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"Let me add that the foundational-axiomatic position tends to imply that political rule should be by something like a philosopher-king, while I think the anti-foundational one implies liberal democracy."

Really? That's a very strong statement which I would like to see to be backed up with some axioms. :-) (Because both analytic philosophy and democracy seem more preferable to me.)
I live in Australia and our catalogue is disappoining. We are practically US 2.0 and the publishers still can't figure out a way to strike a deal.

Just copy and paste your contracts, replace America with Australia and away you go. /s
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The Mosul Dam holds back a lake which would flood Baghdad in a matter of hours if damaged by earthquake or bombings.
> We are still a ways away from AGI, but it's now in sight.

These people in 1956 also thought that AGI was in sight:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_Conferences
I think that list is more of an answer to the question "What are some examples of widely-used FOSS projects created by famous programmers" than it is an answer to OP's question about beautiful software.
Erlang process != OS process.
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With the same speak, you could say Facebook mangages billions of PHP web servers, though no one speak like that. (PHP has a shared nothing architecture; HHVM works simlar to the Erlang VM, if one can say so)
>Lee Sedol's win against AlphaGo

Haha, yes. A truly epoch-defining event.
How is something that is, in essence, "truth determination and dissemination," not free?
> The only advantage is that your VPN provider (or their ISP) might have little reason to spy on your traffic ...

Yes, that's the point. You want to pick VPN providers that can't readily be forced to spy. See https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...
racist is, imo, a strange word to use there
It seems like the easy way to solve that would be to not have research where the government funds only a small part. If the government is going to fund it, fund it the whole way.

The alternative has way, way too much potential for rent seeking. You'll get private interests who connive a way to have the government pay to do the hard/uncertain/expensive part while they don't put in their dime until they're already sure it's going to pan out, at which point they swoop in and claim the full IP monopoly to the detriment of the public.
examples:

1. a. whitney
2. ioccc.org winners (djb, etc.)

what makes [some] software beautiful?

the ugliness of other software.

most software is large, slow, complicated and bug-ridden.

this makes small, fast, clean software written by competent programmers "beautiful".

taste varies. what is too terse and "obfuscated" to some is pleasingly succinct and manageable to others.

right now there's another post about yann lecun on the front page. he once wrote a lisp-like interpreter that compiles to C called "lush". of all the lisps i have tried i think it's one of the more "beautiful" ones in it's design.
The source code for PGP 5 was made legally available outside the US in a similar method though without translating it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy#Criminal_i...
The best discussion in terms of hardware adjusted algorithmic process I've seen is by Miles Brundage[1]. The additional hardware was the difference between amateur and pro level skills. It's also important to note that the non-distributed AlphaGo still had quite considerable compute power.

Now was a sweet spot in time. This algorithm ten years ago would likely have been pathetic and in ten years time will likely superhuman in the same manner that chess is.

None of these constitute a general advance in AI however.

[1]: http://www.milesbrundage.com/blog-posts/alphago-and-ai-progr...
I tried to argue once that the term "synthetic AI" would be better than AGI, as it removes any notion that artificial implies fake. [Note to surprised self: apparently there is a Wikipedia page describing this exact argument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_intelligence]
There is such a thing as left-libertarianism, and I suspect that a lot of people here have at least one foot in that ideology even if they've never heard about it.
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Sees they have other emulated systems besides DOS, like the Amiga: https://www.gog.com/mix/amiga_classics
Of course there are things that are "free", such as scientific progress and artworks made by already dead people, or sun radiation. Making everything "non-free" will lead to self-contradictory theories such as labor theory of value.
"Whenever you would spawn a new thread in Java, you would spawn a process." While that is true, it represents a subset of cases where you would spawn a process.

Processes are meant to model the real world. I'd say the truth is closer to "Any time you would instantiate an object in Java, you spawn a process." That's not always going to be true, but more true than you might expect.
This might sound crazy but I actually found the discourse source code to be a beautiful thing. When I read it I had never used ruby beyond understanding the syntax via ruby koans. And one day I wanted to learn how they manage long running tasks without blocking the rest of the web application, and so I jumped into the code using only github and github source code search. 15 minutes in I had notes which drew the entire picture of how and where sidekiq comes in and how and where emails are constructed (I was starting out by trying to understand how things like password reset emails are handled iirc). I know there must be some ugly parts in there, but I went in with no understanding of what to look for except some keywords. I came back with a pragmatic understanding of how to implement a certain workflow regardless of language or framework. This was the mark of something beautiful to me.
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"Scotsman AI"
I agree with you and would like to double down: Intelligence is defined as "...the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills."

