rsaarelm

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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I get this. My problem was that I'm not feeling an incentive for even gathering the stuff, since survival is already guaranteed and there are no further in-game goals. I guess I need reasonably constant and threatening waves of attacking al
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
The initial game with the day cycle and the monsters coming out at night is genius. Really taps into a primal light-and-shelter instinct. Also the light management with cave exploration is great. However, once I figured out a wooden shack w
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Punch a tree trunk into logs, then craft a wooden pickaxe. Then go dig some coal and rock. http://minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting This took me a while to figure out, since the pickaxe is the key to starting up all the crafting chains, and
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Given your goals, you might want start by reading books like The Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete cover-to-cover, and taking it easier with the theory books. You want your basic software development skills to be solid before you start
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Finland
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I switched to Colemak after getting my arm in a cast and having my typing speed slowed anyway for three weeks. I've been using it for over a year now. I can't start touch-typing qwerty instantly any more, but I can still type comfortably on
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Charles Stross: Where we went wrong(antipope.org)
46 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|39 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Incidentally, Larry Page used the exact same argument back in 2007: My theory is that, if you look in your own programming, your DNA, it’s about 600 Megabytes compressed… so it’s smaller than any modern operating system. Smaller than Linux
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Why wouldn't NaCl work on phones and tablets? The NaCl people seem be developing an ARM version.
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Practical Haskell: Scripting With Types(donsbot.wordpress.com)
8 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|2 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Since, going by your analogy, we're talking about how hard it is to build a machine that will draw us the Mandelbrot set, isn't that exactly the point?
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Thing is, human DNA seems to grow into human babies most of the time, yet at molecular level the environment where it grows is a random, chaotic mess. The rough physical properties, like temperature, and the general chemicals around are sta
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Myers is attacking Kurzweil on the assumption that Kurzweil is actually proposing that the brain's structure should be reverse-engineesed from DNA, which would be intractably hard. Only Kurzweil isn't saying this anywhere. Instead, he seems
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Visualizing the Creative Process(lostgarden.com)
22 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|1 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I picked up the same idea too, and it does seem problematic. I can sorta buy an idea of there being some kind of Turing-completeness equivalent property for human minds, where all minds who have this property can in principle do the same me
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Topless data(conal.net)
2 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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Broken Koans(davidchess.com)
2 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Yeah, there's a dissonance. People stay from being messed up physically and mentally by moving around and keeping their surroundings varied. On the other hand, you keep your mainframe CPU in a nice stable server room, not rolling around on
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.ht...
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
'T' is already in use. I suppose 'R' is a replacement that makes phonetic sense.
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Programming for a culture approaching singularity(lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
30 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|20 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Look into org-mode and the stuff you can do with it: http://orgmode.org/ http://doc.norang.ca/org-mode.html http://orgmode.org/talks/index.html Then realize that you need to pick up Emacs to use it.
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That Sounds Smart(aaronsw.com)
71 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|67 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I wonder how this'd work: Take the XYZ coordinates of a vector on an unit sphere with North Pole being at Z=1 and lat/long 0,0 at X=1. Drop the smallest of XYZ, keep the other two. Use 3 bits to store which of XYZ was dropped and whether it
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
This might work as a way for adjusting wake-up time: http://www.aleph.se/andart/archives/2007/11/the_early_bird_g...
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Is there really reason to believe that practicing theoretical physicists who advocate wavefunction collapse are so mistaken as to be not worth learning from? I find the lesswrong cultural insistence on going with MWI pretty troubling when i
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Humanfood(lukepalmer.wordpress.com)
1 points by rsaarelm 16y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
As far as I understood, Stanovich's thesis is that rational thinking skills are more important than raw intelligence, and high-IQ people can have poor rational thinking skills, and a RQ test for rational thinking skills should be used inste
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
This seems to be written for professional programmers, who really should know more than one language. I'd be more interested in an article which discusses which single language should people who aren't professional programmers but can still
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
It's pretty similar to D, which the author dismisses as not being sufficiently widely used yet.

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