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by stray 11y ago
Of course. An amateur is someone who does something for the love of it -- rather than someone who is getting paid for it. And while the experts focus on some very narrow algorithm or process and release tools like tensorflow to the public -
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by stray 11y ago
> Who is most likely develop a true AI system? Some completely unknown amateur will stumble upon it more or less by accident.
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by stray 11y ago
They're vastly overestimating the scope of a recurrent convolutional neural network. The concept of dignity does not compute.
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by stray 11y ago
> JSON is just this beautiful thing that lets you store data however you want. What if I want to store integers? Not floats. Integers.
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by stray 11y ago
The most beautiful I'm aware of is Robert Strandh's SICL ( https://github.com/robert-strandh/SICL ). CL-PPCRE ( https://github.com/edicl/cl-ppcre ) is very nice as well, imo. What makes them
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by stray 11y ago
Dolphins definitely delegitimize Beethoven. /s
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by stray 11y ago
Didn't seem too far away 30 years ago either. While extremely impressive, AlphaGo is still a one-trick pony. We won't be coppertops for a while, yet. But what does a future look like for humans when we're no longer needed?
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by stray 11y ago
Just say "no". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2a8TRSgzZY
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by stray 11y ago
My entry is a can of gasoline and a match (having survived massive, severe burns, I can think of nothing more frightening). They're totally overthinking this.
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by stray 11y ago
Stockholm Syndrome.
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by stray 11y ago
I'm baffled that anyone would find the s-expression format challenging.
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by stray 11y ago
Flash is great -- I love being forced to update flash every 20 minutes.
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by stray 11y ago
What advantage does WebAssembly have over Java applets? Not java.
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by stray 11y ago
Webassembly will likely open even more doors because it'll free us from the shackles of the web's document publishing origin. And I for one, can't wait to piss on Javascript's grave.
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by stray 11y ago
No.
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by stray 11y ago
I have reason to believe they collect and act on an alarming amount of information they couldn't possibly have legit access to. But I know no more about the iPhone case than you do. Possibly less.
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by stray 11y ago
The FBI already has some information -- that they got from NSA -- that they desperately want to use. But they can't use it yet because they lack a credible cover story to use for "parallel construction" (look it up). They
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by stray 11y ago
I had to do a lot of reading before I understood what this guy is going on about. - 12 years after the first email-like messages were sent/received at MIT; - 7 years after BBN first transmitted mail between machines; - 5 years after RF
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by stray 11y ago
Different languages are different. That's mainly what makes them different. /s And actually, the terms you mention are subtly different as well. In part because of implementation details that will be different from otherwise sim
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by stray 11y ago
Why not step off the beaten path and try a language that is safer than Rust, has a better concurrency story than Go, performance similar to C (but without as many ways to shoot yourself in the foot)? Ada.
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by stray 11y ago
Do you mean why are so many smart people uninterested in what you find interesting? Maybe it has something to do with being called idiots for not knowing all the nuances of a field that can't even define itself.
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by stray 11y ago
I think you're confusing the merit of someone's work with where they end up in life. Mr Rogers was afaik, never wealthy at all - yet his works have great merit.
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by stray 11y ago
Correct. Sysadmins should be judged solely on the value they bring as a Sysadmin: on merit. Likewise with butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers (and even developers).
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by stray 11y ago
So then a meritocracy is the solution -- and putting measures in place to ensure that irrelevant information is withheld from decision makers is proven (at least in orchestras) to result in more equitable outcomes.
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by stray 11y ago
If she was the best sysadmin you ever worked with -- you could honestly say that she was better than you. Otherwise, you're saying you are the best sysadmin. So unless you consider yourself the best -- you indirectly did say tha
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by stray 11y ago
You're really opening a can of worms... Of course meritocracy is not unfair. And of course it is the best system. But there is a very strong, powerful group of people who judge fairness not in terms of opportunity -- but in terms of o
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by stray 11y ago
Actually, the meat of the article is that people too seldom admit when they don't truly know the answer to a question.
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by stray 11y ago
Isn't this article confusing a data model with an implementation detail? Your code does follow your data model, for sure. But what this article seems to be talking about is using a particular product to partition a database. Complet
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by stray 11y ago
There's no section for Common Lisp -- and the only applicable point from clojure has an easy answer. > Lisp syntax provides no way of seeing what's a function etc. - No visual distinction Short answer: It's the thing right
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by stray 11y ago
Get off your high horse - I just pointed you toward where I had seen something about it.

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