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by kahoon 11y ago
To be honest, it simply seems like the author took one arbitrary aspect of living beings (metabolism) and somehow made it responsible for conscioussness.
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by kahoon 11y ago
> Self-awareness is just ability of algorithms to observe its own "subroutines". What does it mean to observe? If we design an algorithm that observes its internals according to your definition, is it going to be self-aware?
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by kahoon 11y ago
I think the same! It is k choices per scene for s scenes.
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by kahoon 12y ago
And optimal according to what criteria? Length, safety, sightseeing?
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by kahoon 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychedelics_in_problem-solving... Solutions obtained in the experiment include:[3][5][6] - a new approach to the design of a vibratory microtome - a commercial building design, accepted by
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by kahoon 12y ago
Just a suggestion: a landing page should immediately show some captivating examples telling me why I should be interested.
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by kahoon 12y ago
I recommend a book by Peter Watts called Blindsight. It explores the question whether consciousness is needed for intelligent behaviour.
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by kahoon 12y ago
As far as I know Dennett denies the existence of qualia which is something I can not understand however hard I try. I agree that in terms of intellectual capabilities the human brain is not magic. But consciousness kind of is.
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by kahoon 12y ago
But they surely don't use git for that, right? In scenarios like this a versioning system that does not track all history locally would be a better fit.
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by kahoon 13y ago
Why would they lose value if they allow the fork to continue? They can hold and stake coins in both forks, right?
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by kahoon 13y ago
A way to test this hypothesis: elephants and certain whales have bigger brains than us. By the article's reasoning we should find mechanisms in these animals' brain which prevents neurons from "untethering".
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by kahoon 13y ago
Peercoin is such an example with an inflation rate planned to be 1% per year.
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by kahoon 13y ago
When Charles Stross is talking about "carbon footprint" he ignores the not even comparable amount of resources that the current world wide banking infrastructure devours.
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by kahoon 13y ago
It is 120K years AD. Humanity has suffered 53 nuclear holocausts (this was made possible by advanced recovery methods researched over time). Peace for 18000 years is being upheld by an artificial intelligence which governs a flying city, er
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by kahoon 13y ago
Async support is available in Mono since Mono 3.0: http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_3.0 (ctrl-f for "async")
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by kahoon 13y ago
I've tried clicking on run and then refresh. I repeated this process 8-9 times and then the animation in the first example started to lag considerably.
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by kahoon 14y ago
Flash? I think it's done with SVG.
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by kahoon 14y ago
I immediately thought about this one: http://www.regexper.com/
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by kahoon 14y ago
Can't you use your own server to get the data you want from the Reddit API only once, and then serve this as many times as you want (since the server is yours)?
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by kahoon 14y ago
The complexity of the project does not make it absolutely vital (the animation could be done in plain jQuery with a little more hassle), but it was fun and I wanted to try it :)
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by kahoon 14y ago
Yeah, now the only way to pause is pressing the < > buttons at the top. I'm planning to make the navigation controls always visible, so you will be able to pause even if you've scrolled down.
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by kahoon 14y ago
For anyone curious, I built it using TypeScript, d3.js, mongoDB, and node.js. I'm planning to open source it after I've made some facelifts on the codebase :)
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by kahoon 14y ago
Thank you very much for your thoughtful suggestion! I'm definitely looking for ideas on how to make the animation easier to follow.
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Show HN: An animated history of Reddit(redditsnapshots.com)
30 points by kahoon 14y ago|13 comments
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by kahoon 14y ago
When I saw that sweylas's stuff has disappeared, I asked them in an email if it will be back again. I didn't get an answer so I implemented my own version: http://redditsnapshots.com/ (running since March 2012)
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by kahoon 14y ago
Nice, though it doesn't expand in the upper direction when it has no space downwards.
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by kahoon 15y ago
C# has closures but not when evented. What does this mean? How do closures behave any differently when a delegate is assigned as an event handler?