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by eagleal 17y ago
Distopian view: Now Google can fight China with armies. And so can Microsoft|Apple fight Apple|Microsoft
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by eagleal 17y ago
Similar to what's going on in China. And on Italian News TVs there was NOT a word about this decree.
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by eagleal 17y ago
And this could be the Berlusconi response to such claim: "The left wing it's trying to ruin the country by make non-sense claims". If you watch the Italian television, you can see that he appends that sentence on every response.[Disclaimer:
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by eagleal 17y ago
Agreed. I think this is more a web design than a UI/UX work. Usability here is nearly non existent.
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by eagleal 17y ago
Website seems down, Google Cache: http://209.85.135.132/search?q=cache:http://www.tompinckney....
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by eagleal 17y ago
Reading all the comments about iPad, I can see how people fantasize and abstract things. I mean, the iPad it's just the result of a trend that derived from the iPhone, Kindle [, etc] success. iPad as computer killer, simplicity/complexity t
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by eagleal 17y ago
The Where and When step it's absolutely awesome. I really like it, the very essential of the task. I know it's just a sketch you did for fun, read the disclaimer in the page, but: The Main navigation menu, the tips (ads ?) in the left, and
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by eagleal 17y ago
If we want to stack only at Twitter, it was only 1 of the several tools (news media too) USA (and whoever made profit) to make propaganda, yes actions like this are still called propaganda. This is the same method it used to invade Iraq, th
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by eagleal 17y ago
Only if you're using a decimal notation for binary systems (think of 1 and 0 of computers). [Not regarding you comment or this response] As I have understood, the Law applies only to a logarithmic scale [1 to 2, 2 to 3, 3 to 4, ... to ...].
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by eagleal 17y ago
It's interesting to see how US people doesn't count Internet (and cyberwarfare) as a Political instrument. EDIT: Not only US people, EUs too. You really think [USA, NATO, EU, ... ], doesn't make use of [massive] cyberwarfare? And that cases
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by eagleal 17y ago
Here (I think) the research paper at PubMed: Banerjee, Sourav, Pierre Neveu, and Kenneth S Kosik, A coordinated local translational control point at the synapse involving relief from silencing and MOV10 degradation, Neuron 64, no. 6 (Decemb
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by eagleal 17y ago
Even Williamson believed that the whole venture was too risky. When he finally wrote up a revised version of his key scheme, he cited these reservations as the reason for the two-year delay. "I find myself in an embarrassing position," he
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by eagleal 17y ago
Not related to the original article, but look here: * [...] si aumentano per Mediaset (il tetto per gli spot sulle pay tv passa dal 18 al 12 per cento nel 2012, per Mediaset sale dal 6 al 12 per cento, ndr). [...] * Basically it says that m
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by eagleal 17y ago
Well it started as a better UI than Google's (I said too much here), so I started designing the UI with search as a focus. Than later it evolved. As for the usable thing, most of UIs I design are usable from the start, in the sense that the
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by eagleal 17y ago
Well, I'm working on a new UI/GUI applicable to any device, and HCI/BMI integration of it. It's not boring at all: usable, sci-fi like, Voice recon, etc. I can't disclose much beacuse it's a research project (NDA). Perhaps in the future I m
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by eagleal 17y ago
[...] Ray Kurzweil, a prolific inventor who is best known for his prediction that machine intelligence will surpass that of humans around 2045 [...] Today it's 2045 and the machines surpassed humans in intelligence. (or it's 2009 they 'a
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by eagleal 17y ago
Eliezer is right, OpenCog it's not a knowledge base. It's (from Wikipedia): - An API to manipulate an extended hypergraph of terms and relationships, dubbed the "AtomSpace". - An implementation of a probabilistic reasoning engine based on p
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by eagleal 17y ago
The idea was that a reasonable featured AI will emerge when Cog ontology reaches critical mass, but it just doesn't seem to be happening yet. The same "problem" with AGI. I like AGI, but a very practical implementation seems away.
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OpenCog - open source artificial general intelligence framework(launchpad.net)
7 points by eagleal 17y ago|7 comments
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by eagleal 17y ago
They set the 2047 as deadline, beacuase by 2037 they would have ground tested various weapons and aircrafts (eg. LM FB-22). However several papers and articles I read time ago, reported that the DoD was searching for advanced methods (read
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by eagleal 17y ago
Neither of them, all of them. Small companies, such as startups, are more concerned about creation: the team is strictly small, and it's fast responsive. Big companies have more bureaucratic practices and processes, and no one wants respo
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by eagleal 17y ago
As for the terrorist thing, it's a terrorist from your point of view . Eg. Israel bombing an UN school full of children was not seen as a terrorism, .... [Disclosure: I'm neither Israelite neither Islamic, neither at the side of UN, so nei
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by eagleal 17y ago
How could this patent be approved? Seriously, this patent could only pass if filled in the '80s, with Nelson's transclusions, and the later Lee's WWW. Ok for the plugins, but Ajax it's not a plugin.
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by eagleal 17y ago
Am I missing something or a transhuman is just a more intelligent human with just more access to data (think about someone who could process the entire Internet data within seconds)? But while he needs the human species, why would he ext
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by eagleal 17y ago
Discussed in: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=979905
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by eagleal 17y ago
Don't Amazon covers the loss from ebooks with Kindle (ca $250)? If Amazon sells 500.000[1][2] Kindles at $250, and sells 1 million ebooks with a loss of 2$ at piece: $120m in Kindles -$2m in ebooks 1. http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/200902
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by eagleal 17y ago
The link above has a typo: here the correct one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox
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by eagleal 17y ago
I'm in European territory. For general purpose and informative sites, like a personal site, this makes no sense. But, when you're talking about stores, web applications, entire online platforms (including advertising ones), I think you hav
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by eagleal 17y ago
Practically: * As you "launch" there is like 1% of conversion * As you keep optimizing, conversion rate increases (in your case by 1.45%) * Something like +1% per major optimization (and targeting) (compound rate ?) Can you confirm it? And
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Application deadline for Winter 2010 pushed on October 28(ycombinator.com)
1 points by eagleal 17y ago|0 comments

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