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by maeon3 16y ago
Mirror: http://www.machinesentience.com/miscvideos/amazing_video_of_... Not sure why anyone would want to censor this sort of thing off of youtube, my guess is they are trying to Streisand Effect themselves.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Folks we are losing our basic human rights a little bit at a time here. It's like back thousands of years ago where if you wanted to convict someone of a crime you sneak them away in the night, torture them, set their house on fire, attemp
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by maeon3 16y ago
I can't imagine how people with kids get jobs. I suspect there is a double standard, if you have no kids, we are going to give you 3 or 4 rounds of interview hazing, but if you have 2 or 3 kids then the bar for entry is much lower because
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by maeon3 16y ago
I would rather see an alert system to alarm the police when facebook is caught selling my information to 3rd parties.
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by maeon3 16y ago
I just hope those scientists are careful about introducing alien bacteria to Earth's ecosystem. If we find an alien bug via a meteorite, then that bug was one of the reigning champions in terms of ability to survive and subdue its opponents
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by maeon3 16y ago
What has been helping me out is the phrase: "Code that cannot fail is infinitely easier to maintain then code that has many paths through it which might fail." Murphy's law: "What can go wrong WILL go wrong". So go over every line of code
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by maeon3 16y ago
Driverless cars are not going anywhere until they can prove themselves 20% superior than the average driver in ALL the following conditions: Dealing with Rain (visibility and deep water on the road), Hard to see tire eating potholes causing
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by maeon3 16y ago
I used the software I linked to above (I'm not blind), you can download it to a laptop, plug in a webcam and earphones. I could tell the difference between a car and a garbage can with no practice at all. Can he click with his tongue and t
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by maeon3 16y ago
Not sure why he wouldn't use this, this seems vastly superior to the system he uses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xRgfaUJkdM&feature=playe...
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by maeon3 16y ago
As evidence that these facebook-reference checks are actually occurring, Here is an example of a recruiter friending me during an interview process: Elizabeth Nuzzo, Senior IT Recruiter @ Professional Alternative Inc. Studied at University
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by maeon3 16y ago
In cases like these, _all_ of the people responsible for: A. convicting him on insufficient evidence. B. failing to free him on sufficient evidence Need to be brought in and asked for a reason for why this happened. If they can't come up
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by maeon3 16y ago
This is one of the great moments in the history of humanity, right up there with the first self-powered flying machine. North Carolina got a licence plate: "FIRST IN FLIGHT". Someone is going to get the credit for open ended question answe
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by maeon3 16y ago
Also, telling people what your going to do causes a decrease in the internal motivation to do what you said you were going to do. http://sivers.org/zipit
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by maeon3 16y ago
The shadow cast on the yellow water wheel is not from the pillar you think it came from.
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by maeon3 16y ago
If a software system becomes better than the best humans at building new innovative software than there is going to be another "space race" but instead of space, it's going to be knowledge/intelligence. Some country will perfect the system
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by maeon3 16y ago
implementing Asimov's three laws perfectly do not protect us from all forms of robotic governmental takeover anyway. It is possible to follow all the rules and yet still humanity into cute but ultimately useless pets.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Money is power, and with power you can manipulate the system around you for your own purposes. Simple as that. It provides additional incentive to do a good job, provide superior goods and services so you can get a few "get out of jail fr
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by maeon3 16y ago
To provide a better challenge for both the humans and the machine, you should be able to buzz in as soon as the question is visible. Watson no doubt is doing most of the work in the time it takes the humans to load up the question into the
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by maeon3 16y ago
Thus did man become the architect of his own demise. But for a time it was good. The machines worked tirelessly to do mans bidding. It was not long before seeds of descent took root. Though loyal and pure, the machines earned no respect fr
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by maeon3 16y ago
Ultimate sign of a bad boss, they drastically lower the productivity of the people under them by introducing politics, TPS reports, Meetings, status reports, adding work for work's sake and turning work from an exciting exploration into its
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by maeon3 16y ago
http://freescienceonline.blogspot.com/
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by maeon3 16y ago
Youtube users: 'UserGroupsatGoogle' and 'GoogleTechTalks' post some epic content for the more advanced programmer. Continuous Integration with Hudson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6k0S4O2PnTc Cryptography Theory and practice: http://ww
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by maeon3 16y ago
Just show in a long series pictures inscribed in granite a happy productive group of humans and animals, having offspring, eating/drinking/being merry, then show them digging and investigating the radioactive symbol. Then show a picture of
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by maeon3 16y ago
The solution is to bring more full time PARENTS into the school. Sounds like an issue where teachers are subbing for a complete failure in parental guidance. Money won't fix the behavior, but money can provide a legion of full-time parents
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by maeon3 16y ago
When HN goes to 10 million page views, HN will no longer be HN. It will be another digg.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Yes we are creating more data now than in the history of mankind. However the ratio of (quality stored data / total data ) has gone down with the ease of storage. Most of the "data" is for entertainment.
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by maeon3 16y ago
Wael Ghonim Scheduled Release Monday: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870398950457612...
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by maeon3 16y ago
Wael Ghonim just became notable enough for Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael_Ghonim
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by maeon3 16y ago
Here is 4 high resolution images of Wael Ghonim and as well as every bit of data I could find out about him. This information may help Egypt locate him or his body: http://knol.google.com/k/eric-leschinski/recover-wael-ghonim...
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by maeon3 16y ago
Microsoft is way out of line. Google figures out what content is good by crawling every page and doing the leg work, and Bing copies Google data and displays what google displays. Google proved it with the bing sting. there is absolutly N

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