I saw this on my feed, opened the tab on the background, saw it was from MG Siegler, closed the tab.
I don't deny he doesn't have some genuine insight. I just find that the amount of work I have to do to sift past his bias is so draining that I prefer to outsource it to people who _can_ tolerate his... foibles (read: bullshit).
Well, you can’t do complex office tasks on tablets yet, I think. Anything that requires you to input a lot of text input still can't be done well on tablets. That includes any serious amount of writing.
Unless someone here already does their writing on tablets...
I talked about simple office tasks like writing a letter, writing a CV, or a simple handout. These are all things that are at most one page, which can be done with a tablet without much pain.
Really. So you can write academic material on it, with the inclusion of bibliographic information? You can outline a novel and write it? You can create process documentation and tie it with graphing tools and charts and spreadsheets and tables?
Because I don't think your definition of "great deal of productivity" jives with mine...
That's a pretty interesting look into what happens in an evolutionary algorithm.
But for a minute there I was hoping that the OP was going to evolve an actual "hello world" program. That might be an interesting exercise to do over a Lisp-like language.
A lot of programmes have a regular grammer & parsers for their language. You can then use parsers and the like to turn a tree into a source code (and vice versa) and evolve programmes.
I don't see a reason to write the genetic algorithm in Lisp, but for the code that's being evolved it seems like the logical choice due to its minimal syntax. I'm working on a PHP program for evolving programs, and the evolved programs are in a lisp-like dialect made for just that purpose.
IIRC it's something to do with the fact that lisp can easily be represented as a tree and so crossover is very simple; just swap branches. I don't know lisp so I'm just regurgitating info I picked up at university.
If I wanted to read stupid-ass chain letters repeating the same old boring irrelevant political talking points repeated by the mainstream media I'd be reading my Facebook feed.
The Republican party's faithful cheering of Perry's executions is relatively speaking just as "disgusting" as the Democrats' cheering for raising taxes on the "rich." Both cheering sections espouse similar horrific philosophies of human life, which at their extremes are philosophies of death.
So, now that we have that out of the way, are you sure that our definitions are different? ;)
It's certainly very ironic. So the OP is unhappy about people complaining (when the OP could certainly... I don't know, not bother to follow the issue?), and thus OP decides to complain about people wanting to use pseudonyms... while using a pseudonyms.
I'm genuinely disappointed that this link actually made it past TechMeme and HN. It kind of exemplifies everything that made me quit reading the TechCrunch feed -- the smug bias, the obvious link-bait troll title, and the sloppy conclusions from dubious data.
I don't deny he doesn't have some genuine insight. I just find that the amount of work I have to do to sift past his bias is so draining that I prefer to outsource it to people who _can_ tolerate his... foibles (read: bullshit).