Even if Alpha-Go could play chess, manage air traffic control, and play GO the same time, it would never know it was doing that. As you mentioned above, Alpha-Go's "intelligence"is specifically pre-programed algorithms and accurate numeric inputs. If it can't create it's own algorithms or translate abstract data into numbers it can crunch on it's own, then there is no intelligence there. It just "smells" like intelligence.
Yes, but many American college wrestlers take their skills to MMA. I think he was referring to the possibility of Senegalese wrestlers doing that.
Ha, it could be worse. I have a friend who's getting his PhD in microbiology and he and his team were running into some trouble with these massive multi-gigabyte CSV files from NIH (gene sequencing data, if I recall). Turns out they were trying to open the little buggers in Excel and wanted to stay in Excel since it was familiar. At some point, I wound up just suggesting they use split on the stupid (but very important) things and people acted like I just blew their minds.

I think sometimes you just get so caught up in your field of expertise that you miss some of the tools that could drastically help you entirely. You have to wonder how much of an efficiency drain that adds up to over the course of even just individual research projects. And that's before you get to bad code.
> the days before ... gameplay and originality really mattered.

That's exactly what I remember people saying about then-modern games in the 90s.
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Presumably one would catch such a blatant error early in testing. The problem is the odd case, the code that only crashes in a rare state, never seen in test. When the odd state does occur the effect is mild, as only one actor dies as opposed to the entire OS process.
Anarcho-capitalists and libertarians of the Austrian School of economics (e.g. those who follow Ludwig von Mises) make a fetish of foundational axioms, yet they are firmly opposed to philosopher-kings.

But they're not exactly fans of modern democracy, either, so it seems that foundational-axiomatic positions do often lead to uncompromising absolutism of one kind or another.
Ha ha. Why to avoid Hola ;)
Regardless of the precise comparisons there is still a long long way to go.
> Interesting, so it's the ability to generalize attributes selectively?

In technical terms it is the ability to generate its own features and classifications for making decisions, where in supervised learning a human provides the features and classifications.

> Could that be accomplished if NN problems are broken into features, and those features are individually tested against new information?

If I understood your example correctly, that would be an example of supervised learning, as you pointed out it lacks the ability to pick features without being told what they are. There are types of unsupervised learning that exist and work quite well, for example cluster analysis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis
Peter Norvig's sudoku solver is beautiful on all levels. http://norvig.com/sudoku.html

It's clearly explained code that's shorter than you would have thought. Norvig showcases his expertise in manipulating both the basic data structure of the Python language, and a deep understanding of the underlying problem and methods for solving it.
Further the agenda of his political donors and pave the way for the successor. Or make it difficult for an adversarial successor to pass opposite laws.
The serial format gave us Dickens and Dumas tho.
We already have true AI - it's a vast, thriving industry.

Or how about calling that vast, thriving industry "weak AI," or "clever algorithms," which is what they really are. The original definition of AI was what we now call strong AI, but after some lesser problems were solved without actually creating strong AI, we had to come up with some name for those.
Cool, thanks. I think the idea is also important to Zoltan Torey, who believed that "consciousness" is essentially a simulation of a kind of arm in our mind. ("The Conscious Mind"). But I've never heard of anyone attempting to train an AI within a simulated world. The nice thing about doing that is that aren't limited by physics of robotics. I suspect that for basic intelligence stuff, relatively lo-fidelity simulation would be sufficient. (Although there are some very important moral issues presented by such a program!)
Damn, those Energia thrusters pack a whallop. I had no idea.
An error in the beam VM (or a nif) could lead to crash of the OS process, and related termination of all of the erlang processes within. However, the beam VM is pretty robust, because of the design, it turns out to be quite small and relatively simple[1], so you don't tend to end up with things were weird edge cases cause terrible crashes that are hard to find. For nifs you write yourself, it's up to you :)

Process isolation isn't complete though, one erlang process can use all of many of the limited resources and end up with the whole vm shutting down. A single process can't use all the CPU, but it can use all the memory, all the atoms, all the filedescriptors, all the ets tables, etc; basically everything in the system limits[2]

[1] Calling it simple is a compliment -- a normal person can look at the vm code and understand it, if they need to.

[2] http://erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/advanced.html#id70200
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What makes you say development over SSH is "uncomfortable at best"?

Lots of people doing this very thing, on a regular basis. I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

Seems to me like SSH+tmux can be a dev's best friend.
You’re being downvoted because this technicality / POV has no real bearing on the main question and doesn’t add to the discussion.
I think Elbakyan should do everything to make sci-hub easily replaceable. Once it's hosted on multiple places it would be much harder to shut down.

