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by jamii 16y ago
To go even further - by driving the distribution further and further underground it becomes harder to track down the originator and prevent the actual abuse. The police/politicians attack distribution because its easier and makes them look
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by jamii 16y ago
Currently the best non-centralized solution proposed on the mailing list is to flood domain subscriptions and cache them at each node, so whoever claims a domain first will own it. This is pretty vulnerable to a variety of attacks but it do
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by jamii 16y ago
Thats the most accurate and balanced description of the haskell community I've ever heard. Such honesty does more to convince people to check out haskell than any amount of advocacy.
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by jamii 16y ago
True. I would imagine that the way to use AI in the context of managing information overload on the battlefield is to have AIs prioritise information and propose options and have humans review the options and take decisions. By having the A
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by jamii 16y ago
Notation doesn't apply just to the symbols in which you write but the meanings and operations assigned to them and the way in which they can be combined. This applies as much to the expressiveness of language semantics as it does to the lan
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by jamii 16y ago
As opposed to tired, stressed and easily overwhelmed humans making tactical and strategic decisions? I share your concern but I don't think its impossible for an AI to get to the point where it makes less mistakes than a human.
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by jamii 16y ago
Ocaml hits most of the points on your list, if you can bring yourself to use a statically typed language. > Support OO, imperative and functional paradigms Yep. Objects aren't used all that often but they are fully supported and can do
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by jamii 16y ago
http://www.sagemath.org/ Not quite as swish as mathematica but definitely better than 1/10.
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by jamii 16y ago
The people of Seoul are pretty relaxed about this sort of thing. I, however, am a foreigner and thus am terrified. People keep stopping me on the street to explain to me just how terrified I am.
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by jamii 16y ago
This is from the same team that recently released Mirage. More related work at http://anil.recoil.org/projects/
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Melange: Creating a ``Functional'' Internet (PDF)(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
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by jamii 16y ago
Or even better, write the app's frontend using the public API (and only the public API, no cheating).
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by jamii 16y ago
For my MSc exams we were given the papers to take home and it was considered perfectly acceptable to look up the answers as they as they were correctly cited. Someone clearly decided that the easiest way to prevent cheating was to set quest
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by jamii 16y ago
EMP? A $5 catapult would do the job nicely.
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by jamii 16y ago
Pretty much. Between the NHS and the dole Britain is a fairly socialist country, as is most of western Europe. I'm not sure when socialism became a dirty word.
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by jamii 16y ago
I really enjoy reading Conals work. This paper is a particularly good example of how denotational semantics can guide the design of a library - http://conal.net/blog/posts/paper-beautiful-differentiation/
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by jamii 16y ago
The sqlite test suite is a fantastic example of how to produce solid software. I wish it were used as a case study for all software engineering courses.
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by jamii 16y ago
> ... an open source "math compiler" ... Automated theorem provers behave much like this. As you lay out the steps of a proof they will check that each step is correct and show you what you have remaining to prove. You can start with a
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by jamii 16y ago
I don't know about famous, but Conal Elliots ideas about denotational semantics have led to some beautifully elegant libraries - http://conal.net/blog/posts/denotational-design-with-type-cl... Don't be put off by the academic tone, at its
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by jamii 16y ago
Has anyone tried out chromium OS? Its difficult to tell how complete the project is yet but it seems like the ideal solution.
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by jamii 16y ago
Thats not what I was saying at all. My point is that just because we are adapted to a certain diet doesn't make that diet optimal. Much modern food is undeniably unhealthy but starving yourself because our ancestors were hungry too is scien
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by jamii 16y ago
The coding subreddit is somewhat better.
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by jamii 16y ago
We became optimized for the environment we were in. Thats not the same thing as saying that that environment is optimal for us. We adapted to being cold and wet but chucking out your clothes and umbrella wont make you healthier. Always reme
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by jamii 16y ago
If you compare the standards of modern buildings with those that have survived from the 1850s-1940s there is considerable survivor bias in play. There were plenty of crappy buildings built in the late 1800s eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by jamii 16y ago
> How did you train your search engine? I used some pretty simple techniques: one bayesian filter to filter jobs from other posts in mailing lists etc, one bayesian filter to score jobs based on keywords. Both filters were trained by fe
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by jamii 16y ago
> this creates an incentive to vote down jobs you've applied for already hoping no one else applies. Should be fairly easy to solve this. You can only apply for jobs through a form that appears once you vote up. Once you apply your vot
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by jamii 16y ago
I wrote my own job search engine after getting fed up of the existing crap. It pulls in rss feeds and mailing lists and even does a bit of crawling via HN and Reddit to find jobs. I used a trainable classifier to filter out most of the dros
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by jamii 16y ago
I guess this means someone is going to have to port xmonad...
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by jamii 16y ago
> But it's still not sufficient for an IRA-style campaign Sure, you wouldn't be as successful as the IRA, but it would still be a damn sight easier than attacking planes. Consider the hotel attacks in India for an example of how poorly
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I guess it depends how you define 'full' fault tolerance. In the case of a machine failure it would lose a couple of seconds worth of transactions. In a data-processing scenario thats not an issue - just re-run the data that hasn't been pro

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