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by maaku 10y ago
The contract you sign with the owners of Science and Nature preclude publishing elsewhere.
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by maaku 10y ago
> I would enjoy in using fMRI or other diagnostic tools to see what physiologically happens when I do those things. But I have no qualms; that shouldn't be in any academic paper until my recommendation of measuring it is done. That&
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by maaku 10y ago
You are paying $300/year for access to information that was given to the world freely, and sacrificing your time and effort to get it? Do you see the problem here?
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by maaku 10y ago
Today I learned... Thank you.
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by maaku 10y ago
A-12 is the SR-71, no?
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by maaku 10y ago
For the price differential we're talking about, it works out in the customer's benefit.
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by maaku 10y ago
Trouble for ULA is that they are used to cost-plus contracts. E.g. "I'll pay you 120% what it costs you to make." The incentive to maximize profits here is to maximize costs up to 80% of the highest amount the customer is wil
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by maaku 10y ago
We can cross that bridge when we come to it. Right now Bitcoin usage is orders of magnitude less efficient than it could be.
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by maaku 10y ago
As with the 2nd amendment, arguing for the right to bear arms is not in and of itself an argument for their use. In this case, bitcoin represents by which civil disobedience could be practiced. As long as it is maintained as a real alternat
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by maaku 10y ago
Well to be honest I found the Tines more interesting and so I'm glad he focused on them. But the zones of thought did strike me as a creative way to both solve the Fermi paradox and have space opera without otherwise breaking the rules
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by maaku 10y ago
"A fire upon the deep" by Vernor Vinge is an interesting exploration of this. In the book different (and more desirable) physical laws take effect in places of low average matter density, so intelligent civilizations migrate out o
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by maaku 10y ago
The utility of bitcoin is censorship-resistant transactions. You don't need a high on-chain transaction rate for that.
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by maaku 10y ago
Linux is on the desktop. It's just the definition of "desktop" has changed... The devices people use day-to-day are predominantly either iOS or Android, just like how the devices people used day-to-day in the 90's were W
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by maaku 10y ago
I think you miss the point.
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by maaku 10y ago
Ah ok. More backends.
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by maaku 10y ago
> I stand by my statements. The community, or even a handful of researchers haven't come up with a competent path to AGI. That's indisputable. The keyword there is competent. You're making a subjective evaluation. Given yo
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by maaku 10y ago
I understand that. Still, what was meant? C/C++ don't have mechanisms for automatic parallelization, or if there are obscure extensions they are not commonly used. Compilation is usually a single-processor task, with linear speedu
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by maaku 10y ago
Do you realize how much computing power is behind google search?
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by maaku 10y ago
You are correct to point out that machine learning is NOT general intelligence, and what OpenAI is working on really have very little to do with AGI and super-intelligence, sadly. But how can you say "we have no idea what the constitue
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by maaku 10y ago
You're comparing a statistic of one population (smokers) with a different stat of another (general population). There's no conclusions to draw from that. E.g. healthcare costs go up with age because that's when people start d
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by maaku 10y ago
What do you mean by support more processors?
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by maaku 10y ago
I'm not the one giving you downvotes. I believe you are incorrect, but you have taken the effort to explain your thinking and have the courage to admit that you could be wrong, so I wouldn't down-vote that. In any case, let me fli
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by maaku 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X3D http://www.web3d.org/ http://www.x3dom.org/ Note especially the 3d background 'images' on the x3dom site. Try dragging them around with your
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by maaku 10y ago
Absolutely. Look at Pat Langley's BACON program back in the 80's. He didn't work on multiplication per se, but given nothing but "sensory input" it discovered laws of planetary motion, rules of physical chemistry, c
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by maaku 10y ago
Theoretical physicists do that every day. It's only noteworthy when they find one that actually corresponds to the real world...
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by maaku 10y ago
You think marriage makes any legal difference?
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by maaku 10y ago
FBI's definition does not apply in England.
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by maaku 10y ago
That's... the point.
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by maaku 10y ago
So where's the pull request?
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by maaku 10y ago
I presume it will run everywhere CUDA is supported. Draw your own conclusions.

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