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> They “imagined that the next bit of progress will come from some new pieces being dropped onto the table, [rather than] from thinking harder about the pieces we already have,” Wh…

If we managed to model exactly how a rat thinks, behaves and we create a little fury rat robot that runs around being all rat-like, doing all things real rats do to the degree that…

Common man is brought up within the bubble of their parent's beliefs. Intelligent man breaks out of that bubble, once he find it too constraining. Unintelligent man does not. Unint…

Has anyone proven logically that I, an entity, can create a new entity that is more intelligent than me? My intuition might be wrong, but how would that ever be a possibility, othe…

"Solve lots of math problems" If you are the type of person that absolutely loved each second of each lecture that your math professor held in high school, where he/she tried to pr…

I've been a professional programmer since 2000, hobbyist since 1995, without formal education in computer science. The last ten years of my life, projects I have been in have all t…

Thx! And I was being serious. For me, one problem of gaining understanding of the domain is, how do I identify that a problem is indeed a graph problem?

Ok, so they DID make it to the top, great! Now, how does this help me get better at graph theory? Edit: That being said, I mean no disrespect to this... 20 year old article. Hope I…

Can ethics really be taught?

"NEVER" You might think that, because no country has implemented BI, then considered it a failed project, then scraped that system for something better, yet. But one of the countri…

I love the indentation. Much easier to read than a bunch of nested ifs and whiles and good to see a lack of outdated comments inside the method body. So a line-by-line read of that…

I have ~20 years of experience in programming. The hardest part of my work is knowing if I have everything I need in order to classify a particular problem as one of a particular c…

Interesting learning streak. I took the same route, started on Vic 20 at the age of 10, but skipped on the amiga assembly, something I suffer from on a daily basis, so good choice.…

Which in itself is not very interesting but might be in the context of building an AI. Apart from a NN, what else do you need for an AI? Perhaps you need mechanisms such as "cognit…

I don't think cognitive dissonance is a bad thing. I don't see why should add a coping mechanism to acheive inner peace. If you instead saw that sometimes you win a grape, sometime…

I do often continue working but then with a nagging sensation of not executing a task in the most optimal of ways, which is what I meant by having a healthy approach to cognitive d…

I strive to have one idea in my head, because having one idea feels like being on a motor-way and visiting one of many ideas feels like being on a small road. When I'm coding in a …

"was the real moment Google gave up on team communications" I believe so too and Wave might have failed because Google said "this is instead of email". Had they markeded Wave as a …

Sharing my cryiest ever video clip, when Stanford Professor Andrei Linde celebrates physics breakthrough: [1]. I've seen it thirty times and I cry (oh, the tears) every time. I als…

The more you think about Twitter the more you understand it, including why it works, and at Twitter, lots of people are thinking about Twitter, so they probably know that SMSes wor…