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Can you use this to bypass Spectre mitigations in Javascript? You would need to measure time, somehow.

A fake IRS phone scam? So it's a real IRS phone scam, and not a fake one?

Where I come from we obey the laws of thermodynamics, which implies setting our priors appropriately.

fyi he was mocking people who look down on people in poverty, in the style of the "lol meme". There was nothing particularly wrong with his comment.

He's using internet speak. Since it can't be communicated as such in any other way, it's likely an exception, although to someone who hasn't been read in it probably reads funny.

He's not wrong, but he's not taking into consideration the fact that it's a feedback loop. It's the same perspective as chiding the homeless for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. They are in too much mental poverty to do it.

What's the best way to say this..

It's a masochistic method of programming where you insert a randomly generated layer of abstraction between the hardware and the programmer, and tell the programmer to make sure to add enough hints to his code to make sure that it runs quickly.

The benefits are unclear.

That's a stretch. If the only dimension you care about is whether or not the language spec is guaranteed to be invariant, sure, but that's essentially nitpicking. One more layer of abstraction gets you an asm->asm transpiler that never changes.

This is basically asm or microcode at a higher level.

Why is everyone expressing so much restraint? It is insanely difficult to get your entrepreneurial projects funded. This guy needs to get a lawyer!

10^15 is not that big. We could construct and compute on sparse matrices that large today.

It doesn't matter that it's not cryptographically signed and not using https, etc. If the paper contains details about the history of bitcoin that can then be proved to be true, that is well on the way to validation. i.e., details such as "timechain" preceding "blockchain."

The comparison falls flat in too many ways.

AutoOverfit is more like it.

"It's odd how little information is provided about the actual new technologies behind this." - @aheilbut

The dollar figures involved are three to four orders of magnitude greater in their case.

Neurology is the study of disorders of the nervous system. This is theoretical neuroscience. FTFY.

In your own words, you are asking for 'science'. And if you click the link through to the SEP, you'll see that it's well documented that this is, in the words of Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science.

That's a philosophical difference. I don't disagree, but given the various constraints involved what you're asking isn't possible. Additionally, I'd note that it sounds like they are practicing Lean methodology - which is justifiable.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/#MetPra

It's theoretical neuroscience. If you have philosophical difference write a position paper.

Why on earth was this downvoted? Reddit started by creating fake users and fake content - much like stocking shelves with empty boxes.

#reddit

People don't read terms of service. In using your phone who knows what you agreed to let your phone company do with your FB data.

An apparent molecular biologist speaking about cognitive biases... no irony there.

I use a 2015 Chromebook Pixel.

- Stand up an Amazon WorkSpace and RDP to it for Windows work - Use Android apps - Install Ubuntu using crouton

That's pretty much it. Use it all day every day.

The deeper abstractions are lost on you, young padawan.

Yes, yes, downvote me, let the hate flow through you.

Doesn't change that you can do anything in a gui :)

This is really stupid. You can do anything in a GUI.

In psychology the senior author comes first. Here we have mixed paradigms in authorship. Putting Kurzweil last is definitely intentional.

Not sure why I was downvoted. It's not as if the person downvoting me provided a better option than I did!

It would need to be automatically collated by an AI with access to the Internet Archive that is probably quite a bit more sophisticated than what we currently have. DMOZ is the closest curated thing I can think of.