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by EncomLab 2y ago
Tbf we let the fossil fuel industry win - dressed up as pro-environment protestors and non-profits. Boomers were easily manipulated.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
AGI and General Purpose robots are both so far off in the future they should be considered science fiction at this point. The "Woz Standard" - a robot is dropped in front of a random house and proceeds without any assistance to br
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Yes that is exactly it!
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Relate to the four stages of employment: 1) This is the new person "X" - they are amazing and are going to solve everything! 2) "X" is pretty good, but maybe not as good as we thought. 3) "X" turned out to just
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Reminds me of a toy I had back in the 70's where you attempted to drop bombs into cut-outs in a rotating horizontal disk by looking through an eyepiece with an attached 90deg mirror. The only controls were a lever that moved the mirro
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by EncomLab 2y ago
"Truth, Lies, and O-Rings" is a fascinating (if sometimes tedious) book that should be at the top of any reading list for those interested in the Challenger disaster. For me one of the more interesting side-bar discussions are tho
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by EncomLab 2y ago
lol - it's all good. Props to you for recognizing what was going on and taking the time to research it and make use of it!
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by EncomLab 2y ago
The way those resistors are twisted together makes my heart hurt.... Another fun fact about light and semiconductors is that the first commercial digital camera - the Cromemco Cyclops - used a 32x32 memory ic that used a windowed dip packag
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Pretty incredible what they are able to do with a i486!
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I mean SBF was into Altruism - look how that turned out....
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Which illustrates the other big point of confusion - the Turing test measures the ability of the judge and not the participants.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I agree, but I do think it's a huge deal. It's like people who think that an ATM is expressing gratitude when it displays "Thank you" on the screen. One of the greatest challenges facing humanity right now is "de-
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by EncomLab 2y ago
You are conflating reference frames - it determines causality in your local reference frame but not in any other reference frame. The concept of "real time" - like all time - is entirely relative to the reference frame you are us
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Hence the point that Norbert Weiner made that "when modeling a cat, the best model is a cat, and if possible the same cat."
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by EncomLab 2y ago
"The tool you like is the one that feels like a warm blanket." Love this - it's why I still prototype and develop personal applications in SmallTalk. Productivity is as dependent on your comfort swinging the hammer as it is
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by EncomLab 2y ago
I miss those days of deep granular CS projects that strove to create the most efficient minimalist systems possible - seems the opposite of today's prolific jungles of libraries and linkers. Then again I consider Jonathan Blow a proph
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Agreed - most people don't even realize that what they get from Google is not what other people get from Google.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
While I agree with much of the article - the leap from "social media is making tween girls suicidal" to "adults should not be able to determine what information they choose to consume because then they might vote wrong"
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by EncomLab 2y ago
That hand that rocks the better battery is the hand that will rule the world...
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by EncomLab 2y ago
It's an interesting perspective - it would be nice if it was noted that this same article seems to be reprinted regularly without indicating it's a reprint.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Went to GIMP years ago and never looked back.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Prof. Abelson's original lectures are available on YouTube and WELL worth the time to watch. It's unfortunate that this type of granular understanding of CS is seemingly not taught anymore - might help dampen down the hype cycles
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by EncomLab 2y ago
"Pac Man found a Solution for the Perfect Game: Get Rid of Ghosts" The number of people across all platforms hosting this story who believe this is somehow proof of anything is staggering.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Or driven anywhere there are (fucking) Flock cameras...
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Hard facts: Steam has over 73k games - and is growing at over 10k games per year and increasing. The median game on Steam earns less than $800 - down from $4k in 2020. Making a game is not hard - marketing a game is.
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by EncomLab 2y ago
Any specifically intentioned and designed software should outperform a generalist approach to solving a solution set. The primary difference is in the level of brittleness between the two - I mean AlphaGO beat Lee Sedol at GO, but Lee has
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Joshua – Revolutionizing AI(youtube.com)
2 points by EncomLab 2y ago|1 comments
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by EncomLab 2y ago
The Joshua AI system will revolutionize machine learning via the application of powerful new methods of symbolic programming!
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by EncomLab 3y ago
I love this response because it's at least honest about the reality of "scientific publishing" today - who cares about the accuracy, verifiability or ability to replicate - you just need to maximize your citations via hype!!&
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by EncomLab 3y ago
Property taxes are a huge and growing problem.

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