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by hexagonc 14y ago
I use (unfortunately) Bank of America online banking and if I don't see the SiteKey or really if there is any error at all during the signon process then I leave and immediately start Googling for Bank of America security breeches in the
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by hexagonc 14y ago
I think you are correct. And it is funny that when I think of the meaning of the related curse, "son of a bitch", I always interpret it literally as "son of a female dog". I never think of it as, "son of a disreputable woman." This is in
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Although I understand your point, there is a limit to the rate in which you can even spend cancer research money, even if you wanted to dramatically increase it. For one thing, you are limited to funding the research that you think will le
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by hexagonc 15y ago
"The difference between theory and practice is that, in theory, there is no difference but in practice, there is" -- numerous possible sources
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by hexagonc 15y ago
From the summary, I thought the article was about a real computer ai that could pass the Turing test or recognize its appearance in a mirror. This was a tech demo about motion capture and CG in video games. Extremely impressive but nothin
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I wondered the same thing but according to the article, the eggs are pea-sized which suggests they are not elongated.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I'm not sure what you're saying. You say that unlimited users use significantly higher average data than the capped users but that is not what the study shows. Although that might have been true before the carriers introduced throttling,
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Inventing hard things is hard, but copying other people's inventions is significantly easier Copying is only easier if you can reverse-engineer what they did. Sometimes, just seeing the invention brought to fruition provides enough clues
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by hexagonc 15y ago
But what difference would his personal beliefs on software patents make toward his credibility in this matter? Whether the patents are valid or not is a matter of fact, as it would have to be in order for the patent and trade office to iss
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Most biological organisms are designed incredibly badly. The body is full of spaghetti code, duplicate functionality, dead code that still causes bugs, and systems that evolved from a completely different purpose and didn't get the full re
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Yeah, it would be pretty sinister if Santa wanted to know where your child's room was so he could come inside.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
For what it is worth, I liked the design. It shows that you think differently from others.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
As long as you follow the prompts, the demo works reasonably well on HTC EVO 4G with Dolphin browser. In fact, it looks like a native (Windows Phone) app if you don't show the menu. Make sure you set user agent to "Android" and don't ventu
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by hexagonc 15y ago
The degree of "roughness" depends on the number of families surveyed. The more there are the closer to 13/27 you'll get.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Here's a real simple and practical equation: 1+2+3+4 . . . N = N(N+1)/2 This equation represents the number of edges on a complete graph with N+1 vertices or the number of possible pairings given N+1 objects. Useful when estimating O(N) fo
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I've been interested in precisely this same question. I don't know that there are any books that cover that. If there are, I'd also be interested in reading them. As far as visually modeling a creative process, mindmaps or concept maps a
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by hexagonc 15y ago
The funny thing is that I applied for Y Combinator funding three years ago centered around a Blackberry app version of a similar idea. I figured you could tie in ads or shopping recommendations based on actual behavior (rather than desired
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by hexagonc 15y ago
One free book that I like is "The Z Notation: A Reference Manual" by Spivey. You can get a pdf version for free at http://spivey.oriel.ox.ac.uk/~mike/zrm/zrm.pdf . I would say that learning Z Notation had a bigger impact on my ability to
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Although the Boston Dynamics robots seem more fluid and may have more flexible and natural overall movement, the ASIMO seems more autonomous. I haven't seen any of the Boston Dynamics robots actually performing a task adaptively (other tha
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Now, all they need is for ASIMO to say: "glass. . . ice. . . gin. . ."
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I remember this too. The result was usually that I'd start panicking once I realized that I couldn't consciously see where the blocks were going. This resulted in making mistakes and the blocks piling up quickly.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I suppose so but that is not really the point. The point is that the asteroid will be closer to the Earth than the moon is to Earth. Now, that is worth noting.
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by hexagonc 15y ago
done
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by hexagonc 15y ago
Maybe it's not as hopeless as you think. (Sorry, couldn't resist, what with a name like that!) I could imagine many young children being astonished at seeing their 2d pictures come alive. Perhaps as a reward for good behavior, you could
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I think distributed processing is another form of faster hardware. It is certainly more operations per unit time. Evolutionary algorithms are interesting because they are able to exploit parallel processing better than most. Evolution am
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by hexagonc 15y ago
This. I could easily see Microsoft Research existing primarily as a vehicle for patent licensing. I don't know if it would be self-funding but it would certainly offset the research costs. Almost seems like a business method patent idea:
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I would say that strong AI could appear sooner than otherwise with faster hardware. This is because, the earliest algorithms for strong AI are likely to be flawed and imperfect. These imperfections can be compensated for by faster process
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I would say that the ability to predict the future is indeed a large part of what we call intelligence. Note that 'intelligent' is a relative term, however. You are considered 'intelligent' if you are able to predict the behavior of a sys
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by hexagonc 15y ago
No, Kurzweil was not equating the "Law of Accelerating Returns" to a physical law of the universe. Instead, he was comparing it, albeit clumsily, to laws that govern aggregate behavior, like the second law of thermodynamics. There are lot
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by hexagonc 15y ago
I don't think Kurzweil ignores economics at all. In fact, many of his arguments are largely based on economics, such as the cost to obtain a given amount of computation. It is undeniable that this has gone down steadily with time. Comput

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