resu_nimda

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by resu_nimda 7y ago
What if the rewrite was intended to be competing product rather than a replacement for the existing one? So many rewrites die as they attempts to reach parity and acceptance from users of the legacy version. When a startup comes along and &
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
To be fair, if someone really does produce useful code that none of their peers or coworkers can understand, I wouldn't dismiss the notion that they are somehow "different." I know you're railing against the Linus Torval
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
Well you kind of led them down a path to failure/wasted effort. One of the best ways to prevent these kinds of unhappy conversational paths is pre-emption. If you've already considered A, B, and C, then you can assume that someone
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by resu_nimda 7y ago
Any examples of great craftsmen with great video quality? I recently discovered the "Essential Craftsman" channel which seems to be pretty good all around. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzr30osBdTmuFUS8IfXt
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I put agency in quotes because it's really a convincing illusion of agency that we're going for. In the end, I agree with those making the point that even we don't have free will. Ultimately it just has to be able to convince
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Basically it means having "agency." What most people are looking for when they think of "intelligence" is not the ability to master specific tasks, but to choose which tasks to perform using one's own "free wil
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
So which of these "new" business models exist outside of the eyeball and wallet economies? Tipping models exist in the US and are just as transactional as any other payments. There are some decent points in this article but I thin
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think the true innovators in that realm are games like Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, both of which were heavily influenced by Raph Koster, who came from a background of roleplaying in MUDs. There have been lots of "sandbox&qu
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think that quote generalizes to "people don't understand large-scale socio-technological systems." Pretty much any technology that reaches a certain level of adoption becomes a double-edged sword that no single person can f
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
We can observe a lot more in the cosmos than we can physically reach. We are mapping out and tracking far more stars and planets than we could hope to reach for a long time. Even within our solar system, we have gained and will gain much kn
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
This is interesting. I too am interested in simulations and fields like Artificial Life where we start with some basic building blocks and hope to allow something capable of evolution to form. My question is always "where do we start?&
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I think it's largely irrelevant. Do the kings of today have a harder or easier time maintaining the status quo? I think most changes and fluctuations there are more attributable to chance (i.e. mechanisms we don't understand) than
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
This reads like research sponsored by a tobacco company showing that cigarettes are actually not that harmful. I like how it frames the economy as this independent entity that we just sort of observe and hope for the best. Oh our divining r
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
It happens just like it happens in any other office environment. Obviously, if you're the kind of person who studiously avoids talking to people at work, coworking is not going to somehow increase your socialization through other means
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Seems like kind of a weird thing to really take note of, but it wasn't just a general list, both parts had criteria that exclude Stripe ("household name" [i.e. consumer brand] and "funded in the last five years," re
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Well I genuinely hope you find something that gives you enough joy to change your perspective.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
We're clearly talking past each other and we may have to agree to disagree. You didn't address my question at all, just restated your comment and implied that I'm a fanboy if I disagree. "Absolutely fawning worship"
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
What is baffling to me is the length that some HN commenters will go to to tear down people like Elon and Steve Jobs. Maybe you don't like him, maybe you don't like how much attention and praise he gets. But to be so dismissive of
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
That means that the story title is not accurate, as it declares the thing exists, when the entire point of the paper is that it may exist. To be fair that is on par with a lot of science journalism (though I do realize this article was pu
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Pretty unnecessary FUD. Did you have any objection to the actual content? How did you determine that the work was "not a scientific study of any type"? Seems un-scientific to dismiss the whole thing based on that paragraph.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Ok perhaps "championed" was a strong word but he was open about the fact that he considered them important for his own mathematical abilities. And I am by no means trying to encourage people to take them if they don't want to
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Perhaps there's some kind of correlation there? The science/math/tech world is rife with users of amphetamines (including the ones that are prescribed for use by medical professionals, e.g. Adderall, Vyvanse, etc.). Mathemeti
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
A lot of people think ... the car represents independence and freedom. Go where you want, when you want. Well that's because it's actually true for a lot of people. Sure, there's no freedom in commuting between SF and south
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
The spiral mode was discovered entirely by accident, when I introduced a bug into the translation/rotation code. What you see when first entering the mode (or using the o6 preset) is pretty much exactly what I saw then. I sat there gig
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Thanks for the comments. My understanding was that generative was synonymous with algorithmic/programmatic. Was not aware of op art but I certainly see the connection.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
This feels too prescriptive. Can you really create such a sweeping narrative (of the meta-narrative) encompassing the entire world of "art" over the past 75 years? The meta-narrative is great but it's not everything. Personal
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
It's very heavy handed. The characters don't converse like real people, it feels like they're just vehicles for hitting you over the head with the author's message. Always with the befuddled idiot and the enlightened but
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
That was the most painfully smug and contrived dialogue I've read since Atlas Shrugged . Would have been more effective if the whole thing was replaced by the two-sentence summary at the end.
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
I guess I just don’t share your belief that strong AI is necessarily equivalent to a paperclip maximizer that will seek to assimilate all available resources into one monolithic mass. Do the humans have any say in this, any control? If not,
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by resu_nimda 8y ago
Even go a fraction of the way towards maxing out what you can do with the available mass and energy in a solar system and it's simultaneously hard to go away from a solar system right? I don't understand the "too big/l

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