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Ask HN: What music are you listening to lately?
4 points by zer0gravity 10y ago|4 comments
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
I'm currently watching George Soros's lectures on his reflexivity theory appliend to financial markets [1], where it explains why their evolution is not easy to model due to "human uncertainty principle", which postulat
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Looking only at the cost of running a decentralized network is not sufficient. We need to look also at the cost of not running a decentralized network. Not all incentives have an economic nature, some are political, and I think the latter
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
If you come to think at it, logs are app events. You actually want to collect as many events as you can, with respect to performance, and analyze the hell out of them. You would also get all sorts of benefits, because then you can corelate
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Whatever solution you use to store your logs, I would suggest to generate them as events. This will help you to reconcile two important aspects that have been separated for too long, with no real reason : logging and analytics. It may requi
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
> I don't think that's what condescending means. Not a native speaker, so maybe I got that wrong, but this is the definition Google gives: "having or showing an attitude of patronizing superiority.", and this is what
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
1 . > It is these "decentralized" people who are out of touch, not the ordinary people. This statement seems a bit condescending, just saying.. 2. In my post I'm not trying to make value judgements, but just offer a possib
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
So nobody can "give the power back" to anybody, but people can stop giving their power away to others. We all have power, and we manifest it through our actions and choices. Some say knowledge is power, but in order to gain knowle
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
But "quantum universe" doesn't actually mean that we're working with quanta(s), which translates to infinitesimally small but discrete quantities ? Aren't Planck constants all about that ?
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
So by saying this, you're actually saying that we're living in some sort of state machine / cellular automata universe, and in order to understand it, we just have to find the rules of interaction/propagation of the stat
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
So maybe combine this with DeepMind's recent breakthrough in human voice reproduction, to build an agent that can translate speech in real time and bye bye human translators too ?
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Google unleashes deep learning tech on language with Neural Machine Translation(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zer0gravity 10y ago|1 comments
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
We could ask ourselves why aren't we attempting such a difficult task as space collonisation as a collective entity. Why are we busy fighting each other over limited resources when we could collaborate to build a better future for ours
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Show HN: Burning sun cellular automata(codepen.io)
3 points by zer0gravity 10y ago|0 comments
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Sure, downvote me :) , but maybe you will like this: https://codepen.io/acionescu/full/dnDCx/
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
“In a sense, we would see that change arises from the structure of the object,” he said. “But it’s not from the object changing. The object is basically timeless.” I have said it before, the universe is some sort of a cellular automata runn
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
So you say, if they behave like cattle, I shall behave like the wolf. Fair enough, there may be some justice in that, but the predator behaviour is the one that brough us where we are in the first place. It's true that it' also th
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
If Musk is able to do it, then he will beat all the governments from Earth. However, I expect to see a lot of politics in this. It's just too an important of an issue to remain uncontrolled. I dunno, maybe we should work on our socia
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
> Guanxi is how things get done when you don't have strong institutions. Totally agree. I am saying that from a point on, guanxi is the reason you don't have strong institutions, precisely because they tend to form close-knit c
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Interpersonal networks are an underlying mechanism in any society and I'm not saying it's bad, but I think it needs to be counterbalanced by an impersonal functional mechanism where you do your job regardless of who you know. In c
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
I guess people from ex-communist countries understand this phenomenon better, where almost everything is obtained as a favor from somebody in a privileged position, to whom you will have to return the favor. It has a lot in common with corr
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
This sounds very promising but it hasn't been worked on since 2014. Also there's no info about how you could install it. I like the "Code is law" motto though. It realy is a law and it is a self enforcing law.
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Thanks for the advise, but don't worry, I didn't completely lost it. I just see it as a rebalancing period after maybe pushing myself too much. However, it's not really burnout and it's not really depression, it's j
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
First of all the article is very good. It's packed with very insightful gems. I recommend it. Second of all, have you stumbled upon an increasing number of articles on this theme lateley? Well that's because it's autumn. It i
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Actually our physiology, may constrain us to this type of behaviour, throught the inner reward system that releases certain dopamine and other "feel good" neurotransmitters only after a certain level of effort / stress has be
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Blue Hydra can expose the all-too-unhidden world of Bluetooth(arstechnica.com)
3 points by zer0gravity 10y ago|0 comments
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
Actually on a second thought, I don't think that supporting data privacy is the job or the interests of governments. In fact, they are usually the first ones ready to sacrifice privacy in order to provider you with "security"
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
The reality is that not all progress can be brought by for profit organizations. There simply are systemic improvements that can't be monetized. These should have been the job of the governments, but unfortunatelly, those too are the p
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
> It's very difficult, inefficient, and unreliable for your phone to serve out data to all-comers: it's a one-way street. But your phone can talk with your server and anybody who wants to access what you allow them to, can simp
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by zer0gravity 10y ago
They would. And apparently they're doing it with some success, judging by all the passwords leaked lately. We can assume there were other "successes" that were not made public yet.. So yeah.. enforcing https may be the same a

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