yes_man

11 ms·

91.
by yes_man 8y ago
> The result of: (num_person-hours_saved_by_SO * num_of_developers_in_world * dev_hourly_rate) must be staggering. I'm sure companies around the world can point to SO for a non-trivial percentage of bottom line revenue. There's
92.
by yes_man 8y ago
What happens to Wikipedia every time the end of their runway is approaching? At least we can hope for a similar solution to appear for messaging.
93.
by yes_man 8y ago
Telegram's end goal is to create value for shareholders. Eventually they will profit from user privacy violations. Not to parrot other comments, but we should all use Signal. Its' existence isn't based on investment dollars t
94.
by yes_man 8y ago
The artistic value of AI generated art (to me at least) will come from the obsolence of human creativity and the strong feeling of void associated with the far-future idea that algorithms and processing power are starting to surpass our spe
95.
by yes_man 8y ago
> All machine learning algorithms can be implemented on a Turing machine, so they all are subject to the halting problem. Assumption that all learning algorithms can be implemented on a Turing machine cannot hold true, since there are ma
96.
by yes_man 8y ago
Reminded me of this: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/addis-ababa-china-cons...
97.
by yes_man 8y ago
Not to be pedantic but a person can in return also revoke their obligation to abide by these rules (like paying for food at the cashier or board a train without a ticket) at any time. So essentially there always exists a choice to not play
98.
by yes_man 8y ago
Out of curiosity, if someone proved P to not equal NP, what kind of scope and effect would it bring to the world outside academia? P == NP would obviously be a world-transforming proof
99.
by yes_man 8y ago
Maybe the human (or generally any conscious nervous system) existence is such an anxious experience that finally realizing it was all a trip that is ending is such a giant relief that the imminent death feels like a warm home? Not to sound