xyience

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by xyience 10y ago
I just ask the interviewers how much freedom they have in the interviewing process (usually it's pretty clear) and whether they would do something different or not if they could. This kind of follows naturally from questions about non-
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by xyience 10y ago
Surface Pro / Surface Book. I presume Linux support on them is good enough now, but at least if you're stuck with Windows you can get a proper bash environment now without cygwin that I hear works well.
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by xyience 10y ago
Maybe some fingers of the government are demanding a backdoor, but other fingers of the government want tor to be as secure as possible. Tor is useful for the operations of national intelligence agents, too, and can only maintain that use w
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by xyience 10y ago
Panzer Dragoon Orta was on the x-box. :) Sega should really make an HD remastering of all of them though. Or even a new one. Especially after the sadness of Star Fox Zero.
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by xyience 10y ago
How do you know the stuff at the gas station is actually 91 and not 87, how do you know the regulators do their jobs properly and aren't bought out by Big Oil? The answer to all questions is that random private individuals or groups do
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by xyience 10y ago
And it works great with NoScript. What a breath of fresh air from the SPA stuff I work around every day.
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by xyience 10y ago
> (you can use GCC but the code quality wouldn't be that good) Maybe.. on the other hand you can actually use the full program space available, and gdb. (Last time I used Keil was 2011, I quickly moved to a GCC toolchain rather than
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by xyience 10y ago
Tests don't magically make changes safe or give the confidence to make changes.
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by xyience 10y ago
Skimmed the PDF, it seems like the point of this paper is just to show that yes, classical systems can (with memory, e.g. the reference https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.3650 ) simulate quantum ones, and thus finding "cha
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by xyience 10y ago
You can do that with some proprietary software too -- proprietary doesn't have to mean no source code and no source code modification, unfortunately it has come to mean that for too many businesses and users willing to pay money to tho
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by xyience 10y ago
There's a point in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Vt8zqhHe_c where I realized he is a brilliant comedian, but also pretty far left, and a lot of his funny criticisms just boil down to criticizing for not be
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by xyience 10y ago
Is he rich from his superior models?
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by xyience 10y ago
It depends on the mutual fund and the ETF. For Vanguard 500, the VOO ETF and the VFIAX index fund are effectively the same, they even have the same expense ratio. The latter you need $10k upfront though. (VFINX, if you only have between $3k
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by xyience 10y ago
These things aren't inevitable, scaring people into exercise won't work. But even if they were, it wouldn't be terrible to die '"on my back, lying on my many rolls of fat, scarcely uttering a word, taking labored br
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by xyience 10y ago
Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYkMhQ9gf8
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by xyience 10y ago
http://stronglifts.com/5x5/
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by xyience 10y ago
Kids need a motive. With a motive, they'll figure things out, you don't have to handhold them every step or create broken abstractions for them to play around in then get bored. We already have "visual/physical programmi
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by xyience 10y ago
I think you need an additional component: no other desires except work. Many of us don't have jobs that fully satisfy (or let's be honest, even barely satisfy, since even 50% satisfaction would be nice and tolerable at some places
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by xyience 10y ago
What's your burn rate? That is, if you stop doing any income-producing activities, how long can you live off of savings? Considering burning through them all for a long period of no work. Or if you think you can manage for longer, try
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by xyience 10y ago
Haven't watched the video yet, but then Conway and others formalized a bunch of theory for 2-player combinatorial games like Go, using surreal numbers for game states. (e.g. the number * = {0|0}, or, whoever moves first wins.)
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by xyience 10y ago
You will never have the technology to decrypt aes256.
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by xyience 10y ago
So is <insert other modern OS>. That doesn't mean it should be auto-installed.
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by xyience 10y ago
There are historical examples of discontinuities, though I don't think the FOOM debate will be settled soon. It may be quite a while before we even get to "dumb AGI", but the hardest part of that is the G part. Right now &quo
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by xyience 10y ago
With higher level languages it's even less important to know theoretic complexities, just represent the problem in the most natural representation and optimize later. (You're already giving up orders of magnitude in exchange for d
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by xyience 10y ago
Can you make an unhackable person? If people can get around your safeguards, even only people with authority rather than in general, the AGI can too. Trying to keep a potentially malicious (actively or passively so, I mean only bad for huma
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by xyience 10y ago
The Golden Age trilogy is great. A Fire Upon the Deep is also good.
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by xyience 10y ago
I don't think there's much reason to be confident that the first AGI will be like a low-IQ human, at least for very long, even if it starts off as an emulated human brain. Machines have the huge advantage of faster materials (neur
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by xyience 10y ago
Is your point that there are unaddressed safety concerns with existing tech? While true, none of them are really existential threats, whereas something with greater than human intelligence yet none of the limitations of a single biological
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by xyience 10y ago
It'd be nice if they made an area available for random mall-goers who are also software engineers to come voluntarily hang out and instruct / help out random kids or teens that stop by, with potential for networking or further tut
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by xyience 10y ago
I also don't see why one would necessarily need to reason from complexity arguments, rather than more intuitive "I'm using a set because I want to use set operations like union and membership". If performance is crucial,

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