someguyorother

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by someguyorother 6y ago
>>idea that ideal software development is just a continuous production of small improvements to the code. >Many of us do believe this. Absolutely. Isn't Jeffries' attempt to do Sudoku with TDD pretty much the prime exampl
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by someguyorother 6y ago
The Atari had a lot of copy protection approaches[1]. No wonder, with the floppy controller being so flexible. [1] http://dmweb.free.fr/files/Atari-Copy-Protection-V1.4.pdf
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>Also it's a bit ironic to decry both materialism and wealth inequality at the same time. I guess if you're concerned about the wealthy's souls or something. You could probably do it along the lines of a Vimes' boots
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by someguyorother 6y ago
You basically need the visit and like graphs (which videos were liked/watched by what users), and I don't think the YouTube API will give you that. If you had those, a good place to start would be the alternating least squares alg
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by someguyorother 6y ago
In addition, fingerprints and faces are particularly bad biometrics for keeping secrets, because attackers can get hold of them without you noticing. E.g. anyone can take a picture of you in a crowd, or lift your fingerprints if they can ge
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by someguyorother 6y ago
There are ways to use error-correcting codes to turn probabilistic samples into deterministic ones and mix them with a key. These are constructed so that you gain no information if you only know the key, or only know the biometric. See htt
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by someguyorother 6y ago
In that case, the anarchists would try to find/develop a society that minimizes the number of power relationships.
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by someguyorother 6y ago
There are a few, mostly when you're being attacked by Boryokudan on the streets of the initial world, but also when you're playing the second character and training your shooting skills.
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by someguyorother 6y ago
That's part of it, but there's also the part that values shout-outs or references for their own sake. There's much more of that now than there was in MI2's time.
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by someguyorother 6y ago
I completely agree. There's a sort of modern sentiment that a reference is funny in itself, and that fourth-wall is funny just by being fourth-wall. I also had the feeling it was a little too proud of some of its (other) jokes, and wor
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by someguyorother 6y ago
I'm naturally suspicious of this kind of reductionism, because it so easily shades into unfalsifiability. "Everything you do is either because of X, or you believe it's for some other reason but your subconscious does it beca
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Sure, economic equality will lead to more direct consumption than inequality, all else equal. That said, I'd rather have equality plus appropriate Pigouvian taxation than have to rely on inequality to do the environmental rationing for
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Sometimes you only need an approximation. I read a paper once about using TSP approximations for data recovery. For any pair of picture data fragments, you'd calculate a goodness of fit score to placing these next to each other. E.g. a
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by someguyorother 6y ago
"Plans are worthless, but planning is everything."
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>(And I don't understand how the reduction to traveling salesman problem would help here?) Let the similarity between line i when rotated to position k and line i+1 when rotated to position j be d_k,j. Then you want to find a sequen
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by someguyorother 6y ago
You run a fusion reaction that mainly produces charged particles, and then convert the KE of the charged particles directly into electricity. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Energy_captu... . There&
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by someguyorother 6y ago
You're going to have to implement a value system into the AGI if it is a fully general AGI. Otherwise, it will just use its exceptional intelligence to defeat its own sensors, take control of its objective function, and essentially wir
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Right, so the point that it is a matter of degree stands, and the point that you are not powerless in a state where you are part of the government also stands. Given those points, it is not impossible to imagine a future state deciding to u
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by someguyorother 6y ago
If democracy is majority dictatorship, then why do constitutions provide rights also to the minority?
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by someguyorother 6y ago
This seems to be a kind of mixing of two concepts. First, that "a state that is big enough to give you anything, is big enough to take it all away". And second, that being provided resources "for free" is a forced exchan
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>Also, all changes to policies to be parameterized and adiabatic. "No heat, only work". I like that proposal :-)
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by someguyorother 6y ago
FWIW, English is my second language, and my first language has grammatical genders that don't have anything to do with real genders. We were also taught that "he" is the default pronoun in English. I guess some of that bleeds
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by someguyorother 6y ago
A control theory idea: use continuous voting. When the support falls below some threshold (e.g. 50%), kick the candidate out. But now you'll get an unstable system where candidates get kicked out all the time and are too populist becau
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Nature thwarts gene drives by modifying their targets, so it's important that whatever is being targeted can't easily change. Surviving instead of being killed off is certainly an evolutionary advantage, after all :-) There's
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by someguyorother 6y ago
>As opposed to what? Copying sorting algorithms right out of a CS class? As opposed to, I'm guessing, adapting Monte-Carlo tree search to Go and inventing AlphaGo. Or what BellKor was doing back in the Netflix Challenge days. Not co
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by someguyorother 6y ago
They can cut features like RSS support and thus make it more of an effort for readers to follow your blog.
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by someguyorother 6y ago
One thing I'd like to see would be a comment section that uses a multi-armed bandit algorithm based on upvotes, or by something like Thompson sampling. So each time you refresh, comments that have more upvotes tend to be shown earlier,
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by someguyorother 6y ago
This kinda feels like the conspiracy theory perspective to organizational management. If you see a purported optimization problem and a solution that doesn't fit it, there are two possible explanations. Either whatever does the optimiz
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by someguyorother 6y ago
Or implement similar constraints. I've sometimes wondered what an FPS bot would be like, if it had random noise injected into its aim so that it couldn't just aimbot you; or if it tended to forget where people had been. It could s
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by someguyorother 6y ago
> I guess not, because anything that's not allowed is by default prohibited? Yes, at least for online content. As far as I understand it, a researcher who wants access to some out-of-country material has to manually submit a request

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