Son of Wayne✔️ @VictorXLR@mastodon.cloud
Software Dev.
I have nightmares of Null Pointers.
Not Associated with Wayne Enterprises
I messed up
What does love feel like
I am listening to MYRNE - Afterdark on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/1gBSRQFmrPJAPqFWQXFRpg
I am listening to Tokyo Machine - Blast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OWbU3IGE7nx2bHRPox1zs
I am listening to Tokyo Machine - Blast on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/1OWbU3IGE7nx2bHRPox1zs
Tooting from python using #mastodonpy !
@VictorXLR not entirely accurate. It's true that meta data is sold but also personal, deanonymized information is also sold. See http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/09/pf/security_info_profit/ and http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-data-brokers-selling-your-personal-information/
Literally any conversation on the internet that involves gender:
SJW> Gender is a social construct.
Normie> No, it's biological.
SJW> Educate yourself.
Normie> *points to hundreds of years of science, philosophy and art*
SJW> No you have to read this one book by this one author I learned about at school
Normie> There are more ideas in the world than what you're taught at university
SJW> ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE
SJW> HATE SPEECH
SJW> REEE
SJW> *BLOCK*
SJW> *asks for Patreon funding*
Almost at 400, peeps
man, I love peeps
There are two types of people: Those who are uncomfortable with their own ignorance, and those who wish to understand.
The former will be quick to fill the void with an explanation. The latter will not stop there, but will seek to test the explanation.
Most people are of the first type. This is why there is a lot of pseudoscience out there.
I don't think anyone can own or control data. In the world of copyright a fact is not copyrightable: it's owned by no one and everyone. The information that Facebook and Google have about me are either information that I have explicitly given them or information that could be just as easily gathered if someone hired a private detective. the information they have isn't any of the "private" information that resides only in my head or in the whispered conversations between me and my close friends
Which goes to show - in a more literal sense - how truly powerful algorithms really are. Perfecting them can practically negate 30 years of continuous hardware advancements
So then they took the algorithms each era utilized and swapped them: the algorithm used to reach that output in the 70s was run on a modern computer, while the algorithm used today was run on a computer from the 70s. Despite the speed increases afforded by the modern computer, the 70s computer calculating the modern algorithm reached the same result faster.
I remember reading about a comparative study dealing with how algorithms have improved over time. A series of outputs were identified which were commonly used in both modern computers and computers from the 70s. On the 70s computer, the 70s algorithm reached its result in X amount of time, while on the modern computer, the modern algorithm - as you'd expect - reached its result in a small fraction of that time.
Given significant complexity, does consciousness emerge in a computer? Does it not? If it does, are we just biological computers with absurdly-complex algorithms running in our heads?
