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by rsaarelm 15y ago
If that would be the only thing going on, you wouldn't be seeing a drastic decline in the ability to memorize new information that isn't tied to complex models of the world, such as sequences of random numbers, in aging people.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
You could put a big mirror on the wall.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Right. Turns out my use of 'URL' everywhere in grandparent comment is a misnomer then. Should've used URN or URI. I'm not quite sure if URN is exactly right for the hash thing either, given that it both fails to unify things which humans wo
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I've sometimes wondered about a system where the URL of a document is an actual hash, like SHA-1, of the document. That'd chance the semantics of hyperlinks from "link to document at this internet address" to "link to document with these co
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Any civilization building simple space technology the aliens encounter might keep being harmless to them, or given some thousands of years to develop in peace it might both develop robust interstellar flight and go all genocidal on everythi
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Roman Lisp(loper-os.org)
9 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
It's not. There's a brief strange bit where he thinks advanced meditation skills can lead to psychic powers, without really distinguishing them from people's perceptions of reality changing. Other than that it's pretty much "do these exerci
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I liked Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha , online at http://www.interactivebuddha.com/mctb.shtml .
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I think grandparent is talking about Landauer's principle which relates information and energy, electrons aren't involved in any way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
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Elements of Modern C++ Style(herbsutter.com)
148 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|61 comments
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
How does he know that we can override genetic behaviors? Sure, we can try, but that doesn't mean that we can override them. Given that you could view large parts of human culture as semi-successful overrides of instinctual behaviors, I'm
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Tabula rasa says there are no real switches. Grandparent is saying that there are, but we don't have to obey them unthinkingly. Not all switches in the human brain are for stuff that's as nice as caring for children or falling in love, so
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Was the pointer-squirreling library libttf by any chance?
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Do you play the social games yourself, for fun, not just for work reasons? My biggest take-away from the article was that people who make traditional video games try to make more of the sort of games they themselves would like to play and p
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I think Haskell uses a fixpoint combinator built into the core language under some syntactic sugar to enable any sort of recursion, so the real-world use would be pretty much making every Haskell program ever work.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I don't have any Forth background, but have written a significant amount of Factor code during the last year. I haven't really run into things that seem painful or complicated to express in what I hope to be idiomatic Factor. The project I'
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Scruffies and Neats in Artificial Intelligence(vanemden.wordpress.com)
1 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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Discovering New States of Mind(multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)
2 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
I suppose the sort of person who always makes sure everyone can easily notice they are presently reading Gravity's Rainbow or Infinite Jest won't quite welcome the Kindle with open arms.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
On the Kindle every book is Twilight. What does this even mean? Text is already digital (made solely from a discrete alphabet), all about setting up a completely artificial virtual reality of sorts, and not fundamentally tied to any speci
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
It actually does. I used Vim for 6 years, then switched over to Emacs just so that I could do stuff with org-mode.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
His Master's Voice by Stanislaw Lem is about trying to decipher an alien radio transmission, and focuses a lot on the mathematics and information theory involved as far as I remember.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Native Finnish speaker, 31 100. Most of the books I've read in the last 20 years have been in English.
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Doesn't contemporary cognitive science pretty much go with the hypothesis that human brains are Turing-equivalent? Unless we go with magic, hypercomputing brains would require hypercomputing physics, and so far we know pretty much about phy
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
The whole framework is extremely abstract. Unless human brains are doing magic that's beyond what a Turing machine can do, whatever humans are doing probably does boil down to something resembling the Solomonoff induction AIXI is based on
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
This depends on the assumption that 'intelligence' (and nobody can really agree on what that means, which is a bad start) is representable in algorithmic form. We have a working definition and know that it is algorithmically representable
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Any opinion on which elements were particularly nice to code due to choosing Lisp? What about anything where choosing Lisp gave you particular trouble?
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Charles Stross: Crime and Punishment(orbitbooks.net)
3 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|0 comments
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How to fit an elephant(johndcook.com)
36 points by rsaarelm 15y ago|7 comments
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by rsaarelm 15y ago
Setting a timer is good for focusing on a task, but you need to have a solid idea on what to work on. Assuming you have a goal, the next task becomes planning if you don't have a concrete next task yet. The five minute breaks are tricky tho

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