wintorez

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by wintorez 6y ago
My guess, which reads more like sci-fi than anything is, the strong AI will emerge as a side-effect of IoT communicating with each other. Once the number of connected things hits a critical mass (I'm talking about billions), it will ha
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by wintorez 6y ago
See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrULRXlAlMU
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by wintorez 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. A personal anecdote; I used to think about what would be my legacy as software developer? Anything that I write would be obsolete in few years. Nothing I wrote back then remained working. This thought was depress
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by wintorez 6y ago
I've come to the conclusion that code is temporary, and is meant to be discarded after a while. Hardware change, requirements change, people change. The things that are permanent are data and methods. That's why I think as long as
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by wintorez 6y ago
I have a hunch that we will discover (not invent) the strong AI not in Neural Networks, but in Swarm logic. Infinitely complex systems can emerge from simple units multiplied exponentially. I still can't stop being amazed by crazy thin
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by wintorez 6y ago
Clicked on the link looking for the swimming pool photo: https://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/001e551p It's fascinating that they thought about a swimming pool in a submarine, and also a galley and toilet
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by wintorez 6y ago
If it was up to me, I would create a race where the only limits were: 1) Combustion or electric engines only, no jets or rocket boosters 2) Should fit within a box of certain height-width-depth 3) No human drivers, only remote or AI 4) No
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by wintorez 6y ago
Maybe if we remove drivers altogether, things start to get interesting. What I want is a race were all the cars don’t look identical.
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by wintorez 6y ago
I really wished there was a version of F1 with less mechanical and technical regulation to see what human ingenuity could achieve.
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by wintorez 6y ago
I would like to argue that Excel (i.e. spreadsheets) are a form of programming language; albeit in tabular format. Each cell is a variable, some cells are constants, some cells are computed, cells can be conditional, etc. A programming lang
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by wintorez 6y ago
Spreadsheet and word processor were THE killer apps of microcomputers. As long as humanity uses letters and numbers, we will have spreadsheet and word processor in some shape and form.
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by wintorez 6y ago
Fair points, but web today is not what web was intended for. It was supposed to be a document delivery network, but it became an application development platform. Why? Because we need a sandboxed, distributed application delivery platform,
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by wintorez 6y ago
In almost everything, advancement comes from competition, and competition comes from diversity. Without diversity, things will become stale. Between the fall of Netscape and rise of Firefox; Internet Explorer reigned the Browsers, and to be
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by wintorez 6y ago
This was the only hame that as soon as I finished it, I started again. It starts as a game, but then it becomes a sci-fi story about AI and Von Neumann probes. Highly recommended. Also: http://skynetsimulator.com/
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by wintorez 6y ago
Good!
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by wintorez 6y ago
It’s actually the longest thing you will ever experience.
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by wintorez 6y ago
- Realistic 3D rendering: start with Ray-Tracing. It's fun! - Quines: those are dark magic, but not very useful. - Deep learning: A fancy word for multi-layerd neural network. Interesting concept, but nothing scary. - Production-qualit
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by wintorez 6y ago
Ah Vim, one of the root causes of my imposter syndrome. (The others are CSS Grid, and Kubernetes)
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by wintorez 6y ago
Ah, this reminds me of Turbo Pascal days :)
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by wintorez 6y ago
My solution is to put my eggs in different baskets as much as possible. Using Chrome on iPhone, backups on Dropbox, etc. Although to be fair, not a lot of baskets has remained these days.
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by wintorez 6y ago
Search, Maps, Drive, YouTube
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by wintorez 6y ago
That is true for most people on the internet. So, it should be fine.
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by wintorez 6y ago
I tried. I failed. I returned. Google is like Gravity. It would be awesome to escape it, but it’s expensive, impractical, and sooner or later, you will be back where you where. :(
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by wintorez 6y ago
Telegram has a feature that I really like. It allows you to delete your messages from other people devices as well.
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by wintorez 6y ago
Isn't the sale of nitrates highly regulated in most countries?
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by wintorez 6y ago
The large explosion looked Thermobaric to me, which is not surprising since there were storing fuel there as well. I have a hunch that the red material could be some kind of grains, or construction material stored there as well.
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by wintorez 6y ago
What was that red material?
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by wintorez 6y ago
I think we need to start differentiating between webpage speeds and web application speeds. Namely, a webpage would work if I disable the JavaScript in my browser, but a web application would not. By this definition, web page speeds has imp
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by wintorez 6y ago
We can't possibly have enough data, and even enough time since the start of the pandemic to come to this conclusion. To know if something is seasonal, we must first let a couple of years pass and measure and compare the numbers with pr
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by wintorez 6y ago
Vietnam and Turkey are actually very nice.

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