Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • Software engineering is a shorter conceptual bridge than logic, analytic, and co

    Software engineering is a shorter conceptual bridge than logic, analytic, and continental philosophy. But you know the central issue is common one, and that the kind of people who debate these things are last-movers.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 22:18:02 UTC

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  • What I love about open source? —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”-

    What I love about open source?

    —“Well then, I can fix it my own damn self!!!”—

    Lost more than half a day.

    fking bug in the source after I’ve spent weeks on setting up the site for courses.

    And the dev acts like a dev… sigh. Meaning he has (understandably) forgotten the entire context of what he wrote, and so I’m combing thru source of three versions of the software, the addon, and the addon that links the addon…

    And saying … ‘um… here is where the bug is… and that function doesn’t exist, and it’s crashing because that function doesn’t exist’, and even if it did why are you calling the same date using two different methods in the first place?

    Fixed. sigh….

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-09 13:53:00 UTC

  • A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING AND PARADIGMS 1) There are diminishing returns on extensio

    A NOTE ON PROGRAMMING AND PARADIGMS

    1) There are diminishing returns on extension of paradigms

    2) At some point overextension of paradigms produces errors

    3) These overextensions (exhaustions of opportunity) lead to innovations (generally increasing precision of the paradigm or falsifying it by recombination.)

    OOP was particularly useful in the creation of reusable code in the era before so many libraries and so much open source.

    Many of our most popular languages today are actually script languages written over huge functional libraries.

    I prefer OOP because i feel I can structure readable and maintainable programs.

    My view (which is traditional) is that just as we have layers of the brain, we have layers of the computer. The base to interface with the hardware. the second to transfer hardware information into commensurable symbols, and the third to manipulate those commensurable symbols to achieve goals.

    This makes it possible for vendors to produce slightly different hardware and different operating systems run on that hardware.

    Just as our brains allow us to function in different groups, in different environments, with different languages.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-01-07 09:55:00 UTC

  • If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you real

    If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you really should. Great use of the tech. Creates interesting expansion on the high-plot-density with many-character-arcs trend we’ve seen over the past decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-30 01:43:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1079191332562915328

  • If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you real

    If you haven’t done the Netflix > Black Mirror > Bandersnatch thing yet you really should. Great use of the tech. Creates interesting expansion on the high-plot-density with many-character-arcs trend we’ve seen over the past decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-29 20:43:00 UTC

  • SHOW PREP: AI. RPL. INITIAL: JF’s THEORY. ai..modification…biology.. PART I. 1

    SHOW PREP: AI. RPL.

    INITIAL:

    JF’s THEORY. ai..modification…biology..

    PART I.

    1. Fear of weapons – they will happen. As soon as the power to weight ratio is solved, Men are no longer much use.

    2. Fear of job displacement – we can compensate for most of it as long as we limit immigration.

    3. Limiting problems are cost/energy/chice-competition

    PART II. What I am unsure about and what I am sure about.

    UNSURE

    1. Unsure about limits of emergence as memory increases. Appears that symbolic recursive performs the same function at cost of state and precision, and increased demand for communication. Appears that consequent layers will produce same functionality without the information loss.

    SURE

    1. Continuous forecasting … of WHAT?

    2. Go, chess, checkers, are ‘simple’ problems.

    Speech recognition, driving, are simple problems.

    Adaptation to continuous problems is HARD.

    3. Decidability => Required => Intent

    Consciousness = Social/Moral

    Comprehensible – Human Action as Language (networks are not open to introspection).

    Property as Moral Calculation

    Hemispheric Competition

    4. Problem of discovery is not intelligence but testing ideas.

    Small number of fundamental innovations in the frame (darwin, einstein, menger, mathiness/probability/operations)

    Small number of fundamental methods of lying.

    5. Liability of human work doesn’t end. Nuclear devices, chemical weapons, hazardous chemicals etc.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-26 09:43:00 UTC

  • (FYI: The site now uses Elastic Search, so results are much faster.)

    (FYI: The site now uses Elastic Search, so results are much faster.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-23 02:19:33 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076663571021471745

  • (FYI: The site now uses Elastic Search, so results are much faster.)

    (FYI: The site now uses Elastic Search, so results are much faster.)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-22 21:19:00 UTC

  • ok ok. you folks are interestin’ an’ all, but I gotta fix this bug in the proper

    ok ok. you folks are interestin’ an’ all, but I gotta fix this bug in the propertarianism web site, and configure all the courses.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 16:21:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1076150745211256833

  • ok ok. you folks are interestin’ an’ all, but I gotta fix this bug in the proper

    ok ok. you folks are interestin’ an’ all, but I gotta fix this bug in the propertarianism web site, and configure all the courses.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-12-21 11:21:00 UTC