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931.
by wlievens 16y ago
Yes, because JSLint tells me to do so, among other reasons.
932.
by wlievens 16y ago
Turtles all the way down.
933.
by wlievens 16y ago
The link is dead obvious: subliminal messaging. Not in a tinfoil-hat-CIA way, but in a product placement kind of way. It's dead obvious that that's very valuable (in a $ sense) science!
934.
by wlievens 16y ago
Quantum mechanics is objectively observable, consciousness is not. It's a very different kind of beast, therefore.
935.
by wlievens 16y ago
That's because this is an evolutionary (in a broad sense) method of learning, i.e. it does not involve analytical understanding of what it's trying to optimize, but rather it uses feedback from previous iterations to achieve the objective.
936.
by wlievens 16y ago
If you haven't yet, read up on the concept of the "Uncanny Valley". It's relevant to what you express here.
937.
by wlievens 16y ago
... and ARM's stock raises with another 15 percent. Compare it to 12 months ago and say "ooooh".
938.
by wlievens 16y ago
You can compute a more accurate LOC metric based on the language's grammar, so that the above situations are identically measured. But the issue with using LOC remains, of course.
939.
by wlievens 16y ago
Swing for desktop apps, HTML for webapps, I guess.
940.
by wlievens 16y ago
I still don't understand what you mean by the "second order axiom system" that is somehow the domain only of humans...
941.
by wlievens 16y ago
It's hard to give a more circular argument than that.
942.
by wlievens 16y ago
But that just moves the creativity bit into designing the fitness function, does it not? (I do agree with your sentiment though; just pointing out the obvious hole)
943.
by wlievens 16y ago
Could you elaborate on "... given that humans can prove statements that are true in a system that can't be reducible to a computable set of axioms ..."? Perhaps with an example?
944.
by wlievens 16y ago
I definitely want to play this. Announce it loud on HN if you ever make in progress in building it!
945.
by wlievens 16y ago
Naive suggestion: would it be practical, to experimentally do this on one island? For instance, eradicate all mosquitoes on Madagascar.
946.
by wlievens 16y ago
Actually I've seen recoverable exceptions in C++, at my previous employer (ARM's Belgium office) using all sorts of creepy long jumps. It was ancient, arcane code, but it still worked - and was cross-platform.
947.
by wlievens 16y ago
I fetched a document I wrote and entered several paragraphs, and got a different author each time. What does that say about me (or your algorithm)? Congratulations on the traction though!
948.
by wlievens 16y ago
"Scientist has hypothesized that gravity's origin may be somewhat different from previously considered, with no effect whatsoever on the real world" doesn't make for a very sensatinal headline.
949.
by wlievens 16y ago
It's not a name everyone in the field is happy with, IIRC.
950.
by wlievens 16y ago
The reason pure SQL people and ORM proponents don't always get along is that ORMs make it very easy to write really crappy queries. I'm fully in the ORM camp, but it is true that I can't turn on SQL statement logging without being terribly
951.
by wlievens 16y ago
Would you say that the schemaless storage debate is then similar to static/dynamic typing, with the same kind of tradeoffs?
952.
by wlievens 16y ago
Nice to see that OpenLayers can be put to such bizarre uses too :-)
953.
by wlievens 16y ago
It reminded me mostly of the gibberish from the Cylon hybrids in Battlestar Galatica.
954.
by wlievens 16y ago
The entire video is NSFW if you work in a .NET shop. But then again, those are likely to have YouTube blocked! :-)
955.
by wlievens 16y ago
We got the joke all by ourselves, thanks.
956.
by wlievens 16y ago
Almost anything you encounter is an "ARM-based" chip. I'm not knowledgeable on hardware stuff but I do know that ARM customers are engineers that build on the platform; it's not a plug-and-play business.
957.
by wlievens 16y ago
A4 is ARM based
958.
by wlievens 16y ago
The Apple bid might be real? A simple rumour typically doesn't merit a 25% rise.
959.
ARM stock rises 25%, Apple bid rumours resurface(google.com)
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960.
by wlievens 16y ago
Sure, but then there's the [applicable to anyone] subtitle in this post...

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