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Look at the game of Go.

Humans can play it - it's impossible for a human to brute force it, there is not enough computation available in the brain to brute force it. (Your "hyperparallel brute force" idea.)

Yet humans can play it anyway. There is something else there that makes it possible.

And the human brain self trains! That's the really amazing part - no one has to think of some clever optimization or algorithm to make it work like you would if you wanted a computer to play "elegantly".
You use so many words, yet none of them with precise meaning.

> none of it is elegant

What is "elegant" to you?

A biological brain, for all intents and purposes, is a big mess. By comparison an ALU in silicon is much neater.

The way we "think" by forming associations and recalling the most striking ones we've formed seems awfully chaotic/arbitrary and unreliable. By comparison the way a search engine works by scoring words and phrases and optimizing for recall and precision seems so much neater.

> But it just doesn't have that spark of true intelligence.

What is "true intelligence" to you? Perhaps you meant just human intelligence?

Perhaps "true ingelligence" is just sufficiently adavanced technology (i.e. "magic")?

> Somehow human level intelligence manages to cut through immense search spaces and find the answer (like the game Go) - how does it do that?

Except of course when it doesn't, right? Isn't that why we're looking at AI?

It's not really our own mertit, but we already know how to create more humans with human-level intelligence. It's neither afully efficient nor awfully reliable, but seems to work well enough for "practical purposes".

The allure of AI is being able create something more than that. Requiring it to make the same mistakes as humans and to work in similarly unpredictable ways in order to appear genuine then seem like the wrong goals.
You can't have sane limits because people don't give a damn about them out of habit, hence you can't really observe the impact of them and adjust accordingly. At this point I believe drivers need to be forced to obey the law by any means necessary in order to create room for traffic engineers to do their job of optimizing limits.

And then you still need to force drivers to obey, because as far as I know, most of them are not able to comprehend that they're not the smartest people around. Just because a limit doesn't make sense to you, desn't mean it's not right and optimal in the overall context of traffic flow in the city.

EDIT: Another thing. Have you ever seen a driver maintaining safe distance? Me neither. It's impossible, because even if you try, you quickly get overtaken by an asshole who knows better. And then we have accidents like the one near me two days ago, when a girl started braking because there was a cat on the road, and she got a whole bunch of people behind her to rear-end one another...
pretty good, but how browser chat can be p2p?
This is the Internet, go look on imdb.
That's the fuel tank of the second stage. They want to capture the transfer into zero G.
Meaningful search (above top-3) is still not free. Which is honest and fair, but that worked pretty well in GReader and I'd consider it a regression. I still use it daily.
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Reminds me of Warren Buffett's "Avoid At All Cost" list or Steli's "Not To Do" list: http://blog.close.io/not-to-do-list
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Yeah I totally agree that the physical symptoms are important, and feed back into the emotional reaction to create a virtuous cycle that's very very hard to break.

And I don't believe the physical symptoms should go untreated; throughout my illness I've put a lot of work into alleviating physical symptoms, and continue to do so.

Indeed, I'm well aware the whole concept of "primary cause" in such a complex system as the human organism is very fuzzy.

But my experience is this: for the first few years of being ill, I focused purely on physical symptoms and undertook physical treatments; I experienced some level of improvement, but it was never profound or sustained.

Since finding a treatment that focuses on underlying emotional issues, and persisting with it over a couple of years, the improvement has been profound and sustained.

And having developed a deep understanding of the way emotional traumas can lead to physical symptoms, it now makes complete sense to me that the trauma came first, and physical stuff happened as a consequence, so to completely reverse the illness, the original trauma needs to be completely healed.

From talking to others with similar illnesses, a significant level of early life trauma seems to be a consistent factor.
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Fuel tank.
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Have some dmd. Which if we can trust the FSF to deliver as usual will be to systemd like Hurd is to Linux.

Really though. Haven't tried anything with dmd, but it cannot possibly be worse than SysV init.
Very nice. However Google Drive connection doesn't work for me - when I press the button nothing happns. (Win7, Chrome).
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Oh wow, this is actually perfect if it takes off - open standards, and straightforward from what I can tell.
I have been recently thinking about something similar that implies this concept.

