barelyauser

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by barelyauser 2y ago
Can something posses extrinsic properties? Or are them a intrinsic property of external things?
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Once I was told by a mechanic the following: if car companies where the ones liable for fixing your car, the design would look very much different. Car companies choose what is simple to manufacture, but eventually making it very hard to ma
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by barelyauser 2y ago
I find that researchers choices of names for the sake of differentiation is more of a barrier than something helpful. Sometimes it feels like I know nothing, but in reality it is the name of the "technique" or phenomena that does
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Pretty much this. It was a huge disappointment for me to understand that even if I made a revolutionary discovery and doubled the yield of food crops, people would reproduce and the prices (and availability) of food would not change.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
The Byte magazine is incredible. First time reading it. The archive.org collection is a gold mine for learning. Thank you very much for posting it.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Beam riding is also a thing. The missile is guided by a sensor in its butt, therefore making it harder to jam.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Also, the safest data is the one never sampled into digital format and stored in computer systems.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Perhaps they are not. What is really happening is the world is getting more complicated. And if people don't get smarter, or better informed, their capacity to create problems is going to increase.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
But they can be picked up with right kind of electromagnetic arrangement[0]. [0]. https://youtu.be/7ZeBWJLRXqM&t=1231
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by barelyauser 2y ago
So you are telling me that a certain linear city will also not materialize?
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Would you rather have Cars as a Service?
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Don't they use radar altimeters to get altitude? You don't need to rely only on image processing. You can even pull off stereo using a single camera since you are moving and know the altitude at every point.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
People got very upset when chemistry proved that we are made of the same thing as "unalive" things like rocks. You can see the same now that we proved the same for intelligence.
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by barelyauser 2y ago
We will probably get as much collaboration as the car industry does with some basic components and standards. But perhaps big differences in the major hardware (hands, chassis). The most valuable part, the AI models, will certainly be close
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Yet again very little attention is given to the touch sensing. No sensors on the back and sides of the fingers. I can grasp objects blind folded because of the richness of touch. It is super costly to try to compensate lack of touch with vi
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by barelyauser 2y ago
This is an absurd take, to say the least. It offends the intelligence of virtually everyone involved in the bomb development. Plutonium usefulness would be noticed eventually. Implosion of fusion fuel using X-Rays thermal transport would ha
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Non-deterministic means random. AI or natural I is not random. Analog suffers immensely from noise and it is the reason the brain has such a large number of neurons, part to deal with noise and part to deal with losing some neurons along th
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by barelyauser 2y ago
If they think this plan of "connecting" word to actions is promising then they should ask it to tie a shoelace based on "natural language" description. I'm shocked. I really did not expect that MIT would foster such
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by barelyauser 2y ago
Perhaps your assumption that stepper motors are the first solution to any motion problem speaks more about your lack of resourcefulness than the ingenuity of another solution.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Can one achieve elite status without wealth?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
The mistake you make (and a lot of people also do) is to assume the purpose of the system is to somehow cater to your (the consumer) needs. The purpose of the system is to fulfill the needs of the elite (those who benefit from the system).
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by barelyauser 3y ago
They are literally falling apart at this point...
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Why is he not employed at research? Semiconductor is a gigantic field growing by the year.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Amazon as a gateway to illegal or fraudulent products? Please, a trillion dollar corporation must surely have professionals watching this over.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Because streets are not controlled environments. Planes have auto pilots for a long time, because air is a highly controlled environment with professionals agreeing to cooperate and making logical decisions (most of times).
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by barelyauser 3y ago
I suppose the '47' in your username tells the same story as the Kalashnikov one does?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
For any corporation everything can be boiled down to: profit or loss?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Consider the meaning of interest rates. I work 10 hours in exchange for 10 moneys. I could exchange it for 10 hours work from some other guy. But what does it mean when I purchase a government bond and make 1 currency per year of interest?
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Precisely. $1M and interest rates of 6% per year mean almost $7 per hour just to cover financing.
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by barelyauser 3y ago
Mass production is not only about energy efficiency. It is also about material efficiency and time efficiency. People want stuff NOW. Each process has its advantages. 3d printing can do stuff that mass fabrication techniques can't.

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