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by placebo 12y ago
true, but since the only way of making a dent in their income is for more people to stop using their services, the fact that this doesn't happen seems to imply that people who use their services don't really care about their WiFi
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by placebo 12y ago
While that (AI safety) is something that definitely should be taken care of, I find it has next to nothing to do with the type of rhetoric often cited in the media
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by placebo 12y ago
I find it funny how when no one has the faintest idea of what consciousness is, people feel they can already make predictions when and how machines will become conscious and state with confidence that when that happens it will be a bad thin
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by placebo 12y ago
This probably will not be a popular opinion, but here it is anyway. I'm sure all the famous names mentioned in this article as prophets of the AI impending doom are exceptionally gifted entrepreneurs, technologists and business men (an
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by placebo 12y ago
At some point when I thought about it, it appeared to be counter-logic, not just counter-intuitive. I extended the experiment by placing myself in the closed room with the cat. Luckily for the cat, the poison stays in the jar and I observe
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by placebo 12y ago
Regarding working outside of Tech, In my pre-HiTech days I worked in a very large organisation where the all the practices you mentioned were strictly enforced. As your example has shown, these policies are in place for good reason. Having
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by placebo 12y ago
I commend the team for the entrepreneur spirit but personally find the idea of showing off the ability to secretly do things which are against the policies of your workplace and presenting that as some sort of feature quite distasteful. Fro
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by placebo 12y ago
I've had a similar realisation regarding the parallels between software design and scientific theories. In science you have observed phenomena, and you try to find the best (preferably simplest) theory/abstraction that will both e
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by placebo 12y ago
Books are just one aspect of the larger question of how to prioritise what you spend your time on given a limited life span. It's good to refresh that question once in a while...
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by placebo 12y ago
Just scanned the comments to see if anyone would suggest that :) Being the lazy type, that's the first thought I had reading the article. Perhaps it's not appropriate for all target audiences and all target languages but many time
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by placebo 12y ago
I might be misunderstanding you, but I don't think any extreme is a good thing simply because being limited to an extreme means having less choice, and that is a bad thing. There are advantages to centralism, there are advantages to
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by placebo 12y ago
You are right, but just that as a society we should stay vigilant in detecting and stopping companies that make profits using ways that are detrimental to society, the same should apply to politicians and security forces. There are checks a
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by placebo 12y ago
Why stop there? I suggest making laws that will enforce strict curfews, limitations on areas of travel and also wearing mandatory unremovable collars that will enable security forces to immediately neutralise any citizen in case they turn o
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by placebo 12y ago
No doubt the guy's exceptionally brilliant, and perhaps one day a mathematician with enough motivation to do it will spend a very long time trying to understand and decipher what he constructed, but my take on it is that anyone that wa
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by placebo 12y ago
Yes, it is still possible to make money, even a lot of money, writing an app but that doesn't mean early adopters didn't have a big advantage. Market vacuums will always be filled and the later you arrive at the scene, the higher
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by placebo 12y ago
Simulated annealing was already mentioned. Also parallel tempering is very effective at finding the highest (or lowest) areas even faster. I actually liked the analogy but applying algorithm analogies to one's life of course only goes
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by placebo 12y ago
Thanks for the link. I think this is a fascinating question.
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by placebo 12y ago
Not sure this analogy holds. Although the ratio of Jupiter's and Saturn's major orbital axis might seem arbitrary, given all the prior conditions to the orbit formations, current physics theories perhaps could have theoretically p
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by placebo 12y ago
Mostly agree with the article. Being myself fascinated with machine learning and in the process of refreshing mathematic knowledge I haven't used since university (too many years ago) in order to dive deeper into it, I can definitely r
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by placebo 12y ago
What do you mean by 'fail'? fail financially or fail technically? If you mean the former then that's a no brainer, as I assume most projects fail financially whether software or not. If you mean fail technically then I'd
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by placebo 12y ago
I wonder what functionality eyes serve at that depth, and if none, why do the fish that live at these depths have them?
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by placebo 12y ago
Watching this, my first thought was how an aerospace engineer or a structural engineer or any engineer/manager of any complex established engineering field outside the software development field would react to this video. Probably with
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by placebo 12y ago
I don't want to believe anything until there's evidence for it. My intention was to show there's a problem with the logic that assumes it's easy when there is not enough evidence to support either that it is easy or that
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by placebo 12y ago
> Earth is about 4.5 billion years old, and early forms of life were definitely on the planet by 3.7 billion years ago. That bare fact seems to imply that it wasn’t hard to get life going on Earth; if initiating life was really improbab
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by placebo 12y ago
This assumes most of innovation is driven by hope of getting incredibly filthy rich, an assumption which I can provide plenty of counter-examples for. Eliminating all patents is of course counter productive as their advantage is obvious, bu
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by placebo 12y ago
How can one start to criticise such an article without proving it right? :) >So next time you read something, try this: Instead of looking for the parts you can prove are false, try to find pieces you can learn from. Who says the two are
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by placebo 12y ago
I wasn't really suggesting that microprocessors are required to generate fractals, but rather that I don't understand how the process that eventually generates the fractal shapes occurs in plants. You have a good point that all th
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by placebo 12y ago
I can understand why the algorithm for some fractals can turn out to look like plants. What I don't understand (probably for lack of reading up on the subject) is why do plants look like fractals. I mean you won't find some microp
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by placebo 12y ago
It might be a good headline to get attention but the Internet is not shit. When I was first exposed to it (in 1989, even before the World Wide Web was a thing) it blew my mind. My first thought was that this is going to be as powerful as th
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by placebo 12y ago
>The logic of atheism is inescapable, but then what? Is it? I find that when people refer to atheism, they implicitly add to it things it does not mean. The broad definition of atheism would be the absence of belief that any deities exis

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