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by mej10 12y ago
How about Shane Legg (One of the cofounders of DeepMind)? http://lesswrong.com/lw/691/qa_with_shane_legg_on_risks_from... Quote: Q6: Do possible risks from AI outweigh other possible existential risks, e.g. risks
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Can you link to any studies showing IF increased T levels substantially? I am genuinely curious. I have been considering doing IF (since I am half way there already) just for the longevity boosts and general body composition benefits.
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Have any independent artists with a significant amount of listens posted how much money they are making? I am sure there are some rules against this... I know for signed artists it is a really small amount. It seems like most groups have ac
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Thank you for mentioning this.
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IntelliJ sort of has this for Scala. Scala Worksheets. They are more useful than a REPL, but not quite to iPython in terms of features (mainly because they aren't browser based). But they also have some advantages over iPython (like in
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This was a helpful writeup. Nim has a lot of really nice features. Are there any problems or things you find lacking?
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This is pretty cool. Also, thanks for your work on Scala.JS related stuff!
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Wow, I never realized Symbolics was that big. Were they just not able to keep up in the era of cheap, commodity hardware for workstations?
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The issue is that Ruby can't give you the tools you need to catch such things before runtime. Haskell can.
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They recently raised $542 million. http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/magic-leap-tech/
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The comparison to a Xeon is what confused me. I didn't think such a development had taken place.
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What are you meaning by general-purpose here? Do you not have to use a different programming model anymore?
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I don't know why you would place any more weight on that random person's opinion. Most of the things he/she says are really naive.
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Regular exercise makes such a huge difference in ability to handle stressful situations as well as dealing with long term stress. It also improves cognitive function measurably. I don't know what else you have going on in your life, bu
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The Nix package manager refers to itself as "The Purely Functional Package Manager", and that is exactly what it lets you do. "It provides atomic upgrades and rollbacks, side-by-side installation of multiple versions of a pac
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This to me just implies that we are assuming things about the universe that aren't true. Like perhaps the "fact" that it is all continuous? The tools of continuous physics/math are so ingrained into the culture at this p
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It isn't a limitation of the OS, or of Emacs really. There is a build where you can embed GTK widgets inside of Emacs. It just isn't at all standard or, last I checked, well supported (on the level that the usual Emacs distributio
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> It's difficult to notice any pixelation on a 27" screen at a resolution of 2560x1440 Not once you are used to a retina display. I have both a retina Macbook Pro, and a 27" iMac. It is actually really obvious, especially
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I stated the problem with citing that research when trying to appeal to people familiar with Haskell-like type systems (as in the linked blog post). My real point is that you can't really draw strong conclusions from this research when
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This comment alone is enough to make Haskellers (or other proponents of good type systems) not take this seriously. Anything trying to cast broad strokes about the usefulness and effectiveness of type systems can't use a language with
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Then perhaps it is a great example for the author's thesis.
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"Rich Hickey's transducers talk gave a nice example of how patterns of polymorphism which humans find comprehensible can easily become extremely hard to capture precisely in a logic." I haven't watched his talk, but Rich
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That is good to hear, for both personal validation and my hopes for your project. Thanks.
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How much math do you know? Specifically of the type theory/domain theory/category theory variety. How many process calculi are you familiar with? Just curious.
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They addressed these points directly in the lecture. Sam's message here is to try and shift the balance back to where it should be. PG says that they seemed like toys. Not that they were toys. I think what they've said is very
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Some Javascript developers would love to have support for first class continuations, but the Javascript engines would need to implement several changes to make them practical.
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Discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7852296
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I am interested in your article. And yes, HN absolutely accepts links to personal blogs discussing pet projects.
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Corporations, governments, political systems, and other organizations are also optimization processes. Some of which are certainly harmful and also already hurt many people. And these are evolving through selective pressures as well. And no
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Human-like AI isn't necessary for singularity events, especially the ones that end up killing all of us. We don't need to understand consciousness or cognition to create optimization processes that end up hurting (or killing) huma

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