sep332's comments

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Vernor Vinge predicts singularity by 2030

It may be long, but this song makes up for it: http://www.transhumanism.org/index.php/WTA/more/kamsingsong/

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Coding Horror: Has The Virtualization Future Arrived?

You know "waxing" means "growing," not "talking," right?

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Face recognition + the entire original series of Star Trek (w/ vids)

This will be a huge change for people who live in cities, but are currently effectively disconnected from one another. Imagine even just knowing the name of each person you pass on the street, and knowing that they know your name. Huge social change. I think it's positive.

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: We Are Morons: a quick look at the Win2k source (2004)

It's not a well-worded sentence, but what he means is that if you have to call out an ugly hack, the REST of the code is probably pretty decent. If the code is full of ugly hacks, they wouldn't be worth mentioning.

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Ubuntu 9.04 released

WTF?

I didn't pay for bugs, I paid for software. If it's buggy and they don't want to support it, they should sell it at a discount. If they charge me for a complete product, but the product is buggy, they owe me more software.

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Genetic Algorithms: Evolving Human Faces

Yeah, this is basically just Newton's method of approximation, seeded with a random initial value. It will eventually converge on a local maximum defined by the facial recognition function.

sep332 | 17 years ago | on: Non-Universality in Computation: The Myth of the Universal Computer

The argument isn't about computing, it's about naming. The argument here is whether a Turing machine is really "universal".