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philip142au··on Worldsheet: Wrapping the World in a 3D Sheet, View Synthesis from a Single Image
Could you combine many of these images together to make a 3D environment for a computer game, for example inside the bedroom take many photos and then interpolate between the 3D sheets as the player moves around?
philip142au··on How to overcome Phone Addiction
So what about computer programmers?
philip142au··on The Pentagon has 180 days to disclose UFO information
There are no alien (not from earth) UFO's because any alien smart enough to come here would be smart enough to disguise their transport as a plane. There may be earth made UFO's which can do amazing things.
philip142au··on 51% of 4M Docker images have critical vulnerabilities
Use NixOS
philip142au··on Hazel: A live functional programming environment featuring typed holes
Idris has typed holes, how is this an improvement on Idris?
philip142au··on Show HN: FortyQ – Answering any question in forty-two minutes
Give an unsolved maths question. ;)
philip142au··on PLATO, Graphics, Time-sharing in 1960s
huh no link
philip142au··on Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take
No its deterministic, but it appears to be probabilistic to you. Which it can be.
philip142au··on Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take
I believe strongly that everything is deterministic. As a programmer, that means all is purely functional.
philip142au··on The unending quest to explain consciousness
I suspect it doesn't exist, we wish it exists, otherwise we are machines.
philip142au··on Ask HN: What should be taught in high school?
How to deal with shitty people
philip142au··on Military Has Been Researching "Anti-Gravity" For Nearly 70 Years
Gravity is related to time and entropy.
philip142au··on Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
Let me put it this way, I can define and and give the definition to someone and they can recognize it, a computer can recognize a chair, but for consciousness I cannot define it and I cannot give a definition to someone to recognize it, it is not even definable.
philip142au··on Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
This is not true, I can make a clear definition of a chair which allows someone to recognize it, for the concept of conscience I cannot
philip142au··on Consciousness Doesn’t Depend on Language
No one can define consciousness... so what is it we are taking about?
philip142au··on Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language
There are functional languages which have logic programming libraries.
philip142au··on Picat – a logic-based multi-paradigm programming language
Really bad idea... please no imperative
philip142au··on Show HN: I'm 17 and I created a Forth interpreter for the TI-84+ calculator
Cool, how about write some Z80 code for the Microbee computer, its an Australian computer which was very popular with schools in Australia in the 1980's
philip142au··on Ask HN: What's the longest you spent on a personal project that you gave up on?
Yes its cool but your time-frame of 5 months is a bit excessive, it could have been done in a day by the right person.
philip142au··on Ask HN: What should I learn in next 1 year to become the top one percent
You want to be top 1% but you don't know why, so you don't have any reason to do so and you don't know what you want to be top 1% of.

Whats the point?

philip142au··on Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education
Make a human programming language, you put a VR on a human and a reward/punishment system wired into the brain, you teach the human via the VR.
philip142au··on Show HN: Triadex Muse in a Browser
Everything interesting happened in 1969
philip142au··on Atari CEO confirms the company is working on a new game console
Cool
philip142au··on Show HN: Deep Learning for Program Synthesis
I would like a web API which when given training examples it generates the program in a given language such as Java
philip142au··on NunuStudio: a browser-based IDE for 3D and VR applications
Does it support PBM? Physically Based Materials?
philip142au··on Ask HN: How can I volunteer my software skills online?
Find a project on github you like, fork it and submit pull requests.
philip142au··on Deniability and Duress
Make technology to resist.
philip142au··on Intel Management Engine cleaner
There will be an AI to take over all these computers.
philip142au··on The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2016
I wish they would make a society of AI brains inside the computer which talk to each other by sending documents around, one AI brain might have a job such as checking the document is correct. A large society of AI brains.

Secondly, a single AI brain is composed of many small AI brains in a society. Also those brains, recursively down forever recursive.

philip142au··on Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC
Isn't violence worse than porn?
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