Category: Computers
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Programming for kids: Developing a chess program in BASIC – Part 3
Interested in chess programming? You are interested in philosophy too! What is thinking? Can AI be conscious? What does it mean to do something? Can the AI understand that it does play chess? Explore the AI related articles in Harmonia Philosophica and understand why you are already a philosopher! Programming for kids - How to…
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Improved (useless) algorithms…
Scientists being enthusiastic about improving computers to solve problems faster. (1) At the end we will make computers which will solve all problems at once. And yet. Every problem-solving method entails an important drawback we always tend to forget: that it takes the existence of the problem for granted in the first place… Imagine a…
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Constant app updates: The futility of modern philosophy in practice...
You have encountered the problem: your mobile phone applications are constantly updated and this results in their size constantly growing. Dozens of megabytes of updates swarm in your mobile phone every day to make your applications better, safer, more usable, more fun. And no one has ever questioned the obvious: Couldn't this be done via…
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AI jokes. Easy to tell…
Engineer Janelle Shane took to Twitter to lay out some of the telltale giveaways that the script was written by a person pretending to be an AI algorithm for kicks. You may recognize Shane as the person who trains neural nets to create jokes that devolve into nonsense or paint colors that almost sound real…
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