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by smaddox 10y ago
Is there a good solution for getting the code onto a chip? Last time I tried with the open source GCC stack, I eventually gave up and installed the painfully large (~1GB) IDE from TI.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Command+Space >> "automator" Enter >> Choose "Application" >> search for "shell" and double click "Run Shell Script" >> type "/Applications/Firefox.app/Cont
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by smaddox 10y ago
Lenders can't predict the future any better than creditors. There's nothing mysterious about that. If you want a theory for _why_ the future is unpredictable, read up on chaos theory.
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by smaddox 10y ago
> Another is that it's hard to come up with a good theoretical reason why asset prices can be persistently wrong for so long. The reason is well understood, but not by mainstream economists. I suggest reading about Hyman Minsky and
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by smaddox 10y ago
EPR doesn't rule out a non-local hidden variables theory, e.g. pilot wave theory. Ontologically, non-local hidden variables is the only workable solution, since otherwise the universe would need uncountably infinite computing power to
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by smaddox 10y ago
IMSR looks like promising technology, but it's not yet proven. I'm hopeful Terrestrial Energy succeeds in commercializing it and competing with existing energy sources (without subsidies). Even if they do, it will not be a one siz
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by smaddox 10y ago
While I agree with Eliezer that "emergence did it" is no more of an explanation than "god did it", I'm not sure that this is the meaning people are trying to convey when they say e.g. "intelligence is an emerge
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by smaddox 10y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the Schrodinger's cat paradox. First, the paradox is that the cat is both alive and dead until you open the box to observe it. Second, the whole point of the paradox is to show how absurd waveform c
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by smaddox 10y ago
France was able to run at 80% fission because they were selling excess production at low domestic demand times to adjacent territories. If you want to use nuclear for more than base load, you run into similar storage/transmission issue
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by smaddox 10y ago
That's a perfectly valid complaint, but it's not necessarily a good argument for nuclear, since nuclear has similar issues, I.e. controlling production to meet demand. In particular, nuclear cannot provide more than the minimum ba
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by smaddox 10y ago
Rust supports algebraic types and switching over the type, which handles your example quite efficiently. You would simply define an algebraic union of T1 and T2, and switch on the type into the desired code for each branch.
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by smaddox 10y ago
> With interpreted and dynamically typed languages, you have to have 100% test coverage, because you have no idea if your code is even syntactically valid until you run it, and of course if it isn't valid, then you throw an exceptio
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by smaddox 10y ago
One hypothesis is that the neural units in a CNN model hundreds or thousands of individual neurons, including some neurons used to produce/transmit error signals. This seems reasonable, but I doubt there is any single simple and genera
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by smaddox 10y ago
It's not enough to just have API's published unidirectionally, if you want the system to evolve into something optimally fit for a particular job. Think of layers in a convolutional neural network, for example. Each layer of neura
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by smaddox 10y ago
There could actually be an interesting secondary market for solar cell recycling. My understanding is that the primary degredation is due to the contacts, which could likely be reapplied or annealed in order to reach their original efficien
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by smaddox 10y ago
Thanks for the link. I found it very insightful. I especially like the sublinked exposition on nihilism: https://meaningness.com/nihilism-hardcore-vs-lite I didn't understand his distinction between subjective vs neith
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by smaddox 10y ago
That might cause problems for a live stream...
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by smaddox 10y ago
Not quite, since night vision goggles also amplify near IR light, which is much more abundant at night than visible light (e.g. starlight). Also, they can be coupled with IR LEDs or bulbs in order to gain a tactical advantage over an enemy
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by smaddox 10y ago
That's probably the biggest disadvantage of the simple upvote/downvote moderation system. This is one area where I miss Slashdot's moderation and meta-moderatiom system (though I don't miss the continually degrading qual
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by smaddox 10y ago
And yet interface compatability/continuity would still be important unless you can automatically change all of the deployed instances without inducing any race conditions or transition issues. This can only be done through a backwards
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by smaddox 10y ago
Indeed. It would be one thing if he had similar plots of non-crypto-currency market cap. over time, but as far as I can tell this graph is completely unique to bitcoin.
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by smaddox 10y ago
And if you need to store values that are not powers of 2, you can use the following kind of encoding/decoding. In python3: from math import * def number_to_trits(n): # little-endian encoding # (i.e. smallest
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by smaddox 10y ago
If someone would pay me to, I would love to write it. I would definitely need several reference books, but there's nothing in there I couldn't handle given enough time. I could even imagine some people on this site being intereste
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by smaddox 10y ago
Why stop at hardware, though? I can imagine the book title now: "FULL Stack: From Electrons to 'Electron'". The first chapter would review basic quantum mechanics and semiconductor physics, MOSFETs, and CMOS gates. The s
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by smaddox 10y ago
Am I allowed to reinvent my own protocols? How much time do I have? Will you cover my living expenses in the mean time? If so, sign me up. Edit: I guess you said no external libraries, not no manuals/specs. That makes it less fun.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Because holographic encoding is a particular type of non-sparse encoding and redundancy. "Holographic" really is the most descriptive way I can think to describe it without using many more words. Redundancy can be achieved through
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by smaddox 10y ago
Evolution seems to select for highly redundant and holographic code, where holographic means non-sparsely encoded in this context. Height, for example, is encoded in a wide variety of genes which can be turned on and off by even more genes.
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by smaddox 10y ago
Diode lasers can easily amplitude modulate at 10s of MHz, which can provide more effective pixels than 4k displays. If they're still using the piezoelectric beam steering they demo'd a while back, then that will likely be their sc
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by smaddox 10y ago
The anthropic principle requires any self-reflective universe to not be in a state of maximum entropy. If our universe where in a state of maximum entropy, there would be no one around to ask.
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by smaddox 10y ago
The speed of light is not really an issue in VLSI chip design. RC delay, on the other hand...

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