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by fnid 17y ago
Actually, studies have shown that it's not that difficult to fool most humans. One study I remember simply repeated phrases back to the human in the form of a question. Human: I ate pizza today. AI: You ate pizza today? Human: Yes it was de
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by fnid 17y ago
Do you believe that Real AI must be modeled on the brain? I'm not sure that is a requirement. I think we can produce AI without fully understanding the brain. I expect AI to be something greater than the brain. If we use the brain as a guid
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by fnid 17y ago
Yes, you're correct. Thanks.
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by fnid 17y ago
This has "buy'em to squash'em" written all over it.
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by fnid 17y ago
I mean users like the author of that blog who think just because he can think of a feature it is easy to implement. I mean users who create a meeting at 2am instead of 2pm and get mad at the software for not warning them of their mistake.
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by fnid 17y ago
Another reason I am glad I block ads.
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by fnid 17y ago
11W low-energy CFL produced only 58 per cent of the illumination of an "equivalent" 60W bulb So use two and you get over twice as much light for about 1/3 the energy consumption.
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by fnid 17y ago
Those bankers on wall street destroyed the world economy and in doing so, secured way more than enough for themselves to satisfy an entire lifetime of living and several more generations to boot. Greed is not good. To quote MGMT, "Take only
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by fnid 17y ago
correlation does not imply causation. There's no reason to believe these advancements were the result of capitalism. Your tone indicates as much. What about the stone age, bronze age, iron age... gun powder, the wheel... Fire! These inven
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by fnid 17y ago
this is why capitalism has failed. It has enabled the propagation of negative human traits. Traits we all agree are detrimental to our survival. Greed is not good. We all know it. It promotes overconsumption and hoarding of resources. We
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by fnid 17y ago
Aneurysms are made possible through a weakness in the blood vessel. Meteoric growth in a capitalist economy, as the post I was originally responding to mentions, is the result of a weakness in human psychology -- greed. I do not believe ju
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by fnid 17y ago
Aneurysms grow much faster than the surrounding blood vessels, but that doesn't make them good. It makes them bad. It may be the extreme growth that capitalism enables and encourages that is the reason it is a failure. It makes us focus
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by fnid 17y ago
This kind of hopeful news comes out every time there is an oil shock. But it doesn't contradict the math behind peak oil. It is getting harder and harder to find oil. Perhaps it could be argued it is because of our incorrect assumptions a
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by fnid 17y ago
They are evil because they were thinking of themselves before the patient and using lies to intimidate her into agreeing with them -- when they were wrong. That's evil. Unfortunately, it's a story repeated across the nation every day.
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by fnid 17y ago
It never occurred to me that carrying high-level heath insurance would mark me as a candidate for unnecessary surgery. Perhaps this is exactly why health care costs have gone up so dramatically. We have insurance, so the doctors take a
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by fnid 17y ago
Don't worry so much about the competition. How many operating systems are there? How may databases? How many bags of chips and loaves of bread and accounting systems and types of yogurt? Build your stuff to last, keep your customers happy
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by fnid 17y ago
I'm not impressed by any of these ideas. It's hard to believe out of 200+ business plans submitted, these were the best 5. It's also hard to believe that they are just ideas . Any of these ideas, except maybe Famingo (I'm not sure how co
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by fnid 17y ago
A bit off this topic, but related. I clicked on that link and then clicked on the BBC article, because I knew the NYTimes sometimes makes me log in and the BBC doesn't. I took extra clicks just to avoid the NYTimes and their register wa
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by fnid 17y ago
I can't wait for the end of dumb software users .
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doesn't work in opera.
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by fnid 17y ago
It's not really bootstrapping considering another crane is used to build the base of it and initial structure. I was actually hoping it was more of a bootstrapped effort.
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by fnid 17y ago
That poor guy, he's got the weight of the world bearing down on him. So nervous. Everyone's looking at him. But what he is talking about is so completely fascinating. I want to thank him for talking about it. I want to thank MIT for ma
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by fnid 17y ago
USB Stick cameras have been out for a long time: http://www.dcviews.com/press/Yakumo-USB-Camera.htm
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by fnid 17y ago
The exception proves the rule? A blogger righted the issue with Dan Rather a couple years ago as well. I suppose we have to look at the majority case here and the majority of bloggers are regurgitators. The news regurgitates a lot too.
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by fnid 17y ago
I do not expect rackspace to give them free infrastructure, no. I also don't think this will cause them to fail. They're pretty smart folks and they have revenue coming in, so they'll probably be fine. After reading more into the thread a
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by fnid 17y ago
I can't be 100% sure, but here's why I believe he was had. First, this community is one in which he would be rewarded more for outing a hoax than he would get from some internal desire to "have fun at others expense." That kind of thing d
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by fnid 17y ago
I see, so even if they did pay, it still wouldn't be fast enough. So free even has its costs, in terms of dissatisfied customers.
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by fnid 17y ago
It is going to be interesting to see how the performance of Github and their freemium offering changes when they start paying for infrastructure somewhere else. Unless they can smooth talk another host into giving them free infrastructure.
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by fnid 17y ago
How can github fire EY when EY was giving them free stuff. Why doesn't github just pay EY for the services they are using? This is another failure of Freemium. GH is only able to provide such large repos because they get free infrastruc
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by fnid 17y ago
You weren't having fun at other's expense, you were had just like everyone else. You never said it wasn't a hoax because you didn't know it was a hoax. There are two lessons to be had from this, and the recent facebook fax hoax 1) Traditio

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