Ngunyan

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by Ngunyan 8y ago
Exactly. I worked in Business Intelligence and having both an accountant and a programmer background, whiteboard coding never comes up in interviews. Its more domain knowledge that's important, which is mostly about finance/accoun
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
Really grateful for the work you put into this. Thanks.
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
I like the images. What was used to create that?
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
>I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done. I fear death because I fear no one will look after the things that I ca
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
99% of the time? Where did you get that? GPS is better than human only wherever it has better data. Bring it to a place where it has no data and its useless. Meanwhile, humans can easily adopt to find themselves in places they've never
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
>That's the problem isn't it? A language is assumed to be a dialect of another language just because it uses the same script, regardless of its origins or how mutually intelligible it is. Is that really the reason? Does it foll
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by Ngunyan 8y ago
I've tried this trick as well before, but it does not work all the time for me. Maybe I am just not disciplined enough in refocusing my attention to breathing. I discovered this trick when I was reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Turkey is an Asian country. Just because they own a slice of land in Southeastern Europe does not make them European. Otherwise, Spain would be African, France would be Latin American, and Egypt would be Asian.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
What are the implications of this? Does it mean the speed of light is not constant after all? Does it mean relativity theory needs to be revised? > The researchers also expect that this method can be used for other types of waves besides
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
In the Philippines, it's "cha-a" or "tsaa", which is a counter-example for "cha" being spread across land. The Philippines was consecutively under Spanish and American rule and 99% of Chinese there speak H
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
I take no offense. People feel threatened if their deep held beliefs (or beliefs they are invested in) are questioned.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
I agree with you on that one, a scientific idea does not necessarily imply its correct, and a correct idea may not be scientific. But what I'm saying it that evolution is neither scientific nor correct.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Have we observed fruit flies evolve? By evolve I mean macro evolution.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
A theory is an educated guess, which does not make it "fundamentally right". For a theory to be scientific, it needs to be falsifiable. Is it and in what way?
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
> What's most incredible about Darwin is how readable and essential (and fundamentally correct) his two major treatises, Origin and Descent, have remained. Fundamentally correct? Evolution is neither demonstrable nor falsifiable, so
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
>Personally, if we're talking GIANTS among the Giants the list goes something like: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre, Wittgenstein. (I am of course, limiting myself to Western thought). I would dro
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Following your logic, any person speaking any two languages from English, Dutch, Icelandic, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and lives in Northern Europe (smaller in land area than India or China) are not bilingual.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
English ≠ Computerish but: English = C || English = Pascal || English = SQL .......
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Really? In simple terms, explain how this works concisely.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Don't disrespect the clowns.
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
> s/first/first smart enough to invent science/. To claim something as first, there must be others in reality to have followed it. If there is no second, there would be no first. Is there a second intelligence to have inve
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
> When an AI has a mind that is more general purpose than ours, I think its fair to call it a general purpose AI. Can you give an example of an intelligence that is more general purpose than human intelligence?
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
> DeepMind, on the other hand, was created as a "blank slate" with no more hard-wired instruction than "create optimal algorithms to achieve the winning state, given the inputs." Critically, its learning phase is comp
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
> The human brain is only the very first intelligence to evolve. What other intelligence evolved, and in what sense human brain is first in evolution?
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
Are you implying time travel is certainly possible? "Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible." - Stephen Hawking
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by Ngunyan 9y ago
>In fact, I can almost go as far as to state the opposite: the only people who can clearly explain things, are people who are completely wrong about them. (This is an extreme position and I probably am going a bit too far in this directi