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While balking at the insult of "fake Android", I think the author is in the wrong about calling AOSP the secondary tree -- many of us depend on it for our Android updates, after our carriers abandoned us and the devices they sold us.

With OS updates coming from carriers and not Google, they become essentially non-existent, and each carrier's fork gets whatever spyware, adware, bloat-ware, and network lock-in they desire, locking phones to their dumb pipe.
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Anyone knows if he even has one? If so, in what bank? What bank is 100% open source? Like his laptop and its BIOS.

Maybe its time to start an open source bank...
Modeling it as infinite does not make any more sense than modeling it is having 1 googol^googol^googol memory cells, clearly above the physical limit, and therefore any differences between the two models are artifacts irrelevant to anything human civilization will ever encounter.

Google search term: finitism.
How did you find out you have this? I've persistently had quite a few of the symptoms but nothing comes up on tests. In experimenting, I gave up all dairy which has helped a lot so I've simply been assuming I'm lactose intolerant..
I wonder if this EO stating the requirement for the information exchange network is designed to serve as de facto budget approval for building it out - circumventing any potential congressional blocks.
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I don't want to be rude here, but I think the idea you express in the article is really just describing the state of things as is. Also, I'd have to say for most companies that your traditional approach is pretty off target. And looks more like the following:

1. Employer has an internal Recruiter or recruitment team that posts jobs on website / monster. And/or Employer outsources hiring to Recruitment companies.

2. Potential Employee submits resume on website or the outsource Recruitment company actively searches for employees.

3. There is virtually no "Automated service that randomly picks for an interview". This is handled either by Recruitment companies who are in close contact with employeers about their needs for the job position, or the internal recruiter that also knows the specifics of what's required.

4. A pool of possible candidates are interviewed, and the person that best passes the interview (also possible tests) and has all the job requirements, gets the job.

So I think you're giving far too much credit here to personal contacts. Also, the hustle plan is really just what I think most applicants that end up getting the job do anyway, but of course it depends on the position. For Design areas and Web or even marketing it can make sense to have demo reels, videos, etc. But for bioenineering or accounting, you really just need a list of projects, references, skills i.e. your traditional resume.

I'd be interested to see another "job plan" maybe you have some ideas, based on this critique?
That's assuming the consequent: you are assuming that such an enumeration strategy is requisite for strong AI to occur. [EDIT: I misunderstood what you meant by enumeration, my statement of your assumption is wrong. What you do assume is that in order to be able to outperform humans at any task a Strong AI must not be tripped by diagonalization. Or that humans would not be any such output, that is that the human can somehow step outside your conundrum.]

Yet it works just as well to consider humans to be char programs which map strings to strings. But then, they somehow manage exhibit Strong AI. Actually I believe Scott Aaronson has used this table look up type argument to show how you could theoretically pass the Turing Test.

Now
imagine a lookup table that stores every possible history H of A and B’s conversation, and next to
H, the action fB (H) that B would take next given that history. Of course, like Borges’ Library
of Babel, the lookup table would consist almost entirely of meaningless nonsense, and it would also
be much too large to ﬁt inside the observed universe. But all that matters for us is that the lookup
table would be ﬁnite, by the assumption that there is a ﬁnite upper bound on the conversation
length. This implies that the function fB is computable (indeed, it can be recognized by a ﬁnite
automaton!). From these simple considerations, we conclude that if there is a fundamental obstacle
to computers passing the Turing Test, then it is not to be found in computability theory.

But you are going in the right direction. More developed versions of your argument lead to why a Bayes Optimal AI is not possible.

Note also that as Strong AI is a vague term I have defaulted to the nearest solid metric: prove it is conscious.
How much supplements do you take? RDAs are in the range of 400-1000 IU, but apparently everyone I know who was actually tested and found deficient was asked to do 100mg/kg of body weight (meaning 7000-9000 IU), so it seems the RDA is off by an order of magnitude - perhaps established for a baseline of people who live in a sunny place and hang out a lot.
Personally, I wonder if the best way to keep the system at a higher efficiency would be to have a public works departement which is allowed into bidding alongside private companies.

That's kinda what happens with commuter rail in the US. Many commuter rail systems might be owned by the transit agency but the agency subcontracts the operations to firms like Keolis. One of the common applicants for these operations bids is Amtrak, which is about as close to a "public option" as we can reasonable get.
Absolutely, many changed their perception. But, don't you think that that's a really specific public? Mainstream commerce may respond differently to the hypothetical change. Nevertheless, this feelings could be contagious.
It would be less confusing in metric.

The mass would be 68 kg both on Earth and the Moon.

