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sdgsdgsdg··on How my school rejected an app made for students
It is my opinion that a primary function of school is to teach individuals to be submissive to authority. This helps the capitalist classes maintain control. So when you turn up to work on your first day, you are already a nicely preprogrammed little robot.
sdgsdgsdg··on Predictive brains, situated agents and future of cognitive science (2013) [pdf]
Perhaps the brain just provides a place for the patterns to live? Perhaps it is not so much searching for patterns of activity which allow it to predict the future, but allowing the patterns of activity induced by the world to grow and evolve together. Then all it has to do is modulate this evolution when the organism gets something it likes. Reward modulated hebbian learning I believe it is called. I've not read the whole paper, but it seems overly complicated and unnecessary when you consider the above conception...
sdgsdgsdg··on Are you paid to look busy?
You have changed my life, thank you.
sdgsdgsdg··on Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax
I cannot understand the logic that could make this kind of contract enforceable.

By this reasoning, the patent office employing Albert Einstein owned the theory of Special Relativity and presumably therefore a stake in subsequent commercialised technological development?

It makes me feel physically sick that this is a thing.

I had a probably similar clause in an old contract, anything I built or indeed thought, in or out of work belonged to the company.

sdgsdgsdg··on Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax
Nope, me too. It's the same in the UK.

rant This is a rare glimpse of the true nature of our world. We really do live in a time when individuals are owned by corporate entities. I cannot express the depth of my anger and revulsion at this horrendous state of affairs. Yet people talk about it as if it's something that is OK. They talk about it for a few minutes, shrug their collective shoulders and move on. It is not OK, this is not just one of those things. We seem to believe ourselves in some bright new dawn, an enlightened age full of magic, gods and joyous, eternal, unbroken song. It is a non-sense that the pitfalls of the past no longer apply. Do not make believe that things have changed, that the human spirit is no longer corruptible. I honestly think we need to be mindful of the fanciful seeming visions of some of our finest prophets. I will leave you with a quote: "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." rant

sdgsdgsdg··on Here’s the Agreement Oculus Broke, According to ZeniMax
These are the ridiculous times we live in.
sdgsdgsdg··on The Richest Rich Are in a Class by Themselves
This is a tired mantra. It does not bear close scrutiny. It is a meme created by the wealthy and powerful to maintain their wealth and power. It is similar to the belief inculcated by royalty that they rule by divine right.
sdgsdgsdg··on Toward a better programming
Programming is taking the patterns which make up a thought and approximate them in the patterns which can be expressed in a programming language. Sometimes the thoughts we have are not easily expressed in the patterns of the computer language which we write in. What is needed is a computer language which pulls the patterns from our thoughts and allows them to be used within the computer language. In other words we need to automatically determine the correct language in which to express the particular problem a user is trying to solve. This is AI, we need compression - modularisation of phase space through time. The only way to bring about the paradigm shift he is describing in any real sense is to apply machine learning to programming.
sdgsdgsdg··on Correlate Bitcoin prices with anything
Why would you need a causal inference to make a trade?
sdgsdgsdg··on Liquidfun – 2D physics engine for games
How long before an emscipten js version?