Maybe completely free research papers are not the future but there should be a Spotify for research papers that is affordable for everyone. I hope that Elbakyan will reach her goal and ultimately change the whole industry.
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Blender is great, but the UI is very non-standard (for little benefit). A good program can be used by domain experts without reading the manual, something that's not possible with Blender. 3D Max, 4D Studio, and CAD apps like CATIA have a much more intuitive UI.
is this open source?
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf

"Firearm— In 2013, 33,636 persons died from firearm injuries in the United States ( Tables 18 and 19), accounting for 17.4% of all injury deaths in that year. The age-adjusted death rate from firearm injuries (all intents) did not change significantly in 2013 from 2012. The two major component causes of firearm injury deaths in 2013 were suicide (63.0%) and homicide (33.3%). The age-adjusted death rate for firearm homicide decreased 5.3%, from 3.8 in 2012 to 3.6 in 2013. The rate for firearm suicide did not change significantly."

so, that gives us 96.3% of all gun deaths as either suicide or homicide, leaving 3.7% unknown. 3.7% of 33,636 gives us 1,245... okay, uh, so if all of those are accidental deaths, then I'm wrong, as planes aren't nearly that dangerous.

http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/GUNS/GUNSTAT.ht... - claims 600 accidental gun deaths a year
even this page (which reads as very anti-gun to me) claims a similar number:

http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-deaths-and-injuries-statistics/

But, even if the lower ~600 number is right, that puts it in the neighborhood of total airplane deaths globally... so it looks like I was wrong, accidental gun deaths are not rare compared to airplane accidents.

also see

https://wisqars.cdc.gov:8443/nvdrs/nvdrsDisplay.jsp

which apparently only gives me stats from 2013, NVDRS States: AK, CO, GA, KY, MA, MD, NC, NJ, NM, OH, OK, OR, RI, SC, UT, VA, WI

but it has a fascinating table of accidental gun deaths.

However, I'd still say that this doesn't detract much from my general argument that the gun control debate becomes more interesting (and, I think, makes more sense) if you understand that Americans use guns more often on themselves than on other people.
The latest versions, yes. But how many production system use the latest compilers?
I think what he's trying to say is that silver bullets don't exist. Only pros and cons.
> Right now a Jolla phone (with Sailfish OS and Android compatibility) is a readily available handheld native Linux computer.

The point of the Pyra is not just to provide a GNU/Linux distro, it's also to provide physical controls and not just a touch interface. If you focus only on the OS you are missing half of the point of the device.
> Insisting on GNU/Linux is just petty and silly.

Wasn't it the point to recognize that without GNU there would have been no Linux in the first place?
Netflix "gets it" very well, they have to tiptoe between satisfying their content providers with plausible-enough looking action and at the same time trying to not alienate their end-users. They probably know the exact numbers of their chosen paths and have chosen optimally (for now).
You could go to the other extreme, if you're framing things (as they do) of "have no expectations" and give a valuation of $100.

That being said, I do see your point. It's hard to strike that balance between wanting to be more informative (and perhaps this could be separated from the offer letter) and setting expectations - it -is- important that people understand what their options may, or may not, be worth - but perhaps the offer letter isn't the place for that. Perhaps instead:

"If you require any clarification, this resource can explain things, or we can give vesting examples".
> "Some" is not acceptable for preservation.

I meant the few early 1980s audio CDs I own. All still work fine. Pressed CDs last a lot longer than burned CDs. I only ever had problems with CD I burned myself (especially a CD production series in the early 2000s).
Kudos to him for doing this, but I am slightly concerned that he has introduced overbite [1] in his jaws looking at the before and after pictures :(

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbite
I found it beautiful because I had never thought to use the language in that way before I had seen him do it. It wasn't hard to understand once you understood. :-)
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Do use a reputable torrent-friendly VPN service. Such as AirVPN, BolehVPN, Mullvad, etc. And check for leaks: https://www.ivpn.net/privacy-guides/how-to-perform-a-vpn-lea...
Here are three potential definitions:

1) Acting like a human (this is the Turing test approach)

2) Thinking like a human (this is cognitive science, and for now is focused on figuring out how humans think)

3) Thinking rationally, ie, following formal logic (the difficulty here is encoding all the information in the world as formal logic)

4) Acting rationally. That is, entities that react rationally to their goals (this one is notable because it allows fairly stupid entities).

These are all explained in more detail in Artificial Intelligence, a Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig
As someone who went through the process, I'm glad I did. They do a great job of building up a good atmosphere among the group, and just working with such a high concentration of smart, engaged and interesting people is a great experience.

