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by lngnmn 10y ago
With generational time of almost 20 years? What you are taking about is an ordinary blood-borne sexually transmitted decease model (or a virus), and it has nothing to do with genetics (gene expression is a developmental topic), so there
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by lngnmn 10y ago
I am arguing against ignoring the fundamental principle about one-way flow of information DNA->RNA->protein which makes life sustainable. Anything which contradicts with this principle is plainly nonsense - a product of unconstrained
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Do you understand the fundamental difference between a simulation according to some primitive model and reality?
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Gene expression has nothing to do with altering DNA, leave alone any propagation of such "changes".
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by lngnmn 10y ago
> instantaneous change in the genetics of a population though. How exactly, given that a generational time for humans is about 20 years?
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Cultural changes rate are too infinitesimal compared to the time which is required for any genetic change to get a chance to form and propagate through a population to attain a stable presence (forming a distinct trait). The probability tha
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Latest Ubuntu LTS. * The huge community would fix all the issues quickly. * Up to date set of "trusted" libraries and language runtimes. Latest Ubunty, if you understand how (and why it is so) community-supported distros
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by lngnmn 10y ago
I hope systemd guys will read this.
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While GPU accelerated 3D interfaces (like it in 3D games) is a good idea (at least one could mix data visualization and with controls - the way WebGL guys do it) a terminal emulator does not require any acceleration, leave alone having a Nv
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Then conservation laws would not hold.)
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That competition for survival and reproduction is the main factor which outweight everything else. Family and social bonds are also among the most powerful forces, but it is the selfish aspect of favoring and protecting one's relativ
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Are humans or any part of their biology exempt from the evolutionary forces?
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Kindness? Among bacteria, fungi, cells and viruses? How does kindness fits into population genetics?
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Not self-consciousness, perhaps, but artificial instincts would be a next big thing. Imagine that your self-driving car is afraid of self-destruction and takes care of its own fitness by avoiding the holes on the tarmac.) This, by the way,
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by lngnmn 10y ago
> namely image/speech recognition, machine translation to near human performance? The key word here is recognition . Better, faster, more efficient classifiers. The algorithms for training a better representation of the features, n
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Could be a technical co-founder, CTO, project bootstrapper, etc. Location: South Asia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: UNIX sysadmin/programmer, FP, AI. Résumé/CV: Email: lngnmn1@gmail.com
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Not AI, but so called Deep Learning meme. AI has been already well-researched in 90s. The improvements in classification algorithms and the early commercialization, such as Siri or FB face recognition are responsible for the current bubble.
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by lngnmn 10y ago
A single gene could be responsible for more than one trait? This is genetics 101.
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It is ridiculous to think that the Russkies planed and executed these hacks as a deliberate operation with a clear objective to derail the election or whatever it might me. Some guys routinely spreading primitive phishing spam got lucky and
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This is why we love HN so much.
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The c++98 code cannot be linked to libc++ which is c++11. C++ is a set of standardized kludges incompatible between standards.
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by lngnmn 10y ago
There is a nice way to realize how deeply wrong everything is with C++.. Suppose, I have a silly idea - I could recompile my mplayer+ffmpeg and, perhaps, emacs with clang4 with all the cool optimizations for my cheap crappy i3-6xxx CPU of m
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by lngnmn 10y ago
So, typed pointers with an analog of the option type. Thank you. Could we say that Swift or even SML with typed refs has similar safety and zero-cost abstractions?
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by lngnmn 10y ago
Could you, please, elaborate. In my opinion zero-cost abstraction is nothing but a catchy meme. Could you provide an example, so I would try to implement such a wonder in one of classic languages I know, like SML or Scheme?
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Compared to C++ even Java looks good.
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Forgot to ask - what exactly are the evidences of possessing sefl-awareness? Which experiment has been accepted as a proof? How did they proved that an animal subject does not see a mere another animal, but exactly "that is me" or
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There is a story about blind philosophers touching an elephant. Fortunately, in the case of mind they all are touching the same elephant, contrary to some theoretical physicists and dark matter/dark energy astronomers who are touching
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by lngnmn 10y ago
> extremely confused and can't separate philosophy/mysticism from empiricism/science. That's rather bold generalization form a single term.) Nevertheless I would argue that I could easily hold a discussion on various
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Virus, really? Would it cause an epidemic in so-called third world? Or is it a social virus, which has something to do with habits, social norms, junk food and lifestyle of over-consumption?
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What the f * am I reading? The notion of mind is a delusion, caused by confused verbalized introspection in the first place. An observer (the awareness) misapprehends working of a set of semi-independent parts as a whole, like an observ

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