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by hexagonc 10y ago
More religious countries may have lower incidents of suicide but they don't seem to be enjoying the life they do have as much as the less religious countries. None of the top 10 countries according to the World Happiness Report[1] are
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I think most people, with a little education, are reasonable when it comes to ads. I know I was. Most of my computers didn't block ads or scripts. You can try to be nice but the ad makers have escalated things to the point that you
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by hexagonc 11y ago
Also, big companies won't necessarily be your ally in this case either. Instead of being sued, large companies may be able to come to an agreement with the plaintiff where they pay some fee to continue doing what they are doing. The
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Average Starting Salary for Class of 2015 Climbs 5.2 Percent(naceweb.org)
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by hexagonc 11y ago
The only way to learn it is by doing it. Doing it carefully, and in full detail, not falling into the trap of "and I understand it from there". This. So much this. A lot of people think there is some big difference between mas
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I think it could have dual purposes. There was an earlier segment of the video where the robot was able to find and pick up a box and stack it on a shelf without the presence of the QR codes. There are a lot of clever uses you could put t
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by hexagonc 11y ago
While I appreciate the effort to make things easier, as someone who is trying to move from C++98 to C++11, I'm not sure the new features make the language easier to use so long as you still have to learn the old ways of doing things.
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by hexagonc 11y ago
Depends on how they arrive at it. If they create true AI with lots of spare capacity then maybe Google is threatened, but what seems more likely to me is that true AI is achieved in some hodgepodge system that wasn't well architecte
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by hexagonc 11y ago
Are these fears born out of experience or are you just voicing concerns for what you think is going to happen? To be honest, what you've written reads like you are the victim of a lot of scare-mongering and hysterical claims about the
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by hexagonc 11y ago
The QR codes probably encode behavioral scripts to apply to an object that the robot encounters. So a box with one QR code may mean that the robot should attempt to pick it up even after interruption. A different QR code may mean that the
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I agree. A quick Google search suggests that the human body requires about 100 Watts[1] of power. On the other hand, a small 12 volt car battery is able to provide 45 Amps over an hour, which implies that it can support a power draw of 54
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by hexagonc 11y ago
To be honest, I'd be worried about security vulnerabilities from a system that was exchanging and synchronizing data in the cloud. It seems unlikely that the first generation of self driving vehicles will be able to update its behavio
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I didn't say the quoted section was false, I just said it was inaccurate because it gives an inaccurate impression of what was happening in the original article. Without reading the article, you might think that she was fired due to t
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by hexagonc 11y ago
In the linked article, the writer wasn't fired because her old company sued her for competing, she was fired simply because the new company found out she had signed a non-compete and presumably wanted to avoid any potential lawsuit-re
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by hexagonc 11y ago
The non-compete agreement and employment contract at my last job was provided and signed electronically over the web. There was no opportunity to red-line any of it, although I could have printed and shown it to a lawyer. I suspect many p
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I couldn't tell from the article or the video what the latency of this thing was. What is the error rate in interpreting his states of mind and translating them into commands to the toy? The demonstration would have been much more im
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by hexagonc 11y ago
I think a simpler explanation for why evolution doesn't get stuck in local maxima is because the environment on earth hasn't been static. Resources get depleted, animals migrate to different habitats, mass extinctions occur, comp
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by hexagonc 11y ago
This is why there is a thing called public relations. You can have ten guys who are all guilty of the same crime but if one if them is loud and deliberately trolling the public then you can bet he'll get more scrutiny, given that inve
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Prominent Climate Scientist Critiques Obama's Paris Plan(arstechnica.com)
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Nuclear bomb with real audio and audio reconstruction(vimeo.com)
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The Coldwar Nuke That Fired Satellites(bbc.com)
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by hexagonc 11y ago
Even if it doesn't go the landfill immediately, you're still talking about a lot more clothes that will eventually have to be disposed of. Unless you assume that all the extra dozens of shirts and pants (shorts?) and underwear
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by hexagonc 11y ago
The most important requirement for the testing methodology is double-blindness. Only someone familiar with proper scientific testing procedures would know that, and even scientists who should know better have gotten this wrong. Most peopl
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by hexagonc 11y ago
As a robot enthusiast, I found it strangely captivating watching these slow, mostly bumbling robots complete and try to complete the tasks. It seems like it would be boring but I had the main commentary stream going pretty much all day in
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George R R Martin Developing Sci-Fi Series for HBO(arstechnica.com)
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by hexagonc 12y ago
Google may be the largest individual contributor within the list you cite -- and not by much -- but it is still greatly exceeded by the combined contribution of the military contractors. And Google being a top contributor may not be such a
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by hexagonc 12y ago
I had the fortune of taking 18.06 (Linear Algebra) from Gilbert Strang around the time of this essay. And like other commenters, I will agree that he was a very good teacher. I could tell that he held a great emotional attachment to matri
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by hexagonc 12y ago
Physics: It just works (TM)
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by hexagonc 12y ago
The views were beautiful but the scene transitions in the video got irritating. I stopped watching after a while.
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by hexagonc 12y ago
I've seen a video where a guy decapitated himself with his gas powered toy helicopter There are no toy gas powered helicopters. The idea that they are toys are what gets people in trouble in the first place. Even small electric pal

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