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Re:Google AI Challenge: Winner post-mortem and source code on Thursday March 04, 2010 @06:33PM (#1168375)
Very interesting article! I would like to know how much time was spent on developing the bot.
Re:Twitter Hits 50 Million Tweets Per Day and GROWING. on Monday February 22, 2010 @05:22PM (#1143916)
But there is a single company in charge of the service... if that company disappears or the company servers shut off, your messages will disappear (just as it happens when twitter shuts off).
Re:Ten Challenges on Sunday February 21, 2010 @11:09PM (#1141914)
By the way, I would recommend any programmer interested in physics "The Road to Reality" by Penrose. I think that's a very challenging book, that can be interesting for programmers, even if it's not about programming. Compared to that kind of material, GEB is very, very light.
Re:Ten Challenges on Sunday February 21, 2010 @11:02PM (#1141911)
I found it light, and boring because of how light it was. I had studied Gödel's theorems, etc., so I really could not take the pace for explaining the logic stuff (most of the book) in GEB.
Re:The Chinese Room Argument on Sunday February 21, 2010 @10:14AM (#1140641)
I still don't believe you. So the numbers are made up? "15 minutes" -> "entire planet"? How much for 10 minutes? And for 1 minute? Is that obvious too?

So you think it's very obvious that it's impossible to build a chatbot that speaks chinese for 15 minutes in a computer like the one I'm using now (even one that claims to be a child for example). And why couldn't we just clone a Chinese person brain and say it's a computer? Why do you think a brain snapshot would require the size of a planet?

Exercise worked for me too. It makes a GREAT difference on me, even an hour day of exercise counts.

I don't know how to make my diet better.

Re:The Chinese Room Argument on Saturday February 20, 2010 @07:01PM (#1139760)
" It's trivial to show that a Chinese Room that could converse for more than 15 minutes would have to contain more elementary particles than the entire planet."

I don't believe it, can you show it?

Re:Algorithms course material on Sunday January 24, 2010 @05:59PM (#1073950)
What is a good book for learning about this subject? Knuth's? Any other recommendations?
Thanks everyone for your comments, they have been very useful!

Ask / Tell HN: dropped out, learning from books by myself... any advice?

Sorry for the grammar, I'm not a native English speaker.I left university shortly before getting a bachelor degree in Computer Science. This happened some years ago; I did it because I was very busy with my own startup and I decided focusing on the startup was a better idea. Also, I noticed that I learned much faster by myself than on the university (though that university wasn't a very good...

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