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by michaelscott 9y ago
I recently had a somewhat tangential conversation with someone, wherein the relationship between order and chaos in the universe (and specifically our case as the human race) is a function of increasing time. Humans attempt to create order
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by michaelscott 9y ago
I just mean that tokens indicate buy-in value for a product in the same way that equity does, not that they're perfectly analogous or the same by definition. If Amazon were to decide to set up some kind of coin product it wouldn't
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by michaelscott 9y ago
I didn't say they were equity, only that they follow the same conceptual structure in investment practice. That said, the days of unregulated ICOs are definitely numbered and you can count on regulatory legislation coming to a city nea
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by michaelscott 9y ago
The concept behind the tokens is that they take the value place of equity in a company. A person buying tokens is saying that they believe that the core product the company is providing is good enough that the tokens will increase in value
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by michaelscott 9y ago
I'd wager it's the pre-existing culture of Silicon Valley that attracts startups. Kind of like a tech Mecca, it's got a magnetic pull based on "if you want to succeed you need to be based here". With VCs etc operati
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by michaelscott 9y ago
A good parallel to Web Assembly is just straight OS Assembly, as opposed to Flash. Any concerns you have around Web Assembly could be applied to regular Assembly as well (not saying that you don't already do this, but it's good to
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by michaelscott 9y ago
This is really, really interesting, especially considering how different Venda is from languages like Xhosa or Zulu, which are geographically much closer than Kenya (is Bukusu the language as well as the tribe?)
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by michaelscott 10y ago
This is a really interesting set of stats you have here. Heartening in the sense that rejection is a common and overwhelming likelihood and shouldn't be a source of dejection, but also kind of depressing in the sense that it's cle
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by michaelscott 10y ago
I don't read code like I read a novel. I read it in an attempt to understand the writer's intentions, and what the code is meant to accomplish. I find the leading commas to be far easier to scan than the other way around.
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by michaelscott 10y ago
It's an interesting balancing act. I think when most devs look at JSX for the first time they instantly recoil at the rebellion against years and years of "separation of concerns", yet as you say it's a syntax that devs
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Machine Learning and UX: It Doesn't Exist Yet(medium.com)
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by michaelscott 10y ago
But this happens because we don't live very long currently. So we prioritise using the time we have to build material resources so that when (if) we have a child we can maintain standard of living. If you were assured to live even 100
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by michaelscott 10y ago
This is sorely needed for machine learning if it's to get both more complex and more accurate. Coincidentally Alan Kay brought the "expert systems" idea up in his recent AMA as well. It'd be inconceivable to write code t
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by michaelscott 10y ago
I think this kind of proves the point, though. These kids know their entrepreneurial and business-minded parents from birth (i.e. "what they know" comes from "who they know"), as opposed to those of us who grew up as chi
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Definitely interesting. The best visualisations can encode information in multiple dimensions though, often as high as 5 or 6 (Minard's graphic of the march of Napolean is probably the most well-known example, encoding data in about 5
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Fantastic set of info thanks! I especially love the linking idea; I think it's key to understanding things from multiple perspectives, especially if you're the only one/one of a few working on something. Yeah quick visual dec
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by michaelscott 10y ago
>"Visualization is a very 'local' thing, it helps you understand the narrow context of what you're working on, but when working with large systems, you need to have the map in your head" This reasoning is equival
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by michaelscott 10y ago
"you taking it was never their goal" I'd disagree. That's pretty much the point of making the software open source: so that others can take and use it within the confines of whatever licence the dev decides. The point is
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by michaelscott 10y ago
This is insanely cool! I'm totally making a conversion of this into Elm my next pet project. One nice thing to see would be generation of terrain types (such as deserts or tundras) and the affect these have on the algorithms that place
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by michaelscott 10y ago
I hear you, but Apple isn't known for developing in this way. Their focus is on controlling the entire experience, hardware to software. Still, anything is possible
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Sounds awesome man, keen to see it!
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by michaelscott 10y ago
This. Unfortunately there is nothing actionable from this visualisation and, at the risk of sounding like an asshole, it's virtually meaningless. The only piece of information this visualisation does provide is what the largest Python
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by michaelscott 10y ago
I'd rather mess around to get the visual I'm looking for (the results of CSS are nothing if not visual) than read up on copious amounts of documentation. Visual learning for a visual medium.
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by michaelscott 10y ago
For me there's a disconnect in the handling. So in a traditional approach, you write one function that takes in input and spits out an output (called, say, FUNCTION_A). Then you have another function (FUNCTION_B) that maybe does some s
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Redux is definitely a step in that direction. Elm, which it's inspired by, is even further along that road in that its design is better handled (but then it doesn't require handling in JavaScript so I suppose that is why)
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Ah I see, that's quite interesting. So the idea of a system that could explain its own decision-making and inferences? Neural networks definitely are black boxes, at least at an individual level. Sure the concept remains the same gener
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Because when things go sideways a human can't fix anything without copious amounts of reading/testing/poking around? I'm taking your meaning of "explain" literally here, which might be shortsighted. Either way,
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Do you think that genetic programming and machine learning are effective avenues to pursue regarding this? Or is that introducing unnecessary complexity in many/most cases?
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by michaelscott 10y ago
Personally, I've found that discovering "hazy" intuitive connections between otherwise dissonant subjects/ideas (such as the mentioned physics example) cements new concepts at a System 1 level quickly if done early in th