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throwupper247··on Go, Marvin Minsky, and the Chasm That AI Hasn’t yet Crossed
Perfect information isn't true, you don't exactly know the opponents next move. This broadens the search tree exponentially. Generally, with many hard problems, the size of the problem is a problem, when memory is limited.
throwupper247··on Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll
The irony is, germany was controlled by the allies then, including the US, the ones whose population you just called ignorant, that watches movies about prostitutes' escapedes or war glorification.
throwupper247··on Lilli, the German Adult-Themed Cartoon Character Who Became the Barbie Doll
The US prisson system comes to mind ... completely ridiculous comparison, I know
throwupper247··on In Retrospect: The Selfish Gene
What about Pascal's Wager? It's nonsense, given an impossible number of gods to honour
throwupper247··on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
I didn't talk about growth, i was specifically thinking about a comment that called our number system logarithmic and it stands to reason, if you wan't to find x in 10^x=y, unless you do calculus in your head at the age of five, you may as well look at a grap of the exponential progression. now that's two incoherent arguments, but the latter should point out that it doesn't really matter which way, and the first alludes that there is something more basic to the logarithm, something easier to capture. If I look at the grid pattern in logarithmic plots, it's not a runaway progression but a nice repetition where the zeros in the end of the numbers at each 10^n interval behave like the unary number system, which is the basic positional system and arguably easier even then binary.
throwupper247··on Reddit in 2016
I was heavily downvoted for snarky and spiteful comments and ultimately hellbanned as I tryed to pack up my cynicism in elaborate arguments. The downvote privileged are pretty vigorous about protecting their privilege.
throwupper247··on San Francisco Bubble
I could do without 90% of those websites, i suppose
throwupper247··on How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough
So, in the long run they can train new folks with some of the brain that is still left. To be honest, they didn't exactly strike me with prolific creativity, rather their business enterpreneurship was working and they still profit from that.

It's good but average engineering, at average, moving slow but steady.

throwupper247··on How Microsoft Plans to Beat Google and Facebook to the Next Tech Breakthrough
So, they can train new folks with some of the brain that is still left. To be honest, they didn't exactly strike me with prolific creativity, rather their business enterpreneurship was working and they still profit from that. It's good but average engineering, at average, moving slow but steady. If innovation happens elsewhere, they just copy it. So they try to in
throwupper247··on Marvin Minsky: What makes mathematics hard to learn? (2008)
In the decimal system it is just as easy to associate 5+5=10.

5xN is easier to remember than 16xN on account of 5 being the smaller number.

2^n is logarithmic whereas 5*n is linear. Arguably, logarithms are not too complicated, even if linear seems to be a degree easier, seeing that the decimal system is also logarithmic as that's a denser representation.

edit: how to enter an aterisk as the multiplication operator sign

throwupper247··on Trello clone with Phoenix and React – 5-part tutorial
I'm not sure if those are the meassures that guide the decision: Searching in linked lists is suboptimal (was it O(n)?), as is their cache performance. Sure, with small lists, that doesn;t matter, but how small is small enough?
throwupper247··on The Monad Challenges: Jump start your understanding of monads
Having been mildly disappointed by the simplicity of monoids, after intimidation from the complexity in maths, i expect that something like an adjunction is something already known to a commoner in any case, just that the vocabulary, particaularies and relations to the concept in question are not always obvious.
throwupper247··on The Unreasonable Reputation of Neural Networks
The dangerous qualities of human thought are rather simple sometimes, the difference wouldn't be that big, probably.
throwupper247··on A History of the World in 100 Objects (2010)
The Credit Card probably contains a 8051 core, anyhow.
throwupper247··on When Philosophy Lost Its Way
It wasn't displaced, it delegated|dispatched|forked and is having a hell of a time piecing the puzzle and getting rid of the excess.
throwupper247··on When Philosophy Lost Its Way
But it was specifically said that providing those answeres was a benefit.
throwupper247··on When Philosophy Lost Its Way
Losing focus and wondering about the start of the train of thought, stackoverfloing while recursing is a first order intrinsic problem.
throwupper247··on IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes
For science and education, Fair Use terms may be applied generously.
throwupper247··on Simple instructions for freezing a Skylake Processor
I've just written an Idris programm that determined "your mothers phone number", hows that for arbitrary facts? (tip of the hat to xkcd.)
throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
No you don't always have to, it has emotions all by itself, as you said. You are unable to make a connection from holding its hand to being responsible for its actions? Actions include holding hands as well as thinking? What's in question overall is the degree of activity.

Sure It's not black and white, but it won't ever be exacrly the same for living beings and machines. As said before, Animism is an old hat.

throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
The NN doesn't train itself, you train it, whereas the baby is first of all traines with intrinsic stimuli, its consciousness and emotions. Sure, you might not exactly know how the NN works either, but there's a middle ground between deterministic shells driven by higher forces and inexplicable black-boxes. ...
throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
You don't need an entire theory to see that the premisses is contrived.

If the answer is as long as the problem statement, that's enough. Of course, if a philosopher sees the whole history behind it, there might be more associations and hence bases to cover.

throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
*Dijkstra
throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
No, he shares knowledge with the questioner (beyond time, if that makes sense), hence he implicitly had probable knowledge of the questions.
throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
There's a simple argument. Computers are machines and hence passive. They are programmed, they are run, etc. but whatever they think, i came up with. If you [read] this, it's logically and grammatically sound to assume, that's not the display, the cpu or whatever speaking to you, but me, throwupper247, a person. We are talking about personification and that's an issue much older than AI.
throwupper247··on The Chinese Room Argument
>Did or will the universe exist in the past or future

Fixed. See, you just confirmed ThomPete's argument https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10871743 you use the wrong tense and the whole logic falls appart. I didn't even read on.

throwupper247··on When Are You Really an Adult?
Responsability literally means response-ability. It's different to what I'd call self-consciousness, or what another commenter named independence.
throwupper247··on Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
The way i know it from imgur comments it's not that bad. There the comments are not nessecarily sorted by time. What's the issue? It still discourages longer rants because every write up- and download cycle forces a short wait.
throwupper247··on Android++, native development and debugging for Visual Studio, now open-source
They grant rights to justin but not, at least not directly or actively, to the recipient. But, the syntax is really awful and wouldn't pass any compiler if this was a programm. IMHO courts should rule in favour of the doubt for any misuse, say for uncomercial FOSS stuff. I know you mean that on the business side of things, caution of overarching decisions is advised.

What the copyright stuff means to me is that I'm not allowed to relicense, but i could modify or distribute unmodified.

throwupper247··on Let artificial intelligence guess your attractiveness and age
the flag for "Adult Content" reminds me of anecdotes about mechanical turk workers standing in to keep uploads child friendly, now mixed with Age Identification this gets a new perspective. Is this in active use somewhere?
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