The weight on Earth would be about 668 Newtons. (9.8226 x 68)

The weight on the Moon would be about 110 Newtons. (1.625 x 68)
Those would be different stages of clinical trials.
I think you sum it up quite well. As a European, I support this stance, but encounter resistance from most Americans when it's discussed (even the more liberal ones) because it's such a culture shock.

I don't know if it's related but I travel in the US quite a lot and notice that compared to the UK, at least, races and cultures tend to separate themselves a lot, whereas even in rural areas of the UK, people integrate a lot more and seem to care less about race or culture.

Radical Islamist and far-right groups are constantly looking to provoke anger and dischord, with regular demonstrations and counter-demonstrations by groups like Islam4UK and the English Defence League posing a real threat to civil society.

Sort of, but I'm not entirely convinced these groups are any worse than many right wing groups in the US who protest against gay marriage, the welfare state, or abortion. We merely see them as being radical because of our laws whereas in the US, a group like the EDL wouldn't be seen as particularly interesting.
Parents method produces a result in finite time with probability infinitesimally close to 1. Yours produces a result in finite with probability infinitesimally close to 0. That is the greatest measurable difference in all of mathematics.

In other words, on method basically always succeeds, the other never succeeds (not "fails", but "never succeeds")
No, it's a good example: it shows that you can exclude unions if you want to. I personally don't think it's a good idea, but then again, I'm not swimming in billions of dollars either.
I completely agree. One of the most effective ways to find a job is to go into the interview with something that will help the company that you are interviewing for. For example, if you're looking for a business development internship, you should go into the interview with a concrete plan of some initiative that the company could execute on, and give hard data on why the company should do that. These types of applicants are always more impressive than those with just a nice resume.
Right, because the civil legal system means you're going to jail if you don't comply! It's not a system where the loser goes to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $200.

Libertarians crack me up. They're more disconnected from reality than the people they accuse of the same. The issue with the patent system as it is now is not the entire system, but rather the shortcomings of its implementation.
Maybe fail is too harsh a term. But my poin being that the idea that Kevin is some sort of visionary worthy of the level of hype he gets is clearly a delusion.

Digg was great early on, and very quickly became muddled and ruined. To the point where it died completely and was sold for practically nothing.

Overall, it's all pointless to keep saying "hey! Look what Kevin's doing now!"
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Might be a good market opportunity for a small firm that only does RFP prep work.
For a moment there I read that as "has stopped accepting".
I don't agree. Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to support illegal activity (It's too trivial to site examples from US history).
Anyone know of a wellnessfx-like service that is available in nyc?
Here's a shell script (last line Mac-only) to open the pirate bay, regardless of the block (at least in the Netherlands).
I would guess at least part of the goal would be to minimize dependence on the NDK for cross-platform "business logic".

One of the more common ways to share code between Android and iOS now is to have a library written in C/C++ which is linked via NDK on Android and wrapped in ObjC/ObjC++ on iOS. In an all plain-ARM world this is no big deal, but the more CPU types you add the more of a pain this becomes on the Android side despite some support in the SDK for "fat binaries" (you still have to anticipate and compile for all those arches, whereas Java/Dalvik code will "just work" regardless of underlying CPU).

Given Intel's recent push into Android along with the continued divergence of ARM into lots of branches with different features, different SIMD instructions, etc, this seems like a pretty useful solution to that problem.

Either way, this was a Summer of Code project. I doubt Google gave a ton of thought to how it fits into their overall global strategy for Android development as many bloggers seem to be theorizing about.
I'm not assuming an enumeration strategy is a prerequisite for strong AI. An enumeration strategy already exists. Heck, I don't even have to construct a mapping--a compiled program, when you get right down to it, is a number.

You are assuming human beings--with all of their code and inputs--can be mapped to numbers. I'd say that's the more unlikely assumption, given that we don't completely understand how they work. Heck, I don't think we're even sure they're deterministic.
Your intuition is correct. The hotel paradox is a trick of symbolic manipulation, and the analogy to a real hotel is an amusing deceptive misdirection.
I don't know why you are downvoted. This is a valid question.
A few parts of this are inaccurate.

Undecidability is about the impossibility of predicting what programs will do. You have proven that there are functions from integers to integers that we cannot program, but that is not at all the same thing. Deciding whether a Turing machine will halt is one of these functions, but proving that is different than just proving that such functions exist.

Your proof that there are unprovable statements also doesn't work, as can be seen from the fact that some theories are decidable, such as Presburger arithmetic, which is the theory of the natural numbers without multiplication. The flaw here is your correspondence between propositions about naturals and functions from the naturals to the booleans. It's not clear how you want to set up this bijection, but there is actually no way of doing so, as the set of propositions about the naturals expressible in any alphabet is the same size as the naturals, by the same argument you use in your second paragraph. It therefore must be smaller, rather than the same size as, the set of functions from ℕ to the booleans.
I think it might be in the cadence of "99 Problems" by Jay-Z, but, admittedly, I still find it difficult to read it.
Congratulations! You are Le Corbusier and you have invented midcentury modernist city planning.

