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by icc97 9y ago
Err this article didn't seem to give me any faith whatsoever. It's basically luck so far. The article seems to suggest that somehow the equilibrium is stronger than we think. But I see no reason for that to hold indefinitely. If t
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by icc97 9y ago
They switched over for 7 years, they got the initial political support required to switch over, they created their own distribution. So I regard that as having shown that it is possible to switch. This is purely showing that getting over th
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by icc97 9y ago
It actually gives strength to what Munich did. They proved that it was possible to swap. So Barcelona doesn't have such a political tricky situation as there is a pre-existing example. Let's hope that more follow Barcelona. Barcel
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by icc97 9y ago
Here's the business insider interview [0] where she talks about dropping out. Being self taught is part of the importance I think as it makes the robots more understandable. They typically look like Mechano creations and don't hid
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by icc97 9y ago
I agree. The machines she makes are genuinely funny. Making something funny is hard and takes skill. Beyond that she manages to give personality to her robots. I guess what I'm trying to say is she's providing actual comedy rather
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by icc97 9y ago
Fair point, I enjoy them too. But the amount of thought it takes to say Happy Birthday via Facebook is so trivial. FB reminds you, puts it at the top of your feed and reminds you the day after. For me to send a birthday card to my friends I
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by icc97 9y ago
> You pour work in and potentially don't see anything for it I guess it depends on what you expect in return. I was so crazy amazed at the process of watching my daughter solving the 3D puzzle of putting the dummy back in her mouth.
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by icc97 9y ago
Serious question, it looks like the image under 'washable' is a man's head on a woman's body.
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by icc97 9y ago
Bernard Widrow has been busy :)
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by icc97 9y ago
Perhaps the car sensors would have seen the child moving, he was hidden just before he ran out into the road but he probably wasn't hiding waiting to jump out. So there's a chance that the cars sensors would spot him. Plus the sen
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by icc97 9y ago
Also keeping distance from the car in front is very important.
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by icc97 9y ago
As a cyclist I am always aware that pedestrians might step out into the road. I expect pedestrians to do stupid things, so I don't travel at 60 kph. In town I'd never travel more than 20.
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by icc97 9y ago
A crash isn't intentional either. Meriam Webster has the following definition for crash: "to fall, land, or hit with destructive force" To me that is more accurate.
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by icc97 9y ago
In that freakonimics article it mentions that Matthew Broderick killed a mother and daughter by dangerous driving [0]: http://www.nndb.com/people/785/000022719/
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by icc97 9y ago
Having less children is a factor. I only have one child with no chance of a second. If I lose the one there is no concept of a future. If you have more than one child there is a future because you have to carry on for your other children.
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by icc97 9y ago
People in their 20s typically don't have kids
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by icc97 9y ago
I fully agree. We amateur drivers choose to drive 1000kg metal boxes at speeds that kill for convenience. We do not accept how dangerous this is. This is severe carelessness. We should all recognise that driving more than 30 mph when there&
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by icc97 9y ago
I personally think there is a significant difference. The birthday messages I get on FB are worthless, but if someone sends me an email or a card that is worth something. The connection via Facebook is so trivial and transient but it is bet
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by icc97 9y ago
> because in the last 5 years the majority of people have stop using all 3 of those (thanks to mobile). Even if this were true, which I disagree with, it has changed the world. Just because we don't still use the iPod anymore doesn
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by icc97 9y ago
As far as I can tell, it's a bit like the 20% Google time. Except for instead of it being one day a week, it's 25 people in a building for 5 years. The people being given money for AI are expected to work on AI, not on whatever th
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by icc97 9y ago
He connects the corporation to the description of the Chinese Room. A corporation is a very big room full of people with human level intelligence under an artificial union acting as one. Perhaps you can find other areas where that breaks do
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by icc97 9y ago
His discussion of corporations being actual, literal AIs in the mould of the Chinese Room [0] I found fascinating. He jokes in the Q&A that he wants an app that finds the 3% of the sociopaths out there. I like the connection to the Book
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by icc97 9y ago
I don't know enough about computer security, but I think the talk from Joanna Rutkowska about 'Towards (reasonably) trustworthy x86 laptops' [0] is basically pushing for 'hack resistance' from a different angle, wit
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by icc97 9y ago
They talk about this in the article: > DARPA’s stated goal of “hack resistance” appears to hedge a bit on whether truly unhackable hardware is achievable.
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by icc97 9y ago
I love terminals because they have a perfect memory of all the things I've typed. Many IDEs lack this feature. They don't keep a history of every menu command that I've used. Shortcut keys works for simple queries, but you ca
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by icc97 9y ago
I can see your point. They think that there is enough personality in Google as a thing. That certainly makes the most sense of what I've seen. However I think they missed on how personal a thing it is to talk to someone. I think they s
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by icc97 9y ago
No it works perfectly well. It worked brilliantly with Siri and had done for years before. People talking about it in the same room is an inconvenience to overcome. It's possible that Google copied Baidu, which used "Ni hao baidu&
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by icc97 9y ago
But that's still pretty terrible, they now have to support both 'OK Google' and 'Hey Google' and 'XXX Google' for all other countries.
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I think the point is that Google shouldn't be in the name at all.
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by icc97 9y ago
As further evidence that the assafnativ probably understands trolling, it's worth mentioning that he wrote the article The Making of the Kosher Phone [0]. So he knows how to troll Orthodox Jews if nothing else. [0]: http://b

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