In my office, I am trying to focus on automating as many of our tasks as possible such that we will be able to achieve end to end automation. But there is a big atmosphere of negativity that surrounds such movement. It mostly comes from managers and they complain that this automation is leading to more incorrect answers from their employees. They complain there is a "lack of vigilance" in testing the accuracy computers give, and therefore a level of stupidity that arises from their subordinates.

In response, I thought our managers manage us and review our work, and likewise we "manage" or should manage computers and the answers they provide. Just as managers know less than their employees (ideally) we could know less about computing. Our relationship to computers could become similar to a manager's relationship with its employees.
military weather satellite... weather... exploding....
yea sure... What did they meashure the weather with??? Warheads?

Edit: I know perfectly well that sattelites carry small amaounts of fuel, but this is just too... hmmm
Here goes our technofetishistic era.
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Well then 0.5 would be non-terminating...
> Additionally, there is no way for a systems administrator to easily audit those packages installed by users; if a user is running an insecure, out of date program because they haven't done an update in six months, this could lead to some pretty big problems.

Not true. A sysadmin can modify other users' profiles, e.g. to force-upgrade packages and destroy generations referencing old packages.
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I have just few years experience in Python.Unfortunately, I got placed in MNC before few months. Previously I was working in start-ups.So, I learned a bit quite nicely there around two years.Now, I don't seem learning anything and neither working any competitive projects now.Even I am trying to push myself up in spare time.It strikes me hard.
These time management failures demotivates me highly. I am feeling down.I switched couple of companies in the recent 5 months but still not settled with anything.

From my position what I should follow to pick up my enthusiastic journey of learning and working in nice technologies/tasks?

How can I motivate myself without expecting any external help whenever i am down again?

Please help me with some suggestions
Ask HN: How to respond to a job offer you're not sure if you're qualified for?
I'm a 17 year old freshmen computer science student who has a passion for education, and I just so happened to run in to the CEO of a coder bootcamp at a conference a couple of weeks ago. I went to talk to with him the other day just because I wanted to hear more of his views on education, and while I was talking to him he asked me about my availability and pitched an idea to me that he would like me working with them on.

I'd be helping develop an internal educational tool for the bootcamp, he talked about how he could have any developer work on it and it would come out okay, but because he believes we share a similar vision in to the educational world it would be much better to have me help with them.

Now this is a dream job essentially for me, and it was just a year ago that I was actually considering attending a (different) coding bootcamp, with the only stopping factor was my parents unwillingness to financially support me.

While I don't have a written job offer yet, the conversation made in abundantly clear that he would like me to join the team, but I'm afraid what if I don't currently have the skills needed to perform well enough. I'm pretty sure I'd be able to learn everything needed to perform in the position, but it's possible that I won't be ready immediately. Does anyone have any suggestion in how to respond to an opportunity like this?
More so than just think, but to be able to act on them.

A calculator, no matter how smart, isn't very scary because it doesn't have much in terms of output (unless it has wi-fi, then it can get to output through internet).

A robotic factory full of saws and robots, or some missile center, etc, is scary even if it has the brains of a calculator because its output capabilities are significant.
> Indirectly, we all kill, all the time.

How?
And just as Cocoa abstracts this away from you any popular Nim frameworks that need such optimisations will also abstract them away from you.
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Writing is a bit like code. (Or perhaps that's the other way around.) The real work is not typing, but organisation of the material, creating a structure of exposition - what you could crudely call 'design'.

As I understand it, King's approach is to sort of design as you go, ie, he finds the plot and discovers characters just by writing one damn word after another until they sort of fall out of the manuscript page. It works for him.

On the other end of the scale, you have something like Robert McKee's book[0], which is all about meticulously drawing out plot arcs on index cards and sticky notes. (In fact, it's basically an academic introduction to formalist narrative theory, cunningly disguised as a screenwriting manual.)

You will find many evangelists for each of those approaches, and of course any and all points in between. YMMV. The point is: the alternative approaches are in the main about the high level problems of organising an extended piece of writing. 'Style' would be more a matter of word choices, syntax, rhythm - the quality of the prose. On that, everyone agrees that clichés are usually A Bad Thing, and not much else.

Anyone who claims to have discovered an objective standard of 'good prose' is selling you snake-oil; there is no definition of the former that includes both Dickens and Hemingway, never mind the whole history of all the literature in all the languages of the world.

