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olewhalehunter

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    Comment #15610703

    shhh just get out the popcorn and enjoy the rantings of an egomaniac who wrote a glorified DOS extender for an outdated time-sharing system

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    Comment #15610065

    at a first glance this looks like it's going back to old 80s research on neural representations, back then this kind of stuff was known as Parallel Distributed Processing https://m…

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    Comment #15581851

    They're collecting data on children without their informed consent, babies today have their information capital compromised from the moment they are born, via their parents shares,…

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    Comment #15513800

    I don't have the luxury to pay attention to most media or opinions administered by anyone older than 45, neuroplasticity loss can be really blatant when paired with decades of alco…

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    Comment #15426426

    you're wearing a hunter gatherer genome, whats your point?

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    Comment #15359337

    A reference from the late 80s, "Principles of Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems Development" 1 Jan 1988, David W. Rolston https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/…

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    Comment #15315270

    was going to say this equipment is still used quite a bit and there are many working survivors left

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    Comment #15253804

    Chuck and Terry's work prove that most kernels are just really terrible compiler systems

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    Comment #15160278

    >I'm not sure why you think they don't? If they are they either aren't offering user/programmer access to that database, they aren't doing semantic/type binds, or aren't advertisin…

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    Comment #15160030

    Tim Teitelbaum, one of the first researchers on IDEs summarized problems like this in a quote from one of his papers. "Programs are not text; they are hierarchical compositions of …

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    Comment #15069839

    Or keep them alive and use their bodies to harvest organs and genetic/nanomaterial capital.

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    Comment #15057273

    What are some examples of open source Lisp projects and codebases whose features and elegance could have only been executed as well as they are in the language, or are just great c…

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    Comment #15041461

    The Inuit people, among similar cultures, are having a problem with diabetes because their bodies adapted to a hunter's diet of high protein and fat low in glucose prior to the int…

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    Comment #15024163

    That archaic nobility distinction is useless to the conversation, especially when the most powerful men in the world we're discussing about have the background I'm talking about. h…

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    Comment #15023532

    Bill Gates was not upper "middle class", his household was solidly in the 1%, he had computer programming access at his private school (this is 1968), and his mother's friendship w…

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    Comment #15006490

    There are alternatives to this mainstream style of computer architecture, such as dataflow or hybrid quantum-classical systems, which both require a very different kind of compiler…

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    Comment #15006039

    The symbiotic relationship between compiler development and hardware architecture design has a defining role in CS problems, and while you don't need to understand that relationshi…

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    Comment #14991097

    Fetanyl was a new drug at some point. Pharmaceuticals are over prescribed, healthcare businesses are a leech on the infrastructure, American lifestyles are inherently unhealthy, an…

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    Comment #14990950

    As a former medical tech developer, the problems in healthcare are almost entirely social/political and the healthcare tech business is making things worse in most respects.

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    Comment #14982416

    There's this trend of Expert Systems being commented on as a failure and starting some sort of AI winter, yet to my knowledge they were among the first commercially viable digital …

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    Comment #14953471

    >People are suffering right this second around the world by those that advocate the same thoughts as you are People suffer for other reasons too though, like societal inaction and …

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    Comment #14943668

    The findings are beyond just diagnosis statistics and have been shown to correlate with other biologically male traits, like fetal testosterone. https://molecularautism.biomedcentr…

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    Comment #14943559

    http://www.panarchy.org/engels/freetrade.html "But, in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old natio…

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    Comment #14943111

    >we have to invent something else, more fluid, secure, economical and less catastrophic in its essence. like UFOs?

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    Comment #14895297

    Products and their consumers don't climb out of empty voids, and a system with government enforced patents, NDAs, or any other IP law is, by definition, not a Free Market.