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by pjmorris 5y ago
The price seems 'about like a software development book.' That doesn't strike me as jarringly out of range for what it is.
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> How is shifting the burden to landlords via moratoria different from shifting the burden to landlords via tax increases? In the case of a moratorium, the landlord takes an immediate, complete, revenue hit. In the case of tax increases,
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by pjmorris 5y ago
We're getting closer and closer to Robocop (1987)'s ED-209.
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Agreed. The thing that bothers me is that the task of swimming is an example of something that is already defined while thinking includes the creation of new definitions.
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Clearly, quantum blockchain driven cloud based PaaS.
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The Kwisatz Haderach?
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FTA: "The authors found that participation in Bitcoin is skewed toward the elite. Their research showed that at the end of 2020, there were 1,000 “clusters” controlling 2 million bitcoins." (and 4 million among the top 10,000 a
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by pjmorris 5y ago
The Streisand effect? [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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Clarke's Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. [0] [0] Profiles of the Future, Arthur C. Clarke
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From the linked paper, linked again [0] below, I think this represents Rudins philosophical view, and why it could be practical: Here is the Rashomon set argument: Consider that the data permit a large set of reasonably accurate predi
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by pjmorris 5y ago
A Peter Norvig quote from yesterday's article about his transition to Stanford... "In the past, the interesting questions were around what algorithm is best for doing this optimization. Now that we have a great set of algorithms a
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Explanatory quote from the linked paper (and thanks for the link, qPM9l3XJrF!): "Rather than trying to create models that are inherently interpretable, there has been a recent explosion of work on “Explainable ML,” where a second (post
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Lampson keeps a link to his latest revision of this classic paper[0] on his website at Microsoft Research. I read the original, but haven't managed to wade through the revision. You could say that he's developed a few more hints o
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I'd probably be willing to concede to a weaker form of the bet, say if more than 20% of taxi service miles driven were by self-driving cars. But we don't need to tell my friend that.
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Sure, there are technological and commercial (and regulatory, and, and, and...) aspects to the bet. The thing I'm after in my car bet is that I'm using 'replaces humans at something that requires intelligence' as the bar
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I take commercial acceptance as a proxy for the acceptance and practicality of artificial intelligence at the 'everyday' task of driving. I would take the absence of commercial acceptance as evidence that artificial intelligence i
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by pjmorris 5y ago
Here's a possibly related bet I have with a friend: "If, in ten year's time (from March 2021) self-driven cars outnumber manually-driven cars on the US roadways, I will buy you dinner. (and vice-versa, he buys if they don&#x2
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> instead of pondering the question, do you really need to rewrite everything following DDD? Anecdotal: I chatted with Eric Evans, author of the DDD book, at a conference once, and he stressed that DDD was only appropriate for certain p
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> Just imagine there are people, some of whom are probably reading this too, whose job it is to artificially recreate or induce this dark and destructive part that exists in each and every one of us. I can imagine that there are people a
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by pjmorris 5y ago
> now I just listen to my local college radio. Hear, hear for college radio! The local college radio station is one of my favorite places to listen. They've got great variety. Depending on when you tune in, you might hear 'ind
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I've joked for a number of years that I expect to see boutique professional offices (lawyers, doctors, dentists, etc) springing up that offer 'paper records only' as a feature.
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> turducken business applications Great analogy
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The documentary 'Coded Bias' goes in to some depth on this problem in facial recognition and on the wider problems of the social impact of biased algorithms.
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Could this be set up as the level from Goldeneye, maybe turn the place into a theme park?
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I don't think those alternatives are as opposite as they first appear. One way to restore the pre-2000's relationship between income and housing expense would be to cancel the debts that were created by the stimulus created by the
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I added his parenthetical comment. I think he means, for example, that we could probably do better than vi, emacs, VS Code, or even IntelliJ for supporting our thinking as we write software.
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Note: Answer in the linked post is by Alan Kay, so very much worth pondering. Grist for the mill: "It’s worth noting the deep irony that the new computer tools for the engineering disciplines are almost always more comprehensive than t
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by pjmorris 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that this is my favorite Rolling Stones story, ever. In 'Life', Keith Richards talked about it really being Charlie's band, he was just in it.
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IMO, 'Data is truth' is not true. The data the machine sees was chosen in a way biased, at least, by the intent of the data collectors and by the capability of the sensors used to collect the data, both of which are shadows of rea
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I was amazed and astonished when I first saw 'The Big Sleep', early in my college career. I'd never seen a movie I had a hard time following before, and I was captivated. There's an old Steve Yegge post where he describe

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