CodiePetersen

Wow! Very cool, looks like it is more of a world hard drive for now, but sounds like you have bigger plans for it. Very very cool. I'm downloading it right now. I've shot you a connection request on linkedin. I would really like to stay updated on this project. I work in blockchain development sometimes and I think ease of use has been a HUGE hurdle for adoption, but it seems you have overcome that a bit in your project. In fact I think your project could be compatible with/useful for one of the blockchains I develop on.

I specifically liked when you talked about people (kids in particular) being able to program simply again without the need of specialized knowledge in networking etc. I think this is actually what Stadia and other streamed gaming services have been trying to do. Except they seem to be doing it ass backwards (centralizing the service and serving it to the customer).

Anyways, really cool project, looking forward to using it.

I normally hate node based programming because I'm basically relearning programming but with nodes and the systems are a lot of times opaque so I can't read it at a glance to see what it does, but with this custom node stuff I could get behind that.

I'm actually a bit excited to try this out.

This is great stuff. I make video games and its some times hard to find what colors would go good with others. This is a nice collection I think.

Also, it looks like it would be great for deciding colors for a pitch deck/presentation. Good stuff.

It really does kind of feel gross that these sound like business pitches.

I completely agree with you. Really getting sick and tired of the tech industry thinking they are better than everyone else because they can program. Very egotistical culture. Down to even morals. I had one guy comment to me "Hard to believe someone in the tech industry believes such things."

But I think it is mostly just American programmers. Or maybe just big city programmers. I've had the opportunity to work with people in Spain, The UK, and Prague, others remotely as well, but I haven't seen the level of ego in those guys as I have seen in Americans.

It's part of the reason I loathe the idea of hiring developers from America. EVERYOTHER industry is perfectly fine with criticizing or reanalyzing the work of others either underneath their authority or about their competitors. I'm sure even some of these programmers have even said "OMG this caffe macchiato is crap. I'm never drinking from this place again." But nope, don't criticize programmers or ask them to redo work. It's just so rude.

But it is probably the fact that companies like Google literally put slides and children's toys in their offices for their apparently adult programmers to enjoy. An artifact of programmer scarcity I'd imagine.

>We’re programmers, so writing code is what we do, is it not ? As the title suggests, our job is a bit more complicated than stroking keys on a keyboard in front of a screen all day.

I don't know what it is about the tech industry but it really seems to think highly of itself and is constantly self congratulatory.

You should be careful with the "can penetrate the trees" statement for people who don't understand the technology. But you are correct. Like light, some of the lidar can make it to the ground and give us a partial map of the floor.

I'm sure more passes from different angles would get a better picture as well.

This would be a lot more useful if any of those things were in the store. Our stores here in Las Vegas are constantly being stripped. My mom said she had gone to go pickup some milk for my nieces and had two quarts that she could find and even then people were complaining about her "taking so much" and one lady tried to take one. It's hard to find places that have stuff. When you do, it weird stuff that you just have to use because there is nothing else.

I don't know who made the website but shouldn't the least volunteered ones be at the top.

Hey John. I know how you feel a bit. Dont worry about people thinking its depressing. It's your struggle and your story and you can tell it how ever you want. I remember tiny things like being able to tell my story helped me when I was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

People may not understand what milk has to really do with your situation but it is those tiny things that make the most profound impacts I'd say. I still look at the tiny needle scars and that reminds me more than the actual scar on my head.

So feel free man. I found being able to talk about it openly helped me deal with it A LOT MORE than anything else.

Appeal to tradition. Denied.

That's rich coming from the guy who just said we can call it Spanish Flu because it's old.

There is implied failure of services in Spookies response. Already here in vegas, my step dad works at a bread factory as supervisor, they are seeing an increase of demand. He's had to go in several times late at night to relieve someone who was on a longer shift. He says if they lose one person they will start falling behind.

The short term consumables or raw resources are the ones that matter the most. If people stop going to work to make bread or toilet paper or refine oil it's going to put a strain on a lot of things. The oil and chemical industries are really going to be important for producing medical items like gloves, sanitizer, cleaning agents, plastic ventilators, sanitary plastic containers for equipment and needles, etc. Not to mention the effects of lower oil production and the strain and cost on shipping those things back and forth to their respective factories.

