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I believe the basic building blocks (prediction, pattern recognition, attention, etc.) give rise to the higher-level phenomenon that you mentioned. I think we need to first underst…

"Why would we continue to file patents on work that is going to be open source? The principle reason is to protect the NuPIC community. For example, outside developers could work o…

How would you comment on a "Ask HN" submission asking HN how pg would fill out a YC application with YC as his idea?

The most concrete version of my point is that I don't think the most powerful AI we'll create will have, for instance, a human-coded algorithm for detecting faces. Instead, it'll h…

Actually, there's a growing amount of evidence that there's a single, general-purpose algorithm in the human brain that gives rise to intelligence. For one, there's the fact that e…

If we keep writing down common sense datums until 2100, we can make computers as smart as people. We learn more about brains and making smart computers, but we seem to have run out…

Quite a simple yet innovative idea. Now if it has some essential features like tabs for quick switching between different current directories, command history, and a beautiful inte…

I used this to make a screensaver out of it: https://github.com/liquidx/webviewscreensaver

Ooh, I would love this in screensaver form!

The part I found most useful: Recently, I have been practicing a new time management technique and I am calling it the “Minimum Viable Daily Tasks”. Here is how it works: Choose th…