An article about someone telling his experience of slowly growing a business (targeted at school teacher if I remember correctly) year after year eventually led to a sizeable lifestyle business.
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#172Someone mentioned a scifi short story with link to online version that I followed & read. The story was about a uploaded-human AI-spaceship that for a time worked as a asteroid miner. After a single overmind takes over 1st the inner planets, then the whole solar system, the protagonist to flee to insterstellar space, but is pursued by an overmind ship. Been trying to find the story/title/author since, with no success…
"The Long Chase", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12192254 That discussion has links to books with similar stories. Enjoy.
Thank you! I've often wanted to point others at it in discussions on topics ranging from blockchain forks to 'friendly AI'. I even posed a question on Quora to try to find it – https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-scifi-short-story-name-autho... – now updated with your pointer.
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#173An article about someone telling his experience of slowly growing a business (targeted at school teacher if I remember correctly) year after year eventually led to a sizeable lifestyle business.
If you find this, please let me know!
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#175An extraordinary long-form piece about a child who'd been born deaf (perhaps of Latino origin, growing up in the streets of a US city) and was then abandoned by his parents. He hadn't learned to speak. As an adult he was given help by a charity (or research group?) who, over the course of years, taught him to speak. There's a moment described in the article when he finally realises that all objects have names, and bursts into tears. When asked to recall how he thought about the world before he learned to speak, he could not describe his cognition.
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#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found and lost a similar story. There were no mentions of human characters, only programs that were evolving in their own digital space. It was a standard HTML page amongst a collection of other works, not a book.
Lots of Greg Egan work covers such ground, if that helps!
I think you're right. Could have sworn I had looked through his works already, but looking again I found this: http://www.gregegan.net/DIASPORA/01/Orphanogenesis.html
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5641799 In Tech We Trust? A Debate with Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen [video] (milkeninstitute.org) 74 points by jordn on May 2, 2013 | 39 comments The original video link seems dead, I guess it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtZbWnIALeE
I think this was probably it (just reached that point in the video where Thiel says the money quote). Thanks.
FYI if it's the bits/atoms treatment you're specifically interested in reading about, it goes back to at least 1995 from Nicholas Negroponte.
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#178A blog post by a pythics PHD (or may be biolog or chemistry, I don’t remember.) about the sad state of utility software in his/her area of study. The software the author developed during the PhD program has become the acedemic standard.
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#179Someone shared an MIT or Stanford class titled Deep learning for Biology or for Bioinformatics can't remember. I thought I saved it but couldn't find it anywhere later. Edit: The lectures were on youtube.
Maybe in reference to this: http://kundajelab.github.io/dragonn/
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#180Someone commented: "how things have changed, emacs and vim are partners and the enemy is Eclipse and Visual Studio" A play on words of an episode in star trek the next generation, where someone from the past wakes up to realize that now humans and Klingons are friends and the enemy are the ferengi and the borg.
>ferengi
I'm sure you mean Cardassians...