But it will have to be pretty bad before we have to worry about that I think.

Honestly seems like you are doing well and that many of these had quick solutions. Great job.

Great explanations. Hope you guys do well. I do like the fact you delete and destroy data and samples.

No boolean operators?! That's an odd choice.

Shrooms are not way more powerful. To put shrooms on lsd level is kind of ridiculous. They're all different from each other of course but most are very mild compared to LSD. The very common ones are just serotonin reuptake inhibitors. I've seen some people say they see shimmers of light or visuals but I've taken the same ones and all I get is super happy and motivated. It's great but it's not on lsd level. I'd say it's same level of weed.

I know everyone acts different to everything but I've had trippier experiences with weed where my memory was so short I thought I was just appearing in places and forgot what my arms felt like. So I think the concerns of shrooms are greatly over exaggerated.

Well it's not too crazy when you think about it. The web is just encoding location and size data for them. Any medium that generated the same results every time would do the same thing. I think because of their smaller intelligence it just seems more profound than it actually is because it represents a significant portion of their capabilities.

We see this in some types of machine learning. Echo state networks and reservoir computing essential just encode the data with their random connections.

So I think it's cool, but not that surprising. The spider is just learning the world through its web just like a musician learns music through a specific instrument. The difference is its not a significant portion of our intelligence and we have extra space/power to learn the world through different tools. Language, writing,reading, computing, mathematics, etc.

You're not going to. There is real incentive to divide people into categories. People in the grey are hard to deal with and hard to manage.

Massive tech companies like google have perfected how you are supposed to move someone from unaware and not caring into the firmly aware caring and loyal brand consumer. They extend that ability to anyone willing to pay for it.

All the twitter ads all the Facebook ads all the Google ads. Doesn't matter if it's for potatoes or Trump, they have the same ability to subtly move you into their camp. Even a basic search engine in reddit or google will constantly feed you the same bs day in and day out based on what you already search for. Take Google news. They aren't going to show you too much out of your region, even in world news as an American you are usually going to see American policy and any topics the engine thinks is important to you based on your previous views.

The whole of Internet technologies is meant to divide and feed you the confirmation bias info you love. Only stuff that already aligns with your views. You take that and couple the fact that ai algorithms are literally designed to take non linear data and plop them into definite categories and you'll get independent/grey thinkers slowly being pushed to one side or another no matter how complex the data.

Unless there is a way to forcefully break the feedback loop, you won't stop it. If you sat day in and day out twirling a butterfly knife or painting or whatever, you would be an expert eventually. That's what is happening now but not with a useful skill, just information aligned with what you already believe. Then after years of programming someone comes along from the other category and tries to break your beliefs, of course you'll get toxicity because it's hard to unlearn how to paint. The brain is not meant to unlearn constantly practiced behavior.

I deleted my Facebook a couple months ago. Now I wish I would have kept it just a little longer to see what they had on me.

But in the end I still would have deleted it. Facebook clearly can't be trusted with my data. Idc what connections it gives me. They have shown time and time again that they will exploit the tiniest things to predict and manipulate your behavior.

And apparently companies desperate for even slight up ticks in conversion rates will upload everything they know about you.

No wonder Cambridge Analytica, AggregateIQ, and Robert Mercer had such an easy time compiling psychological profiles and categories of Americans and Brits.

In the end, it's real simple. The human brain adjusts based on the environment and events around it. Id rather not have Zuckerberg, Dorsey, or anyone else they deem worthy, intentionally or otherwise playing around in my head.

Dot variations in Gmail all belong to you by default. That's a Gmail thing not a Facebook thing.

I think the novelty terminology makes this more confusing than it needs to be. If the hippy "its a movement not a trend" speak was taken out of the descriptions I'd probably be able to understand what this is supposed to be.

In case anyone is wondering there is a blockchain that was made for such a reason. It's called namecoin. It spawned a project called chimera which was renamed xaya. In xaya the idea is you can reserve a name and the name has an alterable 2048 byte space for json data that you can update every block if you wish.

Namecoin though has always been around to reserve names and in particular domain names.

This is equivalent to sitting three people back to back and they can only tap each other as a form of communication. Left hand for rotate left right hand for rotate right. The Eeg is not amazing we know they can be used to estimate intent and play games. Tms has a physical feeling to it and in this case a visual phosphene cue. You haven't introduced thoughts magnetically you've introduced a feeling.

