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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
A friend of mine is "working" on that. I can put you in touch if you want to encourage him.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
AGI. The Intelligence Explosion. http://intelligenceexplosion.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_explosion#Intelli...
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
My email is wwtivy@gmail.com Mail me and we'll chat/meet up
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>Email's in profile you sure about that? I don't see it. And yes I'd love to meet up.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Yikes I'm in! Coming from Vancouver. I'll probably be staying for a few days around the even to absorb the atmosphere. I guess I'll need to share cars with someone for transport.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
As an ADHDer, that's what it's like for me; it's not a lack of focus, it's a lack of executive control over focus. I can go head down for sixteen hours on a really interesting problem, but if I'm not feeling it, it
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Brilliant. I feel it, man. In fact, as of two weeks ago I am building this right now (in a small slice of spare time of course). Thanks for the inspiration for a new aspect of it.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
I have exactly this problem, and I actually have clinical ADHD, but I'm too akratic to get to a doctor to get anything done about it.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>Like saying, "Harry Potter is in Ravenclaw." Well actually... In a certain really good HP fanfiction, Harry Potter is in fact a Ravenclaw. http://hpmor.com
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>And if they think that college is boring, wait until they have to sit through their first meeting at work. I was with you until this. Boredom means you are not engaged to your full potential. If the "real world" is even more b
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>But the thing is, those leaks weren't one-man attempts to re-architect the US This is a good point. The same applies to many other things in history; communism wasn't some kid who thought up a new ideology in his basement and
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Right, and when someone made the first transistor, it was no smaller than a vacuum tube. Clearly impractical. Give it time. A proof of concept does not represent the upper limit of what a technology can do.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
LuaJIT. The FFI is really, really, cool (inline low level access to memory and C in a high-level garbage-collected dynamic language? Yes please.)
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
I agree that "the system" has no intrinsic value, and is purely an engineering problem. This is obvious. But this sentiment is often erroneously taken as an argument for naively re-architecting the current system. Us engineer&#x2F
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
Actually, Openresty is both faster and more obscure.
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
It is demonstrably not the case that it is easier to make money through evil than good, at least historically; the world we live in now is quite nice compared to the past, and that's the result of selfish people following incentives. I
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
There are a number of obstacles between where we are and a world where intelligence is taken as seriously as it should be. See most other comments around here though; the reason IQ is not used more often is that intelligence denialism is ra
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
What is a spreadsheet, really? It's an interactive programming environment with an interface optimized for data entry and some other things. The difference between Excel and, say, Matlab or R, is excel's strength at data entry, vi
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>They will still be under the control/ownership of capitalists because they won't be persons - everything that isn't a person technically has an owner. >When machines do cross the barrier of deserving rights, we should
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
>1,2,3 Yup, except why do the developers not get the income? Presumably they are selling the machines? >4 Yes. The key with this kind of logic is to relate it to the current situation, though; people with more workers can afford even
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
I plan to in some upcoming projects, because I'm a Lua nut, but here's why people might not use it: * Lua syntax can get annoying and is pretty low level (no list comprehensions)(I switched to moonscript[1]) * Lua has no libraries or esta
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by nyan_sandwich 13y ago
That (quoted) statement is probably wrong (with the uncertainty focused on how the future goes). The Mantis shrimp[1] can see colors in up to 12 dimensions, instead of the pathetic three that we can see. Further, a study done with mice whic
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
I find it hard to lose motivation with beeminder ( https://www.beeminder.com/ ) kicking my ass. I used to have a lot of trouble.
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
Another: cat file | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' sprunge.us
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
At first I found the article kind of condescending. I was expecting something I didn't know, instead: >hey self-taught developers, here's all this totally elementary stuff that you probably don't know. I'm self taught, but I have a very
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
The description of the poor little critter slowly dieing as it tried to find breathable water made me really angry at the universe. Death is such a horrible thing. Maybe I shouldn't feel empathy for a nonsentient bug, but similar things hap
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
In the same sense that Physics can explain it... It might be better to refer directly to psychology and neuroscience to explain the placebo effect
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
um... make a 4chan app that lets users up/downvote threads, then builds a naive bayesian model of what keywords (eg. "toasting epic bread") are correllated with the kind of threads you like. Netflix-like. A sort of automatic cream-extractor
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
create a markov chain 4chan slang generator. track usages of phrases over time. (thinking of the recent evolution of "rustled my jimmies" derivatives) See what topics are trending Fuck maybe I should build some of this...
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by nyan_sandwich 14y ago
It's not like the html form does anything special. Forms don't have funny markup you have to scrape or produce. It's just a POST. I guess there's mime/url encoding or whatever, but that's hardly an issue.

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