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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Most stuff that people think is funny isn't that funny for most other people. So a humor-tolerating, polite community will most likely end up with lots of trying-to-be-funny stuff that's just tired, and signal-to-noise goes down. An option
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
This also reminds me of a story in the StackOverflow podcast ( https://stackoverflow.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W24222 ), where programs executed as expressive bytecode ended up outperforming machine language programs on a low-memory machine,
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
I wonder how things would work if ebook publishers would drop the idea of owning books entirely, and just go subscription-based. You'd pay a monthly fee and have DRM'd access to all the books in the catalog. Stop paying the fee, access is g
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
Just to mess this up further, there are some recent studies into ego depletion (basically willpower failures) which indicate that low blood sugar can make self-control more difficult, as the brain's executive function doesn't work that well
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by rsaarelm 16y ago
The speech recognition example from a Nexus One phone elsewhere in the comment thread was pretty good on the level of individual words. Pattern matching learned with a massive teaching corpus seems to go pretty far. The example didn't make
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
If it's not possible to replicate, how is human biology replicating it?
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
This seems to be all over the place with the stuff it tackles. As far as I see, it makes at least the following assertions: * Increasing the human lifespan past 130 using means anything resembling modern medicine seems pretty hard. Especial
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
The big solution I was thinking of would have to go a bit further than Python/C. Basically you should be able to write a description of the actual essential functionality of a program without going into data structure and algorithm implemen
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Establish conventions for academic publications that maximize easily machine-readable content instead of looking good when printed to a paper journal. Build a search engine that can answer advanced queries about existing research based on t
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
A practical, robust method for separating essential complexity from accidental complexity in software engineering. Trevor Blackwell has written about something like this: http://tlb.org/busywork.html
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Portraits in Silicon: http://www.amazon.com/Portraits-Silicon-Robert-Slater/dp/026... It has short bios of several computing pioneers.
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
The Kindle is almost the size of a small netbook, pretty big to carry around when all you can do with it is read books. I tried a Kindle, and am going to stick with using a smartphone as it's easy to carry everywhere without additional hass
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Maybe it turns into impossibly hard later on, but the first couple of screens are just a series of surprise traps that kill you on the first time but are reasonably easy to avoid once you've learned them properly (compared to this type of i
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Fiction, mostly. Declare , by Tim Powers. Cold war espionage with black magic. Entertainingly bleak, and probably did a lot more weirdness with real history than I knew how to appreciate. Producing Open Source Software ( http://producing
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
This relies on security by obscurity in keeping one compromised password from being used to access the other sites. An attacker who knows of the procedure can trivially detect passwords probably using it and substitute the domain identifier
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Other: Standard ML
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What's wrong with "map[string] interface{}"?
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Blindsight by Peter Watts and Ted Chiang's short fiction are pretty good.
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Am I missing something about Old Man's War? Everbody seems to think it's a great piece of contemporary SF, but to me it read like it was written for people who read Heinlein as teenagers in the 50s, and whose worldview pretty much hasn't de
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
And looks like someone's making an add-on to org-mode that implements the spaced repetition with an actual Supermemo-style algorithm instead of an inflexible fixed scheduling: http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg18554.h...
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Is there going to be any mention of the recent developments in researching Artificial General Intelligence ( http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/Writing/AGI-Intro.html ) as opposed to GOFAI and narrow AI?
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
The idea is pretty much spaced repetition learning ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition ), even though article doesn't call it that or make any references to the existing work.
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
I write down things I want to remember later in Emacs org-mode files. It would be easy to set this up with org's SCHEDULED marker. Just make a macro to emit a bunch of SCHEDULED markers for suitably spaced future dates, run it on new items,
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
A lot of this looks very nice. One very simple thing I noticed was missing was a binary integer literal syntax. With a systems programming language, it would be nice to be able to write bit sets without shifts sometimes. Just use the obviou
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
Reading old SF without a nostalgia factor is weird. There are all sorts of things just off with the unspoken assumptions of the author, and the extrapolations built on those make the whole story seem skewed. This one looks like it was meant
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The shortest program in a low-level language. On the definition of a low-level language, see: http://www.paul-almond.com/WhatIsALowLevelLanguage.htm
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
I've been reading novels from non-iPhone cell phones with screens around 55 mm for the last 5 years. I've gone through around 80 books so far. I read mostly in the bus to work. I'm always carrying my phone, a kindle or a paperback book woul
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
By this measure, if the youths are self-reporting that they feel addicted to the internet, that's very, very interesting. It says that the youths themselves feel they should be doing something else, not some old, stodgy institution. They
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by rsaarelm 17y ago
At 6 AM, after 8.5 hours of sleep and after a sunrise alarm clock has been getting brighter for about half an hour. Then I make breakfast and coffee and try to have an uninterrupted 2 hours of working on personal projects before going to wo