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by terryf 10y ago
This is one of the reasons for telling everyone: if you are in a foreign country, holding a gun and shooting at someone, then please just stop. If you are forced to not stop by your commanding officer, then miss and shoot as little as possi
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by terryf 10y ago
Thank you for the thorough explanation! I see your point with abstract expressions, but the connection I'm failing to make is - if they are completely abstract, then how can the equation be related to the physical world? In essence, th
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by terryf 10y ago
While this might not be the OP's point, but for me the main problem are the one-character variable names. Generally computer code that just operates on cryptic one-letter variable names, is considered bad code. Yet equations almost alw
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by terryf 10y ago
IANAL, but it seems to me that there are three parties in the case here: A - the investors B - DAO creators C - person who executed the contract and took the money clearly, A lost money and do have a case against B for negligence or various
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by terryf 10y ago
Of course, movies can be beautiful and even enjoyable because of their slowness sometimes - but that is completely different from the online experience, where everything moves extremely fast and there is always an overload of information, s
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by terryf 10y ago
I guess maybe I'm too old to understand (38) but to me, reading some text is simply way faster than watching someone read that text in a video... but they are saying the exact opposite. This is completely baffling to me.
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by terryf 10y ago
It's called an example. Please do take it very seriously.
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by terryf 10y ago
Ok, but then let me pay for it. Because I can not pay for it a lot of the time. Instead of the blocked screen show me "enter credit card for $.99 and watch all you want" that would be hard to argue with. Seriously, dragging th
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by terryf 10y ago
Clearly the article is just a thinly veiled advertisement, but leaving that aside: Apparently the author hasn't really read the agile manifesto, because nowhere does it talk about scrum or sprints or xp or any of those things. The agil
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by terryf 10y ago
> ... and it varies a lot by personality ... But that is the point of the sentence. A process does not care about individual variation. What the manifesto is saying is exactly what you are saying.
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by terryf 10y ago
I'd feel pretty good. In fact the official name for my company is CodeMonkey :) Really, people take this stuff waaay too seriously. I understand that calling it "CuntBrick 5000" would be offensive and we shouldn't do tha
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by terryf 10y ago
ha! This is exactly the kind of out-of-the box thinking that jet cycling needs!
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by terryf 10y ago
Why though? In many areas of life, people for example work themselves to death voluntarily. Why is there not a sport where there are really no limits at all?
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by terryf 10y ago
That would probably be the first sporting event I'd watch! Imagine a race with three legged cyclists! That would be awesome!
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by terryf 11y ago
So, you are agains people having some savings and less junk that does not make them happier? You do realise that much of advertising is geared towards getting you to do that impulse purchase that you later regret? There are studies showing
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by terryf 11y ago
It sounds simple, but this algorithm will very quickly break both your ac and heating units. You want a PID controller in there (in some cases you might get away with just PI, but that needs analysis of the specific case) Ideally of course
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by terryf 11y ago
So, apparently some guys managed to build a system where it is very easy to re-use small parts of other people's code and now the author is complaining that "too much code re-use is happening" ? I'm fairly old, so I reme
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by terryf 11y ago
Fair enough, if there is ever a quantum entaglement (or other type of course) based solution to go, then I will have been proven wrong. We'll see, but I'm not feeling very worried ;)
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by terryf 11y ago
> No we aren't. But games of complete information that ARE computable, such as chess and GO can be removed from discussion. There is no question that these games of complete information are "solvable" with or without AI, s
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by terryf 11y ago
Given that we are living in what is probably the most peaceful time since dawn of man your statement doesn't really make that much sense regarding the war part. As for bickering and blaming others, sure it is annoying but somehow it
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by terryf 11y ago
Yep, I already cancelled, it seems the one I was using (smartflix) won't be back soon.
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by terryf 11y ago
You'd think so, but unfortunately I can't, again, for some, I can, yes, but the selection is vastly reduced. Essentially, if you search for movie dvds on amazon and ship them to an US address with a US credit card, then the select
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by terryf 11y ago
I realise that they're probably just covering their asses, but it really sucks to live in a small country that none of the distributors care about. The Estonian netflix catalogue is on the order of 500? titles... ridiculous compared to
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by terryf 11y ago
Sure, but that has already happened. It is ridiculously easy to get almost any newspaper to print a commercial article and already now it is hard to tell the difference between for-pay articles and genuine ones. If you have a instagram acco
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by terryf 11y ago
I find it interesting that for most people the problem with ads is the tracking part. For me it's the ads themselves - I don't like seeing them, because I don't really want to buy stuff and think that a large part of the firs
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by terryf 11y ago
I'd say yes. It certainly is hard and I spent the first few months wrestling with the syntax, but when you figure out all the puzzle pieces and they come together, then it suddenly turns very beautiful and terse. The terseness is proba
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by terryf 11y ago
right, yes, but my question was meant to be a bit more general - this and various other results have shown that it is possible to train a deep net to do a specific task very successfully - my question was if it's possible to train it t
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by terryf 11y ago
Extremely interesting news and kind of sad as a human being :) I don't really know that much about AI, but hopefully some experts can tell me - how different are the networks that play go vs chess for example? Or recognise images vs pl
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by terryf 11y ago
Sure, it's hard, but again - I don't care. I can use an ad blocker, why should I not do it? (it is very interesting how almost everyone in this thread assumes I'm young - I wouldn't count almost 40 as very young :) )
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by terryf 11y ago
Good for you - you shouldn't. I don't know you and will probably never meet you. You can't worry about everyone and everything :)

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