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Comment · 19 hours ago
Someone - please figure out how to encode messages using this technique.
Comment · 3 days ago
If you don’t understand the solutions, how can you verify textbook solutions? And sometimes they’re wrong, maybe subtle typos, causing hours of grief and feelings of inferiority.
Comment · 4 days ago
Also UK citizens told to prepare three days of food and water. What do they know that they aren’t telling us?
Comment · 7 days ago
The article stopped shy of suggesting that switching off the gene inhibitor, that is allowing the gene to function, could lead to the development of more intelligent chimpanzees?
Comment · 10 days ago
All good points. Related to your observation about patents, well, I guess we'll have to make patent descriptions even more inscrutable. ;-)
Comment · 10 days ago
Would you mind ELI5’ing the similarities? I’m seeing only high level concepts that sound the same.
Comment · 10 days ago
Comment · 18 days ago
Be sure to read the type checking article linked at the bottom of the web page. TLDR: type checking languages help humans, not so much AI.
Comment · 1 month ago
If you outsource your thinking to a server that can detect your IP address, and decide to render decision “b” instead of decision “a” to your query, that’s a risk. (Or detect by the type of query, past history of your use, etc.). Panopticlick should be having a field day with all this.
Comment · 1 month ago
They manage the nuclear wessels.
Comment · 1 month ago
Hopefully the config is a little more descriptive than their README.md
Comment · 1 month ago
Best article I’ve read this month. The SVP expressed unqualified trust in the team. Asking the team for the next steps emphasizes this trust.
Comment · 1 month ago
Does it work on a gear and pinion principle or an AC synchronous motor?

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