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not if the amount of training data required to learn by example is exponential or even combinatorial. we might not even be in the same ballpark. all data ever recorded on digital m…

as per http://paulbohm.com/pdf/10.1.1.76.5543.pdf and http://paulbohm.com/pdf/general_limitations.pdf learning by example requires many more examples than the kolmogorov complexity…

author: there's no fundamental objection. i'm only pointing out that throwing faster computation at the problem doesn't necessarily solve it. right now all the work essentially nee…

That help won't be coming from politicians, because they don't even remotely get that wealth and wealth creation are linked. And despite what OP wrote, the fundamentals haven't cha…

I'm far less optimistic. I was one of the most vocal and active pro-european-startup activists before I left for San Francisco in 2009. With no capital, I started multiple companie…

i love your description of this. using up resources is not valuable by itself. forcing someone to spend on anything, anything at all, does not lead to a good allocation of resource…

only if you're ok with never buying any physical goods with bitcoin. the weak point is the exchange between bitcoins and classical currencies or physical goods.

thanks! date added to template!

How is bitcoin a non-commodity currency? If bitcoins have value because they allow you to do things you couldn't otherwise do (my point), it's a commodity. why is it desirable for …

bitcoin's problem is that the financial sector is massively regulated - you're going to jail if you attempt to compete. creating a website where you can store $10, send it to me, a…

the dollar and euro are also assets in that way. you're usually just not aware of its fluctuations (against each other, against other currencies, and against commodities) look at a…

because an attacker controlling less than 50% of the computational resources can be lucky and find the first solution before anyone else. he can even be lucky twice or thrice. but …

yes, bitcoins in theory can be infinitely divided. classical observations about hoarding and "bad currency driving out the good" likely don't apply. if you want to spend, you just …

author here: there's a cost with storing gold in the ground and securing it, and there's a cost with printing counterfeit-resistant paper and finding and jailing counterfeiters (an…

author here: i've written 12x10 minutes, and the original description writes 12x10 minutes. is there something i've missed? it takes 10 minutes to find a solution, but only after 1…

analysis: http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2012/07/zerodeterminant_...

this should help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_proof_system

A hip kid investing in things he likes probably has a higher hit-miss ratio than most VCs... :)

i retrained myself to touch-type when i was 16. only thing it took was forcing myself to not type any other way, no matter how slow i ended up being. within a month or two i was ty…

even if you had had the same brilliant insights into the graph structure of the web when they did, you most likely would have failed because it was prohibitively expensive (the cos…

"The SDLP is notable in the history of Google as a primary sources of funding for Lawrence Page's and Sergey Brin (Brin was also supported by a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship) du…

In http://www.salon.com/1998/12/21/straight_44/ it said "Page says the current version of Google, which has indexed about 60 million pages, will continue to be improved as the comp…

You missed the temporal context of what I wrote: " A few decades ago [...] if you'd wanted to use a hash table, if you even knew what a hash table was, you'd have to write your own…