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by elementalest 10y ago
If everyone has apps that remind them to take time for a friend automatically (as it determined they needed it), the intention loses some of its meaning. That friend wont know if it was you that remembered because you cared and took notice,
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by elementalest 10y ago
Whilst i somewhat agree with the sentiment, the difference now is in the amount of efficiencies or benefits gained. The gains/benefits from tools, farming, writing etc, are quite large. The gains from an app suggesting a movie or book,
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by elementalest 10y ago
If you know what to google then you probably know what to look for in the documentation. Its often just faster to google though. I think google is good for beginners that dont know what they dont know - or for a quick reference examples. Wh
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by elementalest 10y ago
AMD are supporting open standards like OpenCL, which is effectively their answer to CUDA. The problem is that Nvidia refuse to keep their drivers up to date with the latest OpenCL capabilities. The latest version nVidia supports is OpenCL 1
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by elementalest 10y ago
The data the agent perceives is going to be very different from what would be attained from access to dooms internals, as a 'normal' AI would have. The challenge is to bridge the image recognition and intelligence together efficie
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by elementalest 10y ago
The rift has more steps in the tracking process. It has to track the dots of the currently displayed pattern. Transpose that into 3D space. Then it can perform triangulation. The vive needs to only convert the time information to position r
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by elementalest 10y ago
As you stated its not used for all tracking, but simply drift checking in pose estimation. So needing to update each axis simultaneously is not essential. The pose estimation is just updated with the latest values to correct for drift. At 6
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by elementalest 10y ago
This just goes to show the rift vs vive argument is very much a subjective matter. However, objectively, the vives tracking technology is superior in design (and elegance) to the rifts. Though they may effectively produce the same result in
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by elementalest 11y ago
The biggest hindrance in the country where I live is licensing agreements. Companies buy exclusive rights to popular content, limit it to their restrictive and expensive platform/service. This license will often last from 6 months to a
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by elementalest 11y ago
That's a good point. The system could potentially be much more expressive with that approach, in that its not limited to simple categorical voting. It will still have the problem that child comments of a downvoted comment will not get
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by elementalest 11y ago
I like the idea of deducting karma for a downvote. However, forcing a comment on downvote, while perhaps leading to less downvotes, might also just lead to many more comments that are not thought out and simply put there in order to downvot
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by elementalest 11y ago
I had never thought there might be an extension for collapsing comments... You have just saved me so much scrolling :D
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by elementalest 11y ago
If you are unemployed because you are genuinely unable to find work, then that's an entirely different matter (and I apologise, and wish you all the best for finding work). I got the impression that you were unemployed by choice, espec
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by elementalest 11y ago
"Jobs aren't necessary anymore." What a statement. It rings of naivete. How would you pay for your living expenses? Are you living with someone who pays your living expenses? Do they work? Or are you on social welfare? Who ma
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by elementalest 11y ago
The difference between supervised and unsupervised is that the inputs are paired with known outputs for supervised. In unsupervised the agent has (initially) no knowledge of what the outputs will be, given the inputs. The baby does not know
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Robots: Destroying jobs, our economy, and possibly the world(arstechnica.com)
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by elementalest 11y ago
I really like sublime text, i have considered buying it several times. I go to the buy page and see the price tag - $70 US! Nope. Given the very slow and infrequent development and the fact that its just a text editor (albeit a fancy one),
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by elementalest 11y ago
Ah, thanks :D
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by elementalest 11y ago
This is how i often work with things. I break them down into things that i know how to work with. I search my knowledge for elements that most closely represents the problems and then combine them. For example, rather than remembering 12 *
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by elementalest 11y ago
I'm not saying that VR will not be used, but that AR will be a much better technology for the industry, learning applications and general use. There will still be niches for VR, in much the same way there is now. VR is good for simulat
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by elementalest 11y ago
I think VR will become a niche for games. Sitting/cockpit games like star citizen or elite dangerous are niches where VR will work very well. VR will be a novelty for a while, but wear off, just like the Wii. I really cant see many peo
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by elementalest 11y ago
The ultimate goal with AI/ML is generalisability and adaptability in unpredictable environments. If you want those, you make it very hard to produce 100% predictability. I would ask, why do you need predictability? If we are talking ab
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by elementalest 11y ago
I agree. One way to address that is to define a space at home that is your work office/space. So a study, or corner of a room. If a corner of a room, you could even get some dividers to separate yourself from the rest of the room. It a
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by elementalest 11y ago
The cat situation is so bad in some areas one guy made an automated cat deterrent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIbkLjjlMV8
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by elementalest 11y ago
While this system would allow for lazy people, it would also allow people to become free to pursue what they find interesting and worthwhile. Motivated, interested and passionate workers are more productive, creative, efficient and dedicate
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by elementalest 11y ago
I would love to use this app! I have been doing something to similar effect for Anki except using web scraping/API of various japanese dictionary sites with python scripts. The whole thing is clunky and buggy and requires a fair amount
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by elementalest 12y ago
I don't think Hollywood thinks it can catch tech savvy people like us here. They want to catch and deter non tech savvy people. Sure, the non tech savvy people can learn how to circumvent detection by using a VPN from others who know,
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by elementalest 12y ago
They will likely throw a few major offenders in jail as exemplars. For the rest they will probably use various (im-proportionately) large fines to continue to discourage people from filesharing. "How can law enforcement possibly police