enki

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On Being Martian: Mars is a place, but it is also an idea.(bigthink.com)
6 points by enki 14y ago|1 comments
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by enki 14y ago
not if the amount of training data required to learn by example is exponential or even combinatorial. we might not even be in the same ballpark. all data ever recorded on digital media might not be enough to learn even a simple intelligence
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by enki 14y ago
as per http://paulbohm.com/pdf/10.1.1.76.5543.pdf and http://paulbohm.com/pdf/general_limitations.pdf learning by example requires many more examples than the kolmogorov complexity of the target concept. T then is not just the life expe
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by enki 14y ago
author: there's no fundamental objection. i'm only pointing out that throwing faster computation at the problem doesn't necessarily solve it. right now all the work essentially needs to be done by humans. If you follow the link to the lower
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Information Theory: Obstacles To True Artificial Intelligence(paulbohm.com)
18 points by enki 14y ago|7 comments
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by enki 14y ago
That help won't be coming from politicians, because they don't even remotely get that wealth and wealth creation are linked. And despite what OP wrote, the fundamentals haven't changed in any other way that was perceptible to me. I can't te
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by enki 14y ago
I'm far less optimistic. I was one of the most vocal and active pro-european-startup activists before I left for San Francisco in 2009. With no capital, I started multiple companies. Some failed, some are still active and now do combined mu
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by enki 14y ago
i love your description of this. using up resources is not valuable by itself. forcing someone to spend on anything, anything at all, does not lead to a good allocation of resources. it might increase GDP, but it does not create value. unde
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by enki 14y ago
only if you're ok with never buying any physical goods with bitcoin. the weak point is the exchange between bitcoins and classical currencies or physical goods.
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by enki 14y ago
thanks! date added to template!
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by enki 14y ago
How is bitcoin a non-commodity currency? If bitcoins have value because they allow you to do things you couldn't otherwise do (my point), it's a commodity. why is it desirable for a currency to be a non-commodity currency?
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by enki 14y ago
bitcoin's problem is that the financial sector is massively regulated - you're going to jail if you attempt to compete. creating a website where you can store $10, send it to me, and then let me withdraw it, is a 5 year felony in california
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by enki 14y ago
the dollar and euro are also assets in that way. you're usually just not aware of its fluctuations (against each other, against other currencies, and against commodities) look at any of the US dollar indexes, which examine the exchange rate
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by enki 14y ago
because an attacker controlling less than 50% of the computational resources can be lucky and find the first solution before anyone else. he can even be lucky twice or thrice. but to be lucky 12 times against everyone else with less than 50
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by enki 14y ago
yes, bitcoins in theory can be infinitely divided. classical observations about hoarding and "bad currency driving out the good" likely don't apply. if you want to spend, you just spend however little you want to spend.
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by enki 14y ago
author here: there's a cost with storing gold in the ground and securing it, and there's a cost with printing counterfeit-resistant paper and finding and jailing counterfeiters (and a cost with not doing so - unbounded inflation) an interes
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by enki 14y ago
author here: i've written 12x10 minutes, and the original description writes 12x10 minutes. is there something i've missed? it takes 10 minutes to find a solution, but only after 12 solutions have been found (the chain has been extended 12
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by enki 14y ago
analysis: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/07/zerodeterminant_...
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by enki 14y ago
this should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system
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by enki 14y ago
A hip kid investing in things he likes probably has a higher hit-miss ratio than most VCs... :)
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by enki 15y ago
i retrained myself to touch-type when i was 16. only thing it took was forcing myself to not type any other way, no matter how slow i ended up being. within a month or two i was typing at my previous speed. (and continued to improve from th
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by enki 15y ago
even if you had had the same brilliant insights into the graph structure of the web when they did, you most likely would have failed because it was prohibitively expensive (the cost in the article is probably underestimated by orders of mag
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by enki 15y ago
"The SDLP is notable in the history of Google as a primary sources of funding for Lawrence Page's and Sergey Brin (Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship) during the period they developed the precursors and initial ve
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by enki 15y ago
In http://www.salon.com/1998/12/21/straight_44/ it said "Page says the current version of Google, which has indexed about 60 million pages, will continue to be improved as the company expands." and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of
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by enki 15y ago
You missed the temporal context of what I wrote: " A few decades ago [...] if you'd wanted to use a hash table, if you even knew what a hash table was, you'd have to write your own." I agree with you on the quality of the BSD code, and I'm
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by enki 15y ago
good point! google definitely is part of what makes us so much more productive programmers today! (despite google codesearch going away)
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by enki 15y ago
sorry, we didn't get to making a better site yet, but we'll definitely address your concerns when we get to it!
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by enki 15y ago
(author here) I was writing this more in the sense that kids at BioCurious (and the DIY Bio Movement in general) are doing electrophoresis to transfer DNA from glowing jellyfish to bacteria. This is just a few (two?) years after someone got
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A 14-year-old could build 1998's Google using her Dad's credit card(paulbohm.com)
122 points by enki 15y ago|71 comments
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The Challenge of Recognizing Bold Early-Stage Research(paulbohm.com)
1 points by enki 15y ago|0 comments

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