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The Battle Over the Sea-Monkey Fortune(nytimes.com)
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by yk 11y ago
I guess the meta-bot would use the NLP interface of the other bots. (You need natural language processing and generation anyhow, so you may as well use it as a bot-2-bot interface.) I think your 4th point is more problematic, when you have
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by yk 11y ago
I gave it this one [1], it claims "I think it's a blurry picture of a boat." which is not entirely bad description but obviously misses the point. [1] http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/lovecraft/images&
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by yk 11y ago
Well a 1 g spacecraft at .2 c has roughly 10^12 J kinetic energy, so it just loses something in the order of 10^-3 of its energy due to collisions with the ISM. (Which should have an order of magnitude less density in the solar neighborhood
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by yk 11y ago
Unfourtunatly I don't have much time at the moment, so just a too brief answer; if you view culture as broad enough to encompass the example, then I agree. I would view the lack of alphabetical sorting as more akin to a lack of technol
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by yk 11y ago
Well, I did expand the claim several times when writing the comment. The thing is, if you look at the world of the 1780ies, then there is only one democracy ( for comparison, France is still an absolute monarchy, Britain has some democratic
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by yk 11y ago
I thought about Japan before WWII, the causality is backwards for the claim in the post. Why Nations Fail is actually somewhere on my to read stack, hopefully I find some time to actually read it.
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by yk 11y ago
On the US and Japan, Japan did industrialize first, prior to WWII, and adopted some aspects of western culture afterwards. Similar the US did become independent first and then largely developed what is nowadays called western culture. Both
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by yk 11y ago
> Most nations today would be richer if they had long ago just submitted wholesale to a rich nation, allowing that rich nation to change their laws, customs, etc., and just do everything their way. But this idea greatly offends national
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by yk 11y ago
The trouble with negative income tax, or at least the simplest models is, that you have to be very careful with the models. I once tried to calculate an admittedly very simple model and the results were a rather absurdly high tax already at
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by yk 11y ago
That's precisely what I said, if you read my comment again. (But since this is the internet, I should have been more explicit.)
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by yk 11y ago
Apparently the Internet Archive got one ( and can speak about it)[0] and a few years ago there was a talk at the 27c3 [1], about getting one. [0] http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/what-its-like-to-get-... [1]
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by yk 11y ago
I think there are basically two plausible scenarios, either they received a NSL or they do no longer believe that a canary is necessary and misjudged the interpretation. (In the second case, they could of course clarify in the comments.)
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Reddit removed NSL canary from 2015 Transparency Report(reddit.com)
941 points by yk 11y ago|284 comments
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by yk 11y ago
The problem is, dumping large volumes of melting water anywhere technically creates an ocean.
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by yk 11y ago
Clicking on two links in your sources led me to https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/ which directly contradicts your statement. ( In fact we have record low sea ice this winter.)
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Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos(graphics.stanford.edu)
3 points by yk 11y ago|0 comments
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by yk 11y ago
I really like the idea, but (to give some feedback) I don't think one can call anything the imdb for x without a best/worst 250. And ratings and explore by category and I want a pony... (Also the site is somewhat unfriendly for No
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by yk 11y ago
Thanks, this just raises further questions. I have a lot to learn before I can call myself a weak player, but it does sound like AlphaGo regressed to the level of an amateur, which needs a explanaition by itself.
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by yk 11y ago
Apparently AlphaGo made two rather stupid moves on the sidelines, judging from the commentary. Which incidentally is the kind of edgecase one would expect machine learning against itself is bad at learning, since there is a possibility that
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by yk 11y ago
The argument is the other way around, if a program halts on all inputs, then there is no possibility to inject arbitrary code. ( There may still be important security vulnerabilities, but there are some limits. Consider a debugger that exec
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by yk 11y ago
Well, if you can somehow inject arbitrary code, then you can inject an infinite loop. So a program will only halt on all inputs if you can not inject an infinite loop.
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by yk 11y ago
So the core of the argument is > The number of lines of code that need to be written for this across the entire industry will be several orders of magnitude more than a scaling solution of changing 1MB blocks to 2MB blocks. This was expl
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by yk 11y ago
I stopped reading after >2. They prefer ‘perfect’ solutions to ‘good enough’. And if no perfect solution exists they seem ok with inaction, even if that puts bitcoin at risk. I mean the kind of 'good enough' thinking got us int
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by yk 11y ago
Not the person you replied to either, but roughly speaking a resonance is mathematically the same as a particle. However the two concepts differ of course philosophically. So the shorter the lifetime of a particle is, the more one is inclin
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by yk 11y ago
What about my computer then, it has a mechanism to 'experience' time, on a level far better than any living being. (The real time clock.) It can process information, which seems quite similar to a nervous system. And it can cry fo
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by yk 11y ago
> Who's ethics? Mine, I am not speaking for some higher power. > Generally, a way not to be an ass, is to avoid taking life unecessarily. And here is the problem with your argument, this art form takes lives necessarily. So the q
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by yk 11y ago
After consideration [1], pretty awesome. [1] A) Individual ants are not protected by ethics in a way that outweighs the creation of art. B) A anthill is probably not significant enough to warrant protection by environmental concerns.
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by yk 11y ago
Came here to mention that. Additionally these findings are easily explained if we assume that salt has some positive and some negative effects occurring in different parts of the body. Say salt has some positive effects for the liver and ne
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by yk 11y ago
Except if you have NoScript (at least on Linux).

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