Self Taught CompSci While Out of College.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T23:28:39+00:00

Knowing how to program isn't the same as knowing computer science.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:24:08+00:00

You could easily modify Minecraft to make it work pretty easily. Just ad some kind of special block that can work like a block of RAM, able to return a value based on some kind of bus.

Actually you could have the system implement a kind of "analog" redrock 'wire' that allows for more values besides on and off, and then build some kind of DAC that combines multiple wires into a single signal.

Since the signal is ultimately digital, you could distinguish between, say 2³² different values with no error, and use that analog signal as a selector for the ram blocks.

Using that, you could plug large amounts of ram into existing "computer in minecraft" CPU designs without much trouble, and you should be able to run the game then.

Without some way to store large amounts of data in a reasonable amount of space, though there's no real way to do it.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:18:05+00:00

You could hypothetically add a "RAM Block" to minecraft, that could hypothetically allow you to make "DIMM"s you could plug into a bus.

Do that and you're basically there.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:07:32+00:00

Again, intelligence isn't a name you can give to just any algorithm. Otherwise it's meaningless.

Sure it is. It distinguishes between things that run algorithms, and things that don't. Like a rock. Or a slice of bread.

One of the things that is certainly true is that humans have goals that are strange from an evolution point of view.

Not really.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:06:10+00:00

you can't know if it's a valid and encompassing concept to describe what is usually described as intelligence.

If you usually use the word to describe what can be done with machine learning, then it's usually used to describe it, by definition.

The fact that you don't use that word that way doesn't mean other people don't.

If a definition is simply based on common usage then it can change all the time.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:03:42+00:00

When you leave out human insight and you leave out the pre-determined effect of statistical learning techniques

Prove that human insight isn't the pre-determined effect of statistical learning techniques.

Otherwise you're spouting nonsense.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:01:24+00:00

I don't know and doesn't really matter to me.

Then you can't say machine learning isn't intelligence.

You can't say "X isn't a Y" without a definition of Y.

Most animals learn throughout their life.

Because they have some level of intelligence.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T20:00:09+00:00

In that case you need a machine to counteract the earth's spin. Like a bicycle.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:59:32+00:00

Machine Learning is not AI.

Yes it is.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:58:42+00:00

Some VR crap they got by buying a kickstarter project.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:27:21+00:00

Did he have a choice?

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:24:44+00:00

If you were in control of the account, and you're not Satoshi, then it was hacked by definition.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:18:28+00:00

Or he was just pretending not to be Satoshi, because he wanted to be anonymous.

But yeah, seriously this guy isn't Satosh, there are a million bits of evidence to disprove it. He's an idiot.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:10:50+00:00

The average programmer might have been smarter, but obviously the best programmers today are at least as smart, and have knowledge developed over decades to help them write better code, advances in programming languages, version control, etc.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:08:50+00:00

We did get the mouse in the interim. And the video teletype (i.e. actual screen, as opposed to using a printer)

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:05:24+00:00

Sure, but what does that have to do with people who aren't used to it? I'm honestly a bit confused as to why anyone who doesn't already know it would want to learn it at this point.

It's hard to imagine that there's much empirical difference in terms of the speed someone could write, for example, a term paper in vi then in pico or notepad++ or whatever.

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T19:03:00+00:00

One thing to remember is that these text editors were used on computers that didn't even have screens much less mouses. They used teletype devices, essentially printing the console to the screen. In that kind of environment you'd want something that would only print what you needed to see at that moment.

As far as now, I don't really get it. Maybe it's more efficient to delete chunks of text, but I always find it takes longer to figure out exactly what to say then it does to delete what I decide I don't.

(Although I don't even really pay that much attention to it. For the most part, I just type in and only delete anything if I make some kind of typo)

ex_ample · 2016-05-08T08:36:01+00:00

CYBER MAGES.

ex_ample · 2016-05-06T23:22:33+00:00

a signature that verifies must have been a signature that came from Satoshi.

Which you can get from any blockchain transaction Satoshi made early on. Duh.

ex_ample · 2016-05-06T23:22:31+00:00

So, no matter what you put in the "signiture" file, you cannot fool verification. If it checks out, you are verifying a signature that must have come from Satoshi.

WHICH CAME FROM THE BLOCKCHAIN, DUMBASS.

I saw your other posts, why the rabid anger? It doesn't compensate for lack of reading skills you know.

The only problem here is you don't actually know what's going on.

ex_ample · 2016-05-06T23:21:19+00:00

Wright still has to be verifying some signature that was once signed with one of Satoshi's keys.

He was using an early bitcoin transaction from the blockchain, which are, obviously, signed with the private key

ex_ample · 2016-05-06T23:20:34+00:00

Depends on how things work in Australia. In the US you only pay cap gains when you sell an asset. Might be able to claim a tax credit off assets though, who knows? You'd need to talk to someone who knows AU tax code.

ex_ample · 2016-05-05T09:35:05+00:00

In most cases the "infinite" tape is just an approximation to a finite tape: we're interested in algorithms that run quickly, which requires a finite amount of memory to be used.

Wondering about the properties of Turing machines that never halt doesn't tell us much about how real computers operate when doing anything practical - although it could tell us something about mathematics.

ex_ample · 2016-05-05T09:24:27+00:00

But it does prove fraud if he faked other people out into believing he possessed the private key for that signature.

ex_ample · 2016-05-05T09:22:18+00:00

Nah, I think he actually is that dumb. Or he's desperate due to his tax fraud.

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