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by xamuel 8y ago
You say that like no-one would show up to a Paul McCartney concert if Beatles songs were public domain. In actuality, the examples you listed are especially painful because we could be enjoying incredible derivative works based on their m
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by xamuel 8y ago
The dad who wields a pencil is paid for his art, and he can use that money to buy a house.
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by xamuel 8y ago
>You can do in C++ everything you can do in C. By that logic, we should all use "omniglot", one language in which all the top 100 languages are first-class supported. What could possibly go wrong :D
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by xamuel 8y ago
C is relatively simple, C++ is so complex practically no-one understands all of it. Many C++ features are "OOP kool-aid" and do more harm than good (if people would just realize you can pass around pointers to C struct's, whi
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by xamuel 8y ago
C is a better alternative to C++ for many applications. If it weren't, it wouldn't still be so widely used.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Don't know why people are downvoting you. I did my postdoc at a biomedical research institute at a prestigious university, and you're 100% right. The work I was doing was related to using ontologies to label anatomical parts. Forg
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by xamuel 8y ago
>Isn't the military pretty limited in how much they can pay? The AI researchers wouldn't literally be soldiers. They'd be contractors, side-stepping the pay limitations. That said, military grunts would be perfect for the
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by xamuel 8y ago
There is a proper mechanism for revising the constitution: constitutional amendment. If you want to be angry at someone for what the constitution says, then be angry at the legislators who have neglected their duty to update it.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Some pets are arguably "home entertainment robots" (gerbils, hamsters, goldfish... cats, if you ignore their mouse-chasing benefits)
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by xamuel 8y ago
Terms like "practically infinite" are meaningless (my finger is practically infinite from an atomic perspective). We don't strictly "know" hardly anything about our universe, rather we have certain models which make
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by xamuel 8y ago
Beneath the marketing, ML is a souped-up version of "draw a line through these points". Great for image recognition etc. But the line/curve/manifold won't just suddenly "wake up" once we add enough points.
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by xamuel 8y ago
We're getting really good at climbing trees. We've got guys who can climb even the tallest trees, no problem. Any day now, we're gonna finally climb to the moon.
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But the so-called 'genuinely profound sentences' are themselves subjective. In the abstract, the 'profound' example they give is: "The person who never made a mistake never tried something new". But this is its
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by xamuel 8y ago
Not only do outsiders need endorsement, even if you get one, the arxiv is curated. I don't know why people assume it's just totally wide open like any random person can publish anything to it? It would be inundated with junk! If y
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by xamuel 8y ago
>anything that gets submitted will by read by at least 3 or 4 reviewers Note to self: open a lucrative business submitting bulk spam to CS conferences! (Just kidding)
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by xamuel 8y ago
I've had papers greatly improved by peer review. Maybe mathematics is an outlier. All my best papers were significantly informed by reviewers. I've had cases where my initial thought was "this reviewer is an idiot!!!" Wh
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by xamuel 8y ago
Not OP, but I'm a former academic still doing research, and I appreciate peer review as gatekeeper. When I was younger, I wrote a lot of garbage on a blog that I wish had been better filtered. Worst case, if I publish a paper and it tu
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by xamuel 8y ago
Hi, not sure if you're still reading this, but I thought some more about your question. It makes me realize, computers-in-the-simulation aren't really important in my argument. What really matters is that the people in the simulat
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by xamuel 8y ago
>a fable but with human characters There's a word for that: parable.
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Things that the players think are computers. Sorry for such a vague answer, but here's an example. Suppose some people live in a Minecraft server, unaware there's anything else. Within the game, they build some computers (search f
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by xamuel 8y ago
True. The paper doesn't rule out such a simulation. (Unless maybe the experiment could be run with memory-bits so hyper-sensitive that a single germanium atom could cause a macroscale bit-flip? Just kidding)
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by xamuel 8y ago
Imagine if you were to program a video game in which players could interact with in-game computers, which were implemented as genuine full-feature emulations of working computers. It seems plausible that a memory-bit in one of the in-game c
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by xamuel 8y ago
Assuming external-soft-error-proneness and x-x and uni-directionality, we can think of a "space" of possible simulations we might live in, thought of as quadrant 1 of an x-y plane where x represents "how many seconds pass in
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by xamuel 8y ago
Author here. The type of simulation ruled out is "external-soft-error-prone simulation with (two other properties)". If the simulator uses ECC RAM, then the simulation is not external-soft-error-prone. You might say: "But sur
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by xamuel 8y ago
It's the same thing. "A man, a plan, (6MB worth of other junk)-- Panama!" It's questionable what that other junk has to do with Panama. But grammatically, the structure is the same.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Think of it like an ad slogan. "A man, a plan, a canal-- [you should book a trip to] Panama[, a country whose history is summed up by this witty list of things]!" What I'd like to see is a version where instead of optimizing
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by xamuel 8y ago
Can you elaborate what you mean when you say, "experts of citations"?
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by xamuel 8y ago
How I learned ES6: I have a 1 hour commute each way. When I was learning ES6, I spent roughly half my commute creating Anki cards and half my commute studying those cards. I created cards by going through this excellent free online book (I
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by xamuel 8y ago
Sure, but teamwork isn't everything. Or studios would hire cheap communications grads and there'd be no need for CS programs.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Anki is a shortcut to muscle memory. Learning-by-doing is great, but inefficient. And when you stop, you forget. Anki cards space themselves out based on your responses, so there's almost no cost to maintain memory. Part of how I got t

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