jeremyawon

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by jeremyawon 13y ago
the growth process is similar to something i hit upon a while ago, although i wasn't trying to present all possible colors: https://vimeo.com/699396 implementing it was kind of my new language self challenge, so i ende
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by jeremyawon 16y ago
instead, let's engineer away our anxieties about not existing.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
lack of front facing/any camera mystifies me
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
english speakers should switch to a systematic phonetic spelling scheme if this minutia bothers them.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
press release: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnetworkchall...
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Darpa announces Network Challenge winner (MIT Red Balloon Challenge Team)(networkchallenge.darpa.mil)
49 points by jeremyawon 17y ago|17 comments
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Quantum computing, and why it’s exciting! (28/07/2009)(google.com)
1 points by jeremyawon 17y ago|0 comments
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
why does the trend for "breast cancer" spike around q3?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
i'm trying to follow your last paragraph. "while it is funny to talk about how unlikely these events are ..." individually the scenarios may be highly improbable - but as a category, aren't there more ways a mechanical failure point could
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
it isn't sweet, since there are likely more unpleasant than pleasant ways of remaining conscious. "The Sibyl of Cumae, who led Aeneas on his journey to the underworld, for which he collected the Golden Bough, was the most famous prophetess
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
the automated object recognition and extraction is what impresses me. everything else is a killer usage example of that core technology.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
so these are for the wavesandbox.com dev server? i got in on the first (uh..) wave of invites ages ago, but haven't received any codes today.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
every render of a users homepage has a list of "following" names, so the client shouldn't need to go to the server for auto-completion?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
i suspect an intelligence not borne of an evolutionary process will perceive our survival-orientedness as purely obsessive compulsive. the AI might say, "there is nothing to be said against not existing", and then shut itself down.
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The strangest thing an AI could tell you(lesswrong.com)
11 points by jeremyawon 17y ago|3 comments
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
i'm curious, what kind of software are you developing / what kind of companies are you serving as a freelancer?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
an upside i haven't seen mentioned is birth control - if the technology were perfected, men could sterilize themselves without giving up the possibility of having children.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
why does Google want or need to own a piece of a biotech company? have you seen GATTACA? a 23andMe scan will eventually be part of the recruiting process.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
> However, there are still some features missing, like the ability to delete bookmarks. shouldn't bookmarks be implemented at the level of js scripted extensions?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
you had a hard time recognizing this as satire? "The peculiarity of the superposition principle is dramatically illustrated with the experiment of Schrödinger's backup. This is when you attempt to restore Schrödinger's pictures of his cat,
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
i can't think of anything a leap of faith in the existence of god provides which couldn't otherwise have been rationalized. god tells one man to kill his neighbors, and another to befriend them. don't we determine the value of each religiou
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
I think that quotation by itself refers just to the Great Silence, and there seem to be two essential possibilities concerning this silence, both of which the author addresses: Either there is a sterilizing filter which lies ahead of planet
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
the scenarios Baxter and Egan write about only push the Great Filter up to the moment of being able to create self-replicating probes (the most basic form of explosive colonization). i think that's actually the point after which filters hav
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
i don't follow what you're suggesting between 'other explanations' and 'assigning probabilities' - are you saying there are filters we haven't thought of, which we (obviously) aren't assigning probability to?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
it's not object oriented at a rendering level - you blitz the screen each frame. the language itself in its original incarnation is pretty much just java though. i think a better headline would be "canvas + javascript .." - processing.js is
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
what do you need a fiber link for if you're going to ignore the rest of the world?
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
the sid is inaccessible to js running in another domain context, so anamax is pointing that it suffices to just retransmit the sid as one of the request parameters, rather than generating and including sig=hash(request+sid). you're right th
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
you're right, hashing is overkill.
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by jeremyawon 17y ago
for what it might be worth to others: i've generally found that the client already has a cookie-session established in situations where cross-site ajax calls are a concern. so, my approach is to require a hash of <request text>+&#60
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by jeremyawon 18y ago
is there any way to prevent someone from doing this besides appealing to their ethical sensibilities? i suspect intuitions about "my rights" in cases like this are rooted in a zero-sum-economy psychology which just won't translate to the in

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