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by ristretto 15y ago
I don't see how this is different from having a huge mainframe to simulate an ANN with billions of neurons. First of all, they are using integrate and fire (or Izhikevich) models that are very simplistic and have already been studied since
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by ristretto 15y ago
Facebook excels at making sensational frontpages with pretty vanilla technology.
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by ristretto 15y ago
I am often under the impression that many philosophers take linguistic constructions such as "meaning" and "morality" to be entities that can exist on their own, outside functioning brains, while on the other hand they claim to be materiali
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by ristretto 15y ago
I ve somehow managed to make my desire unrootable. I rooted it with an android 2.2 rom (dont remember which!) then one day i formatted the SD card. I 've tried every possible combination to root the phone again but nothing works. Also, beca
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TL;DRplz: Share your tl;drs with everyone(tldrplz.com)
2 points by ristretto 15y ago|0 comments
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by ristretto 15y ago
In the olden days, people painstakingly traveled to foreign lands in order to collect information which is now instantly available. Traveling is mostly leisure/adventure nowadays. I 'm not saying that it's good to be on the internet all th
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by ristretto 15y ago
I wouldn't suggest an internet diet to anyone over 15 years of age. Brains feed on information and the information on the internet is vastly more interesting than what most people encounter in an everyday "offline" life. Seems like the prob
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by ristretto 15y ago
The west has a problem due to the oligopolies of the behemoths that control infrastructure. It is the reason for example why the US ranks low in broadband speeds.
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by ristretto 15y ago
You are assuming that people in the developing world can afford a computer just as easily. The importance of having an information device that connects to the internet cannot be overstated in places where education is not the primary concer
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by ristretto 15y ago
In a few years we will have Motorola vs Nokia under new names, Google vs Microsoft. Apple will still hold strong onto their upper 5%.
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by ristretto 15y ago
I 'm happy for all the involvement of Joyent in opensource, but how about also dropping the prices in their accelerators? I 've been using the same servers with the same prices for 3 years with zero upgrades.
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by ristretto 15y ago
What is there under $12 billion? 17000 patents, but how many employees, and what sales stats?
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by ristretto 15y ago
A) But they didnt have to compete with Google so they have a new competitor B) There is a lot at stake here, a good solution would be to donate android to an independent "Android foundation" D) Still, google's phones will always be one step
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by ristretto 15y ago
I wasn't making an analogy at all. The fact is, facebook has lured developers to work for free in their "open" platform and now prevents them from expanding to other platforms. Reasonable but unethical, a little courtesy towards developers
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by ristretto 15y ago
Yes, causality is generally not broken, so i assumed the meaning "justifiable" for "understandable". My comment was not so much a response to the comment but to the general "free pass" that the "new ethics" get in mainstream media.
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by ristretto 15y ago
How is it not (for developers), when competing networks make less than half in revenue than adsense and are provably much less safe (the excuse they used for the ban). For your second question, users are harmed when they are disallowed from
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by ristretto 15y ago
I dont understand why facebook gets a green card from the blogosphere, while nobody of its competitors or any other top-10 website reaches anywhere near this sort of evilness. Myspace didnt ban facebook ads, google doesnt ban facebook ads,
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by ristretto 15y ago
Wow, that is evilness to new highs. First they dont allow google adsense on apps, then they ban 3rd party virtual currency, then they ban G+ ads on facebook, and now this. This company is going straight to technological hell. In any case, i
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by ristretto 15y ago
That's what came to my mind as well: We will be hearing these "X is linked to genetics" news a lot more often for everything ranging from boredom to our favorite color. Yes, almost everything is genetic to an extent, but not everything is a
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by ristretto 15y ago
Look, guys, you have to realize that even though many frown upon the social games market, it's a niche market that's here to stay. After all, social networks are mostly entertainment media and people have been playing games even before they
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by ristretto 15y ago
On a related topic, why is google going after the "like" game anyway? They have better data than the stupid likes they can use to direct advertising. And +1 is a "meh" name. It would be more intuitive if they used a star, like gmail does, i
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by ristretto 15y ago
Why is everyone so worried?
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by ristretto 15y ago
Has anyone seen the games? What are they? An iframe, ajax, javascript or sth else?
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by ristretto 15y ago
On the other hand, as research tools are becoming more affordable to smaller institutions and universities, we may witness a shift from big pharma to smaller and more focused independent research.
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Neutrons Become Cubes Inside Neutron Stars(technologyreview.com)
2 points by ristretto 15y ago|1 comments
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by ristretto 15y ago
You are starting too early - you have to wait until you're old first.
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by ristretto 15y ago
The HN title gives the impression that they reversed aging. They only reversed changes in memory performance in old mice that are infected with E.coli. It would be interesting to know how they assessed memory performance - are they using sp
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by ristretto 15y ago
I am beginning to think Anonymous is a fictitious entity made up by the mainstream media to divert attention. They sound too hippy-dippy to be of serious intent.
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by ristretto 15y ago
What happened to that project that would develop meat in vitro?
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by ristretto 15y ago
That is not an excuse for them, they should have a non-offline alternative for ie9 & FF

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