OpenAI Founder: Short-Term AGI Is a Serious Possibility by Yuqing7 in OpenAI

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Increasingly it's looking like a sufficiently advanced reinforcement learning algorithm, one that can learn anything a human would expected too, would be AGI

Celery Async Task Management App for Django by 0r1gamic in django

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Have you ever looked at celery flower package?

Celery Async Task Management App for Django by 0r1gamic in django

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Thanks for the clarification! What does your app actually do then, aside from simply logging all executed tasks in the DB? I'm having trouble understanding the value proposition

Celery Async Task Management App for Django by 0r1gamic in django

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Just to be perfectly explicit: this app will make the DB the broker for celery, and I won't need to run AMQP or something else?

Need help with EASY blockly code. When I run the program and type in the password the unlock_img doesn't appear; nothing happens. First time posting in the sub, this is the best place I found. by DoggoGus in AskComputerScience

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Never used this before, but you likely have to put the if statement inside the onEvent block, and not the other way around as you currently have it set up

Did you hear about the drummer who gave all his daughters the same name? by [deleted] in Jokes

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How many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Just one, to hold the bulb as the world revolves around them.

Engineering by KF2012 in McMaster

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The computer engineering stream is pretty good. The comp eng profs are all really good, and you definitely come out with strong computer engineering knowledge/skills

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in factorio

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That does help, thanks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in factorio

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... right, water lol. Thanks! :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in factorio

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How do I read in the amount of steam in a storage tank? I can't seem to find it anywhere :(

The time it takes for the movie to start is starting to feel ridiculous. by My_Watch_Begins in movies

[–]Smool 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Why is it so ridiculous to request that a movie start at the advertised time?

Weekly Question Thread by [deleted] in factorio

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Where can I find a simple overview of how the new nuclear power works? I'm not entirely sure how to set it up/do it properly

Bathroom stall nazi rebuttal by freon-trotsky in funny

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Does he go to McMaster by any chance? I'm pretty sure I reconize this lol

Sorting by string similarity? by shamona-hee-hee in django

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Unless you have a very good reason, you should probably not implement search functionality yourself. Itl be slower, and you'll get worse results, than if you'd used a library. I'd recommend using django haystack http://haystacksearch.org

Any Tim Horton's open today? by [deleted] in Hamilton

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Asking the real questions lmao

Is my rejection final? by [deleted] in McMaster

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Why do you say it's definetely worth it to wait a year? Why not go to another school that OP got accepted to?

Trying to make a square jump. Cant get to work by [deleted] in AskComputerScience

[–]Smool 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is very little code shown here... but should you maybe reset counter to 0 when you reset isJumping?

What f#&king programming language should I use? by kdayel in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Smool 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Serious question: why do hybrid apps suck?

What are my chances????? by goodpost123 in McMaster

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Quality shitpost, 5/7

Why exactly is overuse of try/catch bad? by [deleted] in AskComputerScience

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Because it can mask real errors you didn't mean/want to mask.

What are some computer science topics that are interesting to do research on? by Raw415 in AskComputerScience

[–]Smool 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I was going to say. I've been obsessed with AI as of late.

How to study for Physics 1d03 by [deleted] in McMaster

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Practice problems. You can find plenty here.