strbean

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by strbean 7y ago
I don't think parent was referring to game NPCs as a reasonable application of AGI, but rather as a reasonable domain conducive to the development of AGI.
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by strbean 7y ago
A "per gram of manganese" energy density doesn't really translate directly into... energy density... does it?
873.
by strbean 7y ago
Python has > a = 100 > a is 100 True > a = 1000 > a is 1000 False
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by strbean 7y ago
Oh goodness, they posted about non-sports related politics on their subsite dedicated to non-sports related "Culture, Food, Politics, Whatever"?!? How dare they!?
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by strbean 7y ago
Add to that list "and there is basically one guy still qualified to work on the system", which is practically the case now for old COBOL banking systems. See http://cobolcowboys.com/
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by strbean 7y ago
> [...] that's as realistic as saying that police commits crimes so that they can get extra reward from the new tasks. More like saying private 'protection companies' commit crimes so they can get you to pay for their &#x2
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by strbean 7y ago
Presumably one of those organizations would be the federal government...
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by strbean 7y ago
"I made hot-or-not for my campus, then I made MySpace (but exclusive, .edu emails only), then MySpace sold out and everyone jumped to my site." So much luck.
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by strbean 7y ago
Was hoping for flow field pathfinding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bovlsENv1g4 https://leifnode.com/2013/12/flow-field-pathfinding/
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by strbean 7y ago
I think statements about theoretical limits on compression are ignoring emergent properties. We know you can "compress" certain things infinitely; for example, the Mandelbrot set. Compressing arbitrary inputs using emergent proper
881.
by strbean 7y ago
How would this differ from the idiomatic "x || y"? Just s/non-zero/truthy