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by pygy 18y ago
I'm a bit puzzled by these attempts at simulating the brain. I work in neuroscience, but very far from this field so I'm most probably at the worse point of the (estimated knowledge / actual knowledge) graph on this topic. The people workin
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by pygy 18y ago
Although I'm not a particle physicist, if I remember well what I read about it, this very demonstration proves that there is no predetermined hidden variable revealed by observation. Kochen spent a significant part of his life on the topic
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by pygy 18y ago
There doesn't seem possible to ceate new root comments anymore, so I post here instead. With the post flagged, the title reads "Tony has been found ok by the police [dead]", which is highly misleading, especially since the link has been rem
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by pygy 18y ago
Java is popular for server-side applications, where one program runs on a cluster of machines. The RAM consumption issue arises on the desktop, where lot's of apps run on a single computer... and Java didn't get much market on the desktop.
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by pygy 18y ago
I wouldn't try that if I were you. These beasts can produce fields up to two tesla BTW Handled unproperly they can trigger epileptic seizure. Furthermore, the effect depends on the brain area you target and the frequency of the stimulus. I
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by pygy 18y ago
Indeed. "Cringely can't chart" would have been a better title. He visually squared the values by using quantities as the radius of the circles.
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by pygy 18y ago
I can't edit my post anymore, sorry for the typos. BTW, s/progress/effort/
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by pygy 18y ago
Both "Try Ruby" and "The little coder predicament" have been written byt the same person, namely why the lucky stiff or _why. His main programming progress for the last two years has been Hackety Hack, a programming environment for kids, ba
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by pygy 18y ago
> And what language does let you do that? Io does. http://hackety.org/2008/01/05/ioHasAVeryCleanMirror.html But functions are first class objects in Ruby (with some quirks regarding the difference between a proc and a bloc).
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by pygy 18y ago
I find this a bit scary (in a cyberpunk way)...
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by pygy 18y ago
... until we plug two (or more) brains together using miroelectrode arrays.
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by pygy 18y ago
First one has to define consciousness as subjective experience, not as being awake. The only consciousness one is able to experience is his own. But solipsism is a point of view that is both depressing and not really explanatory of anything
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by pygy 18y ago
Personally, I prefer this layout on my computer too (except for the lack of a bigger left margin).
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by pygy 18y ago
Rather perfectly modal ... </nitpick>
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by pygy 18y ago
Indeed. The "Go" may be the oddball...
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by pygy 18y ago
The huge font size is reminiscent of text intended for small children, which combined with the colorful logo makes the site look childish in my eyes. It's furthermore bigger than most text on the web, which makes it paradoxically harder to
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by pygy 18y ago
Sounds like "I'm selfish". Blunder?
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by pygy 18y ago
Nicolas Sarkozy is a political ally of Georges Bush... and the neocon label suits it's political views pretty well actually. That said, the alarming tone, and the lack of source (except about the war in Georgia, which was well documented be
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by pygy 18y ago
> So the only way a robot would feel something is if it is programmed to "feel something". The topic is a bit more subtle. Defining and understanding subjective experience is a topic that currently totally evades scientific understandin
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by pygy 18y ago
The grandiloquence of the slides was written with the tongue in the cheek. The project page is much more modest. http://www.zedshaw.com/projects/earing/
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by pygy 18y ago
He also wrote http://tryruby.hobix.com (an interactive Ruby tutorial, with an Ajax interactive ruby shell, give it a try) and unholy (a WIP Ruby to Python bytecode compiler) , and is in fact known and respected (John Resig and Tim Bray vo
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by pygy 18y ago
IA is based on a hypothetical man-machine symbiosis, with direct brain to computer interfaces. Here we tap into the power of other's people minds, and of what would happen if we could think collaboratively. This is more of a mix between the
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by pygy 18y ago
Blogger/Blogspot is down half of the time ATM... Sorry about this. Here's the full text : Vernor Vinge recently reviewed various singularity scenarios advanced by experts in the field in the latest issue of the IEEE Spectrum magazine: - Th
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by pygy 18y ago
That's not the point. It's the massive amount of neurons and (finely tuned) synapses that allows human intelligence, and the vast amount of possible mental "states". Functional organization is of course of prime importance, but AFAIK, it's
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A sixth path towards the singularity? (response to Vernor Vinge)(neurocrank.blogspot.com)
2 points by pygy 18y ago|3 comments
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by pygy 18y ago
> But once you get to a certain number of routes, like 20 or so, there's very rapid growth, followed by saturation. This will also happen with chips. To some extent, it already has. The human brain has billions of routes, and uses the
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by pygy 18y ago
I'ts a massive ad for DHL, if anything ... Have they really been doing loopings in the Atlantic ??
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by pygy 19y ago
Monogamism prevalence is vey high, although not universal. There are rare matriarchal societies (matrilocal/focal, to be exact), where the "clan" is based on the offspring of one woman. Mating occurs between poeple of different clans and ch
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by pygy 19y ago
You're halfway there. What you describe is genetic algorithms in their classical implementation. Here he uses a FPGA, a kind of processor that can be rewired at will, in hardware. The gates can be programmed into the various boolean operato
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by pygy 19y ago
It's not possible at the moment. You can pass options to vi/textmate by passing a string to the respective method as an argument. A generalisation should be possible by resolving the PATH and adding the various executables as methods to the

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