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by xxxyy 11y ago
I find his thoughts about the potential limits of humanity provocative and really clever. These three parts made great impression on me: > And in fact, you could argue that the reason why we’ve generated computational devices is conscio
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by xxxyy 11y ago
I think the point is that when the AI takes over the control of the world it does not have to be through a technological singularity, with Roko's Basilisk and all the drama. It could as well be through generations of people progressive
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Yes, you are right, it is much simpler when you have just a single number to "optimize" across population. And the correlations are strong indeed. But if you want to explain more variance, you need to reach for better tools. We ar
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by xxxyy 11y ago
I do not want one-pixel gifs, because the only use of such techniques is exploiting the HTTP "referer" field.
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Not likely, given that you are allowed to edit comments.
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by xxxyy 11y ago
I'm from east Europe, so the problem could not concern me as it has been written, as nobody here really flashes their money around like a clown. But I remember the feeling of being excluded as a student not coming from a top notch high
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Well, seems that you are right. I stand corrected.
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by xxxyy 11y ago
To be precise, Alice quits programming because modern languages lack proper concurrency specification, and thus lack actual "Math" in this area. I can sympathize with that.
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by xxxyy 11y ago
This is so cool. But, here is a question: why? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVd-rYIqSy8 Because we can.
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Fabrice Bellard also did some research on pi digits calculations. Because of that, in 2009 he held a record for the longest pi expansion ever calculated. http://bellard.org/pi/
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Ebola is a very "clever" virus with its interferon-blocking properties. But still, out of the infections we still cannot vaccinate against, influenza has been the single most deadly one in the past, and sexually transmitted diseas
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Well, considering: the extreme working hours (that can in extreme cases result in death, or a psychiatric disease), high risk of exposure to drugs, the fact that the starting banking positions do not pay that much money, the fact that you o
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by xxxyy 11y ago
I started some basic calculations in Google to find out what do you mean. So I converted 6.5 TeV to about 1 microjoule, then typed '1.21 GW / 1 uJ' to find out the beam intensity in particles/second, and realized that th
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Well, I will argue with the examples you have provided. As to maintaining a blog, take a look at Joel on Software's "Advice for Computer Science College Students"[1], section "Learn how to write before graduating."
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by xxxyy 11y ago
Exactly. You do not need to understand what does NP-hardness mean to be an excellent developer. Understanding complexity, computability and modern logics is pretty satisfying, I'm personally in love the Godel's incompleteness theo
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Interviews are incomparably easier than good programming competitions.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I meant a distribution with "discrete" probability, i.e. a distribution where the probabilities of singletons are all equal and nonzero, so that a simple Bayesian argument could possibly be extended. My bad for not being precise e
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by xxxyy 12y ago
It still does hold up, but becomes more complicated. In general, there is no uniform distribution over any infinite set. We might: a) think about a pipe spitting out objects that have two possible features - being a raven and being black, o
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by xxxyy 12y ago
That would be only delaying the issue, as QE is a program of buying bonds with imaginary money, not giving out the imaginary money for free. Bonds have maturity dates. http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013
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by xxxyy 12y ago
The title seems to be misleading. Nowhere in the article does the author explicitly state that salts should not be used, because well, they should be used. His point was that salts are not enough, you need to couple them with a possibly slo
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by xxxyy 12y ago
No, of course not by censorship. Through: fines for monopolist practices (happened to Microsoft), general smear campaign (happens to Amazon in Germany over working conditions), poking with a stick (the "right to be forgotten"), or
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Similar argument can be applied to China. This is precisely why Zuckerberg is learning Mandarin and networking there.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
I participated in a blind test between Google, Bing and Yahoo in my Information Retrieval class at a university, back in 2013. The results were: 1) Google, 2) Bing, 3) Yahoo - for every standard IR metric we thought of, which included NDCG@
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by xxxyy 12y ago
It is not a bug in the JVM, it is an obscure bug in the JNI-ed code. As to why this happens - perhaps read the blog post?
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by xxxyy 12y ago
This is a very sound approach. The main benefit is that all JVM languages can utilize optimizations if the optimizations are in the JVM, thus logic duplication is reduced. Also, please note that both Clang and GCC use the same approach, exc
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by xxxyy 12y ago
This is not a Java bug.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
The author has not written the bad code. From what I understand he was just debugging it. >The dashboard was written in Java, and the source was available (under a 3-clause BSD license), so I dove in, (...) Also, nowhere in the post he s
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Pretty much so. It is one of the easiest to learn, almost everybody gets at least the basics, the codebase is huge, and it works on all platforms, err.. continents, modulo tiny accent issues.
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by xxxyy 12y ago
My point was that for some reason women do not choose technology. And that hiring (i.e. the demand on the jobs market) is not the issue, the intent to work (the supply) is. And my second point was that women are perfectly capable of doing a
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by xxxyy 12y ago
Under-representation of females in the IT industry is not a matter of hiring. Look at technical faculties all over the world and check their gender ratios. Or go to a gender-equalized party and start talking about technology, see what happe

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