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by nemo1618 11y ago
Perhaps. I won't argue that my parents, on the whole, raised me very well. I wasn't aware of this at all until I had some distance from them, and heard about/experienced other people's parents, who tended to fall into ei
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by nemo1618 11y ago
I should clarify that what I described in my post took place during adolescence (age 10+), not childhood. The case for restricting screen use during childhood is more clear. >It made you get creative, and it forced you to concentrate and
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by nemo1618 11y ago
I was raised by parents who strictly limited my computer time to one hour a day. I spent most of it playing games, so perhaps their concern was justified. But I loved the computer, so, so much. And of course, I would do anything to sneak ar
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by nemo1618 11y ago
52.4 GH/s is a lot slower than I would expect for a coin with such a large following. Is the hashing algorithm not ASIC/GPU friendly?
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by nemo1618 11y ago
I have recently begun suffering from RSI-like symptoms. Wearing a wrist brace seems to help, but I cannot afford to cease all typing right now. I'm going to give this a shot, since I've been trying to develop a meditation habit fo
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by nemo1618 11y ago
You are making assumptions about the SAI's goals. We cannot blindly assume that a SAI will pursue a given line of existential thought. If the SAI is "like us, but much smarter," then I agree that the threat is reduced. We may
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by nemo1618 11y ago
The threat of a superintelligent AI taking over the world is certainly real -- assuming you have a superintelligent AI. If you accept that it is possible to build a such an AI, then you should, at the very least, educate yourself on the exi
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Web interface for Google's DeepDream(deepdreams.zainshah.net)
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by nemo1618 11y ago
Nebulous, Inc. | Cryptocurrency/Distributed Systems development | ONSITE (Boston) Position: Front-end developer/designer Nebulous is developing a cloud storage platform that allows users to rent out their hard drive space in excha
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by nemo1618 11y ago
You're stating that like it's a fact. I don't think there's any credible evidence of the 4chan staff makeup changing significantly during GamerGate, other than a "leaked" IRC chatlog which essentially portrayed
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Also, watch Mushishi.
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by nemo1618 11y ago
On the subject of super-optimization... I was imagining a language which would super-optimize only for specific inputs. As an example, let's say you have a program which solves a Project Euler problem. The first time you run it, it tak
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by nemo1618 11y ago
Interesting -- I figured a multiprocess Firefox would only arrive once Servo was finished. Or are these two projects complementary?
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by nemo1618 11y ago
I think the ideal would be closer to the asm.js side of things than the JS side. It's nice that I can inspect the source of any page and read high-level code, but the tradeoffs aren't worth it anymore. I'd much rather have a
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by nemo1618 11y ago
probably because NaN has a specific meaning when the value being considered is a number , which "LOL" isn't. If you're calling isNaN, it usually means you're checking explicitly for a number like 1/0, not a st
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by nemo1618 11y ago
I don't see how the author can reconcile his (implied) belief that consciousness cannot be created with the entirely reasonable assertion that some beings are inherently more conscious than others. A fertilized egg, for example, contai
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Because our experience of the world is the thing we hold most dear. We associate it with our identity, to the point where the two seem inseparable. The idea that we are "in the world, but not of it" is very deeply ingrained. Our t
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by nemo1618 11y ago
Glad to see someone is doing this. Early Minecraft was so beautiful in its simplicity. Although, a big part of that (for me) was the soundtrack. Just three short piano tracks by C418. I hope there's some way to include those in TrueCra
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by nemo1618 11y ago
So was that map the territory, or not?
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by nemo1618 11y ago
Nice, but I was hoping for something like: slice :: Int{1..} -> [a] -> [[a]] slice n l = splitAt n l & \(a, b) -> a : slice n b I don't think this is possible in Haskell. Is there a language that supports this
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by nemo1618 12y ago
Absolutely agree. As an introvert, I knew myself well enough to bring along an extroverted friend when I chose to venture into the unknown. He was a total life-saver; the trip would have been a disaster otherwise.
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by nemo1618 12y ago
It's useful for those people too; it saves you the time/mental load of writing (and potentially debugging) a regex.
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Interview with the winner of Go Challenge #1(sourcegraph.com)
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My favorite Fermi Paradox solution thus far is the "Transcension Hypothesis" ( http://brighterbrains.org/articles/entry/the-transcension-hy... ), which basically says that sufficiently advanced civilizatio
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There is very little "hard CS" in the book, though there are references to programming. It's more about formal systems. If you're a CS major you may find these things easier to grasp, since you can draw analogies to fini
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by nemo1618 12y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid , and I'm loving it. Some parts are funny, some are dry, and some are truly mind-blowing. As someone who loves wordplay, self-reference, and multiple layers of meaning, this book is like cr
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by nemo1618 12y ago
Can someone summarize the linked paper? What result does it propose w.r.t altruism, and why are Dawkins/Pinker/others challenging it? EDIT: after some digging, I found this article: http://www.theguardian.com/scien
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by nemo1618 12y ago
Winner of the first challenge here. Looks like the prizes are mostly the same (maybe identical?) as last month, so I'll probably be competing in the "Just for fun" category. Hope to see some creative solutions!
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"We're all just walking each other home." ― Ram Dass
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by nemo1618 12y ago
IMO, the author's "copy data to stdout" example betrays a lack of language understanding. Here's a more idiomatic version: http://play.golang.org/p/ZWatRuj3Q_

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