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by pbw 8y ago
Whether this has a chance of working depends on the exact diameter of the narrow portions of the submerged route. My impression is that they were very narrow, perhaps too small for a rigid container containing a human?
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by pbw 8y ago
Pokemon Go's AR was a joke, but the promise of AR was very real and compelling to people, so they were wildly successful and now have the resources to actually try and solve the technical problems for real. A lot of startups work this
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Zero Point Distractions(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 8y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 8y ago
This is really horrifying to me. My heart goes out to the working-class retail people who are going to have to spend their days chatting with the AI assistants of upper middle class people too busy to call themselves. If the shop owner gets
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by pbw 8y ago
When the robo callers get this hell will be unleashed. The only remedy is we all have Duplex-like service answering the phone for us, and let them duke it out. Does Google say anywhere these were all real calls? Or did they call back to can
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by pbw 8y ago
This still feels like search and not "talking" to anything. To me talking would require back-end-forth refinement. I wonder why they are releasing this only against books? Does it not work against the internet at large, or is it a
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by pbw 9y ago
I wrote about this idea 8 years ago: http://www.kmeme.com/2010/10/future-of-googles-street-view.h... Will be interesting to see if it takes off. I think it might not work that well at first, but long term seems in
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by pbw 9y ago
I'm so sorry to hear this awful news Matt. What a shock.
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by pbw 9y ago
I think I've heard various sci-fi authors grousing it's hard to write these days because reality is so sci-fi and outlandish (Trump).
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by pbw 9y ago
The end of George Dyson's classic article on Google goes: For 30 years I have been wondering, what indication of its existence might we expect from a true AI? Certainly not any explicit revelation, which might spark a movemen
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by pbw 9y ago
It seems possible these particular articles fell out of Google's index for some other reason than they are not indexing "old" stuff. That's kind of a big leap to make without many more examples.
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by pbw 9y ago
That looks like a bar graph not a heat map. A heat map to me means you have pixels or squares which are colored according to frequency or prevalence.
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by pbw 9y ago
The article says "Gates is only other person to have built 13-figure fortune" but isn't $100B a 12-figure fortune? I suggested we count zeros instead which would make Bezos a level 11 and Gates a high level 10: http:/&#
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by pbw 9y ago
I agree by numerical value the difference is huge and under appreciated. But like many things wealth is correctly perceived logarithmically not linearly. There aren't hundreds of shades of gray between a millionaire and a billionaire,
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by pbw 9y ago
For me MasterCard is the first result. Maybe they just fixed it: https://imgur.com/sSWqxG6
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The Richer Scale(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 9y ago|0 comments
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The Richer Scale(kmeme.com)
1 points by pbw 9y ago|0 comments
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by pbw 9y ago
This is a decent article but I strongly dislike the title. The phrasing "we aren't built for" is so pessimistic, as if being mindful (living in the moment) is hopeless or unachievable, or even undesirable or harmful. Thousand
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by pbw 9y ago
It says you can only share your entire screen. That's fine from a laptop, but if you have a 4k/5k display sharing to people with laptops, wouldn't the text be unreadable? Sharing just a single window is the standard solution
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by pbw 9y ago
What is the solution here? Is google supposed to judge for every snippet whether or not it's beneficial for the wider internet? Seems like they cannot objectively make that call. Should rich snippets be illegal? The article presents a
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by pbw 9y ago
I tried this and my result was really low resolution and had a giant blob of glare on it. Had really high hopes from all the technology behind it, but it didn't work in my case.
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by pbw 10y ago
Just wondering how would Disney benefit from this type of basic hardware research?
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by pbw 10y ago
The essay talks about Intel. Intel the company could design its next generation chip much much faster than its smartest member could alone.
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by pbw 10y ago
Who got paid? Can they just rip any dead persons look for free?
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by pbw 10y ago
Does he use the symbol for lambda without saying how to type it or whether there's an ascii equivalent like "lambda"?
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by pbw 10y ago
The report from Tesla says the autopilot didn't see the truck because the "white side of the tractor trailer" mathched "a brightly lit sky". It doesn't mention radar which should have had a huge signature. On
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by pbw 10y ago
Wow he seems very smart but not very succinct.
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by pbw 10y ago
I'm wondering if Slack will ever implement something like Sococo or teamspeak's always-on voice chat. If you have not seen these it's quite a weird idea. If you are in the channel your speakers are always-on. Someone can spea
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by pbw 10y ago
We are 100% remote company so face-to-face is not an option. However we do use video (gotomeeting). And I've been using and enjoying Slack's new "/call" feature. I'm eager to see how they implement video and sc
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by pbw 10y ago
Wow really surprised to hear they broke up with Slack. It seemed like a very good long explanation of the problem, basically no mention of any attempt to fix the problem, and then dropping the tool. We are deep into Slack and still liking i

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