superobserver

News flash: the educational system is utterly broken and still has old throwbacks to America's agrarian past.

Remembering when I was a teenager not too long ago, I could have told you the same. To this day, however, I am a night owl, which has also been shown to be more common in more intelligent persons,[0] so it really is a potentially more hard hitting situation to those brighter than average as well.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

The immediate issue I see with Programming IA is that it doesn't apparently address changes in coding syntax and support as programming languages evolve. PL's often evolve so much that, in my experience of just trying to get a leg up on, say, python, I've had to sort through changing features between Python 2.7 and Python 3 to such an extent that it can be genuinely frustrating at times.

Just a quick suggestion: since Pantone colors are more "mainstream" outside of programming circles, do you think you can integrate that with the color-code IA? (Example usage case: Hey programmer Jim, can you make this part of the interface more like a pantone 537 U? kthx)

A couple of obvious reasons: 1) it lowers the bar of entry into Tmux/Screen for newbies; 2) it has fairly intuitive mappings for newbies; 3) it is sanely configurable whilst not requiring the direct use of a dot file (just hit F9); 4) it may be faster to set up than Tmux/Screen (assuming you aren't able to copy a conf file for those); 5) it doesn't require understanding Ctrl-b/a for prefixing most commands.

Sure. But hey, I'm trying to fit in with all the hip Microsoft-loving shil... I mean hackers here. :)

You mean to wonder: how are they going to telemetrify the terminal?

So now I will be able to do what I already do on my ChromeOS device with Crouton, but worse.

I admit that gives me a bit of encouragement since I'm shackled to Windows at work, where I really try to make the most of it, but I'm by no means impressed given I already have done the following to get many native GNU/Linux binaries (as one example):

PS > Install-Package gow -Source Chocolatey

Another example: cygwin

The real limiting factor has been muxing terminals while on Windows. And judging by the post, that certainly remains a problem.

If they could successfully bring a full Bash terminal to Windows 10, I would actually be somewhat impressed.

It really is hard to estimate ability within the general population by one example.

In any case, it would be much simpler to direct someone to Proton mail, which uses OpenPGP.

Reason enough to drop Wired and read real news like The Intercept.

It may not be "the solution", but no one in Deep Mind said it was. It doesn't particularly matter how journalists spin this stuff, as they clearly don't understand it anyway.

By the way, if Monte Carlo search worked, then we would have seen MC beating 9-dan pro's long ago, which clearly didn't happen, so the author's definition of "effective" lacks pragmatic insight - the real limiting factor in this sort of evaluative judgment.

The author doesn't seem to have watched any of the matches of AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol, though, as much of the pre-game and post-game discussion brings to light some important details surrounding specific implementation features in AlphaGo by Deep Mind. Glossing over that makes this article remarkably uncritical and uninformative.

Edit: it's one thing to combat hype, but representing the facts as they are in contradistinction to that hype is another matter entirely. Anti-hype is perhaps more pernicious in bringing about an "AI Winter" than is drumming up interest in what AI, or more accurately AGI, will be capable of in the not-too-distant future. And given current developments, I think the only AI Winter we have to fear is the one where uninformed persons accost us with misguided fears about AI and what its capabilities will be.

Why not by a Chromebook Pixel (2015)? Seriously.

Glad someone already said what I was going to say about the Blockchain tech. There's no security in that, especially given the feudal nature of the bitcoin market (now and going forward).

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A perfect example of "creativity" in action.

Not as cool as cosmic latte. :)

Yep. I don't comment much any more. And don't forget only certain people get to downvote as it is.

tDCS montage for creativity: anode @ T2 and cathode @T1 with 1-2 mA for 20-30min. Loosens up the semantic codes for semeiotic enlightenment.

Flynn effect is more an indication of improving performance on IQ tests, not an indication of increasing intelligence. That's why the Flynn effect is often referred to as "hollow" gains.

Good luck:

www.iq-tests-for-the-high-range.com

Collusion isn't just possible. It's already been going on for at least two years now. As was said by one pool operator (paraphrasing), "the only people mining are 12 pools".

Bitcoin isn't about distrust. It's about decentralized trust as that is the primary function of the blockchain. Bitcoin as an ecosystem hasn't been about distrust, but decentralized trust, and it has long been moving away from decentralization, which is fundamentally problematic.

If you have anymore left, I would appreciate one: rahool @ tuto.io . Thank you!

Interesting pattern of feigned disbelief in the comments here. Anyway, I thoroughly agree with your assessment.

Gratuitous negativity is a given when it is possible for users to downvote others anonymously for no good reason. My recent posts are a testament to that; thus, a call to avoiding it would necessitate the abolition of downvoting, which will never happen.

Pretending to be informed about that which we have little information is indeed the epitome of misinforming others. Added to which the public information we do have surrounding this issue, it is difficult to suggest seriously and truthfully that the dragnet benefits anyone other than those in the NSA itself (I mean as an entity unto itself), seeing that it has practically no sensible oversight for its actions.

I didn't say a baseless accusation is legitimate, I said that suggesting such a possibility is legitimate, especially in this case.

I was pointing out the limited applicability of "Soviet-style suppression" in the above post - that much is obvious. The rest of my comment stands and your post counts as little more than needless handwaving.

Not just Soviet-style suppression, but state sponsored censorship. While the local rules of the park may deem that this is simply vandalism, I fail to recall such instances in the US demanding this kind of censoring and it should be pointed out a little more saliently in the article for appropriate effect.

I'm not entirely sure it's merely a matter of getting people to take notice. After all, if you take notice, then the agency itself will take notice of that and that is liable to make you a target for information gathering purposes. Your best defense out of fear is to proclaim anyone fighting such a power is deserving of that power's treatment as it deems fit. In a way, I guess you could say it's a form of Stockholm Syndrome.

On the other hand, when you have state powers like China to contend with (who have a greater degree of explicit control over their citizens), it wouldn't be surprising to see state-level competitors wanting to keep a leg up on their competition by employing similar tactics. Unfortunately, the dragnet in place is unconstitutional for the NSA, which is why it is a part of the Five Eyes to work around that issue - by relying on collaboration with other institutions to provide the data that is ultimately being collected.

I agree that unfounded accusations are unhealthy for discussion, but the nature of the issue at hand involving a state-level power with nigh unlimited resources and the few citizens within the state body attempting to bring attention to this issue would suggest that suspicions of this sort aren't unfounded and aren't necessarily damaging to the discussion itself. Censoring discussion of this kind is probably the most hurtful of all and no comment pointing out the possibility of the level of control at hand should be removed on that account.

I've been thinking about that myself - the IPS screen is certainly more appealing.