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by twirlip 7y ago
Biased algorithms is a thing. We are often blind to that realization because we are often blind to our own biases.
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by twirlip 7y ago
Hear, hear. It starts with the birthing of a new AI, the proceeds to its education, its migration into a physical form, its migration into space, the migration into encoded form based on the geometry of a biological organism -- and all of t
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by twirlip 7y ago
Excavations at Göbekli Tepe indicate that religion may have predated agriculture, perhaps dating back to the end of the Pleistocene. If a neurological basis for religion exists, such structures would hint at an evolutionary selection which
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by twirlip 7y ago
Active malice is worse.
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by twirlip 8y ago
I remember a hyperbolic readme or other such txt file for Postgres in the far-away long-ago time when everyone was on Slashdot. The author had written one of the most enthusiastic lovenotes to software I'd ever read, and that includes
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by twirlip 8y ago
I find this shameful. Does anyone have an idea of what I, as a non-Pennsylvanian, may do?
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by twirlip 8y ago
Indeed, I try to avoid such good-intentioned bikeshedding by providing anecdotal solutions and listing tools I found helpful. That way, someone with a similar issue may find something useful or provide better advice to me.
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by twirlip 8y ago
And that doesn't include self-medication with alcohol or marijuana and so forth.
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by twirlip 8y ago
The other part of the allusion to Richard Brautigan's poem (emphasis mine): "I like to think (it has to be!) of a cybernetic ecology where we are free of our labors and joined back to nature, returned to our mammal brothers and si
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by twirlip 8y ago
I don't think the marketplace makes a distinction between "good" and "bad" CEOs with regards to pay, compensation, and rewards. Stock valuations are speculative and a declaration of faith that you can sell the stock
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by twirlip 8y ago
I rarely laugh if I'm alone, despite how humorous or amusing I find what I'm listening or watching or reading. However, I will readily laugh in a crowd (even if I'm the only one laughing). I go to theatre, improv shows, comed
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by twirlip 10y ago
I believe Janmitzer would have loved playing with Mathematica
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by twirlip 10y ago
Of all of Larry Niven's SF, perhaps the most likely future is his Svetz stories. That is to say an overpopulated, polluted world with a global and imperial bureacracy, bereft of any life save man and yeast.
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by twirlip 11y ago
The organization of knowledge is an old problem. Trees and indices are very handy ways to locate books, er, files. There were three things that killed gopher: multimedia, licensing, and search. Inline images really set a webpage apart from
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by twirlip 11y ago
I read from screens all day: phone, tablet, desktop. I just finished reading The Martian on my phone. The only time I find I absolutely must have text on paper is when I'm memorizing lines from a script for a play. I've even tried
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by twirlip 12y ago
Oh, and 'Exhalation' is a perfect little gem of a story. It's about entropy, the thrill of discovery and understanding and, er, philosophical endings.
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by twirlip 12y ago
For years now, I purchase used paperback copies of Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon The Deep. I give them out to whomever asks me what he or she should read in science fiction. I think it's a perfect blend of old and new tropes and a ro
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by twirlip 12y ago
Oh, I don't know that at all. Hacking humans -- our perceptions, our behaviors -- is interesting. While pretending to be kind to increase one's attractiveness is deplorable, there is a silver lining in that the world could use mor
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by twirlip 12y ago
It is very simple: One sees clearly only with the heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. ("Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.") The Little Prince by A
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by twirlip 12y ago
See, telling Congress that something is "bribery" and expecting Congress to think that's something bad is just wishful thinking on TBL's part, bless his heart.