The delightful wait and the fantastic repose! #naked in the gym
Instagram sells for $1B. Evernote is now valued at $1B. Pinterest at $1.5B. 3 month old companies coming out of YCombinator are getting investments based on $10M+ valuations. And today will be the Facebook IPO which will likely put a market cap on the company north of $100B.
This is not a…
tl;dr Developing in a tmux session has sped up my TDD cycle considerably, especially with the help of tslime.vim and turbux.vim. I get immediate feedback in one pane, but never have to leave vim or lose context of what I’m working on to see the test result.
Taking a cue from Xavier Shay’s…
The simplest motor in the world (by danky78)
Copper Pipe Magnet (by JamesRB1995)
If you want to be truly intimidating,
If you want to make an impact,
If you want to have strong connections with others
just be sincere.
Sarcasm is not an attitude, and it’s not a personality trait. It’s a style of rhetoric meant to be used occasionally to highlight a larger point. Saying…
The announcement that Nexus One users won’t be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google’s support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky. I’ve been researching the history of OS updates on Android phones…
My NASA problems and LEGO problems post caused a little stir (mostly for my misquoting of NASA’s pre-Apollo-11 mission count and my mispluralizing of LEGO). I’d like to clarify my point with a technical definition and not an extended metaphor. I’ll frame it as a law of science:
The Law of…
In the universe where everything works the way it common-sensically ought to, everything about the study of Artificial General Intelligence is driven by the one overwhelming fact of the indescribably huge effects: initial conditions and unfolding patterns whose consequences will resound for as long as causal chains continue out of Earth, until all the stars and galaxies in the night sky have burned down to cold iron, and maybe long afterward, or forever into infinity if the true laws of physics should happen to permit that. To deliberately thrust your mortal brain onto that stage, as it plays out on ancient Earth the first root of life, is an act so far beyond “audacity” as to set the word on fire, an act which can only be excused by the terrifying knowledge that the empty skies offer no higher authority.
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| — | Eliezer Yudkowsky, Above-Average AI Scientists (via izs) |
