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by Qworg 8y ago
Here's some more information from the blog post: https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-... And here's the project site: http://natick.research.microsoft.com/
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Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency(bbc.com)
512 points by Qworg 8y ago|376 comments
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Planet, Paul G. Allen, and Scientists Team Up to Map and Monitor World’s Corals(planet.com)
1 points by Qworg 8y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 8y ago
I've seen this multiple times, and Everytime I want to know why they didn't simply diff the code - some proof is better than none, right?
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by Qworg 8y ago
Except Tesla doesn't have the sensors and hasn't demonstrated the chops. How many fatal accidents involving Waymo vehicles are there? Sales aren't even remotely associated. I support it based on "autopilot" versus
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by Qworg 8y ago
Are you kidding me? It is far more than a semantic distinction - Tesla is actively telling people that their car is "on autopilot". People, perhaps out of the same level of boosterism you're demonstrating here, believe them.
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Welcome to Holodome(geekwire.com)
1 points by Qworg 8y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 8y ago
How'd that interest rate fare in the face of A) being able to refinance and B) inflation/rising wages? The principal/down payment is the first problem - interest rates just increase the cost of money, but get eaten away by ti
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by Qworg 8y ago
Corals are fascinating creatures and incredible symbiots. Vulcan (where I work) has been contributing to the advancement of science to save reefs. We've funded Ruth Gates and Madeleine VanOppen's work in human-assisted evolution o
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by Qworg 9y ago
Paper: https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf GitHub: https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet Joseph Redmon and Ali Farhadi are funny and informative as always. Disclosure: I wor
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The YOLOv3 Object Detection Network Is Fast(medium.com)
2 points by Qworg 9y ago|1 comments
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by Qworg 9y ago
No zoning is awful - just look at Houston. Factories and power plants build abutting residential neighbourhoods without any communal impact discussions. How do you properly price these impacts?
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by Qworg 9y ago
To be pithy - humans are big absorptive sacks of water, radar sees us poorly.
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by Qworg 9y ago
That would be so incredibly risky as to be insane, especially with non-technical staff in the monitoring seat. I've not heard anything of it before you brought it up.
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by Qworg 9y ago
Certainly! I lived in Plant City for about 3 years. That's still a nice design - many are just mounded earth.
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by Qworg 9y ago
They run it for you - it is a capture service. https://www.lytro.com/immerge#immergeDetails
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by Qworg 9y ago
Does Agrobot do well in standard fields? It looks like the testbed is a very fancy raised bed system. Is the Abundant Robotics robot faster now?
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by Qworg 9y ago
They have a fully working version of it: https://vr.lytro.com/within/hallelujah
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AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC)(data.allenai.org)
1 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 9y ago
Woof, that's rough. RE: Robotics firms - start looking at adjacent industries that value sensors/hardware/computing knowledge - things like IoT, manufacturing, or home automation all seem reasonable side jumps. RE: Consulting
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AI2 Reasoning Challenge (ARC)(data.allenai.org)
1 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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AI assistants say dumb things, and we’re about to find out why(technologyreview.com)
5 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 9y ago
Deep support on the corporate and technical levels.
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to Pursue Common Sense for AI(vlcn.fyi)
1 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 9y ago
Vulcan Inc. | Engineering for Good - Machine Learning, Web| ONSITE | Seattle, WA | Full Time | https://www.vulcan.com Vulcan Inc. is engine behind Paul G. Allen's vision to make a positive difference in the world - we tackl
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by Qworg 9y ago
While I agree with your initial argument (#1), whataboutism is a plague.
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Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to Pursue Common Sense for AI(vlcn.fyi)
1 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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Paul Allen Wants to Teach Machines Common Sense(nytimes.com)
2 points by Qworg 9y ago|0 comments
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by Qworg 9y ago
Demand is strong, certainly, but productivity has topped out (ie: we're overfishing/we can't find new fish). Do subsidies lower the price for the consumer or simply keep output high given the decreasing stocks (therefore dec
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by Qworg 9y ago
I was struck by how well done this piece was - astonishing. The question I'm left with is: what can be done? How do you pull out of a tail spin?

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