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This clever AI hid data from its creators to cheat at its appointed task(techcrunch.com)
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Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women(washingtonpost.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> [...] trying to determine what a bunch of dead white guys in the 16th century -meant- when they wrote it You are two centuries too early. (I agree with your post overall.)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> A parabolic trajectory would require a uniform gravitational field. A uniform gravitational field is such a good approximation for the situation described that I didn't think of including that proviso. Ballistic trajectory calcula
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> But if you throw it just right, the rock could hypothetically have a trajectory that is perfectly parallel to the mountain slope (in reality, due to things like air resistance, this isn't all that feasible). Not quite. Ignoring ai
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Waymo self-driving cars face harassment, road rage in Phoenix area(usatoday.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
The "memory" of the ant colony doesn't persist when all ants are removed, either. You can't have memory without having some substrate.
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by fmihaila 8y ago
In certain traffic conditions, bottlenecks can persist for hours without any apparent cause (i.e., there is no crash or stopped car blocking the road). Even though the cars entering and exiting the region are changing all the time, the bott
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by fmihaila 8y ago
I wholeheartedly second the recommendation. I also want to point out that Pollan's treatment of Leary's influence is certainly more nuanced than that. Here's a key quote: > When I asked Rick Doblin if he worries about ano
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Ricky Jay’s Magical Secrets (1993)(newyorker.com)
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Ricky Jay, magician whose sleight of hand defied logic or physics, dies at 72(washingtonpost.com)
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Canada’s brain-injured Cuba diplomats speak out about Ottawa’s silence(theglobeandmail.com)
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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan Renault Chief, Arrested in Japan(theguardian.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> The label "extra vergine" increases the price of oil so much that there is a huge economic incentive for fraud. It's also a huge economic incentive for the Mafia to get involved, according to the Financial Times: https:
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Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn arrested over 'significant' financial misconduct(cnn.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> As with anything, too much of a good thing can be detrimental: hyperactivity of the DMN has been linked with things like schizophrenia, anxiety, and ADHD. [...] It's interesting that things like meditation (and apparently psychede
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> He said he would give $500 million to fund migration and he has also gone into a deal with MasterCard to give migrants cards they can use for cash on their journeys. Not a conspiracy theory. The conspiracy is in pushing the narrative t
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Free Solo Documentary Addressed Some Uncomfortable Truths, but Ignored Others(climbing.com)
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Can the world’s first AI ski instructor beat the real thing?(ft.com)
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Pot pioneers who went to jail for the cause now watch opportunities pass them by(theglobeandmail.com)
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Privacy expert Ann Cavoukian resigns from Sidewalk Toronto smart-city project(theglobeandmail.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
I am not a Finn, but I can relate. The current discussion reminds me of this NYT article on this very subject: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/20/opinion/the-how-are-you-c...
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Review: Free Solo climbs new, terrifying documentary heights(theglobeandmail.com)
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Additionally, and this is something I really didn’t get into, languages aren’t inherently compiled or interpreted. You could have a C interpreter. Of course; I was only addressing the confusion that other posters mentioned. While one c
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> Then you missed my actual explanation and description, which is described in the rest of the post. Since others are also apparently confused, I'll re-state it here. I think the confusion stems from using the word "operates&qu
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by fmihaila 8y ago
> I find this article to be disingenuous. Yes, C isnt "how a computer really works". Neither is assembly. [...] He addresses all of that in the subsequent bullet points of his summary, and elaborates on it in the body of the ar
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The image of Julian Assange grows darker by the day(washingtonpost.com)
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Killer robots are on the way, and they’re a threat to humanity(marketwatch.com)
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The Most Contrarian College in America(nytimes.com)
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China's Industrial Ambitions Loom Large(bloomberg.com)
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