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by technoguyrob 18y ago
That's a good point, but I think the idea of "Singulitarians" (for lack of a better term) is that your iPhone or other new gadget won't be invented in years, months or weeks, but hours or minutes. A human brain simply can't keep up. Of cour
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Well, I don't think anyone can argue that if we create an AI smarter in nearly every way than any given human, several or a large amount of those AIs could create an even smarter AI, and so forth recursively. The only question is if we inde
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Scientists discover monkeys that fish(aol.com.au)
1 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|1 comments
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
This is a somewhat obstinate and perhaps nonconsequential point, but as a public service announcement, could anyone who reads this please do their best to assure the title of their story is grammatical and spell-checked? If the 37signals ar
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I disagree. Read my post again, I added two paragraphs. It's very useful behavior, in fact (imho). It preserves the nature of the community quite effectively (albeit at the expensive of causing temporary upset).
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
It is not ridiculous, since people aren't downmodding to express a difference of opinion about what the person said. They are downmodding to assert they do not want to hear any political opinion on Hacker News, because--as has been said--th
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Technically, you still don't regret it even if you aren't. ;-)
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Not to mention, there are a lot of people who don't care about the medium, but rather the price (e.g., college students). I know if an e-book was priced $8 versus the $10 paper version, I'd go with the $8 for pretty much any book. It wouldn
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I also wonder about the physics -> CS part. What about the quantum mechanical nature of the electromagnetic forces governing electronic components used to build computers, like transistors? That would really make this complete.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Well, if someone claims to have a goat, they probably have all three of those, or can at least make them. ;-)
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Could this mean an open-source alternative to Loopt? I suppose not, since Loopt is much more exact. Can Google only give a rough circle of several hundred feet, or a quite precise location?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Thanks, that's exactly the kind of comments I was looking for. That was exactly what I thought in my head, but it came out very distorted and ugly on paper. I'll update the solution later. Do you want credit?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I use Lypha for my PHP/Perl hosting. They have the most featured, spaceous, and bandwidth-plenty service I've ever seen for a price like $4/month, and I haven't seen a downtime in months (not to mention the support is great). Get Dreamhost
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Cool, you're from the University of Chicago. What (math) field was your thesis in?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Doesn't have as many features, but... http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
You can still read through my solutions and point out all my errors if you like, though. ;) I've already had a couple classes, but I've never felt intimately comfortable with it. With several programming languages, I don't even need the occ
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
That'd be great! I'm planning on spending a few weeks full-time on this (8 hours a day, or more if I can handle it). That should be a minimum of one section a day, but hopefully more, even a whole chapter on some days. It doesn't matter how
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I assume you meant to reply to me. Thanks, I'll set the robots file appropriately. And I'm posting it for the same reason that guy posted his poker bot earlier. If you're determined enough, you can always cheat and that won't change whether
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I'm soon starting my trek through every problem in the algebra text that Harvard's PhD prelim recommends for study: Abstract Algebra by Dummit and Foote http://www.amazon.com/Abstract-Algebra-David-S-Dummit/dp/047... I've started the firs
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
(don't mod me up -- this is the full article if you hate NYT login nagging) This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix By NOAM COHEN FOR a certain subset of Internet users, “Sudo make me a sandwich” may as well be “Take my wife ... please.”
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
No, "success" meaning its use is very widespread.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Also, can you give us your thoughts on the current state of the path to the singularity?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
What about the fourth and fifth AI box experiments? I know those failed, but do you feel they could have succeeded? Were you ever close?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Yes, he was the AI in the experiment.
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Ask Eliezer Yudkowsky: How did you convince the Gatekeeper to release the potentially genocidal AI?
60 points by technoguyrob 18y ago|52 comments
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
I am at the airport right now and will be boarding a flight in 40 minutes. Thank you!
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
To me, it seems PHP is the Windows of web languages. In many respects it "sucks", can be clunky, and has little to no elegance from a formal perspective, but it's everywhere and everyone knows how to use it. Thence lies its success. (howeve
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
How did you format the form you filled in with adamsnames? I've sent an email to their "robot", but haven't gotten a reply yet. Can you show me how your registration email looked like?
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
Wowsers, that's a good point. I didn't know he's on YC, that's great.
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by technoguyrob 18y ago
You have the same last name as Mohinder Suresh! Awesome! :)

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