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by matthewwiese 7y ago
I don't normally shill subreddits -- and advise everyone to use an ad blocker while on that website -- but for those who find this news alarming and/or shrug it off as media hysteria, I highly suggest popping over to /r/
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. :)
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
> And we'll likely all die reasonably content knowing it's not our problem. That's exactly the kind of thinking that caused this mess ( i.e climate catastrophe) in the first place. Had people prioritized their grandchild
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
This is fiendishly clever; you more than made up for a lack of technical skills by exploiting the wetware angle. Lovely little story :)
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
I absolutely love that this is not some parody of cyberpunk fiction, but instead reality.
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
On a VAX no less! Can't imagine there's an HFT arbitrage opportunity for such "slow" tech.
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
I, too, grew up on the first-ever Zoombinis game. I actually recently played through it again almost 15+ years later. Everything from the sound effects to the visuals is seared somewhere deep in my neural wetware like a permanent ROM chip.
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
Thanks for the reply! I didn't know the standardized IPA was in fact with an "r." Strange though, because to me the umlauted-o sound is probably one of the easiest German pronunciations to do for an English speaker. Also, goo
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
That "Girdle" pronunciation is like nails on a chalkboard! The umlaut is an oo (or ue ) sound. There is no "r" anywhere! As both a philosophy student and German speaker, whenever my professors pronounced it like that
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
As a philosophy major, at my university we do so in our "Advanced Symbolic Logic" class. However, the depth with which you engage with Gödel's theorem depends on the professor teaching it and their interests when designing th
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
To add to that: Clickteam's Multimedia Fusion 2 Developer, which I learned to make games with back in elementary school. It is strictly (although not exclusively) "no code." Hell, one of my favorite indie games of all time, K
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
That document you linked is fascinating. It's especially relevant to me because I'm currently taking a class through my university's pharmacy department on drug discovery and development in the pharmaceutical industry. Just l
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by matthewwiese 7y ago
That is an absolutely fascinating application that I've never considered before. One could design all sorts of experiments, not just exclusively spatial reasoning. Imagine allowing a class of undergraduate students to participate in a
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
The incompetence originates from the disregard of the parent commenter's question/concern. It's the result of not engaging in good faith with your student, not necessarily the conclusions drawn. As I mentioned in my origina
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I'm sorry an incompetent professor left such a bad taste in your mouth, and on the field as a whole. What's strange to me, is that my interpretation of the results of such an experiment wouldn't even lead to your professor&#
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Just wanted to say that I always enjoy seeing a t3x.org link pop up on the front page of HN. Your site is one of the few "regulars" that I always enjoy seeing a new update from; your projects are always interesting and I can usual
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
> There is no space to drive my tractor collection around. I am glad to see a comment like this on HN, despite the impression that everyone here is an SV-focused tech bro. Sometimes it feels good to read about somebody's tractors wh
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
When discussing this exact topic with classmates this semester (philsophy undergrad in a medieval philosophy class that is doing a lot with the interplay with theology) I've used the following metaphor to explain how I've come t
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
By damn, I just love when the big kahunas still involve themselves in the community they cultivated so long ago. Cheers, Sam; the best of luck to you and the team at YC.
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Haha. Well said. That's a clever take. I suppose if the "original" humans came from a universe as hellish as Warhammer 40K, ours would seem like a cakewalk!
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I don't think you intended your first remark to sound like this, but I'd imagine the same could be said of us from the perspective of a highly advanced interstellar species: how different can the experiences be between humans,
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
If I grokked the parent right, it's not that we are living in a simulation, but that the apex of development for a species is effectively becoming a simulation. Now, whether that is an argument that life at present is itself a simula
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
My girlfriend got me this book for Christmas! It's an absolute trip. Some of the Area 51 patches (for black site tech development, etc) have such surprising on-the-nose humor regarding aliens. It's nice to know that even people th
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
Shapiro! I'm actually in Advanced Symbolic Logic (PHILOS 5500) this semester and he happens to be teaching it. Talk about Hacker News serendipity. Tennant isn't my advisor, but I've taken a handful of classes with him, and hi
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
This theory, although fantastical, appears to fall in line with what little is known about Cotten. The kind of person to run a quarter-billion dollar operation solely from their laptop, I would think is certainly liable to pull a stunt like
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I've only just skimmed the first section, and already I feel like I'm in for a trip. The math is indeed as approachable as you suggest. I'm only a philosophy major (though our logic department is seriously the bees knees, sho
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I am so happy I decided to stumble into the comments section for this article. Your contribution of this short story by Borges is almost sublime in its essential similarity to the article of OP. I've already been a fan of Borges, but I
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
I respect the need to abide by an NDA, and I assumed something along those lines would be the case. Thanks for the tidbits nonetheless! The intersection between finance and tech at the highest levels like that has always intrigued me.
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by matthewwiese 8y ago
In what context was this done/could you provide more details (without giving away any information that you don't care to share)? Sounds like something I would enjoy doing as well!

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