It was a simple bug, fix is committed and a pull request is in, I’ll send an email out now to get this into production.
keefe
in one sentence… the vote processing mechanism required a reference to the global configuration for pylons and the pylons configuration import was missing.
not super interesting unfortunately :]
it was probably something like a munged automerge or something
Louie pushed the fix to production last night and it looks like the update script triggered sometime between these two posts
play poker?
I spent more than I care to admit learning to tell myself to sleep for some window of hours, like no more than 2 or 4 or whatever
quick scan didn’t see anything regarding accuracy of visual or kinesthetic imagination, probably one of the most important skills for solving problems and also related to # of possibility chains one can fit in the head at one time
It’s probably worthwhile asking people to put the logo with an alt text of sponsored by leading to lesswrong or siai. people that stumble onto such an article that don’t know about lw or siai are likely to be interest, should also help pagerank.
Overall the concept of embodied cognition makes a lot of sense. Yoga and particularly martial arts give a lot of tools for embodied cognition. Particularly martial arts—these are all telegraphed gestures, in an adversarial mode it’s not useful to advertise weaknesses. Changing weight balance and the subtle foot motions involved in shifting into a martial arts stance is less obvious and communicates strength to anyone able to notice.
Directly answering the question, organ replacement including some brain augmentation that shifts into uploading eventually seems most likely. Cryonics isn’t really a direct answer to the question, if you want to talk about trajectories to achieve immortality.… It’s too hard to predict where a breakthrough will be made or a wall will be hit. I think the most feasible trajectory is focusing on money and power, then organ replacement and traditional life extension techniques, which include general existential risk reduction.
I’m pretty familiar with the codebase though I transitioned to ebay before getting too much done on it, send me an email if you want some feedback, I have more free time these days looking to contribute to open source for long term strategic reasons
It seems like language and thinking are closely connected, particularly w.r.t. the categories we tend to reason with. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~lngbrain/main.htm is a good resource
what about your infrastructure required downtime due to laptop failure? a VPS or dropbox or gmail file system etc can meet security and uptime requirements one suggestion is that you could install ubuntu to boot off of a memory stick, store your files in a truecrypt volume and autobackup that encrypted file to various places
I would start with something like reuters API, http://wordnet.princeton.edu/ and some research on these guys http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/ this is a fairly well studied problem by spammers, so I’d also work there
the bullet points...
neuroscience research, particularly related to neuroeconomics
rewriting codebase from 10 projects by breaking down into about 30 smaller more easily tested components
reviewing and automating infrastructure selections (java,eclipse,jquery,couchdb,postgres,bash,ubuntu lts, maven, git, custom code for lots of stuff, apache for various little things notably hadoop and mahout) deciding on feature subsets for internal use, trusted group use, and launch trajectory in 2012
some work on money and such annoying tasks
adjusting to being engaged to my cofounder and out of cali permanently
increasing online presence
...this is all changes that benefit many different wordlines, need to select how to go public on various things
great show, having never read the books I think the storyline seems well thought out enough to learn from
It’s worth noting media is consumed in different modes. I am constantly watching BSG or buffy or stargate as I’m coding because there are these alternating phases of concentration and boring repetition so it’s nice to have something I can glance at and appreciate something from. This is very different from watching for entertainment like game of thrones or justified.
It’s going to happen over and over again throughout your life, particularly if you start doing things like training neural networks or svms or whatever you are playing with. If you set aside a weekend and visit your local linux users group, they will get you all sorted out for free. The additional advantage of this is that once you are in a known clean infrastructure, it’s likely that you will feel more free to write and research.
reductionism = (reduce until you have good reason not to);
I think this is a good construction for pragmatic reductionism. It feels like there is some connection to ockham’s razor, using an excessively complex model ends up binding up computational resources that you are likely to need for some time sensitive problem. I think this is what is going on in your description of the thought chain you get bound up in. It’s fine for fun to think about how relatively or quantum mechanics relate to some problem that is easily solved (or approximated quite accurately) with newtownian mechanics, but if you have some actual reason to solve that problem, it’s best to take the easy answer and move on.
I think that you are you are on a solid research path here. I think you have reached the bounds of business oriented software and it’s time to look into something like apache mahout or RDF. Decision tree implementations are available all over, just find a data structure and share them and run inference engines like owlim or pellet and see what you can see.
RDF is a good interim solution because you can start encoding things as structured data. I have some JSON->RDF stuff for inference if you get to that point.
Here is one way to represent these graphs as RDF.
Each edge becomes an edge to a blank node, that blank node has the label, arrival probability and could link to evidence supporting. Representing weighted graphs in RDF is fairly well studied.
The question is, what is your net goal of this from a computational artifact point of view?
hmmm I can confirm this both here and on a local copy of the codebase, I’ll have a look and make sure Wes knows