In all seriousness, if you are going to build a city with no vehicles on the surface, Towers in a Park is not the way to do it. There are many successful examples of medieval cities with high enclosure, and no successful examples of modernist cities with low enclosure. People are very sensitive to distance, and the only way they will ever walk from one of those towers to another is if there is also something interesting or useful for them to look at every 20-30 feet along the way.
Not just counterintuitive, but counterfactual and counterphysical. You can't "do it", you can only "model it in the realm of formal mathematics", which by the way proves that this model is not a model of reality, and infinite hotels cannot exist in physics. If you push the physical analysis further, you can get into the speed of light and bosons.
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No, because the people in n+1 simultaneously move to n+2. (and so on)
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Town Hall. Instead of building a new building, rent office space somewhere else that was privately built.

In very small towns I've seen that done, but that makes less sense for medium to larger towns and cities for a variety of reasons.

taxpayers pay more per pupil for public school than they do for private school, so send the kids to private school and close the public school.

A large part of that is because private schools don't have to admit (or can expel) students with special needs and behavioral problems. Force the private schools to have to deal with those students, and chances are those costs will increase.
Apples and oranges.

Mohammed can most similarly be likened to Jesus or Moses, not the Holocaust.

Mohammed, Jesus and Moses, among other religious historical figures may or may not have existed. There really is no proof. All apparently were responsible for miracles in the eyes of people back in the day with little understanding of science, so it's possible that if any of those three existed, after you discount the growing of "tall tales" that what they are credited with performing are natural phenomena.

Any criticism of denial of any of those three people is very tolerated in the west. I would feel far more comfortable saying Jesus was a pedophile or Moses was a cock smoker than blurting out similar trollery about Mohammed. The reason why has nothing to do with cultural sensitivity, but with the completely irrational and sometimes disproportionately violent response from people who would be offended by such a statement (or at least the imagined expectation of such).

This isn't to say that fundamental Christians aren't capable of such asshattery. They certainly are. Photos of klan members, burned crosses and lynchings are proof of such.

The Holocaust on the other hand is historical fact, not myth, and an act of genocide. Denial of it would be similar to denying the genocide in Darfur or the Tienanmen Square massacre.

Ones degree of affection and emotional attachment to a subject largely irrelevant except insofar as how easy it makes to troll that person.

This is trollery, not hate speech. If I say something about a group of people and condemn them, it's hate speech. If I make a mockery of something that would offend that group it is trolling.
Why must a startup be acquired to be judged a success? The aim of a startup is to make the founders rich. If you own something profitable and automated, it does not necessarily follow that your purpose becomes How do I get rid of this?
Does she have any take on B3 (niacin / niacinamide) you can share?

My own collection of anecdotes and understanding is that a nontrivial part of the western population is B3 deficient as well - not to the levels that cause pellagra to appear, but nevertheless way below optimal levels.

Also, from my collection of anecdotes and some reading, the most popular form of B3 sold these days (inositol hexanicotinate) is useless (0% bioavailability), which kind makes reporting and statistics unreliable, because it is actually confused with the available forms (which have different properties between them)
Yes, I cannot believe that those guys are still running. Amazing.
> Sharia has an appeal that's difficult to understand in the West. Pakistan's official court system is deeply, deeply compromised. The police are hopelessly corrupt. Cases take many years to resolve, and victory goes to the person who paid out the most in bribes.

This resonates with pretty much all personal and anecdotal experience I've had with the Pakistani police/judicial system.

> You can use the parallel legal "system", jirga tribal law. Jirga is less "legal system" and more "binding arbitration". It evolved to end blood feuds by negotiating settlements between tribes, and as such, can be blindingly unfair.

I have a mixed Sindhi/Pathan lineage. My grandfather was a tribal elder in this regard and from the stories my father told me, was responsible for arbitrating disputes under the Jirga system. By all accounts, it's as horrible and unfair as you point out in your comment.

> Compared to these two equally terrible alternatives, Sharia looks pretty good.

Agreed, but the real problem is the aforementioned corruption in the police/judicial system, which will still be there whether or not the local tribal elders operate under a Sharia system. I have no good ideas for solving it though, so this is mostly wishful thinking.
I think that even in areas where a list of projects, references, and skills are required, it is still the one who has great personal contacts who often succeeds. For example, the great accountants get many of their new clients from other clients who think they do great work. Or the great bioengineers get connections to people in industry from professors who think highly of them. An introduction from someone who thinks very highly of you is often much more powerful than a list of projects.
I'm not the OP, but here is my opinion. As a rule of thumb I don't support illegal activities. Why would I? Most of the laws I agree with, like no murder/rape/robbery. However some laws I'm against. Like the public drinking ban in Norway, why can't I have a beer by the lake?

