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by pharke 6y ago
> Functional industry requires a great deal of implicit knowledge that is not easily regained once traditions of manufacturing die out—like a master dying before they can find an apprentice to teach. The masters aren't dead yet and
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by pharke 6y ago
That's both sad and funny that you think all of those things are possible in the same location in the US. I count 4 major infrastructure projects and 3 massive tax incentives that would need to be implemented in order to convince most
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by pharke 6y ago
Add Turing to the list, having him around during the naissance of molecular genetics and the flowering of computation would have made those fields all the more lively.
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by pharke 6y ago
If you could perfect a system that restores motion and/or feeling to paralyzed parts of the human body you could sell millions of units[0] [0] https://www.christopherreeve.org/living-with-paralysis/stats...
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by pharke 6y ago
Why use an FPGA in mass production when an IC would be faster and cheaper?
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by pharke 6y ago
I'm guessing that the connector and control box are pretty much hand wired with some printed boards. The hardware cost should be more like $50 if factory made. It's great to see a prototype like this working but we're technol
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by pharke 6y ago
Doesn't DNA encode proteins that both constitute, assemble, and perform the functions of the cell? It's not a list of ingredients, it's a library of blueprints for machinery and specialized components. The information necessa
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by pharke 6y ago
Every era has attempted to explain the functions of the brain using metaphor, usually whatever technological apparatus most in vogue at the time. Hydraulic, mechanical, electrical, and now digital comparisons have all been made and they&#x2
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by pharke 7y ago
My point was not about the validity of psychedelic experiences. It was about the fact that we have outright banned all avenues of research into these alterations in consciousness so we can't even find out if there are reproducible effe
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by pharke 7y ago
I think this is more or less obviously wrong. Imagine a primitive society inventing the microscope and then making it illegal, perhaps going so far as to make all types of lenses illegal even those used for eyeglasses. Now you might have sm
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by pharke 7y ago
I would argue that that number is a bit high for sense input. Figures I've seen are about 20x lower on the high end. The only time I've seen estimates as high as the one you gave are when they are considering the full field of vis
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by pharke 7y ago
Your comparison to physical systems is spot on. There are very few physical devices that are malleable in this sense. We'd be better off advocating for more open source, better development tools, and new programming paradigms or langua
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by pharke 7y ago
I'm still holding out hope that we'll get that "mysterious and sexy place" at some point. The current generation of VR seems like the first halting steps into that world. Progress towards realtime raytracing and massivel
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by pharke 7y ago
As someone who tends to do the same, I don't think this is a good description of what is happening. The way I view it is that any project has the same progression of initial excitement, frenzied work and determination, discovery of the
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by pharke 7y ago
I think the main hurdle that people seem to face when conceptualizing immortality is that they assume you would want to remain static throughout your eternity of existence. That's absurd considering no one stays exactly the same person
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by pharke 7y ago
Same, it's pretty difficult to take notes while attempting to rescue someone from a possessed building that looks a bit like a brutalist interpretation of the Globe Theatre, what with having to fight your way through its zombie-like de
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by pharke 7y ago
We've got until mid May, then time's up.
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by pharke 7y ago
I agree, it would make too much sense to have a program of national service where people were required to undergo training for medical emergencies and disaster response. Having practically every able bodied person qualified as a first respo
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by pharke 7y ago
Both influenza and coronavirus can cause severe respiratory distress. Both are subject to jumping the species barrier or mutation of existing strains resulting in higher mortality. Both are extremely infectious and very difficult to control
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by pharke 7y ago
Charitably, you could say they are paying for the artist's ability to synthesize art from their experiences but then you could argue that the NN is doing the same thing but is just more efficient at painting. If that's the case th
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by pharke 7y ago
I love this argument. It's the same thing that motivates people to write comments that say "First!", low effort but you got there faster.
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by pharke 7y ago
I think they meant to sell them as generic commodity art. Just something to fill a spot on a wall, not for appreciation.
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by pharke 7y ago
I think the confusion here is due to the fact that there are two arguable parts to the definition of consciousness. 1) awareness of objects, events and other stimuli and the ability to respond to those inputs with some output. This is the w
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by pharke 7y ago
Nothing will ever change if no one expresses their desire for it to. New ideas and ways of life only win out when the people chanting "it is what it is" are drowned out by those shouting "it shouldn't be so!"
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by pharke 7y ago
Right, plus when launches are cheap and routine we can actually start assembling larger scale projects in orbit.
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by pharke 7y ago
If you just want to learn the core language then there are any number of books available, or even just reading the MDN Web Docs thoroughly. It's a bit pointless to only learn the language though since you will be starting from scratc
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by pharke 7y ago
> There's no way to put a telescope with a 30-meter-diameter primary mirror in space... it's way beyond our technical capabilities now. I don't think it's that far off, the primary mirror for Hubble was 2.4m and the b
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by pharke 7y ago
I think everyone making these comments is going to be eating their words in about 10 years when orbital telescopes are so cheap and plentiful that even third grade classrooms will be booking time for observations.
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by pharke 7y ago
I think this article has important context for the discussion here. The Man Who Made Spore Suckier https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/87123-The-Man-Who-...
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by pharke 7y ago
I don't think it is useful to think in terms of simplicity vs. complexity. Good design is about knowing what features work well together. Composition, harmony and efficiency are more important than minimalism.

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