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mircea_popescu: for instance sight is based on it : neurons that produce less valuable output are inhibited by the ones producing the better output.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, unless i deeply misunderstand something, backpropagation is botyh found in nature and introduced in nn on an offshot hoped to better mimic.
mircea_popescu: this is how fucking neurons work : like electronics burning off.
mircea_popescu: the verb, a fila, describes the careful, discreet look a poker player gives his card, as well as transitional and usually undesired processes in diodes.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to it. romanian expression to denote that dubious state when a previously intelligent, middle class fellow is going irrecoverably nuts is, "ii fileaza o lampa".
mircea_popescu: if only neurons were disctrete logic gates. a) i'd feel much better about nature being an idiot ; b) i wouldn't be around to figure that one out anyway.
mircea_popescu: "The McCulloch-Pitts neuron worked by inputting either a 1 or 0 for each of the inputs, where 1 represented true and 0 false. "
mircea_popescu: +#define CLRATOM 49151 /* 1011111111111111 */ /* only for gc */
mircea_popescu: +#define T_ATOM 16384 /* 0100000000000000 */ /* only for gc */
mircea_popescu: +/* ADJ is enough slack to align cells in a TYPE_BITS-bit boundary */
mircea_popescu: there are specific choices in how gribble handles security that were expedient for a long time, but no longer acceptable, so it'd have to be rewritten. until it isn't, i would think it more like a play sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: there was some talk about harmonizing the two, but i don't think the guy has any time to be doing maintenance, or any interest for that matter, so...
mircea_popescu: what happened is - we used gribble wot. then gribbe was offline unexpectedly, and its maintainer wasn't talking. he was traveling at the time, as we later found out. nevertheless, for those few days the situation was indistinguishable from an attack and so we made a replacement.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: deletions per se are rare. generally people just replace.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you happen to recall where the original thread was ?
mircea_popescu: sipa dumped tons and tons of code, most of which is shit.
mircea_popescu: he did some vocal "community organizing" work at first, but..
mircea_popescu: people were happy historically in all sorts of environments.
mircea_popescu: phillipines is preview of future of china in an alt-world where the us didn't go to shit.
mircea_popescu: that's the logic of the great internet nation of teh phillipines!
mircea_popescu: Wouldn't it be extremely inefficient to manufacture a paper cup for everyone's coffee? That would be millions of paper cups per day, only to be used once. Coffee will never work.
mircea_popescu: because this is just too fucking good lmao, like self-building comedy goldcube.
mircea_popescu: are all the imbeciles answering actually davout's alt accounts ?
mircea_popescu: no idea what indiancandy school you went to, but no. nobody cares about specifically female retardation. it's not fascinating, nor sexy, nor even remotely interesting.
mircea_popescu: mno. cue "it is the halmark of unemployed aluminum siding salesmen to try and pretend " are "".
mircea_popescu: if we wish to credit phenomena with intension, it did.