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by myflash13 9y ago
Flute Systems Inc. | Co Founder / Full Stack Engineer | Toronto, Canada | ONSITE Full Time It's been over 8 years since we've seen any significant innovation in the email API space (think SendGrid, Postmark, etc.). But busine
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Ask HN: SaaS startup releasing an open-source version?
1 points by myflash13 9y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Which transactional email service do you use?
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by myflash13 10y ago
I really appreciate the detailed write-up and the Bench.co recommendation...exactly what I was looking for.
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Ask HN: How do you track your finances at a fledgling startup?
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by myflash13 10y ago
Tons of cool features, and yet not the one I need. Am I the only one who wants my dock icon badge to show the total number of emails in my inbox, not just the number of unread emails? I follow the inbox zero philosophy, and treat my inbox l
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by myflash13 10y ago
The combinatorially explosive amount of information that we deal with at every single moment is too large to be dismissed as "precomputed by brain connectivity". If such a large amount of computation could be "precomputed&quo
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by myflash13 10y ago
I understand that you view qualia as structural properties, and can map trillions of physical brain-configurations to trillions of subjective brain-states. However there is still a massive discrepancy between our subjective experience of su
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by myflash13 10y ago
> Representations which have low to zero mutual information with the current sensory input are simply not computed-with. Who decides that a particular representation in the brain has zero mutual information with current sensory input? Th
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by myflash13 10y ago
It seems once again that you're defining the qualia in terms of some input/output formula. But that's missing my point; I used "external" inputs/outputs merely as an example. At what point do those inputs and o
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by myflash13 10y ago
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I do feel like I understand it: what defines or distinguishes, say, my qualia of red, is how it primes my brain into thinking about red things, how it changes my mood, how it behaves relative to every other
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by myflash13 10y ago
> Our brains are information-theoretically and complexity-theoretically entirely reasonable. I know this has been the traditional view of most information theorists. But many philosophers (and a few computer scientists) challenge that vi
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by myflash13 10y ago
The problem with claiming that consciousness is just a complicated computation is not merely that we simply haven't advanced our study enough to understand it. The problem is that what we know so far about the nature of computation see
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by myflash13 10y ago
What I expect from an answer to the hard problem of consciousness is a basic high level explanation for how the moving of atoms in certain ways can actually give rise to qualia. You seem to be starting with the presumption that it does. But
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by myflash13 10y ago
The empirical and phenomenological observations across centuries and cultures by different mindfulness practitioners about the nature of the human mind are not to be dismissed so easily, even if they have had varying levels of rigour in the
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by myflash13 10y ago
17. Being stuck with the nagging question afterwards: Was that a date?
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by myflash13 14y ago
Name some really good software for designing interfaces.