jdonaldson

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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I'm not a big fan of China, but it's probably best if our business leaders didn't mock each other's countries in poor taste.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
(These are all Eleanor Roosevelt, BTW)
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Not necessarily.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
- No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Do something every day that you're afraid of. - Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes. - It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
You can still make socks, blimps, or cakes with any sort of monkey image you want... or even non-monkey images. The technology is out there.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
The curse of dimensionality strikes again!
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
This was way more impressive to me than the invention of the internet IMHO.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
There's some completely different programming patterns that are useful when dealing with streams. Streams really come into their own within DAGs. DAGs are to streams what module structures are to programs. You organize streams withi
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Lately, it seems like our only remaining choice as a civilization is to decide if we want to be exploited or controlled.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I'm not sure why we can't manage to ship a unicode database and an open text rendering library with every user-facing computing device. At minimum, we need something for text like libuv that gives a platform abstraction on top of
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
It’s a good form of secondary support for authentication, and is a reasonable foothold to start expanding circles of trust (I.e. second hand trust.. or “trust what my trusted source trusts”).
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I think intelligence as defined as "mapping inputs into goal states" is pretty well handled by models, and the models may be able to pick and choose states that are sufficient for achieving the goals. However, the intelligence tha
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Pretty soon we'll have drones and who know what else delivering agile high speed unstoppable explosive payloads. Sounds like fun!
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
As part of my graduate studies I was able to get funding from a research-oriented startup. The amount of hoops I had to jump through with the university to clear all of their IP related concerns, and to come away with a small fraction of
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Could divisive click bait titles become the new journalism?
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Wanted to give a shot out to Larry Yeager who wrote software for this all the way back in the mid nineties : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyworld He was a professor of mine in grad school, he also did visual effects
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
This is a great crossing of literary flair and fairly sophisticated research. Is this a thing? Can I get more?
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Skyfall was great in that it grounded the relationships that Bond had with M. I believe he/she is just as interesting a character as Bond is... but never fully developed. I always thought if John Le Carré was writing Bond the focus wou
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I suppose I have to agree with you. "Movie Bond" is entertaining on its own, and deserves a fan base... especially for their scripted set action pieces. The actual espionage, intrigue, and interpersonal motivations are barely th
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I highly recommend this "Let's Read" thread on James Bond from SomethingAwful : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=38... My takeaway on Bond is that he's way more interesting as a
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
It's probably easier to think of consciousness as "learned". That is, we have these brains that can extract patterns from noisy or sparse inputs, and the notion of a "self" is just something it learned to recognize
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Whenever someone mentions 2d code layouts they typically show examples of "node and links" or "spreadsheet" coding. However, those examples are largely focused on one presentation. I'd really like a language/
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Ok, glad to know I'm not the only one to do this. However, the plot thickens... why is this happening?
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Thank you for this, you're doing the Lord's work.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
On a geological time scale, it's probably more economical to cut through them and shave time off of every journey between eruption events.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
This is a great analogy, I might have to steal it.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Yes, but I think it's a relatively new or transient interpretation. I couldn't find much of an authoritative basis for it. It would be great if you could post any links that you know of. There's a wikipedia article on it, b
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
Upvoted you. After reading the comment again I see that it should be interpreted the way you describe.
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by jdonaldson 5y ago
I'm not a fan of labelling tax code as "regressive" in this case. It hasn't moved "backwards", it's stayed the same. I also question the rationale behind giving our city and state more money... they hav
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by jdonaldson 6y ago
I’ve been willing to cut Microsoft some more slack in the Nadella era, but this reads as classic “embrace, extend, extinguish” all over again.

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