I don't think we need to have a full understanding of the brain to make progress on those fronts. If you look at neuralink (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-vbh3t7WVI) there is some pretty amazing brain computer interfacing that is already happening. If we assume Moore's law hold up with neural sensor resolution, then within 10-15 years there will be as many input sensors as there are cones in the human eye. There are also plenty of other already existing technologies that can help aid in making her life easier.

I'm not saying "don't worry about it" as an uncle with two nieces I know how difficult it would be just to ignore something. You want your family and dependents to have happy full lives and every little struggle makes you worry and think. But what I am saying is, have a little hope. When you see articles like this, they are normally talking about theoretical and philosophical meanings of what intelligence and consciousness is, there is plenty of solid practical and applied science and progress that relates to your daughter's situation.

Don't get yourself worked up about the ponderings of math and computer nerds. The real life changing stuff is not being done in AI right now, its being done in universities, hospitals, and laboratories by scientists, doctors, and professors.

I'm actually glad it's dead/dying. It was always going to be controlled by an elite group who answered to no one but themselves. They had the ability to monitor all of your transactions and if they didn't like you they could roll back or block your transactions.

People keep saying oh this is proof crypto can't ever work because government. This was never a true crypto currency. It was just a private ledger tracking where actual money went. It was a stable coin at best. Its centralization is what got it killed.

Yes I agree. In fact I'd argue migration is much less of a concern than colonisation. If colonies are established and work is put in to make it at least a decent liveable environment, people will move. Hands down, people will move.

I like that the argument is traveling to a new continent is more exciting than traveling to a new planet. Some of the first people to Australia and the colonies were criminals. The first settlers also dealt with disease and untimely death on a regular basis. You've glamorised it quite a bit when in fact it was miserable.

You are absolutely correct about one thing though. There were many people traveling for a new life. Just like the travels from East to West in the US during the gold rush people went there for wealth, opportunity, and land but not for easy living. I suspect the push for exo planets will be the same.

If we are able to unlock FTL and the time and finacial investment to get there is low or comparable enough to a human lifetime then I see people, assuming we aren't just digital intelligence by then, moving there to start a new life and get away from whatever society is going through. There is always a disenfranchised portion of the population willing to give up their life for a new one somewhere else. Even if the journey and new life is relatively harder to what the rest of society is living in.

Nailing down issues with fault tolerances are a whole lot different than pioneering methods and sciences of uncharted territory. I didn't generalize all technicalities, I specified fault tolerance for a reason, because it's trivial compared to what it took to get to this point. The system works, just not as well as it will take to get to reliable wide spread usage.

Well I mean it's still pretty big though. We know for a fact now that there are only technicalities like fault tolerance in our way.

Still you're right though, the race for "fist post" by the media definitely exaggerates scientific breakthroughs. To the science specific literate they can sift through the hype but others get it in their head it's something else. Like investors for example, those guys are big dreamers and when they hear stuff like "ground breaking quantum supremacy" they'll throw everything they got at it. Investing in startups by itself has worse odds than slot machines, hype only makes it harder to predict the future. But oh well, at least we have the actual details and most of the articles link the results for those actually interested. Can't do much about what others think or do though.

Well to be honest the iq test has always been kind of bullshit imo. It changes with your level of education. In HS mine was 120 and now it's 143 (edit: I actually took that test 4 years ago and 3 years ago I had a brain tumor that left me with seizures and I have definitely suffered cognitively because of that so its probably lower if my memory and focus are any indicator). The test itself doesn't even measure useful cognitively profound abilities and if it did we'd all be near the same. It measures everything as a flat value. There is no value for each type of cognitive ability and most of it is skills you've picked up through life and education.

So when you look back at our great grandparents, take me for example, I'm part native hawaiian and my great grandparents were literally living in a shack on the beach. Their lives consisted of catching fish and fruit and sugar cane farming I don't even know if they could read before my grandparents started school. So of course their iq is lower. I mean hell you can't even take the iq test if you can't read. So I don't think the brain changes that we have are responsible for our higher iq points. I think it's availability to information, the more you have and contemplate the smarter you'll be. Pretty straight forward I think. Higher nutrients and regularly available food is helpful as well obviously.