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by jblow 12y ago
I just did it. It's not magic. I did have about a year of money saved up from previous jobs (relatively highly-paying contract work).
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by jblow 12y ago
You are presuming a lot about what my early career looks like. Really I never worked any jobs as bad as what you describe. Well, maybe the time I did data entry during my first year of college. The longest I ever worked in a highly corporat
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by jblow 12y ago
Yes, I mean I have to be doing my own projects 'professionally' wherein I decide what is being made and how it is being made. Not working for someone else, because that someone else is not going to have the same kinds of goals tha
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by jblow 12y ago
I felt obliged to comment because I feel I know what you are talking about and I also worry that much of the advice posted so far is wrong at best, dangerous at worst. I am 42-year-old very successful programmer who has been through a lot o
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by jblow 12y ago
He also promised to close Guantanamo.
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by jblow 12y ago
"Obviously"? Really, is it obvious? You aren't drawn to question the supposed superiority of this software even for a second?
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by jblow 12y ago
No surprise. Most "scientific" studies in the realm of medicine are bullshit. Even many of the ones trying hard not to be bullshit still end up in that bin. For a clear understanding of why, read this: http://slatestarc
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by jblow 12y ago
If you read the series, you'll see that what you call "rejection sampling" is in fact the first thing that was tried, and it was set aside for performance reasons. Yes you can try to improve the perf of this kind of system, b
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by jblow 13y ago
Sorry, but you are playing some really shitty games, then.
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by jblow 13y ago
It's a neat idea, but by way of honest feedback my eyes started glazing over at "create this agent and that agent", and it became clear I don't want to add this complication to my life. I think this would be vastly more
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by jblow 13y ago
This headset sounds terrible. Resolution is the least important factor in presence (of resolution, persistence, latency, frame rate, tracking). It sounds like they have bubkis for the other areas, and low standards besides. Oh and what is t
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by jblow 13y ago
If you remove the constraint "in a web browser" then there is nothing here at all to talk about. Making an acronym for stuff people have been doing routinely since the 1970s is kind of weird. This is the problem with web programme
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by jblow 13y ago
He obviously did not try the demo. The demo meets all specs that Mike listed in his talk and it exists today, thus nullifying the entire thrust of the article. The demo is not consumer-product-ready, as it is currently expensive and the tra
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by jblow 13y ago
Ferrari sells under 8000 cars a year. Lamborghini sells under 2500 a year. Chalk this article up to careless punditry, i.e. what you get from an ad-driven internet news model. Edit: just for kicks, I looked up Rolls Royce, which is kind of
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by jblow 13y ago
Actually, no, this is just the timing with which things happened. Mike Abrash still worked at Valve last week.
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by jblow 13y ago
It works because when you die it costs them way less than $500k to dispute the situation and avoid paying you anything.
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by jblow 13y ago
Note the extreme lack of women commenting in this thread, as well as the lack of discussion of any of the substance of the livestream. This thread is 100% nerdy dudes feeling offended by this event, plus other dudes attempting to counter th
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by jblow 13y ago
Indeed. The article ignores the history of success in the face of comments just like this one. Example: Many, many naysayers said the idea that Tesla could begin shipping the Model S to customers in 2012 was absurd, that they were naive and
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by jblow 13y ago
The issue isn't just kids, it is the way these games are designed to prey on peoples' psychology the way gambling does. See for example the factoid that 0.15% of players spend over 50% of the money in f2p games (and these games ma
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by jblow 13y ago
Computational approximation has been shipped en masse very successfully. You mention GPUs but did you know that GPUs already do a lot of approximate math, for example, fast reciprocal and fast reciprocal square root? You mention how approxi
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by jblow 13y ago
O() is colloquially used to mean "approximately", among people who do actually know what O() means.
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by jblow 13y ago
The main objection is that the way edge cases would "differ from the real thing" depends on what their "computers" are like which may not be anything like our computers. In fact there is no reason to believe they are sim
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by jblow 13y ago
As soon as flexible screens become a thing, your phone and your tablet become the same device; you just unfold it when you want a big screen. In light of this, the size argument being made in this article is not really meaningful in the med
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by jblow 13y ago
In the words of the immortal George Carlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c
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by jblow 13y ago
I have owned 4 or 5 Optimus laptops and have never gotten a practical benefit from Optimus. At best I leave it switched to the fast GPU permanently. At worst, something goes wrong. The state of Windows laptops these days is really kind of e
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by jblow 13y ago
To my recollection, most people disagreed with said statement. The thought was that any kind of quantum coherence would not hold for a nonnegligible time, because hey, decoherence. This was before we started seeing proof of quantum effects
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by jblow 13y ago
Untrue, because the reason the microtubule coherence was posited in the first place, at all, was as an origin of consciousness. There wasn't another reason to presuppose it. So the fact that the activity exists does have information
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by jblow 13y ago
Well wait a minute. They predicted "there is quantum activity in the microtubules". Almost everyone said "you are crazy, that's impossible". If it turns out indeed that there is, then this was a successful scientifi
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by jblow 13y ago
The only scientific viewpoint is that we do not know whether or not strong AI is possible. Materialists think it probably is, since they can't see any reason why not. But we don't understand intelligence so we don't know if w
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by jblow 13y ago
Start the Nest shutdown clock ... 18 months?

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