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Alchemy and Artificial Intelligence (1965) [pdf](rand.org)
1 points by shpx 10y ago|1 comments
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by shpx 10y ago
Taylor's slides list the reasons to commit to writing GCC in C++: C++ is well-known and popular. It's nearly a superset of C90, which GCC was then written in. The C subset of C++ is as efficient as C. C++ "supports cleaner co
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by shpx 10y ago
Related to 16 bit lookup tables, unum is a format for representing numbers as sets of number ranges as an alternative to floats. http://www.johngustafson.net/presentations/Unums2.0.pptx http://www.johngustaf
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Koomey's law(en.wikipedia.org)
128 points by shpx 10y ago|55 comments
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by shpx 10y ago
If you're considering this, you might want to read the comments on [0][1][2], wikipedia[3] maybe also a bit about how this surgery is marketed [4] Personally, I wouldn't get any surgery with a marketing department on principle. [0
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by shpx 10y ago
Tldr, playing chess over postal mail was banned during WW2 over fears of stenography. Besides a game that is suspected to contain a a hidden message, no declassified info about this being used in practice is mentioned in the article.
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Hiding messages in chess games(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by shpx 10y ago|1 comments
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by shpx 10y ago
Someone organized a tournament of iterated prisoner's dilemma with access to the opponent's source code. Can't seem to find examples of anyone trying this with chess on google. http://lesswrong.com/lw/hmx
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by shpx 10y ago
> we were able to solve one of the hardest MuJoCo tasks (a 3D humanoid) using 1,440 CPUs across 80 machines in only 10 minutes. As a comparison, in a typical setting 32 A3C workers on one machine would solve this task in about 10 hours.
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by shpx 10y ago
This is where they were in 1989. https://youtu.be/VwwB6xcx8Wg http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/27/13752344/alvinn-self-driv...
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by shpx 10y ago
Signalling System No. 7 (SS7) is a set of telephony signaling protocols developed in 1975, which is used to set up and tear down most of the world's public switched telephone network (PSTN) telephone calls. Previous discussion about ne
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Signalling System 7(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by shpx 10y ago|1 comments
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by shpx 10y ago
Bitcoin fees are around 65 cents per transaction right now. https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ http://www.btcsatoshi.com/ https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_fees
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by shpx 10y ago
60 pixels per degree, 210° by 100° for full 20/20 vision (most people have slightly better)[0]. Headsets right now are ~12 pixels per degree. Thats a 12600x6000 screen = 76megapixels. 4k is 8.3 megapixels, 8k is 33.2 megapixels. 8k&#x2
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by shpx 10y ago
There's a Google Earth demo for Cardboard you might like then. It's very similar, you tap the screen (or you can plug a computer mouse into your phone) to start flying in the direction you're looking. https://i.img
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by shpx 10y ago
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element Same thing but guaranteed to be up to date and (more) complete. For example, htmlreference.io's page for <input> doesn't mention
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by shpx 10y ago
This is for a certain livestreaming platform. The article is probably just an ad for the company [0]. The world wide records belong to e-sports. the League of Legends world final had 36 million unique viewers [1] [0] http://paulg
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by shpx 10y ago
Sending data to a server isn't that "comically clumsy", light speed is very fast. https://superuser.com/questions/419070/transatlantic-ping-fa... Unless you're talking about privacy, there I ag
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by shpx 10y ago
I think this is their paper http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/1603.05279 and this is the (torch) code https://github.com/allenai/XNOR-Net Cursory look suggests they quantize both the weights and functions du
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by shpx 10y ago
Reference humor has no value. But sure, it feels good if you get the reference.
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by shpx 10y ago
My impression is that Titan and Loon are meant to work with phones, whereas a receiver for SpaceX's thing would be the size of a pizza box. No way it's gonna be free. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJD0MMP4nkM&amp
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by shpx 10y ago
Why not just wear a ring? Seems like the main reason is so that the guy who made it can call himself a transhumanist and say futuristic things. Watch him put his phone to his wrist. If it was on his finger he wouldn't have to take the
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by shpx 10y ago
I'll extend my bet to 2018. I'd extend it much more because the real odds of AGI are closer to 1:100, but any longer time scale would be a bad return on my money.
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by shpx 10y ago
If anyone who thinks yes wants to bet $1000 I'll do 1:10 odds. https://longbets.org
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Turbine Engines: A Closer Look(youtube.com)
1 points by shpx 10y ago|0 comments
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by shpx 10y ago
You have to cap either battery life or weight/size. They capped battery life at ~10 hours and decrease size every year. Maybe one day laptops get light and thin enough and that changes. The 2016 13" macbook pro with 70 hours of ba
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by shpx 10y ago
In the US in 2012 94% "strongly support" organ donation and 61% are actually donors[0], so at most we can expect to double the number of registered donors -- although depending on demographics of non donors that might mean a lot m
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by shpx 10y ago
"We made black with light. That's not possible, but it was two artists on the team that thought about the problem, and all of our physicists and engineers are like "well you can't make black, it's not possible.&quot
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by shpx 10y ago
This 360 video of a ULA rocket launch is really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03hAiKZDRAk
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by shpx 10y ago
I tried switching to nix, but homebrew's command line argument "design" has spoiled me. With homebrew I'm usually able to guess command arguments, where as with every other package manager I have to google when I want to

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