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by js8 2y ago
The author seems to argue that, before photography existed, if someone commissioned a painter to create a portrait (without further qualification), then the painter didn't create an art piece. I think it's pretty clear that genera
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by js8 2y ago
I have been thinking about that idea (putting database in front of operating system, i.e. applications interact with the environment through database) for a while now, I think it's really neat. Another good reason is testing and verifi
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I agree, they might create abstractions, but I doubt they're going to reuse the same abstractions as human programming languages.
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> Seems like we could render all code open source. I agree. I think "AI generating/understanding source code" is a huge red herring. If AI was any good at understanding code, it would just build (or fix) the binary. And I
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by js8 2y ago
> I also think that Sherlock will continue to remain popular because the appeal of the stories I am not sure Sherlock stories are that good.. I think what is really compelling is Sherlock as a character (at least for me). So perhaps the
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> Second, I've not once in my life had a productive "water cooler" conversation. I just realized it's worse than that. If the old adage on innovation "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" is true, then water co
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by js8 2y ago
IMHO the article is about "data" as in "personal information", but let's indulge in your generalization. In logic, you have definitions that are extensional (list of objects of the defined type) or intensional (cond
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by js8 2y ago
I used to have this discussion with libertarians. They always argued that the free markets are efficient. I told them, if the omnipotent free markets always know and tell you what is good for you, and you supposedly follow that advice (if t
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by js8 2y ago
> There do exist worker-managed companies under capitalism, they consistently underperform. Of course, according to a metric, how much money I can make out of an investment, without having to do any work, they underperform! > There al
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by js8 2y ago
Don't really want to defend Putin, but consider that Russia would at the very least lose the naval base in Crimea, if the Ukraine entered NATO. Also, in 2013, the EU put an ultimatum to Ukraine to choose between the free trade with EU
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by js8 2y ago
What I am saying is China will effectively take over Taiwan's economy first (by being a good trading partner), and that's pretty much all they need to do. It's easier than invasion, of course we don't know the future, ma
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by js8 2y ago
China has no reason to take over Taiwan militarily. They already have like 60% of trade with it, and that share is only going to grow in the future, simply because they are so close. It's the US who is worried to be cut off Taiwan. Any
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by js8 2y ago
How can you have "drive to win" if you are just an employee of a company, and have no stake in it? People love to talk about how capitalism (or free market) solves the tragedy of the commons, but it actually doesn't. The only
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by js8 2y ago
> that illustates that we need this apparatus to solve some real problem? I think your question is wrong in a sense. Category theory is one of several languagues of mathematics, and there are analogies between them. It's kinda like
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by js8 2y ago
"Or any piece of information which would be difficult to share even if you tried: complex equations, very boring passages of text, large blocks of random numbers" So.. antimemes have high Kolmogorov complexity?
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by js8 2y ago
AFAIK https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Lore was among the first isometric 3D games, and it used this ratio.
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by js8 2y ago
The issue is then boolean functions do not form a polynomial ring with this "sum", because unlike XOR, OR is not a group operation - it doesn't have a well defined inverse.
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> that AND and OR are sums and products Perhaps you meant to say that AND and XOR are products and sums.
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I think optimal level of perfectionism depends on impact of the decision and how hard it will be to change in the future. I think it's worth to be perfectionist when it comes to architecture, which is hard to change. So you want to mak
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by js8 2y ago
> This wouldn't be a popular or practical change for human play. What about Fischer random chess? That could help, no? I heard that even Magnus Carlsen played in some tournament with it.
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by js8 2y ago
> Is this something professional programmers are having trouble with?? I would say, yes. So does everybody else. If you don't believe it, I don't think you appreciate the depth of these problems. I am reminded of Eric Meijer sa
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I saw a video about that which claimed that 4-legged running is in general faster than 2-legged running. The video concluded that it might be possible for humans to "run" faster with 4 limbs rather than 2 limbs, if trained properl
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by js8 2y ago
I once bought one of those Lenovo something hybrids between touchpad and notebook, horrible design as it turned out. It had a docking type of connection with the keyboard, very sensitive to vibration of the desk. Since the touchpad piece ha
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by js8 2y ago
You're right. We don't really know how to handle uncertainty and fuzziness in logic properly (to avoid logical contradictions). There has been many mathematical attempts to model uncertainty (just to name a few - probability, Demp
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Sorry, but that's not how the real world works, Mises is a fantasy for kids. That works for maybe contractors, and even that is muddy in cases like Uber etc. But for employees, they sell labor, not services. Likewise, when someone owns
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I think this https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/covet is what you're looking for. It's even in the ten commandments - as mentioned on the page.
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No, they are ahead for far simpler reasons - China is going to be extremely affected by climate change due to its geography, and they don't share our irrational belief in the free market. They also don't have fossil fuel incumbent
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by js8 2y ago
I don't think there is enough nuclear fuel for everyone to significantly (more than several times than today) run on nuclear. Yes, there are these breeder ideas, but it's not mature. So (aside from capital costs) it will generate
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A tangent, but Clarke was slightly wrong. Magic is not just indistinguishable, but it actually IS advanced technology. In fantasy worlds, wizards spend years studying arcane phenomena, refining them into somewhat easily and reliably usable
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Because Chinese are already ahead of almost everyone in terms of emission reductions and nuclear won't solve anything. That's why you don't see people involved in these activities.

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