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by dncrane 8y ago
> But these heralds who have volunteered their clairvoyant services to us [...] just know that [superintelligence] is going to happen soon, if not already. And they do know, with all their hearts, that it is going to be bad. Really bad.
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by dncrane 8y ago
> For one, so far everyone predicting doom about AI has been a layman a subject. This is a myth. It was arguably true 5-10 years ago, but concern with AI safety is not a fringe position even among the highest levels of AI researchers now
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by dncrane 9y ago
I posted an earlier version of this about 2 years ago. Since then I've added a bunch of music theory exercises and created a system for teachers to use the exercises in their classes by giving assignments, tracking scores, etc. The new
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Show HN: Ear training using midi.js(tonesavvy.com)
2 points by dncrane 9y ago|1 comments
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by dncrane 9y ago
How long would you personally like to live if you could be healthy the entire time and not age any more or any faster than you'd like to? 50 years? 150? 1000?
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by dncrane 11y ago
Thanks! Those are all good ideas. One of them is already implemented: Keyboard shortcuts are available in the advanced options for most exercises.
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by dncrane 11y ago
Good idea! There's an advanced option that puts a "listen" button next to each interval on the sidebar in the intervals exercise, but this would be a good more general feature to include for whenever someone answers incorrect
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by dncrane 11y ago
This is a great point, I'll work on adding more guidance to the exercises.
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by dncrane 11y ago
Thanks, that's a really good point. I agree that the patterns generated could be improved, but haven't come up with a good automated way to generate an unlimited amount of better ones. Please email me any thoughts you have about t
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Show HN: Ear training using midi.js(tonedear.com)
230 points by dncrane 11y ago|34 comments
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by dncrane 11y ago
Hi, I'm the developer of SymbolHound. You're right, SymbolHound's index is a little lacking, especially for new languages. This is because it's based almost entirely on a stackoverflow data dump ( http://blog.s
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by dncrane 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut) Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP. Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and learning whatever needs to be learned
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by dncrane 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (I'm based in Connecticut) Full-stack web developer. I'd especially like to help you build your MVP. Primary skills are Python/Django, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and learning whatever needs to be learned
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by dncrane 13y ago
I frequently see users who don't realize that the email field on their profile page is not visible (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6593160 ) and that they have to put it in the "about" section. Ther
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Encouraging interviewees to say “I don’t know” improves performance(morehappy.me)
45 points by dncrane 13y ago|70 comments
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by dncrane 13y ago
> the link downloads immediately and there is no way to get the de-obfuscated link If you go to your downloads list you can right click and do "copy link address" (at least on chrome and firefox)
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by dncrane 13y ago
This is a good technique, it's called the "george bailey effect" (after the main character in "It's a Wonderful Life") More info: http://morehappy.me/2013/07/06/to-boost-happiness
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by dncrane 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote Most interested in python/django work. See my CV here: http://symbolhound.com/cv.php contact: dncrane@gmail.com
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by dncrane 13y ago
> any suggestions on how to fix this? Could you have separate input boxes for each segment of the phone number? (as in #2 here: http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1015 )
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by dncrane 13y ago
There are some good notes for Peter Thiel's class here: http://blakemasters.com/peter-thiels-cs183-startup
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by dncrane 13y ago
Looks like it's not exactly the same, e.g. robocode had a separate scanner and turret, while fightcode has the cannon act as the scanner.
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by dncrane 14y ago
> Furthermore, rather than merely assuming I met my goals, I used analytics. Every metric shows that my design is successful. Does this mean that, for example, the green button was A/B tested against the blue?
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Show HN: How to get better at software estimation(rightbounds.com)
2 points by dncrane 14y ago|0 comments
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by dncrane 15y ago
This is called the Collatz conjecture, and it still hasn't been proved: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
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by dncrane 15y ago
Here's a good list of highly-praised books. Most of them look like they could make it past the censors: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m... From those I personally recommend "Structure and Interpretation of Com
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by dncrane 15y ago
SymbolHound developer here, thanks for the mention boyter!
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ShowHN: SymbolHound Code Search (beta), a Google Code Search replacement(symbolhound.com)
2 points by dncrane 15y ago|0 comments
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by dncrane 15y ago
"Singularity related articles and worries about "good" AI building makes me a bit uneasy when the performance of machines on many important tasks, e.g. object recognition, is dismal. So we have quite a way to go." Yudkowsky (2008), "AI as a
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by dncrane 15y ago
I guess the issue is how likely you think a hard takeoff/FOOM scenario is: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Intelligence_explosion "Sure a human level computer AI gets 'free' speed doubling every 18 months, but so does the intelligence that
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by dncrane 15y ago
I don't think anybody from the SIAI is disagreeing with you here. I don't think the kind of prediction you're talking about is part of the intelligence explosion hypothesis. A superintelligence doesn't need literal omniscience, or even some

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