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New comment by paradroid in "Proving the Turing Completeness of Fonts"

paradroid — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 21:23:32 +0000

Can you use this to bypass Spectre mitigations in Javascript? You would need to measure time, somehow.

New comment by paradroid in "US breaks up IRS phone scam operation"

paradroid — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 05:38:31 +0000

A fake IRS phone scam? So it's a real IRS phone scam, and not a fake one?

New comment by paradroid in "Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression"

paradroid — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:40:32 +0000

Where I come from we obey the laws of thermodynamics, which implies setting our priors appropriately.

fyi he was mocking people who look down on people in poverty, in the style of the "lol meme". There was nothing particularly wrong with his comment.

New comment by paradroid in "Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression"

paradroid — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 01:12:58 +0000

He's using internet speak. Since it can't be communicated as such in any other way, it's likely an exception, although to someone who hasn't been read in it probably reads funny.

New comment by paradroid in "Drugs alone won't fix our epidemic of depression"

paradroid — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 00:32:59 +0000

He's not wrong, but he's not taking into consideration the fact that it's a feedback loop. It's the same perspective as chiding the homeless for not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. They are in too much mental poverty to do it.

New comment by paradroid in "Are “jets” a good idea? (2017)"

paradroid — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 23:17:29 +0000

What's the best way to say this..

It's a masochistic method of programming where you insert a randomly generated layer of abstraction between the hardware and the programmer, and tell the programmer to make sure to add enough hints to his code to make sure that it runs quickly.

The benefits are unclear.

New comment by paradroid in "Are “jets” a good idea? (2017)"

paradroid — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:55:20 +0000

That's a stretch. If the only dimension you care about is whether or not the language spec is guaranteed to be invariant, sure, but that's essentially nitpicking. One more layer of abstraction gets you an asm->asm transpiler that never changes.

New comment by paradroid in "Are “jets” a good idea? (2017)"

paradroid — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 21:27:32 +0000

This is basically asm or microcode at a higher level.

New comment by paradroid in "Patreon mistakenly shut down successfully funded project Armory3D"

paradroid — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:36:12 +0000

Why is everyone expressing so much restraint? It is insanely difficult to get your entrepreneurial projects funded. This guy needs to get a lawyer!

New comment by paradroid in "Customers who liked this Recommendation Engine may also like its Dequantization"

paradroid — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:25:55 +0000

10^15 is not that big. We could construct and compute on sparse matrices that large today.

New comment by paradroid in "Satoshi is alive"

paradroid — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:07:31 +0000

It doesn't matter that it's not cryptographically signed and not using https, etc. If the paper contains details about the history of bitcoin that can then be proved to be true, that is well on the way to validation. i.e., details such as "timechain" preceding "blockchain."

New comment by paradroid in "A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System"

paradroid — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 04:45:55 +0000

The comparison falls flat in too many ways.

New comment by paradroid in "Improving Deep Learning Performance with AutoAugment"

paradroid — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 23:17:10 +0000

AutoOverfit is more like it.

New comment by paradroid in "U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani"

paradroid — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 22:50:25 +0000

"It's odd how little information is provided about the actual new technologies behind this." - @aheilbut

New comment by paradroid in "U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ramesh Balwani"

paradroid — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 21:48:35 +0000

The dollar figures involved are three to four orders of magnitude greater in their case.

New comment by paradroid in "A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System"

paradroid — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:41:58 +0000

Neurology is the study of disorders of the nervous system. This is theoretical neuroscience. FTFY.

New comment by paradroid in "A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System"

paradroid — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:33:33 +0000

In your own words, you are asking for 'science'. And if you click the link through to the SEP, you'll see that it's well documented that this is, in the words of Stephen Wolfram, A New Kind of Science.

New comment by paradroid in "A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System"

paradroid — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 19:14:33 +0000

That's a philosophical difference. I don't disagree, but given the various constraints involved what you're asking isn't possible. Additionally, I'd note that it sounds like they are practicing Lean methodology - which is justifiable.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/#MetPra

New comment by paradroid in "A Connectome-Based Convolutional Network Model of the Drosophila Visual System"

paradroid — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:58:45 +0000

It's theoretical neuroscience. If you have philosophical difference write a position paper.

New comment by paradroid in "Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early days"

paradroid — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:25:51 +0000

Why on earth was this downvoted? Reddit started by creating fake users and fake content - much like stocking shelves with empty boxes.