Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • Computers can however, falsify better than people can, in everything except subj

    Computers can however, falsify better than people can, in everything except subjective testing of rational incentives. If law, and findings of law, were stated correctly instead of archaically, we could use findings of the court as we do wikipedia.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-25 01:27:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1198775104295059457

    Reply addressees: @balajis

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1198774762039914496

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    @balajis So like many people you are still as confused as everyone else that didn’t learn from Popper or the failure of 20th century philosophy (dead end) and the failure of the search for a via-positiva scientific method. There isn’t any such thing. Human language is Open (no closure).

    Original post: https://x.com/i/web/status/1198774762039914496

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    @curtdoolittle

    @balajis So like many people you are still as confused as everyone else that didn’t learn from Popper or the failure of 20th century philosophy (dead end) and the failure of the search for a via-positiva scientific method. There isn’t any such thing. Human language is Open (no closure).

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  • This doesn’t take much computational power, only expanding statements into promi

    This doesn’t take much computational power, only expanding statements into promissory, complete sentences, in operational vocabulary.

    The vast majority – with rare exceptions – of what people say is false and/or irreciprocal if it is outside of their direct experience.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-25 01:24:16 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1198774370178666496

    Reply addressees: @balajis

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    @balajis TEST:identity(disambiguation), internal consistency(logic), external correspondence(empirical), operational language (existential possibility), rational choice (bounded rationality), reciprocity (in choice), completeness (limits, full accounting), parsimony (competitive).

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    @curtdoolittle

    @balajis TEST:identity(disambiguation), internal consistency(logic), external correspondence(empirical), operational language (existential possibility), rational choice (bounded rationality), reciprocity (in choice), completeness (limits, full accounting), parsimony (competitive).

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  • It will fail in the current design. If they improve the design the market will c

    It will fail in the current design.
    If they improve the design the market will copy it.
    I think it’s hard to do better than the hummer design unless you go all the way to a halo-truck.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-11-23 17:56:29 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1198299295121842176

    Reply addressees: @MartialSociety

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  • Q: Biggest programming mistakes? (from elsewhere) All my big mistakes are the sa

    Q: Biggest programming mistakes?
    (from elsewhere)

    All my big mistakes are the same, and I remember them. I keep working when I’m too tired to keep working: So, I wrote more functionality… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=496206614309567&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 21:39:23 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189658081036292096

  • Q: Biggest programming mistakes? (from elsewhere) All my big mistakes are the sa

    Q: Biggest programming mistakes?

    (from elsewhere)

    All my big mistakes are the same, and I remember them. I keep working when I’m too tired to keep working: So, I wrote more functionality than I needed to; I forget that I wrote something and wrote it again; I forget that I wrote it over there and wrote it here. I forgot that I did it that way and so did it this way, and now I have to fix one or the other. I made only one architectural mistake with a new product because I rushed with it. The rest are all the same. Tired = stupid.

    I keep lots of notes, I plan my work, I use diagrams to design it. I usually do databases for rules, then services, then ui designs; Then the class architecture. I pseudocode the work, I write code for readability first; I document as I go; I (mostly) write test then code, the reason I’m slower I think I should be is that I test more than I should, especially UI functionality, and so I revise too much. I refactor a lot. and sometimes I shouldn’t. I should focus on functionality coverage so that I have a better understanding of how different services interact in practice.

    Most recent mistakes that sit with me is the message bag in Oversing, where I’d replaced one technique with another and then forgot I’d done so until … oops. The other is writing one set of panels one week using one method of data propagation, and coming back the next week and writing another set of panels with a slightly different method of data propagation, when I should have used a different method of data propagation.

    My general strategy is to make it work, make it work together, make it durable, then make it elegant.

    I stopped writing code myself because there are people who are faster and better and my core strength is user interface design, business rules, and data structures, and not wiring everything together. And the reason is that with all the visual cues I do better than I do in code editors without them. ie: as I usually complain my weakness is short term memory. I remember almost everything. but that’s not the same as working memory.

