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12y ago
Is there a free access to this somehow?
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12y ago
"fill up this survey, and you might win a change to test watson". Doesn't really inspire confidence. and maybe there's a good reason for that - like it's not ready for prime time, or for heavy testing by technologi
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12y ago
Again, we're looking for working technologies - not articles, movies or books.Its much easier to bullshit your way through a book than a working software - and comparing that to the state of the art and other commercial offerings.
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Is there an amazing demo of this tech that i missed ? because if not-this is just another marketing site for watson/ibm, nothing more. we've seen plenty of those done by IBM- without much result yet(for example, where is watson th
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This article looks at single point in the industry with regards to automation. But i believe the important point is whether the addition of data provides more efficient movie production, with less failure , and by how much.No need to automa
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12y ago
>> I'm pretty sure that's culture and social experience in general that allow us to evaluate art. Not sure robots will be able to do that soon, as it seems to be a product of our intricate biological structure. That doesn&#
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I agree. And what's more, in the ample discussions about Apple, this is rarely mentioned or analyzed.It's like people prefer not to burst the illusion, and continuing living in it, and enjoying the psychological value the illusion
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12y ago
"But generating is fairly easy and testing pretty hard." This is the reason he thinks computers won't be creatives. But testing theories in science or math can be automated(in most cases). So technological creativity is possi
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I'm talking about the PWM, and if you need to use PWM at 100% , for some it would be much too bright.There are some options to correct it(contrast, or apps like flux), but they usually really hurt color reproduction.And sometimes even
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12y ago
In the past,the niche in the population who suffers headache/nausea/etc from lcd refresh rate would have loved this. But some lcd makers solved this, like viewsonic in[1], so this niche is gone. [1] http://www.amazon.com
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12y ago
Google translate. chrome. Chromebooks(zero maintenance laptop). Google books. Android(altough they bought it at first, what they bought wasn't even close to how android and touch based smartphones look today ,so it can be considered a
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I don't exactly know the situation in Europe, but in Israel,many city councils aren't giving permits for building small apartments, because they prefer to attract well off population to their area. And while it's true that so
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True. This article gives further support to this: Teenagers Favor Tech Over Clothes http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/business/less-prep-more-pl... Tl;dr teens buy less clothes, prefer tech, and restaura
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12y ago
A lot of the consumer stuff people buy is pretty silly or of minute importance, and i'm sure it was also considered silly in the past. And yet, it forms a pretty large industry.
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12y ago
The chip this uses , the i7-4770HQ , uses vt-d. According to invisible labs[1], vt-d can allow certain malware attacks. Afaik, even after being informed of this by invisible labs researchers, intel did nothing(afaik) to solve this. [1] htt
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I think they did the experiment in the 50's with mice, but they didn't understood transplantation and rejection so well back then, so many mice had serious problems.Now we can prevent those. Also i think you'd have a hard tim
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I once thought that bitcoin's usage as a secure decentralized database, not as a currency, would be the source of some major use. But there are no big results here, so now, not so sure.
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No need to doubt. There are already some very encouraging stuff going on: Malawi app 'teaches UK pupils 18 months of maths in six weeks' : http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29063614
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The free speech laws in the u.s. are pretty crazy. There was a case of a few pharma salesman who recommended psychiatric meds to doctors for off-label use(not proven by strong experimentation). This is illegal today,as defined by the FDA.Th
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Creating a sense of inspiration by science/technology is not that hard to do. The robot challenges do it for much less, for example and there are many other ways other than space.
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Deep conversational analysis of Milgram's experiment show resistance strategies
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What are the differences between the versions ? Also, is Google legally allowed to only release the app for android ?
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Isn't the whole point is to make sure the abstraction always work ?
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This looks great. From the examples, it seems that it is fully compatible with standard pointers with no need of casting. Is it true ? If so, it could work well in simplifying development with embedded development libraries, say like the m
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In the article ,he mentions that great VC returns basically come from large market risk. Is it possible that we have improved in estimating market risk(the web is a great tool for pondering into the mind of people) ,That there are much les
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>> the team was comprised of about 6 people Did you count in the failures and almost-failures for the rest of the company on their way to discovering this ?
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Original paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093247/ "These effects were specific to episodic learning, with no between-session change expressed in procedural motor-skill learning, or in
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Interesting. What about adult learning, do naps help with learning, and by how much?
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How many couples did it create ?
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It's not about monetizing this. But people who know about this, don't they think it could really help lots of people ? and if so aren't they, especially in the fields of psychology, motivated by such things ? Because populari
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