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by nosignal 15y ago
You know an explanation is good when you read it and think "Wait, that's it ? Well of course I get that - I thought this was supposed to be complicated!" Thanks for posting this. I have been trying to read & understand the Yudkowsky
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by nosignal 15y ago
The translated posts of the (now removed) original content contain some fascinating details about the capabilities of the robots and realities of operating them. As the article mentions, it's interesting for anyone even interested in commer
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by nosignal 15y ago
"an element's ordinal (subscript) equals the number of elements preceding it in the sequence." That is going to make the "the 2nd item is number 1" thing SO much easier to explain when teaching. Thanks! (And it's good to have the rest of th
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by nosignal 15y ago
Python sort of did too, you can use _ to access the last-returned variable in the interpreter. [testfunc(x) for x in testlist] <successful result> success = _ print _ <successful result> It's use
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by nosignal 15y ago
Even if it's absolutely impossible to animate this technology I don't think it would be "useless". I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have the static elements (buildings, tree trunks, ground, debris, etc etc) of a level rendered usi
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European Space Agency announces Summer of Code in Space(sophia.estec.esa.int)
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by nosignal 15y ago
The first thing I thought is "what rhythm!". Steve, thanks so much for making the whole deal opensource - this is exactly the sort of design I've been gravitating towards. I especially love the main blog page and lack of pagination on anyth
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by nosignal 15y ago
It so happens that Twilio's posted on the "Who's Hiring" thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504127 . You have to at least give them the chance to reject you. It's tacky, but the only motivational poster quote that's ever resonate
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by nosignal 15y ago
How can the iPhone determine the location of a cell tower (or WiFi access point) just by receiving its signal? While it seems obvious from that analysis that it is indeed logging the locations of the towers rather than the phone, I am more
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by nosignal 15y ago
Upvoted just to hear I wasn't the only one who's literally had their breath taken away by that passage. I was listening to it on audiobook while I was running, and about halfway through that passage I stopped dead and cried. My eyes are wel
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by nosignal 15y ago
This is potentially really good news. I've always loved the concept of W|A but hated the implementation. While very good at answering specific queries, it's no good at incidental or exploratory knowledge discovery - it's kind of out of the