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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Yes, but when or if you need to update your list of available terminals, or extend the parser because of introduced ambiguity to the language, having the lexing and parsing be separate reduces the overhead significantly.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
This is why Linus uses email. It’s the Unix way — Git is just another tool. It doesn’t need to be a website, and an issue tracker, and a change proposal database, and version control software, and a social media website, and pull request tr
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
What do you even mean? Github made a decentralized service a centralized one by encapsulating it. This “impact” isn’t the fault of Git at all.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
What are the benefits we are supposedly enjoying?
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
You lex into tokens and then parse the tokens. It’s much easier to write cleaner, extensible, and maintainable code this way. For example, why have the hassle of worrying about whether you’re dealing with a string with numbers or just a num
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
A lot of people in Colorado go outside on a regular basis to hike or ski or ride bikes.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
How do you mean?
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Answers to Cicada 3301's 2013 Questionnaire(leroy.works)
1 points by leroy-is-here 3y ago|2 comments
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I agree with what you say, but do not think it is true for humans. I think this may be true for thinking machines like ChatGPT which do not think, do not observe, unless we give it something to think about. E.g. the thinking machine is just
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I'm not sure what you mean exactly by this, but I think I understand a little. The reason why the study of health is separate than the being of health is that the being requires time and experience. I cannot convey how I feel when I ea
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Observation is inherently a process with time. Without time, observation cannot be done. I’m not sure how observation without time could even be done, with the goal of observation being the measure from one state to another.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Do you have any reading for me?
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I am addressing the original argument. The original premise was mere amusement that such a chemical could exist which could alter the mind. What I’m saying is that there is more than just chemicals which can change your mind. If you say it
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I think we have both problems, actually. We definitely have names that are good, like New York, Justice, Earth, Peace, Aphex Twin’s Windowlicker. But we also have names of things which are bad, because they are false. These the are names wh
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
No, it doesn’t. Because the study of health and the being of health are separate topics entirely.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Well, the answer is literally that everything you ingest affects you. It affects your body and the body affects the mind. From the food you eat to the words you hear, your body and mind is affected.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Words, transmitted by sound _absolutely_, without a single doubt, can affect the thoughts of an individual. And, of course, horns and loud sounds and noises will also affect the thoughts.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
The science of keeping humans healthy is fairly well researched and can also be explained, but that same science cannot convey the experience of being healthy.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
If tiny chemicals can do that to you, because you ingested them, what about all of the other things you ingest, including sound, which cause chemicals in your brain to make reactions?
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I don’t understand the why anymore. More than 2000 years ago, we understood that we must be a sum of parts and that kind of idea yielded the atom. We applied the atom to many kinds of structures to discern their nature. Now, atom means some
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I read the Wikipedia page I linked to in my article on Turing Machines. This was my mistake, I didn’t realize how poorly the Wikipedia article was written, and how much is incorrect. I encourage you to read “On Computable Numbers” by Turing
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
Many people think of Turing Machines and see only the abstraction. But what Alan Turing created was a _process_, a method, for creating what we call Turing Machines. The process, the abstraction, is not a Turing Machine ( https://
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I really like the notion that a heartbeat creates time. We have all felt the notion that time has "sped up" in many scenarios in our lives. What did we notice physically? That our heart rate has increased.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I see that I need to explain this differently. By being on Hacker News, I assume you can program. Have you not ever made an abstraction? The Turing Machine is just an abstraction. It is the Class and individual real machines are the Objects
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
The problem is not that I don’t think we can, but that we will and then we will enslave those machines. Free will isn’t ours to deny.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
The Turing Machine is just an idea with which to argue. The numbers are infinite, but if I am holding two peaches, I am holding two.
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I’m addressing your points in the order they appeared: Why isn’t your computer a Turing Machine? What if feelings are just your body’s thoughts? I didn’t say that a machine could never do this, I said no machine in this lifetime can. When I
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
I understand this completely, I was merely arguing against the claim in the article that “We are Gods”. The article seems to be arguing against giving free will to machines. Anyway, thanks for the compliments :) My wife helped me design it
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
This article makes the same mistake that Turing made: assuming that by creating a thinking machine one is creating a mind. We are not gods, we have simply made a machine. We haven’t externalized intelligence either. Intelligence isn’t deter
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by leroy-is-here 3y ago
It’s possible to design an algorithm which branches and is also constant time. If, for all inputs, the instruction length (# of instructions executed) is the same even for different branch paths, then they must all run in the same time. Thi

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