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musername··on Mathematicians solve 60-year-old problem
as far as i'm concerned, remember (sth) is active and reflexive whereas remind sb (of sth) is passive, so it's not easily confused.
musername··on What Google DeepMind Means for A.I.
The impression of a photo is taken from context, a photo isn't a closed system. That implies a larger set of probability functions, sure, some of it from genetic evolution, some from the evolution of thoughts. Reason draws from its intelligence from emotion, ie. emotional intelligence, though. There's convolution of primary senses, finely tuned, highly developed mechanisms and chemical reactions that motivate the strategic management you mentioned.

In that sense, what we percieve as intelligent often enough is the abillity to do more with less, ie. compression of information. Therefore, one goal is to keep the probability functions few. What happens with ML is just that, it uses much less layers and neurons for context then the brain, but makes up for it in raw speed.

To add to my wild musings from before, the tell in intel might be related to to tell which used to mean to count. Compare that with german erzaehlen and zaehlen. Same for to reckon, cognate with german rechnen (calculate).

musername··on What Google DeepMind Means for A.I.
we don't? probably because you got it backwards. The idea of attraction entails gravitation (and other forces that hold the ball up before the drop), which is the conclusion of a line of reasoning, that is a more detailed, generalized version of the observation "things fall when dropped". Sure, backtracking is a rather simple, if not the most simple approach, but for N=NP kind of problems, presumably, it is the only one and heuristics only change the order of the track, but never reduce complexity.

That's my layman opinion, that seems to agree with the etymology of reason. Reason > ... > Ratio ... Reor. Reor is latin for to think, or calculate. Arithmetic in its simplest form, addition in the unary system ie. arranging pebbles (= lt. calculus), counting knots, simply counting. Now backtracking is just enumeration and elimination of possibilities. Ratio itself means measure, and a measurement always entails statistical error (does heisenbergs uncertainty principle prove that?).

musername··on Neurons Gone Wild
you and the article 'do not understand [it] at all', maybe, but a generalization ignorant of probable scientific excourse is the opposite of scientific, as the GP pointed out.
musername··on RadioShack Prepares Bankruptcy Filing
write an article about it. and please don't call online news vendors the papers
musername··on Brainfuck Optimization Strategies
Is that the sound of your chin hitting the floor or air escaping as you tense up, trying to decipher the code? :)
musername··on The truth about C and Unix history
With regards to complexity theory, I'm inclined to assume that syntax is a constant factor in the equation. You only have to extend the language by writing a macroprocessor once, if you count that to the power of the language. That's why C is still very powerful, although other langs have half an STD-Lib toolbox hidden in syntactic sugar.
musername··on Rise of the Scientific Programmer
we were talking in plural form
musername··on Secure Secure Shell
The point that is transmitted as part of the shared secret isn't guaranteed to be from the curve but not checked (and it'd be expensive to do so). The problem deos not exist with carefully chosen curves. TBH, It's highly unlikely I got that right, so there's an example in the first half of the talk, you might want to watch.
musername··on Mistakes Node.js Developers Make
if you don't need (exclusive) any benefit offered by C or node, sure.
musername··on Rise of the Scientific Programmer
yes, it would almost seem so, if you had presented sources to back the claim :)
musername··on Cello – Higher Level Programming in C
bf would actually be easily bareable, if it had textual macros, include/packaging and standard defines, like C does.
musername··on Cello – Higher Level Programming in C
that's not necessary for the API, is it?
musername··on Cello – Higher Level Programming in C
I've seen similar retorts to explorations of functional or unconventional concepts in C, mainly because the usual approaches work well enough.
musername··on Why we love repetition in music
the third and to be precise
musername··on Why we love repetition in music
>We need this middle ground where breakdowns or middle-eights or whatever they're called have this magical property.

It's called off-beat, If you mean rhythmic elements like the second base in the arch-typical Drum And Base, the and in One-and-Two-and-...

musername··on Before Google, Who Knew?
Nobody contested your argument, specific knowledge of niches s still fairly scarce on the net, at least if looking for gratis information. OTOh a well sorted library supplies books that cost a fortune, so google couldn't be replace that, at least not yet.
musername··on Before Google, Who Knew?
The technical capability can't be inferred from the used capacity. The comparison is unjust.
musername··on Rust, an Anti-Sloppy Programming Language
Since the ownership system and borrow checker are tuted as new, wouldn't a few papers been appropriate? Sure would be fit to document development outside of the community.
musername··on What to Eat After the Apocalypse
100 to 200 g of wheat is not a big bowl, especially if grown to use bigger ammounts.
musername··on Student Doodles from the Middle Ages
Ah, of course. Assuming the close relation of knighthood and religion, I still wouldn't dismiss my unfounded theory.
musername··on Student Doodles from the Middle Ages
this is interesting and really cute, but without context it's meaning remains cryptic. I.e. I'd really like to know where he was taught, what family he came from, etc. The article mentions high degree of literacy in the population, but I don't think (public) schools were a thing then. So my best guess is about military service as a civil duty and literacy as part of early childhood military education. Not to say conditioning. I find that thought too pessimistic, anyhow. But jolly peasents engaged in vocational exercise doesn't strike me as very common for the time.
musername··on Identifying Autism from Neural Representations of Social Interactions
Lacking comprehension of the problem and the causes, it seems reasonably carefull not to blindly admit your child into care based solely on the authoritive argument. Possibly, doctors cannot explain it propperly either and I'm under the impression that the causes aren't really known. Now, if the parent's lack of proficiency in childcare was responsible, that would be embareassing indeed, and if the percentage of autism
musername··on Elm 0.14 – Simpler Core, Better Tools
Started watching, the slides animations are a nice enhancement. Are they perhaps written in elm?
musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
you said yourself the sequence was insignificant, so i assume it would be hard to infere any context. either way, on tpb there is context. A pointer into pi is just a minor difference in encoding. As said in another comment, intent matters - as much as I dislike the pressumptions made about the intent. Law philosophically, for lack of better words, difficult questions of morallity arise and are indeed significant. That includes conciousness about the consequences, which is why this topic is debated at length, because everyone has a stake in it. That's a lot of context.

OTOH assume knlowedge of nothing but the magnet link list torrent file, if you just downloaded the linked torrent files without to procede to download when in doubt about copyright infringement, that woould not be careless.

Your argument extends to how can any string of data be illegal, putting copyright into question, but that's a different debate.

musername··on Why Math Might Be the Secret to School Success
i heared age four as the beginning to mathematical understanding. sure socialization is important, but why would that precludes the abillity to calculation, maybe without the formal approach.
musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
comments alone increase rank, but too many look like spam and therefore get stooped
musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
because information without conext is useless?
musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
the people who introduced DRM certainly didn't share the attitude of tbe GP.

I'm not going to click ads and, most importantly, actually buy stuff to feel better about leeching content, anyhow? How would that not be shortsighted nor shelfish?

musername··on The Pirate Bay down, forever?
there are far more musical plug-ins than one would ever need. I see no loss.
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