mtrimpe

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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I'm saying that what we call consciousness is merely a qualitative, subjective, signifier (correct word?) which describes the degree to which we consider the dynamic behaviour of parts of our universe to be similar to that of our own.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
> Namely, almost everyone except for the philosophical extremist agrees that we are conscious and that a stone isn't. I really don't get why it's so hard for people to imagine consciousness as a property of the universe ra
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I never meant to imply FP is already the right choice for big data (which is what I think you refer to by 'systems people') or high performance computing. The reality though is that well over 99% of the market works with data sets
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
At n=32 the performance costs are as negligible as dynamic typing once was (even less I'd argue.) As far as I can tell that very much puts us at the point in time where mutable state is usually a premature optimization. Adopting it suc
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I'd say because of two reasons: a) it requires putting together a fairly large number of concepts of moderate complexity (and you never know which ones your readers already understand.) b) many of the concepts sound trivial and people
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I'm all for trying something unfamiliar, and I could even argue for Haskell that way, but from a different angle. I would say that adopting a language for the next 10 years that doesn't have purely functional data structures at it
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
What you glossed over was the 'model for change' part and the implications that follow from there. It's a shame that it's not being said more clearly and explicitly in the post; but that 'model for change' impl
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
The wording is very cautious though (under certain provisions, in certain circumstances, etc.) implying that it very much still is at the court's discretion.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It will require a judge in the EU who will submit his findings to the legal representative of Google EU. If there will be enough of these cases infrastructure for the legal representative to handle the cases will be put in place; but I didn
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It will never sway a large part of the community. What Apple is to selling integrated hardware, Microsoft is to integrated software. Both are essentially eternal niches; they afford you more ease-of-use if you stay within the mold but their
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Or allow users to give your reaction on tweets and have a simple machine learning algorithm block, filter and hide tweets for you based on that. The real issue here though is that these trolls know that there will be no legal consequences f
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Why could we not contribute? At it's core this is about the needs of a very small but important group of users not being addressed. It only took me a few minutes to think of various things we could do to aid them ranging from a UI more
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Another benefit is that these millions lines less also translate into file sizes. A bare-bones MirageOS deployment (e.g. a hello world TCP service) is only a few MB if I remember correctly.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It's already clear that Visa/MasterCard will be a key part of US sanctions against Russia so this is partially a pre-emptive strike. I generally doubt it's going to work out though. My partner is Ukrainian and apparently the
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
> Also, given that i am in London, it would have meant working on AdWords, which sounds dull. That's the main reason I'll never apply to Google. Not that I won't get in, but that I won't have the political klout to ac
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Isn't the true bottleneck meaning though? As in knowing which goal to optimize for? I believe that it's essentially an educational problem; where AI will be bound by it's ability to educate us and vice versa.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It's more that looking out that far into the future is pure science-fiction. I for one believe that it's far more likely humanity will develop a symbiosis with it's silicon counterpart that eventually will run so deep that it
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
They focus very hard on customer service so I guess that plays a part.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
> I was just thinking the same thing as I re-read my comment. It is a false dichotomy and it was badly phrased. Thank you for that. It's somehow very much appreciated. As for the sexism accusations; Many, many women feel they'r
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Well; there are tons of HR books with general advice and probably dozens about what you're discussing here. The general consensus is that there is no right approach [1] but that there are a lot of best practices and no-brainers and t
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Up until know, when evaluating GitHub's reaction, we assumed the other co-founders wouldn't have known about this. If they had a similar thing happen a while ago where someone was let go, in a company that prides itself for employ
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
If we extend that line of reasoning then if you're raped but can't prove it you should stay silent because making it public without hard evidence is just not an option.
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
It is of course possible that the investigation might not have been able to identify a, possibly subtle, dysfunction at the core of a company's culture with a few days of work... Regardless; by definition all Julie-Ann can comment on i
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
You can't handle that retrospectively. That's what you need HR policies in place for pre-emptively; so that these frustrations can be channeled into a productive resolution. It's like an airplane crash; it virtually always in
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
The people calling for Github's head were asking for a response like this. Ideally they'd also apologise for accidentally enabling a work-environment that led to Julie-Ann feeling unsafe in the first place but, as even Julie-Ann h
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
> I'm glad to see the claims of sexual and gender based harassment don't seem to be true. Not to be pedantic, but it implies there is no systemic sexual and gender based harassment. It doesn't say anything about Julie-An
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Excuse you; it changes my opinion and I'm a pretty staunch feminist, social justice warrior or whatever else you may call me. The previous public statement was a disgrace and is exactly what you get when you let lawyers recommend you w
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
Truly love your comment. As for the current situation; I'd like to argue that it's not about violence at all though. It's about the belief that capitalism is the true(est) reflection of personal worth and that monetary wealth
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
The book 'The Truth about Trust' [1] explores the latest research around the entire issue of trust, of which lie detection is just a small part, in great and wonderfully readable detail. The TL;DR from there concerning lie detecti
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by mtrimpe 12y ago
I think it's very good advice; just overly specific. It should be "have a dating policy," or have explicit guidelines on how to handle intra-office relationships. I'd say it doesn't matter whether it's a &#

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