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davidrusu

376 karma · joined June 30, 2014

github.com/davidrusu

mail: davidrusu.me@gmail.com

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davidrusu··on How to Be Happy
AIXI is an artificial 'general' intelligence. It is not hard coded to do a specific task. That neural network is useless at doing anything other than playing tic tac toe
davidrusu··on How to Be Happy
We all ready have a well defined rigorous AGI[0] that would have god like intelligence. There are some approximations that played pacman [1] without knowing anything specific about pacman itself. i.e. it learned how to play by itself.

[0] http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/AIXI [1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfsMHtmGDKE

davidrusu··on How to Be Happy
Cynicism is not the driving force of innovation, optimism is.

It is possible to be happy and rational.

davidrusu··on How to Be Happy
Flow has high highs but it doesn't produce a lasting contentedness that the author is talking about
davidrusu··on Ceylon: Quick introduction
Attach a date stamp to your references and facts and BOOM, everything is immutable!
davidrusu··on Fatal Dose – Radiation Deaths linked to AECL Computer Errors (1994)
I had a professor read this case study in a lecture.

It amazes me that merely one programmer was trusted with building the software for a radiation beam canon.

davidrusu··on Show HN: §, an interactive toy I built to accept my offer from Khan Academy
Perhaps a video or gif would help show off your work. Currently the set of people who will see it is: {saw this post} ∩ {own a mac} ∩ {familiar with xcode} ∩ {willing to clone the repo}.

Probably a small number of people

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