And on the topic of media industries vs. file sharing. I haven't really made up my mind. Especially after the media industry brought tanks and fighter jets to a knife fight.
I just intend to post this every time an article has something to do with power and things of that nature. Too many people get them mixed up or simply don't know. Even professionals get MW and MWh mixed up. Electrical engineer here :)
This guy is like the valley's version of Kim Kardashian where Digg was his sex tape.

I got my comment of the month right here :)

And I +1 your post -- great summary!
I call bull. By law, public agencies are required to take the lowest bid. They cannot waive these requirements, and any contracts subject to the bidding process must be approved in a public forum (i.e., council meeting, etc.) in order to be valid. If any of the requirements were waived, the bid losers would definitely challenge the award of the bid.

So your story is nice, but that's all it is--a story to set up your attack on unions.

By the way, one of the single greatest expenses of the Afghanistan/Iraw war is a private company with non-unionized employees. You may have heard of it: Halliburton. And the type of stuff they've done to their fellow Americans (i.e., Jamie Leigh Jones et. al.) makes union shenanigans look like high school pranks).
If customer.io succeeds , how much time will it take for other people to duplicate it and bring pricing down ?
If customer.io provide top notch copywriting with the automated emailing, then they may have something here.
Even higher pricing only based on conversion makes much more sense and i would pay for it.
Why are those panels spaced out so much? Is there some physical attribute(s) that prevents them from being placed too close to each other?
The Netherlands as well.
And there we have it. What I find super interesting is despite this setback for Facebook and the failure of ChromeOS, Mozilla will still push on with Firefox OS (B2G) when the resources are much needed elsewhere. Oh well...
He keeps all his savings in the form of bath soap.
You rematch. Mathematically, not physically!
There isn't' "one more", all finite differences between infinite sets are equivalent to each other, including zero.

Ponder this if you will: how did the hotel get full in the first place? if you assume that is possible, then you can reverse the original room assignments, and reassign rooms.

The source of your confusion is that you trusted the problem is even possible to set up, without availing yourself of the power that the setup implies.
I disagree. Free software projects like the GNU foundation or the OpenBSD foundation are striving towards freedom.

ThePirateBay.se et al are simply filling in on market demand created by the utter absurdity of treating digital data as if it was a can of tomatoes or a bag of crisps.
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I find a depressing scene whenever I get on a bus. This isn't a joke. At least here in SF, busses tend to be filled with trash and mean/ugly/crazy people. I don't think putting anyone on a bus in the US will have a positive impact on their mental health.

I have not found this to be the case in major cities outside the US (eg Mexico City, Prague, Amsterdam). I do not know why.
Don't worry. I don't think you mean well.
In the real world, infinity is a convenient shorthand for describing a limit process. In the real world, nothing ever reaches its limit exactly, everything is an approximation with at best a finite error range.
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Personally, I think the problem is people trying to be too clever, and loading too much content at once.

Loading tons of JavaScript means that Facebook loads very slowly on my phone on mobile internet. And what is it needed for? The most the JS needs to do is make a pop-down notifications panel, and do one or two AJAX requests to post comments and "like" items. Looking at the Network panel in Chrome, I see Facebook has pulled down 700KB of JavaScript. Why? How could they possibly need that much code?

Facebook also seems to think that sending full-size images down to my phone, instead of compressed previews, isn't a problem. No wonder the GPU memory is exhausted!
If it was obvious how much it cost, fewer people would use it.
By what criteria has Chrome OS failed?
Although I would the add that the article was also somewhat hinting at the reformation of the members of these groups themselves.
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Couple of Dutch co-authors of that book, so it's much more likely that it sort of slipped past the editors :-) In the US people are more likely to talk about FOI or FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests.
I dislike illegal activities but I don't think many things around this is illegal. Note that TPB doesn't host any illegal copies, they doesn't distribute any either. The only illegal is the users themselfs.
This is a good heuristic. For me, single letter variables are almost always iterators in places where space is at a premium (i.e. one line list comprehensions in python). If I'm breaking a loop out over multiple lines (which is almost always the case), I prefer a longer, more informative variable name.
Honest question here; is the phrase "same number of X and Y" equivalent mathematically to "the cardinality of X and the cardinality of Y are the same"? I was taught "no", since "number of" doesn't apply to any of the infinities.

But perhaps I was taught incorrectly, or I have misremembered.