logicrook

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by logicrook 10y ago
Really? It seems to me that downvotes are used very negatively, as they are put a strong incentive (for most people) not to express unpopular opinions, even if they are good comments. If they were used only to discourage low quality posts,
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by logicrook 10y ago
Thank you, for the excellent rephrasing. >But Go (and tetris etc) are games of perfect information where perception of the game state is not a challenge. In general, "perception of the game state" is not a challenge, at least a
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by logicrook 10y ago
The question seems flawed, as having an AI making decisions only based on visual information is basically confusing how you get the information (visual) and what information the AI get (only limited information, similar to what the player h
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by logicrook 10y ago
This is brilliant. I so wish I enrolled for an ethology PhD now...
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by logicrook 10y ago
And the thread concerning that much better model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11403653
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by logicrook 10y ago
I agree with most of your comment, but here are two nitpicks. >This is what makes the cult of science dangerous, not the word "bitches". Nobody said that, so there's no need to burn your strawman there. Science is all abou
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by logicrook 10y ago
Another human activity where avant-garde is fully indistinguishable from straight parody. Such a world we live in. The takeaway should be to keep some sane garde-fou principle, such as "form follows function", and use it as unit t
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by logicrook 10y ago
Nothing to do with the movie, but I thought his autistic aspects to be violently hilarious when reading more about him. He seemed to be at times completely oblivious of social implications and rules, which gave many great anecdotes to punct
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by logicrook 10y ago
To rephrase you question, do you prefer something stupid, or something stupid that pretends to be clever (and sully something you like)? Also, false dichotomy.
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by logicrook 10y ago
>HN is what we make it. Exactly, and certainly there are other people who would like to see more of that in first page, but you just can't bash useful comments, so even with good intentions you can be part of the problem (talking fo
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by logicrook 10y ago
Oh thanks, that looks pretty interesting, and will distract from shitposting on random pop-science/political quasi-journalism articles for a while. It seems that it was the purpose of HN, but I'm not sure anymore. However, it is u
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by logicrook 10y ago
> renders -> photoshop clarification was genuinely more useful Except 'the clarification' is wrong. If you have a render, it doesn't mean it's 3D. It can be 3D, 2D, a mixture of both (last is probably the most freq
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by logicrook 10y ago
Renders also mean drawings. Scott Robertson's book "How to render" does not explain how to press the render button in Blender, it explains how to actually draw (render) a concept art.
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by logicrook 10y ago
Usually, people don't feel the same way when thinking about any kind of work; you have to master the basics if you want express something. You need to learn to draw before you can get to the point of expressing yourself via paintings.
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by logicrook 10y ago
The problem is when parents start seeing baby's poop splatters as artistic expression. The equivalent with computers would be to call bugs features?
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by logicrook 10y ago
>Sorry, the GIMP doesn't replace photoshop See my other comment and go have a look at Krita. >Except only MEGAcorp product is competitive. Are you denying the existence of VLC, Firefox, and other successful OSS? >Maybe FOSS ne
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by logicrook 10y ago
>This is fascinating. The word you're looking for is "features". This is fascinating. You are confusing "features" with "interacting with closed software". Want to take an example? Go have a look at Kri
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by logicrook 10y ago
The point I'm making does not involve Canonical. When discussing a switch to Linux, most people answer with something like "oh but it should support X (MEGAcorp product) so I can't switch". It should support .docx, or wh
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by logicrook 10y ago
It's a blogpost, made to express an opinion, so he doesn't have to say this. If this was supposed to be a serious article, or was involved in a serious debate, then it would be a different issue. Second, I have a Firefox phone and
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by logicrook 10y ago
Problem I have: I am dependent on MEGAcorp. MEGAcorp does not like freedom. So free solutions are not good. Do you see the problem?
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by logicrook 10y ago
I agree with basically everything you said, yet I take quite a few pictures during my trips; a cheap phone shot that takes as little time as possible, that may be awfully blurry and with horrible colors, but that is enough to get the releva
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by logicrook 10y ago
I agree with you. But what if you want to drink pure/purified water? You can do for little to no cost in certain conditions, but for city people there are either bottled water or some purifying systems that can be costly and of various
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by logicrook 10y ago
The point he is making is not reduced to that, it is that you should judge things with the same metrics. I.e. how much water is used for bottled water? For running water? How much harmful chemicals can you find in soft drink, bottled water,
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by logicrook 10y ago
My comment's intention was to illustrate that the derided sentence simply intended to say "it's abstract". So now, let's see how "The Turing Machine is really a machine, in every practical sense." is false
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by logicrook 10y ago
>Medicine (and many other "closed" subjects) is widely taught in schools - it is not a secret guild. We agree, but you could as well say thus that closed software is not really closed since you can learn software in schools. It
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by logicrook 10y ago
I couldn't agree much. If you look outside of CS and mathematics, where FLOSS principles are widely represented, in most domains it is very hard to access the knowledge. Besides the experts protecting their expertise, there are some fi
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by logicrook 10y ago
There's an article with an outrageous title (claiming one's getting towards the goal of simulating existence!) and the top comment is about "he doesn't use version control?!". That's so HN.
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by logicrook 10y ago
A Turing machine is not really a machine. A TM can simulate the abstraction of a machine, a machine can simulate a TM. You can put bread in your toaster, you can't put the bread in a Turing machine (unless it's a toaster-enhanced
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by logicrook 10y ago
With this subtitle, there is actually no need for an article.
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by logicrook 10y ago
You have beautifully captured the kind of intellectual emulation that drives people to HN. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that many great research projects started in the comment section. Maybe we should maintain a database of such g

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