nmac

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Build a multimillion dollar neural network cluster for 20k [pdf](stanford.edu)
2 points by nmac 12y ago|0 comments
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by nmac 12y ago
-> "I believed Microsoft Windows was only platform worth to develop software." This sounds like the first line of a Kafka-esque horror story.
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by nmac 12y ago
Just looked into this, and I am quite surprised with the fluid UX. Thanks for the suggestion!
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by nmac 12y ago
I recently migrated to clojure from the php world. I have to say that although I am still learning the language, its actually fun compared to php, which would sometimes feel like pulling teeth to get some basic functionality. Way less boile
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by nmac 12y ago
I think this is a very interesting game with an important message. However, the UX could be more engaging by having a more vertical leveling up structure. I felt as if I wanted to get to the next level but the onslaught of questions seeming
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by nmac 12y ago
Im not sure why there seem to be some negative comments, this is absolutely amazing- albeit a little scary in a sci-fi clockwork orange kind of way... Additionally, consciousness gets commonly defined in philosophy of mind as the "like
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by nmac 12y ago
If by intelligence you mean something along the lines of information processing/synthesizing ability, then intelligence has been shown (hedging- strongly suggested) to be dynamic as the result of neuroplastic brain events. Assuming you
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Al Gore on privacy and cleantech at Southland(youtube.com)
1 points by nmac 12y ago|0 comments
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by nmac 12y ago
This article is interesting but it overgeneralizes. I don't think its fair to say of tech entrepreneurs that they are somehow managed by their investors. Sure, some might be, but they are the exception, not the rule. If you listen to t
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by nmac 12y ago
"Creative had a technologically superior MP3 player, but customers preferred the iPod, to the utter dismay of the Creative managers. They just couldn’t understand how customers were so irrational!" I think design is just as integr
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by nmac 12y ago
First, I agree with the sentiments of some of the above commenters, "coders" just sounds ridiculous. Now, this question is ambiguous between two different interpretations of being "worth it". Clearly engineers are "
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Why Computational Complexity Prohibits Macro-Quantum States(medium.com)
2 points by nmac 12y ago|0 comments
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by nmac 12y ago
I agree. At the end of the day, it always comes back to personality types and drives. Each startup needs different things in different phases. Maybe a really smart coder is exactly what a non-technical co-founder might need, whilst a resili
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by nmac 12y ago
Be careful with definitions (sets of necessary and sufficient conditions) to any concept... counterexamples lie around the corner.
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by nmac 12y ago
I think people like Jerry Fodor define computation as the manipulation of logical symbols by some algorithm. The idea is that you use a standard functionalist analysis (see someone like Putnam 67) to analyze the inputs(X) and outputs(Y) of
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by nmac 12y ago
Its a nice touch including portmanteaus and 'incorrect' ebonics on the list (like "ery'day"), since authors like shakespeare, joyce and others took the same liberties with language. Arguably, that's how languag
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by nmac 13y ago
Interesting, since I heard Paul Steinhardt give a talk not too long ago concerning some skepticism towards the inflationary model's ability to explain the issues that it set out to model (such as the horizon problem, etc.). I wonder if