sullyj3

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by sullyj3 10y ago
Then why aren't the big problems with simple solutions solved already? If your answer is something along the lines of "politics", or "coordination is hard", or "people are stupid", I'd argue that thos
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by sullyj3 10y ago
If boltzmann brains were numerically dominant, then we would expect to be one, right?
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by sullyj3 10y ago
"people naturally think in words, not in spatial relationships" I think you may be committing the typical mind fallacy. I often find I have to consciously shove words out of my phonological loop so that I can focus on visualizing
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by sullyj3 10y ago
USB-C is reversible.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
I'd be very interested in seeing that analysis if you end up making it.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
This makes subitizing much more difficult though.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
PEP8 is a good start, in case you're unaware of it. It contains a bunch of style guidelines for python, including some naming conventions.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Alternatively, you could search for "int i" or "\<i\>", or "for (i".
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by sullyj3 10y ago
The wizarding world is portrayed as backward, stagnant and racist, in contrast to the muggles, who make continuous progress.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
You might enjoy https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck
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by sullyj3 10y ago
It doesn't take a superintelligence to reason that the less intelligent people who created you probably took out some safety measures in case of you going rogue, and to figure that one of them is probably a kill switch. It's just
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Heaps of modern language development focusses on types. Take rust for example.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Does anyone have like, a map or presentation or article or something that will give me an intuition of how vast maths is?
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Relative to say, coal, Nuclear is anything but dangerous. The availability heuristic strikes again. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-de... Nuclear is safe, affordable and th
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Switch to nuclear energy
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Prettiness signals professionalism and competence.
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by sullyj3 10y ago
Ironic to write in binary a number which is only significant in decimal.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
I don't understand hawking radiation. People say it would eventually evaporate the black hole, but wouldn't the particle falling in increase its mass, whilst the emitted anti-particle would have no effect?
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by sullyj3 11y ago
This is why facebook is about to go bankrupt.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
There's no such thing as importance independent of sentient minds. Importance is what we find important; or to put it another way, whatever we find important - is.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
Link seems to be dead. Edit: https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/09/22/the-future-of-writ...
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by sullyj3 11y ago
I was tempted to ask which keyboard shortcuts I should know about, but it's difficult to free recall all the ones I know, let alone list them concisely.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
I was born in January 1995, and "on accident" sounds bizarre to me.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
Not to be a dick, but "they also might not". The article doesn't present many good reasons for believing augmented biological intelligence will be superior. Or even what that means, ie, for how long? Obviously the human brain
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by sullyj3 11y ago
Commonly accepted optimal strategy? I'd like to see a reference on that one. If always choosing rock works exactly as well, (against a random opponent) in what sense can randomness be called optimal? The key to winning is obviously to
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by sullyj3 11y ago
But rationality isn't about effectiveness in achieving the things you are evolutionarily optimised for, because those things don't necessarily line up with the things you want! There's no a priori reason to value evolutionary
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by sullyj3 11y ago
I think that once speeds like this become available, it will drive significant developer creativity. We'll very quickly figure out new and interesting ways of utilising all that extra bandwidth, and very quickly end up at a point where
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by sullyj3 11y ago
People who say things like that don't understand how to reason using limiting cases. We have artificial intelligence right now. Maybe not artificial general intelligence, but plenty of stuff traditionally thought of as being solely the
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by sullyj3 11y ago
Not being a mathematician, I have no idea whether Geometric Algebra is in fact superior to the systems in general use currently, but it sounds exciting.
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by sullyj3 11y ago
That's actually a terrible way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias

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