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Re:The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate co...
on Wednesday April 29, 2026 @04:38PM (#47954266)
Why assume there has to be a one-to-one mapping? Why assume one physical process can't correspond to an infinity of different qualia?
We assume an infinity of wave-functions correspond to a single physical process without difficulty.
Re:Show HN: MacMind – A transformer neural network in HyperCard on a 1...
on Thursday April 16, 2026 @02:38PM (#47797640)
There is an absolutely beautiful rendering of the Mona Lisa encoded at some point in the digits of pi. If you know the position, it's really easy to plot the image.
But first you have to find that position.
Re:NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks
on Sunday December 28, 2025 @01:00PM (#46413004)
>What benefit is there to keep this antiquated method around, aside from just as an historical reference?
Analogue clocks are, by design, also visual progress bars. Digital clocks just give you the time. There's a little video talking about this by Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeopkvAP-ag
Re:Social media's next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scal...
on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @03:44AM (#45023480)
You're describing ZeroNet.
It has ZeroTalk as a Reddit-like thing, ZeroMe as a social network and ZeroBlog as a Twitter-like thing.
https://github.com/HelloZeroNet/ZeroTalk
Re:Arthur C. Clarke Predicted the Rise of AI (1978)
on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:44PM (#44186807)
Hey, let's not forget 1927's Metropolis, where an authoritarian government uses deepfaked bots to manipulate the population.
Re:Ann, the Small Annotation Server
on Tuesday May 20, 2025 @02:19AM (#44038345)
How would this compare to hypothes.is?
Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Restaurant
on Sunday April 06, 2025 @05:53AM (#43600242)
Would you consider something like the Ikea cafeteria to be someways similar?
Re:Lawrence of Arabia, Paul Atreides, and the Roots of Frank Herbert's...
on Tuesday March 04, 2025 @06:43AM (#43253346)
The trick, Muad'Dib, is not minding that it hurts.
Re:Micro Journal: Distraction-Free Writing Device
on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @12:00PM (#43174446)
My take on this was to get a boxy old ThinkPad that no longer functioned and fit it with Raspberry Pi, e-ink and LCD. https://github.com/wdbm/cyberDeck_2022