TTPrograms

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by TTPrograms 8y ago
If Google compiled the extensions that would work. Seems like it would take a lot of standardization to make that possible. But in principle that would certainly be better than the current situation.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
Nice - I went to the blog page on your site and this wasn't there. Good stuff.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
You both seem to have really confident opinions given that you admit you have no expertise in the field.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
Legitimately, if you used ex. Ethereum to compile your code could actually prove that a given executable was compiled from given source. Otherwise the only way to verify a build is to build it yourself and check the hashes. Signing just ver
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
You all should really play that up more in your messaging - "provenance" is one of the hardest and least-addressed components of building AI/ML/data science systems that actually have measurable impact (rather than analy
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
Bitcoin does not preclude the use of the legal system or other channels of recourse.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
In the example they give they predict the future of a simulation. If you have a perfect simulation, with perfect observation, why not just run the simulation forwards? Well, the goal is to apply this to the real world, where you possibly ha
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
Esketamine is the patentable isomer they're trying to use to enable this process of patenting + FDA so the drug companies can make a return. So the end result is a very expensive drug that insurance would pay for vs a cheap drug with 9
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
Racemic ketamine is also dirt cheap, while esketamine might be absurdly expensive after being patented.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
If you're an American, every time you read a new article on Ketamine for depression your thought should be "Jeese, healthcare is screwed up". Pharma companies don't benefit from getting Ketamine approved (since it's
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
The important question is if you think it's possible to create impervious functions of ~100 lines of code. I tend to think that with modern formal verification systems this is a feasible goal. Otherwise you have to stick with closed-so
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
By this logic so is every financial software system, though.
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
But let's make sure that the definition of AI doesn't encompass this because...?
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by TTPrograms 8y ago
It seems disingenuous to refer to that as proof-of-stake.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
It was so nice of them to, out of the goodness of their hearts, provide such a competitively priced service. It sure seems unlikely that it was at all motivated by competition with alternative financial systems.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
I would argue drones are mostly commodities at this point.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Does your insurance cover it?
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Keep quiet about condoms too, otherwise people might think you're suggesting they have sex!
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
It's not really even clear to me that meth is that much of a killer. The article quotes 6000 deaths per year for all stimulants in the US. Alcohol related deaths per year in the US seems to be around 88,000. Obviously alcohol use is mo
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
I think the effects you're describing are mostly all the result of developed behaviors / personal neglect from taking large does regularly. Taking high doses of, ex. Adderall for two years would likely have similar effects.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
If we had mechanisms to identify people who were perfectly trustworthy, ensure these people are perpetually and exclusively in power, and construct perfect security for all involved computer systems then this reasoning would make sense.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
In the same way that ex. Bitcoin has intrinsic value as means to write data to an immutable public ledger, both of these applications are insufficient to justify the value each of these things hold. The fact of the matter is that intrinsic
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
You could definitely reflect ex. infrared without affecting photosynthesis. I think your response is a little quick to brush off these ideas. There are many possible venues for geoengineering that could have fantastic benefits, even beyond
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Alleviating suffering over the long term, which includes fixing institutions when it's appropriate.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Bill Gates is also applying his money where he thinks it will have the most impact - their foundation often invests in new technologies and startups whose products will have the greatest impact per dollar. If Gates and Musk are both working
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
> Smart contracts are being suggested as the building block of "autonomous corporations" By who? I'm not aware of any major developers suggesting this. As far as I can tell this is just a strawman promoted on HN. The Dao w
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Why did this get pushed so far off the front page? Currently it's at 51 points after being up for 2 hours and it's on page 3.
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Where do you get your numbers? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._cities_with_high_...
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Consider me sniped. My first thought was hashing mod k. Then when you create your hashmap you just check for collisions as you go and then test that they're k apart as opposed to 2k,3k etc. Then you don't have to scan through the
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by TTPrograms 9y ago
Let's be clear to differentiate when we're talking about fundamental laws like conservation of momentum or unitarity versus "how much energy can be stored in a fiber", which was really just the derivation someone did on

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