[0] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Story-Substance-Structure-Principles...

EDIT: forgot footnote.
How do you pull the plug on a self-driving car?

You asume that computers will remain tied to a wall socket, which may not be necessarily true forever.

And even if, given all the bugs prevalent in our software, what are the chances of containing something that can not only fully reason around but also exist within those bugs?
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For city streets, it doesn't matter what speed people _want_ to drive. You need to be able to come to a stop when kids playing ball on the sidewalk run out in front of your car chasing the ball.

Of course, most of the time, there is nothing out of the ordinary happening, and so people happily drive 45 in residential zones. The one time something out of the ordinary happens, you have dead pedestrians. Hundreds of them a year in NYC alone.
Absolutely baffling. I currently use G+ as a newsfeed for publications with a G+ presence (which is most of them), but it's been a long time coming and still lacks for significant user interaction with stories. There's no reason why Google couldn't have figured out some way to import existing RSS feeds.

That embrace would probably have killed off RSS within a couple years anyway, since native G+ posts have more attractive window dressing, but the move would have been a dead simple way to build an instant, passionate userbase that could have taken advantage of G+'s commenting and sharing features while providing a meta-view of how users like to sort sources into Circles.

G+ could easily have been marketed as Reader 2.0, married to Facebook 2.0 for social, Instagram 2.0 for advanced photo features, and Dropbox 2.0 for hoarding. I have no idea how Google dropped the ball at the endzone.
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This is a terrible redesign. Normally I'm not adverse to clean, minimal layouts, but this is another level, especially on a large screen.

https://i.imgur.com/K2H2lg5.png
I started using Lifesum recently, and it's great!

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When I started reading Murakami, I couldn't stop. He weaves a world which seems so surreal without feeling absurd. Eventually, I read 4 of his books back to back and then bought the rest.

But, then I read the 5th one. And for some reason it felt like I've read it before. The protagonist in his novels has some very common characteristics - they like being alone, they cook and like to run. More often than not, a cat is involved (probably owing to the crazy high ratio of cats/people in Japan).

The last thing I read by him was actually a short story in New Yorker called 'Town of Cats'. I am now reading 1Q84. After a few pages, I felt like I had read some of it before. Even the character's jobs were the same. Peculiar details were common. And then I realised that I had read this in the short story.
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BASIC async syntax idea
FUNCTION foo(a, b, c)
IF b THEN
CALL bar(a) THEN
GIVE a
END CALL
ELSE
RETURN c
END IF
END FUNCTION

So CALL ... THEN is like a promise and GIVE like a callback

What do you think?

Yesterday I got this urge of creating a new programming language. And I'm a fan of the BASIC syntax.
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Goes to my point I mentioned above in response to a comment about low quality journalism. Whe every pixel is dedicated to pimping ad clicks, it makes the experience just awful. There's an area ripe for disruption!
Probably because we don't realize that it's harmful (by design, or by accident). Second, it's not 'a device', it could be the algorithm behind a seemingly helpful service, like Google search. Third, maybe it's used as a weapon against 'other people' (most likely).
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I think it's a question that invites some degree of self-assessment and justification - gives you a chance to see how some people think about themselves. I also think you could get the same sort of result in the no case by asking something like 'How would you assess the areas you could improve as a programmer?'
When you volunteer as a soldier to be deployed to a war zone and kill people (or directly support other soldiers killing), you have a special moral responsibility for what happens during a war.

and to do what their nation thought necessary and just.

The US did not think that invading Iraq was 'just'. Iraq was a defeatable foe, and the war in Afghanistan wasn't producing results. There was nothing 'just' about the invasion of Iraq by the US - if the US did invade places because the dictator is nasty, they'd be a lot more militarily involved in Africa.

I don't understand why Americans don't hold people who volunteer to go fight overseas to a stricter moral questioning. It's a total cop-out to say "well, I was doing it for my country, and my country wanted to go do it". The comments you make about refusing to serve are not appropriate; there was no conscription.

it is all of our responsibilities, as voters and citizens

In a four-year election cycle, how does a voter have an effect on a war late in year 3 started because of an unrelated-but-significant event in year 1?

