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New comment by joaorj in "Tabby's star is dimming at an incredible rate"

joaorj — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 18:36:13 +0000

It is dismissed here: https://twitter.com/Astro_Wright/status/761383565259055106

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:58:52 +0000

Obviously it would be AI-complete. I didn't know that term, that's what I meant by currently impossible to code. I just learned my favorite term ever, thanks for that!.

Although disappointing, you seem to have the correct answer for my question.

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:51:07 +0000

Nice insight you brought with the CPU and the standard libraries being a relevant factor, hadn't thought of that.

Your thought experiment sounds more like a "codec" than a procedural generation. I guess it is an arbitrary line given that we are using CPU, etc. But the bigger the decompressing "model" the further away from true 4k compression we are.

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:43:05 +0000

That being said, speech is far from the best compression we can ever hope of achieving.

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:40:30 +0000

I suspect that if at all possible to have an algorithm that can generate the seeds plus the process to expand them, then that algorithm would take orders of magnitude longer to run then there would be practical in any meaningful time scale.

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:28:59 +0000

Sorry, I thought it was obvious, but the question is: Could procedural generation be used to achieve amazing compression rates given a currently impossible to code algorithm?

New comment by joaorj in "Source code for 4kb demoscene production “Elevated” released"

joaorj — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 18:23:00 +0000

Does this mean that lots of 3:30 minutes 1080p videos could be compressed into 4kb?

EDIT: We can be generous and say 40kb for sake of adding more colours / etc.

New comment by joaorj in "End Geoblocking"

joaorj — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:23:11 +0000

I hate geoblocking, but looking trough the site I only felt like facepalm. It's the same as poverty sucks so let's give 1000$ a month to everybody and somehow where the money will come from will be figured out by someone.

New comment by joaorj in "End Geoblocking"

joaorj — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:21:57 +0000

I don't think it makes sense to force business plans on companies.

New comment by joaorj in "Test your “free will” at the Aaronson Oracle"

joaorj — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 19:22:29 +0000

You went from incredible predictable to better than random? Wow, now that's impressive!

New comment by joaorj in "Scientists discover potentially habitable planets"

joaorj — Tue, 03 May 2016 01:16:01 +0000

If that were the case their society would soon collapse after a few years.

The cost of every square foot of living space in x years is something we can't have the smallest idea about.

New comment by joaorj in "Craig Wright Is Not Satoshi Nakamoto"

joaorj — Tue, 03 May 2016 01:02:42 +0000

I agree that condition B should be discarded. It doesn't seem likely that Satoshi would want to trash Andersen in the process.

New comment by joaorj in "A Deep Learning USB Stick"

joaorj — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 21:15:28 +0000

At first glance I think they would take off and be airborne. Other than that they would do whatever they were programmed to do. I know, my comment is stupid, thought I should fit in.

New comment by joaorj in "Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires"

joaorj — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 13:25:48 +0000

Maybe we can use this comment as a place to give our best guesses for to the percentage of liars on the internet.

How many of the people claiming to have clicked a button few minutes / hours after it was out and having spectacular irreversible consequences to their lives is just a phony?

I would say between 40% and 90%, but don't know better than that.

New comment by joaorj in "To Lions, Zebras Are Mostly Gray"

joaorj — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:53:44 +0000

Yeah, that's definitely a possibility. What you describe is more or less the basic property/side effect I was talking about, but much better explained.

You're betting evolution is not that good. One can also bet it better than you can possibly imagine. I don't think you can be sure either way at this point, but your argument seems to be the most compelling at this point!

New comment by joaorj in "To Lions, Zebras Are Mostly Gray"

joaorj — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 14:12:45 +0000

> Why do we say homosexuality is primarily genetic if evolution is true?

In my opinion it must be to help the fitness of the community they live in. The communities with low likelihood to spawn a gay person are (were?) much more likely to go extinct. It can also be a basic property (side effect?) of the sexual appeal arms race.

There is also the case of suicides, when they happen to young people that hasn't reproduced yet. It can also be argued its for the benefit of the community.

So the thesis is that the primary force in evolution is not individual's fitness but it is the community's fitness.

New comment by joaorj in "Remove the ++ and –- operators"

joaorj — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:44:59 +0000

I did miss it too, for the first 2 weeks I started using python. After that it just seems ugly.

New comment by joaorj in "Self-Driving Cars: A Coming Congestion Disaster?"

joaorj — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 04:10:48 +0000

Seemed stupid, but I had to read, as I couldn't possible imagine what would the author come up with to justify how an automated "rule based" predictable system can cause more congestion that chaotic humans...

On that note, I think the author forgot to mention the noise disaster it will be when everyone sends their cars driving around the block at night while they sleep. (yay, some extra garage space)

What??

New comment by joaorj in "AirConsole – Your browser is the game console, your smartphone is the gamepad"

joaorj — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:36:20 +0000

Is this ironic?

I have my sound at the volume level it always is: between 50% and 100%

Luckly the sound was going through the speakers. It was still very awkward to have the speakers produce one of the loudest sound they ever produced.

New comment by joaorj in "Windows 10 phones home when you search your start menu, even with Bing disabled"

joaorj — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:52:50 +0000

Even worst, he is alive, and he had to share his name with the local authorities when he was born