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by svalorzen 8y ago
It is, because the term 'understanding' is not defined in a useful manner. What does it mean to understand something? If you can ever define it, I can bet I can make a machine satisfy your definition. What the argument does here i
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by svalorzen 8y ago
The entire argument is flawed, as it doesn't actually prove anything at all. Here is the full argument, with all assumptions explicit: Assume properties 'consciousness' and 'intelligence' exist. I'm not going t
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by svalorzen 8y ago
These are called "strong/opaque typedefs". There have been multiple proposals in the past to add them to C++ over the years (N1706, N1891, N3515, N3741, P0109); the main roadblock is that most people would like to allow to ed
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by svalorzen 8y ago
I've started using Wire recently, and while it has some minor warts, call quality has always been excellent. In addition I really love being able to use it on my computer without having to check whether my phone has connectivity or not
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by svalorzen 8y ago
Not sure if this can help you, but I simply use function (AddDependency name) add_subdirectory(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/${name}) include_directories(${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/deps/${name}/include) endf
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by svalorzen 8y ago
As y0ghur7_xxx is saying, you cannot pay with your data, just as you cannot take a loan with an interest rate of 1000%, since that would be usury. Even if you signed a contract agreeing to such terms, they don't count as they are not l
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by svalorzen 8y ago
Some years ago a similar company called Shweeb was doing the same thing with human powered pods. They got $1M from Google as a grant and then disappeared. I was disappointed because I really see myself using this kind of transportation, her
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by svalorzen 8y ago
The purpose is exactly to express possibly missing return values, which is exactly why it is called "optional", rather than "pointer_type_semantics<T>". I also don't see why you would ever use it in the way yo
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by svalorzen 8y ago
The complete first edition can be found here: http://incompleteideas.net/book/ebook/the-book.html If you're interested in some well documented C++ implementations of the algorithms shown in the book, feel fre
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by svalorzen 8y ago
You are right, it should be the expected value for the sum of all future rewards. At the same time, given that we're talking about bandits, it doesn't really matter, since there is no state. Thus, the summatory over time you'
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by svalorzen 8y ago
Hey everyone, I'm the maintainer of UbiShell. It's a fork of a series of ports that brought Ubiquity, a very old Firefox extension, to WebExtension. The original goal of Ubiquity was to provide a natural language way to interact w
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Show HN: UbiShell – from Ubiquity a new way to use the Web(github.com)
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by svalorzen 9y ago
Thank you too for putting the code for your article out there. There is always a shortage of public code to study this field, and every bit helps. I've actually wanted to write a similar article on 2048 for a while, but unfortunately I
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by svalorzen 9y ago
Shameless self plug: if you're interested in Markov Decision Processes and related algorithms , I am the author and maintainer of a C++ and Python library that implements lots of planning and reinforcement learning methods for them. I
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by svalorzen 9y ago
One thing I don't understand is people who use all these websites to handle RSS. I've always used Firefox addons in order to handle RSS (before LiveClick which was awesome, now FeedBro or similar). Why would you give control away
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by svalorzen 9y ago
You don't have as much power because your body automatically scales down to prevent you from injuring yourself. In addition, performing an exercise wrong doesn't mean that you automatically get injured, just that your chances of h
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by svalorzen 9y ago
Not doing the Valsalva maneuver means that you break your spine. It works by using the compressed air inside your lungs as support so that your abdominal and back muscles can do their work. This is the reason that when you go to a physiothe
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by svalorzen 9y ago
Hey, another question. In your write-up you mention enumerating the possibilities when no deduction is possible, and picking one of the lower ranked cells found like this. However, a couple of improvements come to mind. First you could weig
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Show HN: AI C++ Toolbox for MDPs and POMDPs(github.com)
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by svalorzen 9y ago
What limited knowledge? Just because some people like to play pretend with their sci-fi fantasies of AI omnipotence and omniscience with no energetical nor temporal limitations doesn't mean that researchers that actually work with the
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by svalorzen 10y ago
The assumption in this article is that as long as a line of code as the same characters, its output will be the same. But this makes no sense. Consider: var arr = [0,1,2] sum(arr); arr = [1,2,3]; sum(arr); The two sums
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by svalorzen 10y ago
Another way to easily remember the arrows is to associate them with words: ^ with the A of and, and v with the V for vel (Latin for or). I always did this in logic class since I would always get confused otherwise.
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by svalorzen 10y ago
Since the Tesla autopilot will only work on long, clear stretches of road with high visibility and very predictable traffic, it's not really hard to see why the statistic would look better than it really is. I can build an autopilot to
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by svalorzen 10y ago
I would assume that in a military setting (as it is in most bureocratic/management settings) a solution like this has the immense advantage that one can precisely determine the source of any one error to a specific requirement/rul
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by svalorzen 10y ago
There's something I never understood though. Technically there's always a side of the Earth that is under the Sun, so why can't countries make some sort of equal-sharing energy agreement to avoid needing batteries, if not at
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by svalorzen 11y ago
Note that `do_stuff` may not necessarily be illegal, since a moved value is required to be valid but in an unknown state. So maybe the result of `do_stuff` will be unspecified and unknowable (unless it requires some specific assumptions abo
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by svalorzen 11y ago
Simulators should be fast, sure, however that they should be deterministic to be fast is something I do not believe. We have millions of programs already that make use of pseudo random generated numbers, and they don't seem to be suffe
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by svalorzen 11y ago
- As all problems can be converted to Markov Decision Processes, this is a moot point. The transition may not be efficient in terms of states/actions, but since we just nearly solved a problem with more states than the atoms of the uni
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by svalorzen 11y ago
I don't think it's scaling. Go on the Zeus example and play with it. You'd be surprised. This is beautiful.
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by svalorzen 11y ago
Just random things that pop up: - using namespace std; - variable names inconsistent and random, using uppercase and lowercase randomly (code also would not compile since it is cased randomly) - indenting and braces inconsistent - use of ma

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