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siefca
7mo ago
This is funny because in this area the most valuable good is NOT knowledge, yet the dinosaurs behave like it was, protecting the wrong thing.
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8mo ago
Yes – the "consciousness is an illusion" line often seems to fold back on itself: if it's an illusion, then there's still something it is like to experience that illusion, so we're back at square one. Also interesti
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8mo ago
Author here. This is an essay written in dialogue form about why "AI is/isn't conscious" debates often fail due to level confusion: we mix objective descriptions (models/behavior) with first-person investigation (wh
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AI and consciousness: from objective descriptions to 'level zero'
(randomseed.io)
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8mo ago
Bankster is a money/currency toolkit (not a ledger, not market data). I needed one coherent model for ISO + custom + crypto currencies, and I wanted the semantics to be "data-first" and predictable – i.e., behavior contracts
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Show HN: Bankster – "money as data" toolkit for Clojure (registry, bigdec, EDN)
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3y ago
Agreed! There are many things in IT industry that are prone to this kind of almost magical thinking, and "boundaries" / "tight coupling" is one of them. I realized that when tried to actually compare some stuff I ha
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3y ago
IMHO it is completly doable to do a state transfer with HTML to a mobile device instead of writing a separate application using a separate technology. Then we can deal with coupling server-side, e.g. "view's team" can use som
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3y ago
Even worse^2, client-side validation may differ from server-side validation and from database-side validation. I cannot imagine client-side checking for a validity of a phone number using freshly downloaded database of current carriers and
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4y ago
I remember writing about first official releases of Clojure around 2010 when I was an editor at heise online Poland. At the same time I was coding libraries in Ruby and one thing was drawing my attention: lazy enumerators. During works on I