EncomLab

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by EncomLab 1y ago
This is very interesting - but like all of these discussions it sidesteps the issues of abstractions, compilation, and execution. It's fine to say things like "aren't programmed directly by humans", but the abstracted c
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by EncomLab 1y ago
Why? For most games (especially a "2d hide and seek") you drop a zip file and press a single button on your dev console to publish.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I agree and never claimed that "a single person" could - but just because something is too complex for a single person to fully understand does not make it "mysterious" or a "black box". So what is the claim y
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by EncomLab 2y ago
So your claim is that there are instructions, data, or both that are unable to be determined in what, is by definition, a fully deterministic machine?
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by EncomLab 2y ago
It's not misunderstanding at all - but your response is certainly an attempt to obfuscate the point being made. The moment you represent anything in code, you are abstracting a real thing into it's digital representation. That d
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by EncomLab 2y ago
The implication that any software is "mysterious" is problematic - there is no "woo" here - the exact state of the machine running the software may be determined at every cycle. The exact instruction and the data it exe
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by EncomLab 2y ago
uLisp is amazing - capable of leveraging a lot of work in a small package.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
You can't honestly claim that it would take you an hour to accomplish such a high probability task - have you never visited the house of a friend or family and had to open a few cabinets to find a water glass or a bowl or a spoon? As f
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by EncomLab 2y ago
This is the "Wozniak Standard" (sometimes called the Coffee Test) - Drop an AI enabled robot in front of a random house and ask it to bring you a cup of coffee. The robot would need to enter the house, locate the kitchen, locate
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Sounds like you rediscovered the long held practice of "Rubber Ducking".
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I mean people thought ELIZA was AI back in the 1960's. Everyone always thinks "this is it!!".
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by EncomLab 2y ago
One of my co-workers joked at the time that "sure AlphaGO beat Lee Sedol at GO, but Lee has a much better self-driving algorithm." I thought this was funny at the time, but I think as more time passes it does highlight the stark g
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by EncomLab 2y ago
i.e. the "geohot method". Why this guy still pulls so much traction is a mystery.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
A view into what might have been: This corporate documentary produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) chronicles DECs two year odyssey to bring three personal computers, the Professional 325 (PRO-325), the Professional 350 (PRO-350),
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by EncomLab 2y ago
This is very much an open question.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Jonathan Blow has entered the chat...
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Our building has multiple first floor stores/restaurants/gym - and post Covid our rental agreements stipulate an average daily occupancy threshold; with a penalty/incentive program based on failing or exceeding that threshold
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Your last point is the biggest driver - it is also why the rules are arbitrarily enforced.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Not sure what the purpose is here - it reads more like a soft flex than anything else. We all know "why" RTO gets pushed - and it's not just that executives are living royal lives while the peasants are expected to stress ov
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Shame really - his is the best in depth aviation accident channel on YouTube, and he is the real deal.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
The changes made to help Bald Eagles have had a positive effect on all raptors - we have had a big uptick in Coopers Hawks, with several nesting in our area. They are territorial and relatively long lived so we have names for the ones we s
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Anyone know why it seems that Feynman is coming under attack lately - most prominently by You Tuber Angela Collier whose "the sham legacy of Richard Feynman" now has nearly 1M views? I don't understand it at all.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Aviation A2Z reporting that this was a no-flap landing due to a flap actuator failure. Hard to tell in the videos posted if that is the case, but would explain the hard landing.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Days are long - years are short :(
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by EncomLab 2y ago
There are many rant videos available online - but in general the core of his software philosophy is based in minimal, clean, extremely optimized code. Open-source rarely results in any of those things. Jon is the last guy wandering in the
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Wish Jon Blow would get back out there! He was asked on a recent stream and said he has turned down invites while trying to get Jai pushed out the door.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
....and this is how we end up with Aliens over NJ.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Keller is just a god tier hardware guy - his ability to leverage deep understanding and then explain incredibly complex issues in a few sentences is incredible. Intel shot themselves in the foot when they let him go.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I was following this yesterday and there seems to be very little commentary regarding the lack of damage to the table surface or the color staining to the scissor blades. This looks far more like someone blowtorching the blades while holdi

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