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Comment · 5 years ago
An interesting post about Python security and how it suffered from chasing performance.
Comment · 7 years ago
I run with LG Gram 14" with Ubuntu Mate - happy!
Comment · 9 years ago
ok i think i know what happened: Obama forced FBI to produce the report, but they got nothing, so they filled it mostly with irrelevant slightly-more complicated mumbo jumbo than Obama can understand to slide under his scrutiny, and then he pushes it out to the public without first consulting an actual security professional.
Comment · 10 years ago
hey I am glad that you are an expert and your criticism is of this nature! With my limited knowledge, I see exactly what you mean and I agree with you. There is another difference, however, between the two computes that I think you have omitted in your comment. The cell's inner complexity shares the same information space as the organisms "computes," unlike a computer CPU (and the operating system) which is defined and built by a file entirely outside of the 10mb limit I've set. The cell must fit all of it right next to each other.
Comment · 10 years ago
Legit criticism, I actually tried to get a clarification on that, what those words mean exactly. I read most of the CNN doc and went ahead and wrote that, because I felt that it was the best meaning in context. I could be wrong about that. However, the CNN image itself must be over 1GB. So if those parameters are simply a matrix fed to the learning algorythm, the algo itself still ends up huge. > "And that is assuming there is not a sufficiently good algorithm for learning animal behaviors that is much simpler" > Right, but assuming something is not is the default unless there is evidence that something is.
Comment · 10 years ago
I did look up recent findings and they were meager. I followed your advice and looked up "Complex Traint Analysis." It is also quite meager. Were you able to find something close to 10mb? If you did, link please. I would expect that that category of genes would get a technical term alongside with "regulatory" and "encoding" genes the moment enough of them surfaced.
Comment · 10 years ago
The "super-CPU" that you have described has to come from the same DNA. So if you take bits away from behavior to make "super-CPU," the definition of the "super-CPU" has consumed the data that used to encode behavior, leaving us with the same problem.
Comment · 10 years ago
Lady, I have some Russian friends who are convinced electricity was invented in the Soviet Union. This conversation is shaping up in the same line of rhetoric. You need a mental jolt - you are showing twitches of brainwashing. Let'say say I concede your point in the last quote. But, (a) Quakers are Christians, and (b) even if you prove that the movement began apart from the Bible, it does not prove that the movement was not empowered by the Bible and was brought to completion because of the Bible. The person who started the project does not get all the credit for completing it - the majority weighs.
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