    But in general, tired = stupid.

    Don’t write code tired.

    Don’t send emails tired (or angry)

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-30 17:39:00 UTC

  • No em dash in ascii without extended ascii, and extended ascii will not translat

    No em dash in ascii without extended ascii, and extended ascii will not translate between platforms; triple dash this is proper usage when block quote is not available.

    See Post Formatting style guide:
    https://propertarianism.com/2019/02/28/a-style-guide/

    (Yes I know you aren’t serious.) lolz

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-29 19:27:13 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1189262431450779650

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  • I’m more concerned that our descendents won’t be able to recognize that this vid

    I’m more concerned that our descendents won’t be able to recognize that this video is fake – because the majority of commenters areadly don’t.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-28 11:01:48 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188772849743552512

    Reply addressees: @Outsideness

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    When its near-descendants watch this video things will get interesting. https://t.co/kx7JR1eoeR

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  • PREDICTION? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL DRONE REVOLUTION? They are extrem

    PREDICTION? WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL DRONE REVOLUTION?

    They are extremely vulnerable, and the culmination of Cargo Cult opportunism.

    It will take a while for their density to be… https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=494110251185870&id=100017606988153

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 20:59:01 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1188560758294155269

  • PREDICTION: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL DRONE REVOLUTION? They are extrem

    PREDICTION: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE COMMERCIAL DRONE REVOLUTION?

    They are extremely vulnerable, and the culmination of “Cargo Cult” opportunism.

    It will take a while for their density to be such that it’s worth making a living off investment with capturing their cargo, but you know, I sure as heck know how to make a living at it, and a gang that gets organized enough will make a great living at it.

    I mean, you know that video from south africa where the locals cut up a beached whale while it’s still living, and run off with hunks of meat?

    A distribution channel of drones carrying ‘Cargo’ is simply a an opportunity for many generations of the division of labor more evolved than whale meat.

    Drones fly at 120 meters (130 yards) according to FAA regulations.

    Now if you’ve shot skeet, you can shoot down a done with 3 1/2” 12 gauge OOO Buckshot, with a drop of 18″. If you lead, and fire three shots in sequence assuming 18″ drop it’s shooting fish in a barrel. (and yes the gang bangers will develop ‘talent’ that will do it, and vehicles to do it from, and spend all f’king day doing it. You can use a rifled shotgun and slug pretty easily at 130 yards. Even with a .22 semi auto – because it’s so quiet and can put a lot of rounds up there. Or with another drone you can just tie nails to a bit of fishing net and drop it on the drone, or just smack into it with your landing gear.

    Now that’s before we get to the fact that they are even more vulnerable during delivery of the goods. And that even if their reasonably autonomous they aren’t endlessly autonomous. And that capturing, modifying, and using them for ‘other purposes’ is profitable in and of itself.

    So now, you get your own and deliver drugs anonymously and don’t need runners.

    I mean, the disintermediation from the human being is awesome. And you know, load it up with explosives and now people won’t interfere with it. I mean.. it’s a whole new criminal industry just waiting to happen! 😉

    Sorry. Just had to rain on the parade.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-27 16:58:00 UTC

  • Log out completely. Shut down the browser (completely, sometimes google stays re

    Log out completely. Shut down the browser (completely, sometimes google stays resident). Open the browser again, use an incognito window. go to facebook, log in, hard refresh including cache (look it up if you don’t know how). Sometimes I go and delete all the cookies too.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-10-25 21:00:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187836426957807624

    Reply addressees: @audbeachvixen

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1187835600939995136

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    @audbeachvixen

    @curtdoolittle Thank you for letting me know. I do appreciate that you responded. This Fb issue is Driving me crazy. I just want to be able to post on my own wall & can’t. Sigh. So Frustrating

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