Basically the buck stops with the soldiers for the same reason that soldiers should decline to follow an immoral order. Otherwise you absolve them morally of anything their nation requires of them: hello Auschwitz guards. It's also an oversimplification, a false binary choice, to say that the buck can't stop in multiple places. It stops with the soldiers. It also stops with the politicians. It's not like there's only one entity responsible for something like this.
You didn't answer my questions. I have no doubt that untooled unitypedness can be improved upon.
Url changed from http://www.casualoptimist.com/blog/2015/03/01/paul-rand-mast..., which points to this.
He did not seem to ask for the encrypted message to be sent to a specific key, challenge him?

Someone send an encrypted message with some hint about the priv key and see if they are interested/good enough to decrypt your resume
javert's comment is patently false statement designed to create intense hatred of a vulnerable group for political ends.

A now deleted comment posted a link to a rambling diatribe as "evidence" (which just further proves my point). And mentioning any of this is described as a "personal attack". It's an interesting mixing of John Galt and Horst Wessel.

To answer your question, I presume eliminating aid to incapacitated people creates homelessness not walmart jobs.

Now can I ask you: what drives extremists to so thoroughly propagandize themselves that they derail their own ability to think clearly and do such demonstrable harm to their societies?
Sounds like a very interesting project, but I guess these positions are not remote?
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I got news every morning, check the headlines while on commute. News are not too much political, economical, etc, just kind of most important bits.
News about Tesla and SpaceX - check.
Google, FB and startups - check.
Some interesting bits - check.
Word in general - check, check, check.
> Did you realise how that phrase is incredibly dangerously close to this other one

It's not. Because soldiers are thrown into battle and forced to make snap decisions that determine whether they'll live or die the very next second, while the Government has both more time for deliberation and much, much wider range of possible actions to take.

> You bliss the first one and you have nothing left to contain the other one from happening

This does not follow. My point was - if they're shooting at you and you're not allowed to run, what can you do except shoot back? The problem is with those who put you in a position where you're getting shot at.

> Unless you are a believer of the capability to self-refrain of an ever expanding Government.

Of course I don't. I just feel that focusing on front-line soldiers is the wrong place to start solving this problem.
Yes. Use memcpy if you need to do this! This is especially important when you're on a platform that requires aligned pointers. For example, the following code will crash on ARM

char bytes[5] = {0};
float flt = *(float*)&(bytes[1]);

Using memcpy works on any platform with 4 byte floats:

char bytes[5] = {0};
float flt;
memcpy(&flt, &(bytes[1]), 4);
If someone wants to try a real superoptimizer right now, there's the souper (https://github.com/google/souper) project which does this for LLVM IR code. Although the goal seems to be slightly different: "It uses an SMT solver to help identify missing peephole optimizations in LLVM's midend optimizers."

Still, it does compile some pretty big programs as long as you cache the results (in redis).
The Programming Languages Zoo really helped me in learning type inference implementation. It has a series of increasingly complex languages, all implemented in ML.

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Especially if they'd rather violently impose Sharia through a worldwide caliphate, to use one contemporary example.

What a weird example. ISIS wouldn't exist today if it weren't for the US destroying Iraq as a regional power.
Just go for it and figure it out on the way. At 17 you're not really qualified for anything but you are at a peak of learning ability. If the guy likes you let him take you under his wing and teach you valuable stuff about the workplace. Just stick by the rule of never-ever bullshit - if you don't know something, say so and outline your strategy for finding out (if you have one) or ask for advice(if you don't). Enjoy.
No removable battery? Oh well back to Apple then...
If we're talking about AI that exists solely as software, I think we'll control them like we do any other cyber threat. As far as robots go, I think the super powers, mega corps, and villains will all have their own AI bots that balance each other.

The worry for me is, what do humans do once everything is automated and the automation itself is automated? It's the kind of crisis some people feel in retiring. What's left to do? I think this problem is far enough away that by then the transition will have been a long time coming and it won't seem that scary.
Do we tell cancer or AIDS patients their only hope is to change their outlook on life? No. We know the physiological cause and treat it.

A psychosomatic diagnosis is often a cop out when your illness doesn't fall within the confines of a doctor's knowledge. You should never take such a diagnosis at face value.

There is so much we don't know about the impact of viruses & microbes on our immune system.