cantthinkofone

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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
"Idle hands are the devil's workshop." The more people that are economically sidelined, who nave nothing to do and no prospects for self-advancement, the more appealing radical ideologies will become and the more social unres
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
This seems plausible. There's usually a proliferation then a consolidation phase with any period of innovation, where people invent all sorts of ways of doing things and then gradually figure out what works best together. Why the clien
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
There's something in human nature that finds meaning in turbulence, friction, conflict, movement. A sense of being challenged, pushing past limits, propelling into excitement and change. When you reach a state where you have all your
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
I think OP means that idealizing ML experiments using contrived data can distort the picture. Real world, ecologically valid results can only be discovered as they emerge when the algorithms are deployed in production. ML algorithms sometim
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
Another risk I think is the automation of coding. It already happens all the time, and in principle coding should be the most automatable of anything. The only thing saving it is that it's very hard to automate the creation of good ide
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
Right, web apps aren't websites. The distinction is pretty sharp when you move from a simple static old fashioned display to Amazon tier complexity where money is being transacted, log in information stored, orders updated, and a milli
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
>Even though eye beams do not exist in reality, and even though most people do not intellectually believe in them, they may exist as a part of the rich, implicit social model that we naturally apply to seeing agents. It makes sense that
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
I agree that the government will need to work on a transparent front-end to make this data universally accessible. Nonprofits without the budgets for advanced tech workers and without volunteers will need clearly organized links to download
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
It's good to see the US govt making an effort to step up its technical level. A vast if hidden problem in the political sphere is that most politicians do not have a technical education. This creates a serious misconfiguration of the g
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
If humanlike reasoning is the destination for AGI, there's more than just symbolic reasoning to factor in. Emotions are a huge control on human reasoning. People essentially rely on emotions to make all their decisions. Emotions implic
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
If you want AGI you need to give it a world to live in. The ecological component of perception is missing. Without full senses, a machine doesn't have a world to think generally about. It just has the narrow subdomain of inputs that it
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
I'm conflicted about the notion that "no one has time to read your article." That says more about dilapidation of reading culture than the fact that length of a text is necessarily bad. I see it happening to me and I don&#x27
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
My assumption, my hope really, is that FB gave away private messages in some sanitized and anonymized manner, because Spotify and Netflix was happy to pay for any insider marketing data they could receive about what relevant chat histories
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
Any blog IMO should have a minimalist design. You want to draw attention to the content and present it as plainly and with as little visual clutter as possible. Some people want to use their blog as a kind of interactive CV but that should
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
Is that a feature or a byproduct? It doesn't make sense to me on the surface that a larger text would be linked to more necessarily. The length of a text doesn't seem like it would factor into the outcome of the page ranking unles
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
I would argue your perspective boils down to what is the best standard way to teach programming skills. No one should stop learning from as many valid sources as possible. And it's not an easy problem for anyone to solve. The underlyin
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
Tinder has one of those monetization schemes that transparently resemble operant conditioning to anyone with the knowhow. Captology. The more you use it, the more it knows your type, the more it recommends them, then it dangles out more pos
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
This sequence of exposes and revelations doesn't speak to Facebook's credibility. It would be one thing if it was just the incidents surrounding the 2016 elections, but the pattern in all these news reports seems to be that Facebo
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
I'd like to see what can be done with anonymity but with more filters. When this software was first designed, AI-driven content classification was virtually nonexistent. If bots can be designed to be moderators, I'm thinking if yo
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by cantthinkofone 8y ago
It makes me wonder about use cases for tools like freenet, tor, etc. Espionage of some sort comes to mind and the need to deliver a message from sender to receiver without identifying any participants . Otherwise there is some other implici