lkozma

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by lkozma 10y ago
> Average life expectancies were low because of infant mortality I heard this argument many many times, including in reputable places, and I never quite understood it. Just to make sure, the argument is something like "in stone age&
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by lkozma 10y ago
That uniqueness may be just in the fact that our brains were "trained" during the billions of years of life on Earth, with all the quirks of that particular environment. That may indeed be hard to replicate exactly, so it can be i
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by lkozma 10y ago
I totally sympathize with what you write, let me just fix the spelling/word usage: "conciousness" -> "consciousness", but what you mean is actually "conscience".
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by lkozma 10y ago
To make that comparison fair, maybe you should also count the amount of data used during the human toddler's evolution when the structure of the brain became what it is.
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by lkozma 10y ago
I'm genuinely curious: why would someone want to have a dog and have someone else (in your scenario, a robot) interact with it.
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by lkozma 10y ago
you can of course use it as much as you want -- but I thing the broader point of the author holds: for a generation that is supposed to be rebellious, there is a surprising amount of conformism in accepting these tools as something that nee
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by lkozma 10y ago
It might have been this one, the text you are referring to: http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm
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by lkozma 11y ago
In my work I often use the Vapnik-Chervonenkis dimension. Whenever I see titles such as this, I hope for a moment for some interesting technical content, only to find that it is about a different VC :) https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by lkozma 11y ago
I like this idea: the OEIS-complexity of a sequence (= how early it comes in the encyclopedia). But yes, what I thought of was what the other commenter wrote: given some primitive operations, how long a program can generate the sequence?
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by lkozma 11y ago
I think it is a common misconception that in the kind of puzzles you mention any number can come next in an equally meaningful way. There are well-defined (mathematically) and natural ways in which 6 is a better continuation to 1,2,3,4,5,..
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by lkozma 11y ago
It could be that the minimum is 7, the maximum is 470, but almost all values cluster around 200. Then it would be fair to say that variation is minuscule.
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by lkozma 11y ago
You make some very interesting points - I just want to ask a side-question on a linguistic issue: - do you use "disrupt" in a positive sense, or in its original dictionary sense: "interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by
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by lkozma 11y ago
Why not counter it with a use-case that proves OP wrong instead of a meta-argument?
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by lkozma 11y ago
Before reading the article, one should see this (quite convincing) claim that the author has plagiarized many of the ideas in it: http://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/dobelli.htm
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by lkozma 11y ago
I thought that example was quite nice, and it might work with kindergarten kids. It has to be kept easy and not overwhelming, though. I'd do it like this: First take some simpler map that can be 3-colored and ask the child to 3-color i
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by lkozma 11y ago
The attitude of the prof you are detecting might be as you say. However, the "infantilization" described in the article (if indeed real) does not necessarily signal that students are gaining more power in matters of importance, it
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by lkozma 11y ago
Should read "more than 50 million people" for each language.
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by lkozma 12y ago
unrelated to the topic, but I had to smile at "a tad abysmal".
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by lkozma 12y ago
This is a good insight, with the remark that CPU manufacturers are rarely bailed out by the taxpayers, after designing a faulty processor and getting close to bankruptcy.
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by lkozma 12y ago
Think of this analogy: every person in the world flips a fair coin. Those who flip tail, stop flipping coins. Those who flip head, flip one more time, and so on. In expectation, the overall number of heads and tails will be the same - if yo
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by lkozma 12y ago
No, because the three cases happen with different probabilities: (F,none): 0.5 (M,F): 0.25 (M,M): 0.25 The expected number of both F and M is 0.75
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by lkozma 12y ago
The wiki article should be a good start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof
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by lkozma 12y ago
If someone is interested, here are two further nice articles about the man, written by a close friend and collaborator: http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/files/tr_authentic/TR-2001-11.ps http://www.cs.uchicago
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Show HN: Recursi - a fractal memory puzzle(lkozma.net)
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Show HN: Recursi – a recursive memory/logic puzzle(lkozma.net)
5 points by lkozma 12y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 12y ago
"The world is divided into those who get this truth and those who wail,..." Is Dawkins making a joke here, or is he falling into the same fallacy he is deriding in the article. Clearly the world is not "divided" into the
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by lkozma 12y ago
Just for good measure, here is a short criticism of a few points in this talk: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Rants/HammingBelco...
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by lkozma 13y ago
The reason why crypto might be even harder than the other engineering tasks you mention is that in those the "adversary" is indifferent, not actively trying to exploit every loophole you might have left. You might build a bridge t
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by lkozma 13y ago
I also thought it might have been just 0 points, but his other comment in the thread still appears as [dead] for me. jacko0's comment now appears as normal, although earlier I clearly remember it was [dead]. icecreampain's still a
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by lkozma 13y ago
jacko0 and ksrm [EDIT: and icecreampain], you seem to be under some kind of ban - what you write appears gray, and is invisible when I log out - despite them appearing to be perfectly valid contributions. I really hate this whole banning on

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