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by pointernil 12y ago
Yes. Thanks for the better description of the issue. Cheers
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by pointernil 12y ago
How about using a stripped down version of such a system to re-target just the eyes of a person in a video chat? Could this be used to solve the "not looking into cam, thus not looking at me" issues in video chats today?
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by pointernil 12y ago
Obviously this is not about one provider of such easily affordable computing power. Sure, the servers are more efficient than they used to be, and as stated elsewhere yes, because they are shared they are more efficiently used than machin
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by pointernil 12y ago
"social changes from the pricing policy changes of marginal EC2 instances" sounds ridiculous when given this context, right? It changes when the context are not "marginal EC2 instances" but instead energy and resources b
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by pointernil 12y ago
Unless a senior developer / a "wise" developer reviews the artifact created and allows him/herself to state: "This is not effective code. Refactor it by x y z". The problem is, I think, this is NOT happening or
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by pointernil 12y ago
In a certain, quite limited model of economics that could actually be named as "wise". Once a more holistic view is taken, wide spread total costs and benefits are taken into consideration, once costs are not only defined as money
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by pointernil 12y ago
Very true. I'd like just add to 'non-genetic factors can be inherited': those same non-genetic factors can adapt much quicker than the genetic factors. It is the combination of inheritable and quickly adaptable, that makes
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by pointernil 12y ago
Based on history: -) a (r)evolutionary new idea facilitated by increasingly precise measurement-hardware comes up and a completely new theory/formulation makes more sense to our human minds and allows for better predictions -) it will
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by pointernil 12y ago
After having read all the "positive" stuff about gaming in "Reality Is Broken" by Jane McGonigal I remember thinking: To some children/adolescents games are the perfect (psychological) parents: providing all the end
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by pointernil 12y ago
"While the planted secret can be used for authentication, the participant cannot be coerced into revealing it since he or she has no conscious knowledge of it." Quite interesting idea. But don't we now move from "rubber
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by pointernil 12y ago
How about "The Attention Schema Theory", it even provides a thesis about the evolutionary development of the "phenomenon". Quite a read btw: "Consciousness and the Social Brain", 2013, Oxford University Press [
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by pointernil 12y ago
Anyone care to explain why the downvotes? I still think all this revelations will lead to a more balanced state of affairs.
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by pointernil 12y ago
In the age of information this is how an overpowered super power gets "nerfed": By "targeting" its information gathering capabilities by providing information about its activities. Information is power.
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by pointernil 12y ago
"accounting for externalities" is not the strong hand of capitalistic endeavors resp. "modern" business economics and this only changes very slowly.
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by pointernil 12y ago
Yup that's it. I was remembering AND translating ;) Thanks
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by pointernil 12y ago
Not as dramatic as skydiving but when paragliding we had the saying: "There are old pilots and then there are brave pilots." ;)
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by pointernil 12y ago
Who doesn't ;) Any speculations? Ideas? Agreeing on an entropy source is one thing, but really exchanging keys out of NSAs sight is hard, right?
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by pointernil 12y ago
ehmmm, well that's what the article by the same author says which i did not read before posting this ;)
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by pointernil 12y ago
ooops ;) i should have read the article which says it all as it is by the author.
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by pointernil 12y ago
You may find "Consciousness and the Social Brain" by Michael S. A. Graziano quite interesting. It provides an evolutionary path of development for this phenomenon. In short: Consciousness is the "theory of mind"-"me
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by pointernil 12y ago
... maybe by actively attributing those "experienced qualia" to an experiencing subject: it self. "Consciousness and the Social Brain" - Michael S. A. Graziano: provides a thesis on how and in what stages this could have
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by pointernil 12y ago
I think "Erlang on Xen" is as well a nice example pointing in this direction. In this case it is not a application though. It is a runtime environment... something in between a whole VM and a container? http://erlangonx
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by pointernil 12y ago
All well and nice but: What is the current Thinkpad worth its once trustworthy brand? The way to drive and keep the profits seams to be to lure customers who trusted a brand for years into buying quite frankly ridiculously manufactured su
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by pointernil 12y ago
I like this idea very much. Every language bears an philosophy of the world in it. It is the metaphors and relations of language constructs to each other that is defining. Using a different font is just painting the surface in different col
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by pointernil 12y ago
This is a huge waste of energy / calculation power, right? I really, really understand the technical fancy behind this kind of parallel computing projects BUT have to imagine the wast of energy this would cause if really used for a rea
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by pointernil 13y ago
"On a similar Note: Rumsfeld joined the Board of Twitter" -- NO he did not. And I really hope he does not. Onion-News-Network please take over ;)
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by pointernil 13y ago
Given the attention OpenSSL just "received" wouldn't it make sense to start a mass audit effort? Why not counterbalance the "crypto software is hard, don't touch it" idea with some simple tasks, like: check all
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by pointernil 13y ago
Very likable naming scheme ;) Kudos for the extraordinary work on redis. cheers
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by pointernil 13y ago
Yeah, all those Structure-Editors and Node-Editors and Meta-Node-Editors and all those years and still more and more simple text-editors keep winning. My personal impression is that developers are actually moving away from those uber-tools,
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by pointernil 13y ago
I like how in this presentation of time progress the (angular) speed will increase with progression of time ...

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