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by programnature 18y ago
The executives and the union bosses, sure. But the people who are gonna suffer the most are the 1) run of the mill workers, 2) the contractor subeconomy, and 3) the rest of us In a good economy, sure let them fail. Though I find the lack of
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by programnature 18y ago
health care costs per vehicle are between 1000-1700. We collectively, and the auto industry in particular, are at a big disadvantage until these costs are brought under control http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070227/A..
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by programnature 18y ago
573,000 jobs lost last month and people want to dance on the grave of a MAJOR national industry?? This not good news for people like me who worry things are gonna get a lot worse before they get better. Anyway, with all that capital just fl
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by programnature 18y ago
Almost all processes that are not obviously simple can be viewed as computations of equivalent sophistication.
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by programnature 18y ago
I think the point is that you have to type about 30 characters to get a 3d plot of the molecule of choice. Unlike M-, PyMOL doesn't have the data built-in, so you have to find, download, load etc yourself.
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by programnature 18y ago
The summer school where this was conjectured was http://www.wolframscience.com/summerschool/2003/participants... As one of the "live experiments" Stephen Wolfram decided to try to find the minimal recursive functions involving arithmetic
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by programnature 18y ago
this is extremely awesome. I've wanted this sort of functionality for a while to animate the evolution of some of my graphs like http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/AutomataGenerativeNetworks...
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by programnature 18y ago
The idea of there being an indigenous "higher-level" theory of computation is an important one. But I doubt very much it would look like physics, or have the benefits of physics that Hillis thinks are important. Its much more likely to look
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by programnature 18y ago
Needless to say this is very cool. Could someone explain the technical advantages of having it in javascript rather than as a java applet? Obviously java applets are a pain, but at least right now they much more widely supported than the ca
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by programnature 18y ago
This is awesome, thanks. One suggestion: it would be even more useful (for my purposes at least) if you had another version that only included the full posts, rather than having the full posts in addition to having separate files for each c
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by programnature 19y ago
I want to go, will they just let you in without rsvp?
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by programnature 19y ago
amen to that. one might say they've prematurely optimized on what is interesting about computation, before we had enough practical experience to really know.
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by programnature 19y ago
getting up to speed on web technologies. jquery, css, javascript. facebook apps. learning about business process modeling languages.
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by programnature 19y ago
My setup in Mathematica... http://www.programnature.org/Screenshot.png
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by programnature 19y ago
That quote is pretty vague, but I don't think he is trying to say that people haven't heard of Turing machines, which they obviously have. I think the point is that "textbook" turing machines, just like other "textbook" forms of engineerin
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by programnature 19y ago
What exactly is 'unduly' about it? Going on a book tour? Putting up a website? That his research was funded through success in the market rather than government subsidies doesn't imply any 'unduliness' to me, but attitudes may vary.
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by programnature 19y ago
Some ideas have already become commonplace, others less so. Simple programs as 'language primitive' for modeling was criticised by many, but is now becoming popular, particularly in biology (see for example http://fontana.med.harvard.edu/w
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by programnature 19y ago
wow that is incredibly naive. You think people in academia don't actively try to promote and position their work? Let alone the book and journal publishers, and conference organizers that have an obvious interest in all this.
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by programnature 19y ago
The difference is that Wolfram wants an actual, single correct model in his hands, whereas Juergen is just talking about hypothetical computations that theoretically produce our universe as well as all the rest (with no hope of being discov
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by programnature 19y ago
i am down.