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by _Adam 12y ago
And inevitably, if one were to construct such a box the cat would not use it.
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by _Adam 12y ago
I turned on num lock for a week once, but I didn't write a blog post about it...
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by _Adam 12y ago
Worth mentioning that taking that advice led him to implementing the Boost regex engine
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by _Adam 12y ago
"Brain scans appeared normal, suggesting the cause was psychological rather than neurological." The proper functioning of the brain is contingent on far more than its macroscopic structure. Calling this disorder "psychologica
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by _Adam 12y ago
I agree with Paul, but there's a few caveats: a) First, for something to be a "toy" it has to be fun. Putting a computer in my mouse is not fun; it's frankly rather boring. b) It's only a good sign if you (the foun
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by _Adam 12y ago
$11 per proprietary argon capsule. Each capsule can pour 75oz, or about 3 standard wine bottles. Not too bad, if you're serving high end wines.
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by _Adam 12y ago
Money is just a tool humans use to represent value. It is up to us to decide what is valuable. It's not about efficiency or inefficiency. You can't alone create everything. Food, water, power, maybe. But what about designing somet
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by _Adam 12y ago
My initial impression is that this is a very significant advance; enabling full-duplex on a single frequency band effectively doubles the communication bandwidth. But, I'm not sure if this translates to the real world. Can any RF engin
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by _Adam 12y ago
Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner, or MAYBE the NSA. But I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about looking at some random guy's ass. In the unlikely case that they do need to investigate the
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by _Adam 12y ago
Fascinating. I've been pondering this problem for quite a while and this is an entirely unexpected solution. Such a system can potentially be very small because there's no refractive optics.
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by _Adam 12y ago
A comment to the author of the article: I don't agree with your point about non-immunity. Cultural imprinting works because it leverages the desire that humans have to portray a certain image or belong to a certain group. As rational h
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by _Adam 12y ago
It's quite simple to suggest an experiment to prove the article's point (which I find very convincing). Look at an ad for a product you own (e.g. iPhone) that you perceive as conveying some form of emotion. Now, go use that produc
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by _Adam 12y ago
Images are cutoff when viewed on mobile!
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by _Adam 12y ago
Any relation to: youtube.com/watch?v=bw9CALKOvAI ?
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by _Adam 12y ago
>One of the consequences is that men are extremely sensitive to being criticized by women What the fuck? Only the weakest and most cowardly men negatively react to criticism from women (and other men). If someone is objectively or logica
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by _Adam 12y ago
While it is theoretically interesting, it's a very stupid matter to take seriously. I have much better problems to solve.
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by _Adam 12y ago
It's not like they aren't capable of amusing their selves with their own thoughts. It's more like they aren't willing to try.
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by _Adam 12y ago
The article fails to follow the logical process to the very end. What isn't being asked is: why are humans using that road when they weren't using the smaller road before? Humans don't just drive for the sake of doing so. The
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by _Adam 12y ago
Yes, please do. Because Google has and will continue to make way better use of that data than anyone else.
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by _Adam 12y ago
Cool! Can you talk about some unexpected challenge you faced getting this rolled out?
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by _Adam 12y ago
The Kinect has enormous potential for use in virtual reality systems. It can significantly increase the feeling of immersion because you see in VR how your own body is moving in the real world. I don't know if Microsoft is exploring VR
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by _Adam 12y ago
Why will this do any better than the Leap (which arguably hasn't seen major adoption)?
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by _Adam 12y ago
Surprised that this was already submitted and only has 4 points... They're promising something very revolutionary. If I'm correct, they've managed to produce a true holographic display. The 3D effect is no longer simulated,
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by _Adam 12y ago
As stupid as this sounds, there is actually a difference between these ice cubes and the standard variety. And that's the appearance. Just look: http://www.glaceice.net/uploads/3/9/6/9/3969825&#
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by _Adam 12y ago
If we can transmit information through space instantaneously, our physical location becomes almost meaningless. Who cares where your brain is if you can send and receive data somewhere 2000 lightyears in the same time it would take to send
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by _Adam 12y ago
I wish it wasn't, but that's just what's already there. Two reasons why: 1. Killing is a very easy interaction to implement. It's much simpler to make an AI that tries to kill you than one that tries to engage you in mea
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by _Adam 12y ago
A holodeck is just another means of exploration. Spatial exploration (be it space, underwater, etc) is not really that interesting. If we went to Mars right now, we'd be really, really, really bored. There's nothing there except r
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by _Adam 12y ago
Yup. It works just like that. Now, keep in mind that it's not going to work perfectly ALL the time. If you get into complex occlusion cases it may not be able to reconstruct the skeleton perfectly.
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by _Adam 12y ago
This is really surprising. What are they thinking? Hydrogen fuel cells STILL have not been proven to be a viable power source for cars. Electricity has been validated time and time again - even before Tesla, there was the EV1. And now the t
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by _Adam 12y ago
This seems like an obvious conclusion; our bodies are full of stem cells but that doesn't mean they're used for repair. What I would expect them to prove is that the body is actually using fat stem cells for repair of other organs

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