EvaPeron

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by EvaPeron 14y ago
You just know this was an op run by Harry Pierce and company, lol!
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Godspeed, Veeger. Godspeed.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I am getting this on my holiday list: http://www.amazon.com/A-Madman-Dreams-Turing-Machines/dp/140...
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
The statement that translating an outcome in a mathematical model into the physical world is, in quantum mechanics, a probabilistic operation simply depends on one's viewpoint. The Schrodinger Equation IS deterministic. As always, this is s
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Stating the obvious here, but at what point do we drop the word "simulation" and just say IBM has electronically re-created a macaque monkey brain? Doing that would then entail ethical issues, just like if it were a real monkey. Does not so
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
And this is why, boys and girls, we don't do bath salts.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Yes, I call cannibalistic tribes murderers (provided any still exist, hopefully not). But my point is to not rush to make simplistic categories. My attitude on these and related issues is that it is enough work, more than enough work, for m
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Cool problem. I LOVE optimization problems like this, lol. A good "start up" kind of idea too. Scheduling ambulances. Requires not just optimizing for streets, etc., but for time, times of night there are more calls, etc. Requires forecasti
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
We need to be very careful here. There are those (not myself) who would contend that a fetus is a "person", thereby implying that abortion is "murder". I disagree with that, but if we say cetaceans are "persons" than is whaling then "murder
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
If we are on the subject of what animals it is ethical to hunt, etc., how about more strongly protecting the Great Apes (chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans) as they are our closest cousins in nature? Whales are more a rival, than anythin
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I thought recently what makes some people forever poor and some people forever prosperous. Really, it is mentality. The poor will burn principle as soon as they get it. The rich will not. That simple. The rich stay rich by not touching prin
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Ask HN: How might one transition from commercial software into research?
1 points by EvaPeron 14y ago|2 comments
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
"A touch, a touch I do confess." (Hamlet) LOL. Yes, "mapping" is a better term than "operation" for reasons you put forward. :-)
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Seriously, "true that", and that is why although most of my "day jobs" deal with Java, C is cooler, lol.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
A function is a type, is a set, is a number. And that, frankly, is difficult to get around. Coming from the C / Java world, it is hard to understand that "types" are really sets (in a mathematical sense) which in turn, are numbers (i.e. the
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I like Tesla too, but dude, this sounds like the Chinese water torture cell that felled Houdini. Sometimes the greatest finally go too far. Being protected by a Faraday cage, this stunt is unlikely to kill him, but the affect upon the brain
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I might imagine one day C.S. departments might merge back into the Maths department, where (IMHO) C.S. most properly belongs.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Sour.Grapes.
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Darl McBride (of SCO Group) was right
1 points by EvaPeron 14y ago|1 comments
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Let's recall when Jobs was ousted - worked out real well for Apple, now did it not? He had to be dragged in later to turn the ship around. FB has made some mistakes no doubt, but do not underestimate the power of a visionary like a Jobs or
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
One could of course write a wrapper function to create strings, like char* someString = makeAString("A String"); where makeAString takes a char* as input, allocates the memory it needs via malloc (I prefer calloc though as it is safer by se
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
No. assholes. ever.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
As a physics buff, I'm sure this is fascinating, but I just could not bring myself to watch the video - I love my cats too darn much, lol.
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
To all the "haters" on this thread, I will simply say this: Senator, I worked with Darl McBride. I knew Darl McBride. Darl McBride was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Darl McBride. :-)
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
What I mean is it does not collapse "all by itself", rather, it needs environmental interference in order to "collapse" from the observer's point of view. In the view of the many-worlds theory, though, it never really collapses, only appe
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
This is exciting to me because it seems to make the Everett "Many Worlds" view inevitable, because if A) the wave function exists (which this article seems to indicate) and B) if it never collapses spontaneously (and 50 years of research in
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I think this author has confused "writing code" with "computer science". Ultimately, what I love about computer SCIENCE, is that it is just that, a science, a subset of maths. And maths are awesome. I would suggest he go back and read about
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
It has been a while since I have played around with HTML (do Java at work, mostly) but surely one can do tables in HTML 5, as in previous versions? If not, something wrong there, IMO...
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
I might get some flack for this, but, honestly, read Ayn Rand's classic novel, "Atlas Shrugs" because its epistemology (theory about how we know things) is very much from Aristotle and Nietzsche (by her own description of her influences). I
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by EvaPeron 14y ago
Seeing this, I rather have the reaction Thomas Huxley had when reading the theory of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - "How utterly stupid of me not to have thought of that myself!" :-) Brilliant, brilliant idea. Seriously. I totally wo

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