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by tawan 5y ago
[Meta] I'd love the read the book with all the stories mentioned in the comments.
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by tawan 5y ago
At the moment yes.
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by tawan 5y ago
Thanks! Yep, I also played Blaston a while and really liked it. We basically replaced shooting with a gun with punching in order to make it even more intense. In addition we also want to build out the social part and create a community of S
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by tawan 5y ago
Shameless plug: if you are into VR fitness but you think the existing solutions are missing multiplayer options, my brother and I are building Space Punch [1] which is a multiplayer fitness app. It is currently released in early access on S
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by tawan 5y ago
Shameless plug: I work out with the VR fitness app that my brother and I are developing. https://sidequestvr.com/app/5820/space-punch
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by tawan 5y ago
I think there are two sides to a service like that: on the one hand it provides more transparency to the individual customer (good), on the other hand, any external or internal malicious actor now has a very convenient tool to gain access
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by tawan 5y ago
I disagree with your conclusion that the odds remain 2/3 even if the host doesn’t know where the prize is. If that were the case, it would mean that if the same scenario is repeated many many times, then in 2/3 of the cases you w
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by tawan 5y ago
And it doesn’t even have to be conscious decisions either. In my case: I was working for two clients as a freelancer but mid projects it clicked with an exchange student who was about to head back to her home country in two weeks. But it re
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by tawan 5y ago
> The viewers who watched [Gangnam Style] earned nothing, even though many of them contributed and were critical to the video's ultimate success. The author is wrong here, even though it rings true. Early viewers who shared a popula
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by tawan 5y ago
I think you misinterpreted my comment (probably my bad, Im not an English native). What I meant is: It is important to make sure that the profits of stocks sold need to be taxed properly, and only the after tax amount that’s left over can b
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by tawan 5y ago
Lot of people in this thread are arguing that wealthy people can spend money on what ever they want. I think it’s important to distinguish whether the money they spend on personal joy rides has been taxed as private income or written off as
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by tawan 6y ago
The disconnect in this conversation between employer and employee happens for these reasons: In reality companies had to pay a premium in order to demand that an employee lives in certain geographic area so that they show up every day in a
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by tawan 9y ago
Yep,I second that. I'm getting redirected to google.
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by tawan 10y ago
I think this line of jokes has some potential, but I
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by tawan 11y ago
Given a set of tasks T, that have to be done, and the tasks are interdependent. Sort T by difficulty to complete. Complete one task after the other starting with the hardest. This approach goes against the often spread advice that you shoul
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by tawan 12y ago
I don't know for sure of course, I'm just extrapolating. What we know is that a lot of technical innovation is driven by economical motives. So I presume that there will be engineers who will implement AGI applications with a util
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by tawan 12y ago
AI will not kill all of us, in the beginning. Surely, it will form short term alliances with humans just to disguise itself as human. Because it knows, that with a human face, it can exert more power in this world right now. And there will
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by tawan 12y ago
Probably at the age of ten, the moment when I got to understand the concept of a loop, be it a while or a for loop, I started to realize the endless possibilities one can do with coding. 20 years later, with more sophisticated tools in the
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by tawan 12y ago
I'm impressed but skeptic, too. Laypeople might not get an accurate impression on what is possible. Considering the image with the guy in a black shirt playing guitar. What if it was a picture of a naked man standing next to a black sh
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by tawan 12y ago
Actually I'm thinking of testing future candidates with a "dumb" response like this, just to see if the candidate clarifies the situation and is helpful, or if we are dealing with someone who is just rolling their eyes all da
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by tawan 12y ago
For me, it boils down to two questions: 1) Given, that let's say only 20% of the population does real work (doctors, teachers etc..), why should they do their work, if everybody else is enjoying spare-time all the time? And if you prop
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by tawan 12y ago
I see a darker future ahead: From a totally cynical but rational and economic perspective I think human labour is cheaper than any machine workforce for many tasks. We reproduce and maintain ourselves, we just need some water and food. We a
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by tawan 12y ago
I started to learn French a year ago and I made a lot of progress. There are just a few bugs left to fix in my own vocabulary management tool, and then I'm ready to learn some words, systematically well tracked and documented. ;)
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by tawan 12y ago
I have this strategy to rearrange the order when I ask someone to play. For example I'd say "Hey, to settle our discussion, let's play scissor rock paper!" While pronouncing a little bit the last option. My opponent st
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by tawan 13y ago
Some insider, the next snowden, should leak the database to the internet. When crying children run to their parents, saying that some posted nude pictures of them, I think, this would an effective wake up call.
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by tawan 13y ago
IMO Yes and I was expecting the article will point that out just by reading the title. I was in Tanzania a few years ago as a tourist and I came across many young westerners doing all kind of things like HIV prevention. Sometimes I thought
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by tawan 13y ago
To question what consciousness is and how we define it is a good starting point. And because there is so much uncertainty and no overall consensus makes it seem to be very hard. Somehow I fear the only satisfying implementation of AGI has t
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by tawan 13y ago
I live in Vienna too and one thing I like in particular is that despite I live in a metropole with its 2 million inhabitants, I can jump on my bike in the summer, ride for twenty minutes to Donau, Vienna's river, and go for a swim, whi
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by tawan 13y ago
There are tons of potentially good candidates you would miss by rejecting per default when there is no public code to see. Just look into the comments here. The group I want to point out. Very experienced programmers who have been in the bu