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PinnBrain··on Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
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PinnBrain··on Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free
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PinnBrain··on Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO
But the presence of a nuisance toolbar afterwards will be quite obvious.
PinnBrain··on Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO
The people.
PinnBrain··on Make a Lisp
Hi--the project looks beautiful! Maybe the .gitignore could be improved?
PinnBrain··on Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?
Ah, thanks. Only had Adderall once, and it didn't feel the same. Modafinil had a much more subtle effect, with few downsides (just don't overdo caffeine while on it).
PinnBrain··on Adware Bundler IronSource Raises $105M to Buy Startups Ahead of IPO
Those that install adware are less intelligent--no need to paper over that. Do the writers of educational shows for small children think it ironic that they are more intelligent than their customers?
PinnBrain··on Can neuroscience give my brain the plasticity of a child's?
Neat. I take Modafinil or its enantiomer Nuvigil sometimes to be smarter or compensate for lack of sleep. Officially, it's for sleep apnea, which I had to take a sleep test to show. I don't see zero risk for cosmetic surgery (note the issues with any surgery), so perhaps that can serve as an analogue as we look more into enhancing "normal" people.
PinnBrain··on Lenovo's Promise for a Cleaner, Safer PC
This is a positive step. For now, you can try the Microsoft signature editions of various pcs. Or a Mac.
PinnBrain··on Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey
Thank you for the detail!
PinnBrain··on The Path to Parallel JavaScript
Oh no, will this become an ego thing? Parallelism must lie somewhere near abstraction as a premature optimization. Computers are hard, even single threaded.
PinnBrain··on Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event
But then relativity messes even that up.
PinnBrain··on Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey
Thanks!
PinnBrain··on Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event
Yes, tangent, but please support the movements in several states to abolish daylight savings time. Having time move out from under us has long been a pain for programming robust systems. Perhaps the 5th or 6th generation of Apple watch will not need to do such an archaic adjustment.
PinnBrain··on Results of the 2015 Soylent Eaters Survey
Does the headline writer not notice the irony at all? How about? `Nobody really said Soylent was the end of food, despite what click-bait headlines claim`
PinnBrain··on Lisp implemented in under 1K of JavaScript
So much effort to go under 1K (in the era of 128GiB fingernail chips), with this .gitignore:

node_modules -uglify -crush -regpack

PinnBrain··on Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns
Can we see it with less than a million bucks (or a trip to Wyoming)?
PinnBrain··on My experience of interviewing for a job at Apple
I don't understand--I thought we have no ego. There is no self. There is even "egoless" programming.
PinnBrain··on GPG and Me
I was thinking the opposite--most shell scripts seem to exist to show off arcane knowledge rather than document a task in the most straightforward way possible.
PinnBrain··on Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon–And Everyone Else
I find the idea of lossless versus lossy uploading of sentience amusing.
PinnBrain··on Apple Is Now More Than Double the Size of Exxon–And Everyone Else
So how does Apple navigate the Singularity? Google has more projects directed at it, some explicitly like Calico. Perhaps I'll walk into the Google uploader and drop off my Apple watch and phone.
PinnBrain··on Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic
Then it's no longer race or gender--it's something else. Not that we'll be using anything like English or Spanish then.
PinnBrain··on Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic
The Golden Age...thanks! Bought on Kindle.
PinnBrain··on Sex redefined: the idea of two sexes is simplistic
One of the predicted outcomes of the Singularity is the removal of sex as a characteristic. Note that race would be removed as well. A posthuman (of whatever form) would be free of both sex and race.
PinnBrain··on My Love-Hate Relationship with Stack Overflow
I really thought you were talking about a curriculum vitae there, but I suppose it's "close vote".