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hughperkins
10y ago
Seems like there is an opportunity here? Presumably milling machines and so on will start to reduce this overhead, so that the overhead becomes just the cost of creating the original design?
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They sounds awesome fun for one thing... If cost was no object, I'd certainly be roaming the skies in one, rather than rollerblading and such... (I mean, I'd do both, not at the same time probably)
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10y ago
machine learning
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11y ago
I think it's fairer to say that: it doesnt necessarily implement them in a standards-compliant way. Which I dont mean to imply it implements everything, in a non-standard way, it's missing a bunch of stuff. But it does have a lot
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11y ago
Its because compensation for killing someone is on average less than for disabling someone.
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11y ago
Hmmm, I wonder if opensource code is how the first ai-generated code contributions will look like? Ie technically good, but perhaps not fundamentally innovative, at least, initially?
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11y ago
Yes, seems like more anecdote than reality. Reality is, you wouldnt just 'code an AI', and leave it running for the weekend, and then act all surprised when it has bugs in. You'd work your way eg through Sutton's tasks
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hughperkins
11y ago
I think the premise for the story - applying magnetism to the brain curing autism tomorrow - seems suspect, and don't really believe it.
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11y ago
Well, i think, at that time, they thought the answer was: 'no'
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11y ago
> So not every move has to be perfect; it's much more possible to recover from mistakes. Not when I play its not :-P
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11y ago
This :-)
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11y ago
They cant spell dioxide, and theyre not measuring pm2.5 theres a site at heathrow that does measure pm2.5 http://www.heathrowairwatch.org.uk/data/graphs
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11y ago
So, its like, when I learned salsa dancing, i couldnt hear the 'beat' of the music, and was always out of time. So what I did was just listen to salsa music whilst cycling and walking for a couple of weeks. Now i could hear the &#
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11y ago
no :)
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11y ago
To be fair, you're probably not going to drive around with 180GPUs in your trunk...
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hughperkins
11y ago
I think its more like, real parents dont understand why their children do the bizarre things that they do.
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hughperkins
11y ago
This is very insightful. Id like to mod you up ten times if i could :)
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11y ago
Summary:using the motion sensors in the smartwatch, they can figure out which keys you are pressing, and thus read your passwords.
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11y ago
72 people are killed by firearms each day in USA. So, if you have 500 Facebook friends from America, you can expect just over 4 of them to be killed by firearms during your lifetime.
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11y ago
Well, they do, after several years at Rikers ...
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11y ago
So what they should do is, what Android apps do: - when you first go to the website, you get the ad-infested website - you can pay for the app, and now, no more ads. In Android apps, the amount tends to be crazy low, like less than a cup of
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11y ago
1. It seems he really did kill someone with his bike. But it's not clear to me why this would be considered a homicide? Is this standard practice in USA? 2. For some reason, it seems common practice in USA to assume that if someone d
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11y ago
Other than wishful thinking, any reasons for thinking they wont be?
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11y ago
Yeah, I signed up for that. But they still show me ads :-P So, then I installed RequestPolicy et al, and have a guilt-free, ad-free existence :-)