randcraw

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by randcraw 5y ago
I think the validation phase of auto-coding fullblown apps is much more complex than AutoCode is ready for. When coding up a specific function, it's pretty easy to assess whether it maps input to output as intended. But composing fun
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by randcraw 5y ago
From "The Causes of World War Three". Of course, America's also had a lot of trouble since WWII simply defining what 'winning' a war means. Timely; I bought Mills' "The Power Elite" only yesterday.
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by randcraw 5y ago
From what I've seen after the attempt to adopt Six Sigma within a large pharmaceutical, 6S has several inescapable vulnerabilities due to not knowing: 1) which important company components produce signals that aren't measurable (e
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by randcraw 5y ago
That's really interesting. That suggests that taste may be a calibrated sense, where signals come from multiple sensors and are 'gathered' into the final perception. Probably some of your taste buds and olfactory sensors ar
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by randcraw 5y ago
And if you remove the date, people will still ask the same question. Inevitably.
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by randcraw 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by 'lottery ticket' review -- presumably some sort of random global search shortcut, like mutation in genetic algorithms. If so, then no, using randomness to disrupt search only resets the search to
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by randcraw 5y ago
Based the following constraints that lie at the center of AI and parallelism, I'd say no -- stochastic gradient pursuit using vector processors like GPUs is inescapable in all future AI advances. 1) All AI is based in search (esp. non-
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by randcraw 5y ago
Actually, the pro athlete metaphor seems pretty apt. Only rookies are assessed primarily for leetcode metrics like their 40 yard sprint or bench strength. Pros are judged entirely by their game play, both individual and ensemble. So it s
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by randcraw 5y ago
Pushing the metaphor further is surely silly, but I'd compare s/w dev to jazz improv or the ability to deftly adopt the musical expressive style of a new ensemble, and s/w design to musical composition or arranging. Switchin
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by randcraw 5y ago
Easy. If you don't breed, you get to take The Pill of Eternal Youth. If you do breed, you don't. Any other solution would be unjust or unsustainable.
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by randcraw 5y ago
But much disease is acquired environmentally, and many repairs are due to normal wear and tear, building anew would be useless to serve both of those ends. And unless you can figure out why cells age, you can't build new humans who are
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by randcraw 5y ago
Of course, China already has refuted your thesis. Due to lack of oversight and regulation (and enforcement), their health care system is mistrusted by everyone. That's why the country's covid inoculation rate has been so low. B
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by randcraw 5y ago
Yes, but OSU is not especially well known for computer architecture. In comparison, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois are all top-5 schools in EE/hardware. And the Champaign area is even more affordable than Columbus. So choosing Co
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by randcraw 5y ago
I assume you don't live in America.
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by randcraw 5y ago
80 mg/day aspirin generally has been shown to be safe long term, though it does increase irritation of the stomach. Maybe taking it with food will help that. I would absolutely NOT do the same with ibuprofen or any other NSAID. All o
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by randcraw 5y ago
Norton's Guide to the IBM PC was my intro to O/S internals and the magic incantations that gave them life. PCs seemed more fun to use back then, perhaps because, like the text-only Infocom games, they could be a ship of discovery
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by randcraw 5y ago
My favorite of Silverberg's books. The writing style grows more distant and cold as the hero involuntarily withdraws from life. Much overlooked, IMO.
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by randcraw 5y ago
The first step is levying a significant additional fine when the culpable driver also was using their phone within 5 seconds of an accident. This should be easy to detect since most (all?) modern phones have inertial sensors which will rec
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by randcraw 5y ago
I agree. It's those two missions that I've found consistently compelling oer the 35 years I've been a pro. Both missions focus your attention away from distractions like climbing ladders to nowhere and the many subterfuges
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by randcraw 5y ago
Borland staff also disappeared because M$ made them offers that they couldn't refuse. Departing engineers were offered megabucks salaries which lasted only a year or two, but were enough to decimate the ranks of Borland's talent
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by randcraw 5y ago
My chief problem with learning from videos is... videos progress at a linear rate, but I don't absorb concepts at a linear rate. And even when delivery_rate/absorption_rate is a constant, it's rarely 1. I often have to stop
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by randcraw 5y ago
"Foundations of Computer Science" by Aho and Ullman might fit your bill. Its focus is more on the concepts and principles of computing rather than math-centric CS theory. http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/fo
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by randcraw 5y ago
Probably the recordings were made more than 3 years ago, but I was laughing my ass off at episodes of the British show QI hosted by Stephen Fry. I saw it on BritBox but it's available from several sources. https://en.wikipe
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by randcraw 5y ago
Who will the masses ultimately follow: solitary tech savvy geeks who warn of naked emperors? Or armies of corporate-sponsored feel-good social influencers who entertain by promoting only themselves and the fad-du-jour? I know none of the
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by randcraw 5y ago
I agree that living by principles is worthwhile. But so few people do it that it will have so little impact on market forces and inequities that they are wholly irrelevant to the OP topic. You may as well tell us that you've decided
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by randcraw 5y ago
How different is that from alpha meditation, where you free yourself from all thoughts, thereby entering a pre-sleep state of mind?
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by randcraw 5y ago
The end goal is proprietary lock-in, AKA The Microsoft Strategy. The reality of auto-ML is that you don't need garbage data to learn garbage. All you need is a "developer" who has no idea how dirty or unstable their data is,
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by randcraw 5y ago
For now, maybe. But if your customers hate you, yet only a little less than they hate your competitors, all it takes is one new cloudSP to enter your market who ISN'T hated to completely wipe out the commodity low end of your business
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by randcraw 5y ago
In that paper the authors suggest that 1) inflammation may _contribute_ to AD, and 2) the microbiome may be _a_ source of that inflammation. Their conclusion: "Many experimental data support the involvement of a polymicrobial community
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by randcraw 5y ago
As I recall, several studies have also shown that people can have high levels of amyloid-beta plaques (ABPs) in the brain and not show any signs of dementia. Between the two outcomes (ABPs exist but there's no decline, and ABPs are rem

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