not a... toy for children.
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by jacinabox 8y ago
I suppose we shall be in need of a new explanation for the Great Depression then.
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by jacinabox 8y ago
I just want to say that I'm so glad people are developing concurrent languages. The day that concurrency became of paramount importance to computing, all of the old languages became obsolete! That's also why we have Go; goroutines

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