oh_teh_meows

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by oh_teh_meows 12y ago
What are the advantages of ZeroDB over a database that uses homomorphic encryption like CryptDB? Do they cater to different uses?
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by oh_teh_meows 12y ago
Direct brain interface requires invasive surgery and is still a ways to go. Its constant need for recalibration basically precludes it from any useful utilization, much less commercialization of it on a massive scale. Even if the AI part is
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by oh_teh_meows 12y ago
Compiler optimizations that are currently impeded because of register pressure can be enabled to its fullest extent, thereby increasing program speed even more. Compiler writers also get more breathing room to design better optimizations.
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
just to provide some perspective, a quick google search (oops) informed me that google sees 5.9 billion searches a day (about 2.16 trillion searches in 2013). Before the Snowden revelation, DDG enjoyed a slow but steady growth, getting arou
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
It's good practice in general. There might be other fields that were not explicitly set, or the struct may expand in future versions, or you have union fields/bitfields (e.g. you explicitly set the low order bits of some union fie
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I find this very fascinating. Is there a site that discuss the kind of materials (never mind if they're non-existent, as long as they're plausible, i.e. within the realms of known physics) and technology needed to construct such m
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
A while back Microsoft demonstrated a translation technology which can translate your words into a different language in your own voice. I suppose technically we can analyze voice recordings of actual actors to obtain a voice profile with w
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
An article I read the other day about human consciousness touched upon our tendency to project consciousness/will/agency onto non-living things, like the puppet controlled by a ventriloquist. I wonder if game elements promote simi
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I have nothing technical or special insight to offer; I'd just like to say I teared up a little reading that. I don't know why. I hadn't heard of the game until I saw this article. Never played the game either. The game chara
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Writing image (onto retina) is quite feasible, it's reading that is a problem now. A while back there was an experiment conducted to 'read' image in a person's mind, but what they had really done was mapping a certain im
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Ooops sorry! It's being designed, no clinical experiment yet. I should reword my original comment. http://www.polymtl.ca/polystim/en/navigation/Prothesevisuell... There had been experiments showing that
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
If the detection accuracy can be improved, one can theoretically telepathically communicate with another using Morse code :) Also, since we have the ability to 'write' a low res image onto a person's retina, I can also commun
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I'm sorry it bothered you. I'll edit them.
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
For people who are interested in learning about compiler optimizations (they are a wonderful area of research in their own right!), I'm throwing out a list here so you can google about them (if you know more, please reply to this comme
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Though for the most part you have a point, I'm not sure if denying him water counts as 'doing their jobs'.
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
So basically if you have an infinite loop in your app's one and only thread, none of the callbacks will happen because they have to run on that one thread?
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
So we might need some sort of active cooling mechanism, considering how a space elevator cable, afaik, has to be anchored near the equator, which is typically hotter than room temperature? What if the cooling fails? I don't know much a
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Since two chains of carbine coming in contact would explode, should the activation barrier be crossed, does this mean we can only use one chain at a time...i.e. no stringing together multiple chains to make something like say...the cable fo
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Yep I've seen his talk. It's quite fascinating. However, what you're talking about is a learning algorithm, which does not necessarily equate with intelligence. OpenCyc would be the best example that illustrates my point. Edi
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
While it is true that seemingly complex phenomena may unfold from interactions between a few simple rules, and that the human brain is also a complex structure composed of repeating basic units, i.e. neurons, by no means we could also concl
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Deep down I really want this man to win his case, if only just to show the flaw in fine prints that have screwed over many legally-challenged (for lack of a better term) people. You can argue that it's one's responsibility to look
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Oh I see. Sorry. Should have read TFA closely :-/
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I'm not certain if that extrapolation you made of the time it takes to simulate a brain at the same abstraction level is valid. You're assuming the computation cycles needed will scale linearly, which might not be true considering
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I think much of the motivation for developing new paradigms stems from growing frustration with tool-induced blindness, for lack of a better term. We spend much of our time chasing that seg-fault error instead of engineering the solution to
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Imagine this being used on commercial aircrafts... Captain: We have now landed at SFO. We will now taxi to gate A3. Passengers: OH CRAP. bumps up and down But in all seriousness, this could be a precursor to a more fluid form of wing mo
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
I guess I wasn't being clear. I was just curious how do you handle your memory in the case of doing optimized builds?
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
Does your compiler perform any transformations at all? I imagine it can run out of memory pretty quickly if you're performing multiple transformations in succession on large code base, unless you recycle some of those used memory. Gran
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
So in short, this is basically a specialized transpiler (transpiling your bytecodes into high level Lua code) + a call to eval to evaluate the transpiled code using LuaJIT's JIT facility. This seems like a fairly useful technique, prov
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
It is possible, perhaps through a clever arrangement of gears and what not, to create a human powered copter that can create sufficient lift with just one rotor?
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by oh_teh_meows 13y ago
It's definitely an interesting exercise to find out, to the best of our knowledge, how we will have evolved, appearance-wise. However, predicting anything that far out is rather moot. For all we know, humans may give up being constrain

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