ObviousScience

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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> For a few hundred dollars I can jam your communications channel(s) to the drones. Asymmetric warfare sucks. The problem is that once we're talking tens of millions of dollars and up -- no, you can't. We're talking the sw
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I'm willing to modify the bet for that: I think an AI with 20 years to be trained and have things like FPGA components adjusted can learn in 1 hour anything I could teach a person in the same amount of time with the same amount of pre-
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
I think you presented a false comparison. You said anything we can teach a human within an hour: do you mean a fresh human that's only just been supplied with a brain? Because you can't teach a baby anything besides basic stimulus
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Any time I have to develop something from first principles, I do it 2-3 times in different ways, and only then make a serious attempt at actually writing it. It's still terrible, of course, but at least has a chance of working since I
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
Only for sufficiently powerful systems, I believe. Things like first order logic are too simple to introduce the kinds of statements Godel used to prove the incompleteness theorem about arithmetic.
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by ObviousScience 11y ago
> The world is then better off. This conclusion doesn't follow from your premises, unless you include the hidden premise that more wealth in the world is the only criterion you're using. Once you begin looking at things like we
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I've had an interest in constraint-based CAD programs (with an interest in designing things for 3D printers), and was wondering if you could recommend any literature on the subject.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Then why did several examples come from UK universities?
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Off-topic: I've always wondered if you could make some sort of website with an anti-bubble. Probably in the style of Twitter, since you'd want to minimize reliance on outside content of dubious provenance, but possibly in the styl
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> I shudder to think what you must be doing with other side information like the font, page layout, semicolon count, or paper composition. You joke, but one of the best predictors of being accepted to (a particular) graduate business sch
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Let's assume that you're correct, that the most common case is the user putting in the password correctly the first time. Just to get some other numbers, let's assume I sleep 7 hours a day on average, and look at my phone eve
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> The argument you're using is basically, "She slept with someone else, so why should other people not expect to be able to get to have privileged relationships with her too?" Actually, the argument is "She slept with
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
The oxygen inhibits the curing, so it only begins to cure ~20um above the membrane, which means that it never sticks, since it never touches the window, and that can just continually pull it upwards.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
That depends incredibly heavily on circumstances. I've yet to see the research which indicates that we should see an even mix of men and women at the top of social structures when we already admit a difference in terms of both physical
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
The US military can't control a country (Iraq) with 4.5% the land area and 11% the population; I find it unlikely the US military would do better in the event of a serious civil war within the US -- and that's assuming no portion
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
That's roughly 1 in 10,000 people, or ~0.01% of the US population.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
You admit that computer and software are eating the world, but come to the conclusion that it's useless to teach people to speak to them at a basic level. I'm not sure I follow your argument. We don't teach literacy because w
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I'd pay even more than Microsoft's already absurd Surface Pro prices if they made a 15" version.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I agree with you that it's unlikely we'll see this information any time soon, but I want to point out that I think the government did the right thing in their response: they admitted they had such a document while at the same time
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
It's a real dichotomy: The GP is replying to someone who said there should be no classified information, to which a proper refutation is to demonstrate the need for certain kinds of classified information. Two comments above that, so
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Someone asked the government for a sensitive report. The government replied that it had such a report, but while it would admit the existence, it felt the material contained in it was necessary to keep secret. This gives the original reques
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
But let's take your scenario: even if you only showed me it's not behind one of your doors, I still know that there's a 9/10 chance it's behind one of the remaining 8 doors. This still gives each of your doors a b
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
There's nothing accidental about being in public when you're at a table at the mall, either, and yet we accept that people make communications in such spaces, which because of the medium carry beyond their party, that were really
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Firstly, she's not a racist, she made one joke with racial tones. Secondly, do you not see how your position is a rather extreme one, that other, more moderate people might not endorse? Racism is bad, but saying racists aren't peo
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I don't like the extremism behind the idea that we should fire someone from their job over a off-color joke which is intended for a small audience, but may be overheard accidentally by others. That sort of absolutism of policing though
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
You can take it a step further and use SPARK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_%28programming_language%2...
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Enforce which law? The police already don't have the resources to enforce every infraction, every time, so we're already discussing which cases we should be enforcing and how much effort we should be putting in to each. In this pa
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
To put your numbers in perspective: the cost of Julian Assange being kept in the embassy is not policing all of the UK for a day or so. That is, the cost of keeping Assange under watch is the same as what would be spent on 1 average day of
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
To be fair, Facebook hires psychologists to basically get you addicted to Facebook and hides (as much as it can) the nature of its practices from its merchandise.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
"You can plea to this crime and be sentence to 2 years in prison, or we'll charge you with a felony instead of a misdemeanor and several extra things to drive your minimum sentence up to 5 years." I would be much more okay wi

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