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No, a deep learning machine did NOT solve the cocktail problem. http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2015/04/no-deep-learning-ma...

Erlang and functional languages in general will never take off because they are counter-intuitive. In addition, they don't provide an order of magnitude improvement in productivity…

True. In my opinion, it's because they got it wrong. The trick is to find the lowest common denominators of software, the DNA elements of software, if you will. These are the basic…

Do smart phones have the performance to handle face (or character or any object) recognition algorithms? Or should this sort of application be handled by a server/cloud?

This is pure unmitigiated BS and you know it. Religious hackers don't talk about their belief in God on hacker sites because they get heavily censored (down-modded) and subjected t…

If you believe in God, especially if you're a Christian, you're going to suffer all sorts of censorship and ridicule on all the socially moderated hacker sites such as YC, Slashdot…

The only thing that's going to beat Google is a superfast, high-res, 3-D virtual world (kinda like Asimov's imperial planet Trantor) where people can browse by using approved and l…

The MDI Air Car is not a hoax. It actually exists and runs. Tata announced months ago that it would begin to manufacture a limited quantity in India. I guess they want to do a tria…

It has been in the news for at least 10 years, IIRC. There is a Yahoo group that has been discussing it for the last seven years. There was even talk of a bunch of air taxis being …

No wonder I can never get any funding. My stuff is too out there. Venture really means "do not venture", i.e., "to boldly go where everyone has gone before". LOL.

Not to discourage your perfectly valid interest in this subject but I am curious about the percentage of software engineers that use any knowledge of computational complexity in th…

"The people at the top, for whatever reason, work very hard to get there." And what do they get in return?

Chicken shit asteroid orifices. ROTFLMAO

I am fast realizing that YCombinator is turning out to be a den of asteroid orifices where you get modded down by asteroid orifices for telling inconvenient truths. You people are …

Dude, what is wrong with you? The point that you are missing is that, if you include time as one of the dimensions of the universe, then change becomes impossible. That is the mean…

I don't think you get it. A block universe in which nothing happens cannot possibly exist since it is clearly falsified. We observe change, do we not? So speaking of loops within a…

I am not sure exactly what you explained. First off, relativity, like Newtonian mechanics, is a classical physics theory. I am not aware of any such thing as non-classical relativi…

Time cannot change by definition. Nothing can move in spacetime for the same reason. This is why the late Sir Karl Popper (of falsifiability fame) once compared spacetime to Parmen…

I think the voting problem is a serious one. Apparently, only a minority of readers and posters vote and they seem to have a gang mentality that works like this: "If I don't like y…