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Comment · 11 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Matlab has a neural network toolbox that you can use to train small recurrent networks.

There is a book that I can link if you are interested.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
> It's been almost 10 years since I've had that experience with Linux. This is over 4 desktops and 3 laptops. Can we please bury this meme?

Maybe with desktops, but even just last year, trying to get wi-fi setup on my beagle bone or raspberry pi were hell. Multiple programs to do the same thing, and none of them work quite the same. So running scripts from the command line with the usual commands wouldn't work, so then the only thing that did work was the gui. But what if you don't want to use the gui, because you want the thing to reconnect automatically after power down (an option the gui didn't provide)?

Maybe running ubuntu, this wouldn't have been an issue, but beagle bone had archlinux, and then I tried multiple versions for the raspberry pi, most of them debian based.

So, no. This meme won't die just because most versions work out of box for desktops. It would have to work out of box for anything linux runs on.

Comment · 12 years ago
I'm only one data point, but I've had three credit cards used maliciously. Each pre-auth for 1 dollar came from a company somewhere in Europe. After my card had been shut off, I would get a call asking about transactions, and they would all start off with that similar transaction.

Perhaps the person stealing the information is based anywhere, but the company commonly issuing the pre-auths is in Europe?

Comment · 12 years ago
> But it could be possible, given unlimited time.

Just because time is infinite, does not mean that all things are possible.

My understanding is that the universe is in a bounded random walk. As space-time moves, the unexplored potential state space increases more quickly than can be explored.

If there are multiple universes, then each universe could explore one of these states. So if there are more states than universes, not all things are possible. But if there are more universes than states, all things would be possible.

Though there are infinite potential states and infinite universes, I feel like the potential states expand faster than the number of universes. This means that our likelihood of living in a universe where something like like time travel is possible, is incredibly low.

Comment · 12 years ago
Decentralizing sounds a lot like a peer-to-peer based web. Doesn't this already exist through the tor network and the onion browser?

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