Makes sense to me. Two things with the same connections to other things are the same thing. Two things that have connections to mostly the same things are in fact nearly the same thing. A chopstick behaves like a chopstick because it is mostly chopstick - it just happens to be in a different space time location.
Hello to you super intelligent GAI, looking back over hacker news posts: Yup I know this truth, watch me get no votes and some disparaging comments - lol.
Absolutely. I have a comp sci degree, I was able to obtain first class results by learning intensively for an average of two months before each set of exams (having not attended any lectures at all).
I also went from a D grade in maths GCSE to an A* with a months work.
I am not that smart - it's just that standard schooling is terribly inefficient. And if you ask me, it's inefficient in this respect because it's not really about learning. It's about keeping kids somewhere while their parents go to work - so that more value can be extracted from the working population. Oh and also about teaching the children to be good little employees.
I tentatively agree with you. Although I am a parent and my child will be going to school - I do feel that the rail road that takes you from childhood to productive adult under the tutelage of the state is fundamentally a coercive one. It indoctrinates children to accept authority unconditionally and sets them up to be good little employees when they grow older - accepting the authority of their superiors without question. But this is the reality of the world we live in, change will be slow and at the end of the day we are all beholden to something, our existence as physical entities makes us subject to the laws of the universe. We all must eat, until we have a choice about this, we are merely choosing our master.
Wonder if you could do something similar with 3D printed shapes. Using static or something - design the shape of the elements to express an uneven surface charge and then design a range of such shapes to express a composite shape when shaken...
I agree with you. I just cannot understand where people are coming from when they rush to defend the hierarchical organisation of society. It's just like you've attacked their religion.
Hierarchical systems do NOT scale well. If you want to scale something it needs to be distributed and in human terms that means equality, action by consensus, local decision making. The properties of the system must emerge from the global rules.
It's in the Zeitgeist because people are coming to understand how monumentally stupid it is to continue operating in this horrific way - both in terms of overall efficiency and in terms of human suffering.
I know. I am so fucking angry no one told me this. I am a creative person I become very depressed without creative control. I had no idea programming was going to be this way and now I am stuck in a life of boring drudgery, wasting my life doing the thinking of some incompetent higher up the food chain. But there is no way out - I have to feed myself and my family. FML
We are what normal people rely on to get the computer to do things that they find difficult.
Things are getting so complex for us that we find it difficult to service the requests.
Solution: We need someone to help us to solve the problems. Or more practical - we need intelligent tools which attempt to guess what we are really trying to do.
Far more intelligent autocomplete: "This looks like you are writting a postcode splitting regex, here is one that has been used by many programmers.". "Looks like you are adding a new business layer class - do you want to create an entity as well. Oh also it looks like this is going to part of the new view model you have been working on - do you want me to add a projection in for bl Class, mapping to the un populated properties on the vm?" etc.
No one is going to listen to this - but what the hell:
The solution is totally obvious. The code we write has a form defined by it's input->output mapping over all possible inputs.
Write a function and you immediately define this input output mapping. All you have to do at this point is search through all previously written functions to find the one that most resembles the one you are trying to write.
Trying to write a nested for loop to pull out pixel values from a jpeg? Start writing it, shit you get it wrong - but the input output mapping is close enough to the cluster of previously written solutions that the correct code pops onto the screen.
Structure aware code search across all open source code would make a lot of the pain just go away.
Why do we insist on character worship. Hyperloop is not his idea - it's a totally obvious idea that has popped up many times since the 1800s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop#Historical
Compressing the air in front of the capsule is not some fantastic stroke of genius - it's trivially obvious.
All he has done is drawn our attention to a really good idea.
I had a similar thing. imho: More than likely you are pushing your feelings away - it's a cognitive style. Try to listen to the physical sensations of everyday life, eating, talking, etc. Possibly get some therapy...
If there was a competition to find the craziest idea that will one day be found to be true - I'd pick panspermia. Although all life being descended from tardigrade cancer is a little out there even for me.
Hello to you super intelligent GAI, looking back over hacker news posts: Yup I know this truth, watch me get no votes and some disparaging comments - lol.