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Darren Stone, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"Once men turned their thinking over to
machines in the hope that this would
set them free. But that only permitted
other men with machines to enslave
them." - Frank P. Herbert, Jr., 1965
"The programmer, like the poet, works
only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles
in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination."
- Fred P. Brooks, Jr., 1975recent activity (1,004 total)
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Last week's Lex Fridman podcast featured Andrej Karpathy (former director of AI at Tesla, founding member of OpenAI) and they discussed this aspect briefly also. The usefulness of neural networks…
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1. This is an "old" resume. I'm not as old as OP's dad but I definitely recall putting my gender, height, probably weight, definitely "health: excellent", etc. on my res…
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It's really different IMO. "Fire!" (falsely) in crowded theatre: Specific. Beneficial outcome unlikely and difficult to even imagine. Harmful outcomes nearly certain. Powerful AI codeba…
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Freedom to speak and publish, even dangerous ideas, is also a right. Beyond the US.
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Yes, my question was honest. When I asked it, I did not see "further away" in the text of the post. Possibly it was added or else I misread it. As a motorcyclist, at night, I wish I had th…
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How would such a misinterpretation be an actual problem? Less safe?
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> There's a quote I cannot find that I miss greatly ... This is probably it: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking o…
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In Canada, with sales taxes varing from 5% to 15% by province, we round to the nearest nickel on cash transactions. Non-cash transactions are rounded to the nearest penny as usual. Works fine IMO. Not…
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Nice! That hourly data link ("*matrices") looks easy enough to parse. Thank you!
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Agree. I have trusted the Environment Canada forecasts for years. Web and basic app. The government-issued stuff isn't as featureful or pretty as some apps, but I go back to it every time because…
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Blame me if it sounded like clickbait. I submitted with the verbatim headline ("..., says minister") but HN rejected it as too long. It was late, I was lazy, so I just removed the ", sa…
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Absolutely, but sports bars and VR chats aren't (yet?) "America's Favorite Family Outings", per TFA.
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Article says the three components of going to a ballgame that have increased the most since 1960 are: parking (66x), soda (27x), and beer (19x). Pretty wild. So a suggestion: The American family parks…
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Yeah, I recall that also. Apple itself published a biorhythm program.[1] (A pic and WAV file are there!) Many 8-bit computer demos showed off their hi-res graphics with a classic biorhythm plot of th…
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> "This investigation sends a strong message to organizations..." Canadian here. Sorry, sending a sternly worded message to law breakers isn't enough. > " The good news in th…
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Gorgeous gear and photography to match. I laughed and winced at this delicious travesty: https://www.lovehulten.com/apple1.html (If you lived the Warring Eight Bit Period, you'l…
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I have loved this word since I first heard it. I assumed it evolved out of the common expressions: "get your head out of your ass" or "he's got his head up his ass". To me, th…