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by jostmey 11y ago
I think what people really mean is that as a species, we are no longer under a strong selective pressure, which would mean that the Human genome is diversifying (good) but mutations that are only a little bit detrimental are not being filte
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by jostmey 11y ago
Quote "a device that can imbue medical gear with videoconferencing and data-transmission abilities so a patient can leave a hospital and use the machines at home". Some of the patents mentioned sound trivial. It seems to me this
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by jostmey 11y ago
The cash assistance programs being cited were carried out in poor countries, from what I can tell. Maybe that works in a country where you never have enough. I'm not sure the results apply here to the United States. I could not disagre
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by jostmey 11y ago
And are we assuming that the person is inside a metal vehicle? What if someone is outdoors? How much radiation does this scanner actually emit? The numbers are meaninglessness without more information. Why doesn't the manufacturer just
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by jostmey 11y ago
And what happens if someone stands in front of it? Are they assuming that the person is inside a metal car? The maker neglects to mention how much radiation the device emits, and instead distracts us with this useless statistic.
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by jostmey 11y ago
The name of the method seems a little sensational. Many scientists have become hung up on specific models when actually all they care about are making predictions from their data. This paper is reaction against that trend, but I have to won
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by jostmey 11y ago
Concrete is awesome because you just pour it into a mold and it dries. With this technology it appears that you still need a mold and you have to take the time to layer it.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Maybe it is us who needs a change in mindset. We say he needs a vacation and he is obviously exhausted, but he is succeeding at creating a rocket company . That's right, a rocket company . Maybe more of us need to dream bigger, risk
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by jostmey 11y ago
The space smallest space between chemical synapses is ~20nm. It helps put the size of these transistors in perspective.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Saw this link at http://www.rt.com/usa/317294-assange-clinton-mail-cbs/ . Not sure if the email is legit.
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US planted questions against Julian Assange interview? [pdf](foia.state.gov)
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by jostmey 11y ago
This graph says everything you need to know about higher education: http://www.businessinsider.com/inflation-update-2011-1 I would suggest that academia is in a bubble, but many of the top Universities are sitting on massiv
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by jostmey 11y ago
How about allowing people to buy generic drugs from overseas?
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by jostmey 11y ago
What would happen mathematically if two singularities orbiting each other merged? Would it become one singularity or some super nasty complex mathematical system?
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Beyond the purpose of the law, teens sexting in big trouble(csmonitor.com)
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French regulator demand links removed from dot-com sites, not just dot-fr(theverge.com)
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by jostmey 11y ago
Theft has been a recurring problem with bitcoin and everyone ends up blaming the users or the institutions.
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by jostmey 11y ago
Liberated implies that today's computers are limited in what they can do, which I disagree with. But I can imagine special purpose machines being constructed to carry out tasks faster than otherwise possible. If we depart from the von
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by jostmey 11y ago
Can anyone no matter what their grades move onto college? If not, then the German system is extremely unfair. People unable to attend college end up partially subsidizing those who can. Can someone clarify how higher education works in Germ
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by jostmey 11y ago
Urbana-Champaign is in the middle of no-where. The University is Urbana-Champaign - there is very little city around the campus. It would be one of the worst places to start a company. Not to mention that Illinois is one of the last state
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by jostmey 11y ago
Yeah, lungs did not evolved to breath smoke filled air. In my book, smoking of anything is bad for respiratory health.
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by jostmey 11y ago
The Wright brothers started off by building gliders before they built the first airplane. So why is this approach the wrong one?
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by jostmey 11y ago
Hmm... Perhaps the best way to win the war on drugs is not to make drugs illegal, but rather to regulate the industry to death. After all, heavy regulation seems to have curbed tobacco use.
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by jostmey 11y ago
I just briefly skimmed through parts of it. If I understand the paper correctly, the objective function is a combination of a classifier and a generative model. It sounds a lot like pre-training a neural network as a generative model before
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by jostmey 11y ago
I wonder if tech by and large has lost its focus on important things - curing disease, going to the moon, and all the other impossible goals. Instead, the industry focuses on social networks, business software, ect. Maybe burnout would not
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by jostmey 11y ago
Would any building damage caused by these artificial earthquakes be the subject of a class action lawsuit against the fracking industry?
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by jostmey 11y ago
The problem with a tablet is that it makes for a terrible input device. Tablets are awesome for media consumption, though.
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by jostmey 11y ago
The brain is the product of random trial-and-error filtered through selection (Evolution). This process was simple enough to give rise to Intelligence without the need of an example. Now, I'd like to think we can at least do as much us
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by jostmey 11y ago
Having lots of connections may be important to Intelligence, but the brain is a knotted mess of connections. It's the knotted part that I am objecting.
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by jostmey 11y ago
It's going to be the other way around. The brain is a knotted mess of connections between lots of different neuron types, and I don't believe the complexity of the brain is a necessary feature of Intelligence. Because of this extr

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