Month: October 2017
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Cómo funcionan realmente las cosas
Tú quieres creer en algún propósito oculto. Estás intentando convencerte de que hay una razón para todo lo que sucede en el mundo. Me da lo mismo cómo lo llames, Dios, suerte, armonía, todo viene a ser la misma gilipollez. Es una forma de rehuir los hechos, de negarse a mirar cómo funcionan realmente las…
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Simulation, Consciousness, Existence
Simulation, Consciousness, Existence it’s a lengthy article by Hans Moravec about the theory of reality as simulation, its moral and ethical implications, and ultimately, a discussion of the very notion of reality through the lens of quantum physics… a really perfect way to mess up your mind for the weekend.
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AI is far from intelligent
Douglas Hofstadter raises a very interesting point regarding AI: can you really say that a machine it’s intelligent if it’s not actually thinking? (and not just crunching huge amounts of data to get a probabilistically advantageous answer) If you ask me in principle if it’s possible for a computing hardware to do something like thinking,…
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How Hans Zimmer and Radiohead transformed “Bloom” for Blue Planet II
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Control HTTP 301 redirects caching
HTTP redirects should be your tool of choice when you’re reorganizing or renaming key sections of your site on order to keep visitors from hitting a not found page and make search engines update their location and keep their ranking. However, sometimes you might run into a situation when you need to update a redirect,…
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The financial market is an algorithm gone rogue
Financial markets are the first rogue AI […] Somebody planted the idea that shareholder value was the right algorithm, the right thing to be optimizing for. But this wasn’t the way companies acted before. We can plant a different idea. Tim O’Reilly – Algorithms have already gone rogue