That said, as a model for building startups, I remain skeptical. Given such a short time period, there's a lot of pressure to grab quick wins and sell an idea before writing any code. That takes a certain kind of customer, and a certain kind of idea. Nothing wrong with it as such, but it's pretty narrow and it's easy to reel off interesting companies which wouldn't fit well in that model. Stripe probably would, but less so Google, Uber, EF itself etc, especially not anything with an unclear trajectory or that will grow its own market. There's a strong feeling among my group that the most successful members have been the ones who most wanted to start a company for its own sake, without particularly caring how, and there's plenty of people who started out wanting to solve some problem in biotech or education only to end up data mining online shoppers. There are exceptions to this, like OpenCosmos, but they usually started EF pre-formed.

(As an aside, they haven't quite resolved the tension between making EF seem valuable and the fact that people who see EF as a gatekeeper have the wrong mindset. Those who think about it too hard might also realise that they are disincentivised from taking EF's funding at the end of the program.)

Speaking of PR flavour, I think improving communication about what the process is actually like (perhaps as opposed to what they would like it to be like) would be a key improvement. Their marketing about being obsessed with problems and deeply technical doesn't tell the above story. Their definition of "deep tech", which basically means "not a CRUD app", probably seems sane to your average web designer or VC, but if you spend your days in the guts of an OS or compiler you might be disappointed. Ok, so if your programming itch is scratched by chucking data into scikit-learn and selling it as an API, you're going to have a great time – and you can slap the "AI" label on your company as a bonus.

Lest that sound too negative, again, I did enjoy the process and they seem to be doing well so far. My impression is that all the cohorts have had a different feel, and they're still iterating on the process. Right now they have something pretty good, and they might just be able to make it great.
> The Pyra has some advantages over it but it's more expensive, older hardware, and probably over a year away still.

If you think GPD is going to release first... they are only showing renders so far on their indiegogo campaign. Pyra is already at the stage of a working prototype and had a first manufacturing pilot run in December. They are way more ahead.
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Different Trump.

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20150806/BLOGS02/150809...
>But I wonder whether the cat-and-mouse game between Netflix and unblocking services is almost inevitably in Netflix's favor, at least as things currently run.

I don't see how Netflix or their content producers come out ahead by driving whole national markets to torrent sites. Once you force people onto a pirate distribution channel they're not going to pay even for the titles they could obtain legally.
I'm obviously not talking about Atom itself, but everything around it. Wifi, BT, whatever they are using for the nubs...

There are still recent computers such as the HP Stream 11 for which Linux support is still lacking, even though its hardware is fairly standard.

That's why official Linux support is critical.
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Nearly every F1 team is located in Southern England. Williams is in Wantage, Mclaren in Dorking. Exotic materials, wind tunnels, FE clusters, CAD/CAE engineering talent, etc...
Well, Freedom does not come for cheap. And most 100 USD devices you refer to are non-upgradable or have no long term support.
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Exactly. In my case, I keep a ton of handy tools and emergency supplies in my car, that do occasionally come in handy, but would be impossible to lug everywhere myself. I would have a hard time imagining the benefits of giving up having a car, even if it was a bit cheaper not to have one.
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Caffeine does so well it almost doesn't make any sense to take anything else, except for how easy it is to develop a tolerance for Caffeine.
encryption don't kill.
I imagine the results would have been quite different with a different architecture, such as ARM.
There is a common situation that a Roomba does horribly at, toys on the floor that a person would just pick up or move before vacuuming.

Also, Roombas don't have any capacity to learn. They are just executing their bump and clean algorithm (except for the newest one which actually maps out rooms).
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It seems likely that there would already be FDA regulation in the U.S. if you marketed this to another person, plus unauthorized practice of dentistry considerations if you didn't have the relevant professional training and licensing. But my impression is that these regulations don't apply to medical devices that you make and use yourself on your own body.
At Stanford, faculty are prohibited from proctoring. So there is no professor or grad student that sits in the exam hall with the students while they are taking the test:

"The faculty on its part manifests its confidence in the honor of its students by refraining from proctoring examinations and from taking unusual and unreasonable precautions to prevent the forms of dishonesty mentioned above."

https://communitystandards.stanford.edu/student-conduct-proc...

A professor or grad student walks into the room every 30 minutes or so just to make sure everything looks okay. They otherwise sit outside the exam hall so you can ask them questions, ask to go the bathroom, etc. But it's up to the students to police each other and ultimately themselves.

There are definitely other universities in the US that have this policy, but I would say it's more the exception than the norm.
It does occasionally get standing water during winter/spring rainstorms. I remember hearing about someone windsurfing there in 2005.