otakucode

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by otakucode 4mo ago
I mean, I would argue that they are right, but there is still a hard problem of consciousness. What properties must a system hold in order to exhibit consciousness? Personally, I think I could fairly capably argue that consciousness is an e
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by otakucode 4mo ago
That was my immediate first thought. "Oh, is Bitlocker Not Safe Anymore?"
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by otakucode 6y ago
Are we going to simply give up when it comes to understanding the fundamental nature of complexity? Why do multi-component systems undergo phase changes, why does it occur at the points at which they do, how could we design simple systems
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by otakucode 6y ago
When I had to come up with a company name back when I was doing freelancing, I chose Entropy Fueled Productions on a rationale quite similar to what was expressed in this article. Then I got to find out very few people know the word '
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by otakucode 6y ago
Years ago, Chrome included an experimental vertical side tabs feature. It was great. Worked perfectly. But, it disappeared one day. People created a bug on the tracker to get it restored. It got thousands of stars. It kept getting clo
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by otakucode 6y ago
There also might be an issue that recipes themselves can not be copyrighted. Article content and writing alongside the recipe can be copyrighted, but the recipe itself is not eligible for copyright protection at all. So if you're try
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by otakucode 6y ago
You would be atypical if you were less productive by normal standards. Most studies I have seen on the topic usually show a marked increase in worker productivity in working from home. There is a bit of a confounding variable, however...
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by otakucode 6y ago
What I didn't see mentioned that concerns me (although I admit it might be a concern born purely out of ignorance): No mention of whether employees would be provided with a minimum of 2 weeks paid sick leave should they show symptoms o
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by otakucode 7y ago
>also offers a glimpse into a potential future where companies of all sorts, not just auto insurers No, not companies of "all" sorts. Just insurance companies. Other companies are regulated by Congress as part of antitrust re
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by otakucode 7y ago
That idea of a critical period we're unaware even exists scares me. We know of several critical periods, like an infant with their eyes covered for the first two months of their life will never master binocular vision, a child born de
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by otakucode 7y ago
It often surprises me when I hear about parents who are considering job-hopping and moving when they have children that are in the critical 11 - 15 age range. I had read ages ago, back in the late 90s I believe, that the chance of suicide
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by otakucode 7y ago
This sort of stealthy manipulation reminds me of an idea I had while reading 'Linked: The New Science of Networks.' It's a dangerous idea, I think. The book discusses what would be necessary to take the network of film part
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by otakucode 7y ago
What about making it so that the amount of latency added is dynamic? It could be set up so that frequency of visitation leads to greater and greater latency. Something like exponential growth of 1.5x every time the site is visited with an
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by otakucode 7y ago
Look into the case where a Christian film company fraudulently claimed a tons of videos on The Bible Reloaded YouTube channel. They went to court. They 'won'. Kinda. They ended up settling, but their case was as iron-clad and
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by otakucode 7y ago
That's... not what the DMCA anti-circumvention clause means. At all. The anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA does not deal with the kind of technological measures they're talking about. It only forbids circumvention of techno
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by otakucode 7y ago
I suffer no illusions that I am myself immune to any of the common pitfalls of being human. I imagine if you shared where you live now, either your community has learned to resist the tendency I describe (which I am guessing you misunderst
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by otakucode 7y ago
I think it is a confluence of factors, but primarily it has become much more visible due to the rise of social media. And by that I specifically mean that social media enabled far more people to actively contribute and communicate online t
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by otakucode 7y ago
Tech may not be entirely innocent, but at the end of the day it facilitates both the good and the bad behavior equally well, so users do bear the most of the blame. Helping the users such that they would not behave in such a manner would,
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by otakucode 7y ago
This certainly applies for me personally. My theory is that it ties in with the sort of 'geographic' memory where when you think of something, you might not be able to remember exactly what it is, but you can remember pretty prec
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by otakucode 7y ago
I'm not familiar with your product, so this question might be either overly simple or entire outside your wheelhouse, but does Sourcegraph have any integration with IDEs? Like if my organization had a module in a repository that did i
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by otakucode 7y ago
As with basically every distributed or 'cloud' system that claims to provide a solution to storing peoples data, my first question is always "What if my data is in excess of 100TB?" Someone has to have some hardware som
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by otakucode 7y ago
The one example with regards to doctors has worked for me in the past. I am sure the doctor didn't get the impression that I was a doctor also (I'm not), but when in my initial meeting with a new doctor the fact that I knew the n
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by otakucode 7y ago
Your black box is a camera. And there is a mountain of legal precedent saying that I own the copyright, and you can not. Also, copyright applies to anything fixed in a medium of expression. You can not copyright a formula, but you can cop
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by otakucode 7y ago
DNA is already established as something owned. I don't think DNA is a good metaphorical proxy in this case, as the DNA of the GAI would sensibly be its set of weights assuming it is a neural net. But if it were, perhaps we would regu
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by otakucode 7y ago
We all do what? We don't all take your specific work, train a model on it, and then select an output to present as a new work. Those are the creative acts. And certainly, the output may be indistinguishable from something you yourse
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by otakucode 7y ago
People are allowed to copyright things that they used tools to create. "Artificial Intelligence" is a tool. The first word should be a big hint. Just like if you trained an AI to murder people it would be a weapon, it can be a
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by otakucode 7y ago
Of course not. Workers generate profit for companies. When a company needs more profit, they hire more workers, not less.
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by otakucode 7y ago
Their tests disabled hyperthreading on Intel due to the security concerns and also on AMD on speculation that security concerns might arise in the future (if I read everything correctly).
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by otakucode 7y ago
>His methods were in keeping with his approach to philosophy: he did not lay claim to any special authority and instead of expounding facts and theories he asked his pupils questions and left them to work out the answers for themselves.
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by otakucode 7y ago
Does this mean we don't need to do a census any more?

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