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John Nash concluded eventually that his hallucinations were part of a conversation with himself.
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There's a book from 2002 called "The Silicon Valley of Dreams" that seems never to have been mentioned on HN. https://nyupress.org/books/9780814767092/ It's about the environmental conditions a
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The idea of "making good" right from the start is the thoroughness part. Whatever task the apprentice is set, they think of it as part of their career path and do it absolutely to the best of their ability. That's the idea, a
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The comet-like image near the top of the page is actually a cropped and rotated image of a painting by Hilma af Klint, who is a remarkable early abstract artist. I'm not personally outraged by the casual manipulation and instrumentalis
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If what you are doing is not innovative, it's not (good) design. It might be valuable but it's something else. The comments here that disagree with Rams' first rule seem to me to be putting the cart before the horse and assum
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I think we can save Rams' list by stipulating the following: design is an activity. If you don't need to innovate, you don't need design, you should be following prescribed/conventional practices. The final rule underlin
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I'm not sure how extreme a claim you are making. What you wrote could also be interpreted as asserting that the status quo (macho, competitive, whatever) should be preserved because of the contribution made by guys who thrive on that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time
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Here is the above text: I don't know if they did this in Germany, but in our elementary schools in America, if we did something particularly heinous, they had a special way of threatening you. They would say: "This is going on you
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> (Yes, some people can pursue and sustain excellence without the heat of competition. But not everyone is like that.) Sounds like an argument for pluralism, not for "one size fits all".
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There's another aspect, which is that some people find his aggressively dismissive style personally abusive and distressing. I don't know enough to validate this perspective, but it's something for all of us to consider: htt
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Consider, though, the Haskell functions "curry" and "uncurry" which transform functions between these two styles. They are different types, so I don't see how it is a misrepresentation.
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The article says "Most functional programming languages with automatic currying have syntax where there is no difference between add(1, 2) and add(1)(2)" and goes on to talk about unidiomatic syntax. In Haskell, the two options ar
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Since the 1960s, conceptual art has been an uncontroversial thing. An idea _can_ be art. A gesture that leaves no perceptible trace can be art. "A great artist can make art by simply casting a glance." – Robert Smithson. The reali
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That's ridiculous. Every artist has to make choices -- they can't pursue every avenue of creative development. Not everyone brings all their potentials to fruition. Opportunity costs. To say "unless you have already done x, y
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Kelvin invented the concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-predicting_machine
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It seems like it should be similar in capability to a wavelet-based approach to e.g. image inpainting. In other words the neural network architecture essentially establishes a basis of features onto which the image is projected. Gabor wavel
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Truly, an occasion for this koan: Sussman attains enlightenment In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net t
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According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Graham_Kerr , it was mostly Norman Wilkinson's personal success in promoting his ideas that caused the concept to be pursued. (John Graham Kerr, the subject of that W
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Important to note that this example is supposed to be artistic, not actually effective as dazzle/concealment. It is a creative design, not a functional one. https://www.1418now.org.uk/dazzle/
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Presumably you mean "second party", because the concept here is that there is no middleman. EDIT: to clarify, I'm sure there are cryptographic solutions which prevent an escrow agent from doing anything beyond releasing the f
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I'd guess that approximately zero Nobel-winning economists are keen on the idea of proof-of-work replacing trust. That is the ultimate issue here. For the important transactions you mention, presumably an escrow service is needed. This
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I'm a mental health service user who has experienced psychosis and multi-week hospitalisation. I know what I'm talking about when I express hope for a more objective and -- ideally -- by today's standards seemingly omniscient
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This seems like a case where you have downgraded the meaning of "AI" to match its current commercial connotations. A relationship with an AGI >= a relationship with a human, at least in intellectual terms. The big hope, that AF
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You presumably don't mean "99% of democrats are not pure and truthful." Did you mean that apart from 1% bad apples, they are? Because what you wrote condemns 99% of them. Difference between "not everyone is pure" a
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Presumably by implementing only the simpler "downwards" funargs: the ability to pass functions into a function scope but never return them.
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See also a story about testing the minimum airspeed on a single engine, from the book "Contrails over the Mojave": https://books.google.ie/books?id=NTU9BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT114&lpg=P...
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0.63 approximately equals 2/pi Not too surprising considering what we know about Buffon's needle.
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The building (part of the Ruta-N complex) was designed by http://alejandroecheverri-valencia.co It was the first LEED Gold-certified public building in Columbia (in 2016) so it's cutting edge rather than typical. It's
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The quotation doesn't reflect my opinions, but I think you are taking an overly simplistic "people are driven by money" line. It's not unusual to encounter this kind of view expressed on HN, and it's disturbing beca

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