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by smokel 3y ago
> Why do we need cars? Horses work fine already It is great fun to realize that back in the day, when you ended up properly pissed in the pub, the pub owner could simply haul you on top of your horse, which would know the way home and de
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by smokel 3y ago
I am not referring to a formal definition of the word "understanding", but to a potential theory about the processes involved. Wittgenstein's "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." does not help wit
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by smokel 3y ago
The problem lies in our understanding of the concept "understanding". It is still pretty unclear at a fundamental level what it means to understand, learn, or conceptualize things. This quickly leads to thought about consciousnes
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by smokel 3y ago
The funding mentioned does not go directly to string theory research. Investments in quantum computing research are orders of magnitude larger, even in Europe alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Flagship Edi
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by smokel 3y ago
It does show empathy, though. Docker has its advantages, but the approach also has a lot of disadvantages which are not so obvious to junior developers. Isolation seems fun, but the interfaces (Unix sockets where anything goes) are extremel
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by smokel 3y ago
> In 1994 Britannica debuted the first Internet-based encyclopaedia. Users paid a fee to access the information, which was located at http://www.eb.com https://www.britannica.com/topic/Encyclopaedia-Bri
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by smokel 3y ago
Not the parent, but the argument uses quite a few assumptions (axioms) that may not be intuitive to everyone, but which are quite relevant when studying mathematics at the foundational level. For example, why would one be able to create the
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by smokel 3y ago
Hm, not entirely true, depending on what you mean with "the internet shifting". The internet has grown , and the free sharing is still going strong. Have a look at Wikipedia, Hacker News, Arxiv.org. To be honest, the stuff that
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by smokel 3y ago
In that case, I highly recommend watching the movie Synecdoche New York (2008). PS Can I be your hairdresser?
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by smokel 3y ago
The paper lists "first authors", "core authors", and "senior authors". My dream is to one day be listed on a seminal paper as "secondary forum reply author".
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by smokel 3y ago
It all depends of course, but I tend to disagree. A requirement such as "A web interface to play the game of chess, but with all the pieces replaced by photos of my family members" is fairly adequate if I were to make a Christmas
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by smokel 3y ago
Great achievement, but what a horrible future we are facing. Instead of progressing towards more powerful programming interfaces with less cause for misinterpretation, we are going to automate the silly process of writing redundant unit tes
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by smokel 3y ago
This sort of thing also happened a lot in philosophy and in (the more theoretical parts of) the art world. Back in the 1990s it was somewhat excusable for non-native speakers to come up with new ilities and ities, also because they had now
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by smokel 3y ago
There are only a few thousand concepts worthy of thought, but there are way more potential pixels even in the current room that I am in.
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by smokel 3y ago
This does not make sense. These are not lies, but simplifications. The only lie seems to be the title itself. I would have expected Santa Claus, storks delivering babies, and perhaps even God, to show up under this heading. Count me disa
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by smokel 3y ago
The post is from 1992. Articles were much harder to get hold of back then, even if you were at academia. Your library would have had to have a subscription to the journal, and maintain an archive of it. (The Unreasonable Effectiveness w
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by smokel 3y ago
As it stands, only things that are economically feasible to automate will be automated. A side effect of this is that labor wages have increased dramatically, thereby decreasing the possibilities of having unique stuff done. The unfolding o
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by smokel 3y ago
It might be interesting to repeat the questions asked in the context of "bullshit jobs" and "leisure sciences" which were raised in the 1990s. People then assumed that through automation (not even intelligent automation)
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by smokel 3y ago
I think they meant soft s kills and hard s kills.
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by smokel 3y ago
That may be the case for some art, but self-expression is not something I strive for in my own art. Just to list one example.
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by smokel 3y ago
Amazingly, Scala has recently adopted significant whitespace [1], and is moving in the opposite direction. If you can call 2021 recent, that is. [1] https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...
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by smokel 3y ago
I for one would like a system where I could simply cast FHQWGADZ as a combination of tokens that each support my stance on complex matters. It can be tiresome to have to repeat facts and opinions. It seems that grandparent has read a book,
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by smokel 3y ago
"Initial commit" is my goto commit message. Still a great idea, though. Ingesting all data from JIRA may be beneficial as well.
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by smokel 3y ago
European bank notes contain a little Europium, a rare-earth element. Ironically, large deposits of minerals that contain it are found in China, the US, and Russia. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europium
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by smokel 3y ago
Indeed. Code describes how something is done, and possibly what is done, but it seldom fully describes why something is done, or why code exists in the first place. The latter is typically the realm of requirements, design documentat
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by smokel 3y ago
> These things are supposed to have PhD level smarts Whoever told you that?
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My take on this is that there is no magical "emergence" that appears when grouping elements together into a larger system. The thing is that we use different (and incompatible) abstractions to describe processes in differing conte
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by smokel 3y ago
One of the most annoying limitations of JSON is that it does not allow for comments.
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by smokel 3y ago
In a way, companies are simply groups of humans working together. Who is to say that the rottenness emerges from the working together, or whether it is already present in the individual humans? Pre-capitalist societies are known to be even
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by smokel 3y ago
The question is not whether some individuals strive for it, but whether the entire ecosystem moves toward it. Different contexts, different mechanisms.

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