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by lngnmn 9y ago
My comment was is about inevitable philosophical gap between reality and any model or a simulation, which cannot be bridged in principle. Yes, simulators as sources of sensory input to get similar experience are used, for example, to tr
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Future cannot be defined for a any stochastic process with unknown number of hidden variables with unknown weights. Everything core complex than a roll of a dice is unpredictable by definition, just because the model is incomplete. Even nex
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Oh, that is truly hipster's concept - more than one nil. similar to -0 and +0. Public cosplay of [presumed] intelligence as a new smoking.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Recursion only begins with the notion of mutual recursion. Transforming imperative loops into recursion (with the constant-space accumulation pattern and TCO) is a nothing-special mechanical operation. Recursion really shines in mutually re
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by lngnmn 9y ago
So, Google's snowflakes are trying to place some naive pseudo-scientific and pseudo-philosophical but popular among other snowflakes compilation of current memes and fancy terminology upon objective reality by silencing a naive but not
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by lngnmn 9y ago
It should be taught in high school that extremes are not representative. The popular areas of sex tourism in Thailand are safer than most tourist hotspots without any security forces, cameras, etc. Everything is self-regulated, like a healt
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Look no farther than some South Asian societies. Countries with no madness around prostitution are better off socially. It is not an accident that Thailand is a Buddhist country - people are tolerant to whatever is not harming others livin
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Sure. Engineering is an applied science. So, these cannot be equal.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Since the time Vedic seers, I suppose... BTW, prolonged solitude has been considered by most major Eastern schools (both Hindu and Buddhist) as necessarily precursor for spiritual transformations.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
I really appreciate narcissism and arrogance of Rich - he spent these two years (or whatever the legend says) writing Clojure 1.0 before made it public and this is what arrogance is for. Nevertheless, even an ordinary CS student would notic
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by lngnmn 9y ago
systemd More seriously, everything which made MIT to switch from Scheme to Python in the fundamental CS courses.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Why not Common Lisp or Scheme?
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Yet another example of how interfaces and ADTs (together with layered DSLs) are the central concerts in classic CS.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Location: South Asia Remote: YES Willing to relocate: YES Technologies: CS Résumé/CV: https://karma-engineering.com/lab Email: lngnmn1@gmail.com
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by lngnmn 9y ago
One word: Microsoft.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Bridging of Finite-Infinite Divide
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by lngnmn 9y ago
But some mathematical logic is indeed sectarian.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> For mathematical object to 'exist' only thing required is logical consistency under the rules used. This is precisely the rule which establish existence of gods, accelerating time, higher dimensions, and other mental UFOs.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
> We can't see or think anything concrete. We have never touched anything 'physical' or 'real'. It's all abstract representations in our brains. This is some sectarian preaching in my opinion. The whole th
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by lngnmn 9y ago
There is no such thing as Infinite outside your heads. This is actually a pattern - a false dichotomy with a pure abstraction produced as an abstract opposite or an abstract result of negation of some other concept or a named entity. Applie
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Emotions are "learned heuristics".
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Pattern recognition and feedback loops aren't enough. Artificial Intelligence require Artificial Emotions.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Yet another homegrown PHP-sque language. The Fractal Of Bad Design is actually a pattern. My bet they never took any PL course, and have very vague understanding of what consequences certain design decisions would produce. "20 years of
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by lngnmn 9y ago
J2EE
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Instead of better education, social security and jobs creation...
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Anti-monopoly and human rights guys should perhaps take a look into this.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Ravens have a concert of future? Amazing! What if ravens just act accordingly to environmental cues instead?
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The classic AI (as in the AIMA book), it seems, got it right - heuristic-based search, guided by feedback (to improve an heuristic) is what intelligence is in general. Every living organism posseses intelligence (by the process of trial-and
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by lngnmn 9y ago
The classic Wizards lecture on generic '+ is good enough argument. The numeric tower of lisps is the canonical use case of what generic functions are good for. Smalltalk, the second greatest language after Lisp, is also good example.
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by lngnmn 9y ago
Holy fuck! The Fractal Of Bad Design all over again...

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