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by kanzure 11y ago
> For those not aware, the original 50 coins sent to this address were generated from the genesis block The genesis block is block 0, and the coins in those transactions in question were from block 1 through 5.
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by kanzure 11y ago
Although not a chemical mechanism, it seems that a randomly generated set of initial operations once executed tends to develop into self-replication: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/ai/The%20evolution%20of%20s
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> Part of the machinery that drives their intelligence seems to be in their limbs. I wouldn't worry about that; their limbs are welcome along for the ride.
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> Brain size is not that great a proxy for intelligence. Oh certainly, agreed. But larger brains can be easier to work with, such as for slicing studies where you examine the different areas of the brain to look for evidence of changes t
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> We need to sharpen our understanding of both intelligence and mechanical behaviour: what is smart behaviour, and who says so? And also: is there a simpler or better theory that accounts for all of the evidence, that is more plausible t
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by kanzure 11y ago
> Sooo... can we breed octopi for intelligence? How far could that rise in say a hundred years? Who has time to wait 100 years? Intelligence is not really correlated with brain size, but I'd start by breeding octopodes and then sele
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> This actually raised an interesting thought to mind about the long-term ethical implications of lowering the barrier to entry for genetic engineering. What happens when anyone with a little know-how and $10K can use the techniques? The
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> at that point we lose control over what gets printed and then maybe there are concerns You have never had control. Perhaps instead you are more worried about our biological weaknesses; there are many! People die all the time from vario
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by kanzure 11y ago
Hmm, so I just went to check label:spam and recovered 50 emails that were not spam. I guess I need to check regularly now.
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> Recently I've been exploring the idea that small programs should consist of two parts; a "backend" that you can communicate with via a strict message protocol like protobuf. It can handle multiple requests because it is
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(rant) Libraries should be providing file sharing infrastructure if they are going to survive. It's not the walls that make the library, and whether they have physical-instantiated books is often irrelevant. Although many libraries are
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transcript: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/gmaxwell-sidechains-elemen...
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> The logical next step, of course, is miners themselves flooding the network in order to drive up transaction fees. That's unnecessary. Miners can choose to include no transactions in blocks. They can also choose to include only tr
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> We can't even properly define consciousness. "The term is impossible to define except in terms that are unintelligible without a grasp of what consciousness means. Many fall into the trap of equating consciousness with self-c
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> Stupid nature paywall honestly makes me furious. Why doesn't altman or some other yc partner throw some money at nature & get all their articles up on the web for free ? /endrant That's not ycombinator's job, th
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> The Bitcoin design does not permit that, because you cannot forcefully charge a user later or reimburse them. The protocol has no support for that. Well, yes, it's true that there's no direct "chargeback" primitive.
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Hmm, calling bitcoin slow is a little strange. Are you talking about confirmations, where other networks take 100s of days? But since it's "not a technical post", I wonder whether technical knowledge is invited to his discuss
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by kanzure 12y ago
> In the market at large, participants certainly don't need to understand the global ramifications of their actions, only the local ones. I don't see why that isn't the case here as well. The primary reason why that does n
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by kanzure 12y ago
Commentary and review from IRC: https://botbot.me/freenode/bitcoin-wizards/msg/36135395/
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Would you hold some apple stock anonymously? Probably not. You want the dividend. Oh, that is nearly trivial with some of these systems. Dividends can be spent to the same scriptPubKey (or other mechanism) that controls spending the st
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by kanzure 12y ago
> Just getting it to rebuild and reexport an updated model requires at least a full minute of it popping up windows all over the place Huh, are you sure Solidworks has to be running for that workflow? Can't you just load the DLL?
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> As mentionned there is a python interface for FreeCAD. There is no need to know OpenCascade. Ha, well someone has to know OpenCASCADE to maintain FreeCAD. And someone has to fix OpenCASCADE when bugs are found, and when it's time
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by kanzure 12y ago
> I've looked into writing a library for parametric modelling in Python, but then I realized that you probably need to be a PhD in geometry to write a correct implementation with reasonable speed.... Well, here's a video of sym
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by kanzure 12y ago
Working with FreeCAD means maintaining OpenCASCADE, here's my notes (hopefully this will help you get a sense for what you're signing up for): http://diyhpl.us/wiki/cad/opencascade/ I think that Ope
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> but that's mainly because he's repeating a well-rehearsed implementation. I would like to watch videos of someone doing something similar, but not well-rehearsed reimplementation. Got any? Thank you..
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> I thought you were being "edgy," Text can be more respectful of people's time. By all means, enjoy videos whenever you want, although I think text deserves a chance :-) especially for a bunch of busy HN people. (I don&#x
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I typed some transcripts: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/mit-bitcoin-expo-2015/ videos are rude
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Is there anything like Tabs Outliner but attached to the same window? More like Tree Style Tabs. At this point I may even be willing to run mitmproxy to inject an iframe into every page or something :(
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> You're not going to be able to abolish death until you can get neural networks to run at the speed of your current brain hardware and at similar capacity. That can't possibly be true. You're dead if you are slower than y
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> Defensibility: .... People will start building on top of our initial microbes and improving them. These initial microbes form the "platform" from which to enable more bioproduction apps. That's not a very fair answer. I

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