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by rndn 12y ago
I mean that more in personal terms ("look, this machine is more skillful/faster/smarter than you") than in economical terms. There will be a huge impact on the service sector, so upper and middle class will be able to pe
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by rndn 12y ago
Maybe I'm thinking in too simple terms, but I can't imagine that being a major problem because it will affect people from all classes in the same way and the change will probably be fairly quick (once the technology is available,
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by rndn 12y ago
Pixel = Picture Element (2D) Voxel = Volume Element (3D)
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by rndn 12y ago
The Amontage Engine would probably qualify as a volume renderer in original terminology.
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by rndn 12y ago
But even in leisure time there are things to achieve, for example learning new skills, exercising and gaining reputation in virtual worlds. I think the concept of "meaning in life" is more flexible than often assumed.
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by rndn 12y ago
I think, the perceived danger here is more the lack of social acceptance of unemployed people. I think however, that if a large part or even a majority of the population is unemployable it will necessarily lead to social acceptance. People
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by rndn 12y ago
Perhaps it's nostalgia for the C64 generation?
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by rndn 12y ago
You can probably assume they are in contact with the leading experts in the field. From the letter: The initial version of this document was drafted by Stuart Russell, Daniel Dewey & Max Tegmark, with major input from Jano
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by rndn 12y ago
This was discussed two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870456
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Learning how to learn [video](youtube.com)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
That makes me wonder why anti virus software does not have crapware detection. That would actually be a good task for them.
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by rndn 12y ago
I'm not sure how well this renderer handles arbitrary scenes through. Pieces of broken glass are very suitable for GPU raytracing, because rendering them is not a "branchy" task since there is no scattering, only definite ref
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by rndn 12y ago
It looks like voxel cone tracing is becoming popular at the moment. Both approaches have the disadvantage that you need to keep the entire scene in video memory, however with VCT that memory usage is bounded by the voxel resolution and inte
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Red Square Nebula(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by rndn 12y ago|2 comments
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We Are All – Fill in the Blank(telesurtv.net)
24 points by rndn 12y ago|5 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
Is that really obvious? I think the checkerboard pattern only says something about the neighborhoods of the pieces and the amounts of tiles of each color used, not whether there exists is a rectangle configuration.
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by rndn 12y ago
Isn't the lamp simply designed to contain all of the seven types of Tetris pieces?
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by rndn 12y ago
Does anyone happen to know what the effect is called that the sky is reflected stronger at shallow angles and whether that is the same effect which makes rough surfaces reflective at very shallow angles?
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by rndn 12y ago
On the other hand it's difficult to make exceptions in these cases. How do you define a comment that is worth what is otherwise regarded as a vote manipulation?
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by rndn 12y ago
Oh, the tactics should be realized by biological systems rather than by manual "brick stacking" of technical systems?
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by rndn 12y ago
Around the 31 minute mark, shouldn't the gear and biology analogies be the other way around (biological systems being analogous to bloated software), or am I missing something?
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by rndn 12y ago
https://edibug.wordpress.com/list-of-edible-insects/ There are a couple of bugs listed, I couldn't find anything about beefy tastes though. Perhaps, it can be achieved with artificial flavors?
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by rndn 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments
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by rndn 12y ago
There is a neat size comparison of the Andromeda galaxy (178 x 63 arc minutes) and the moon (30 x 30 arc minutes) on APOD: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap061228.html
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by rndn 12y ago
That is a surprisingly short code for the balancing logic.
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by rndn 12y ago
I’m wondering whether Hinton’s reverse computer graphics/bottom-up hierarchical coordinate frames/Hough transform routing approach [1] is suspsusceptible to this too. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87835
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by rndn 12y ago
Range: 4-6 miles = 6.437-9.656 km Max. speed: 12 mph = 19.31 km/h Recharge time: 20 minutes = 0.3803 microcenturies
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by rndn 12y ago
Org-mode is a really good replacement for MediaWiki. You can manage links, tables and lists all with simple and reliable text files with .org suffix in Emacs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJTwQvgfgMM
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Computer performance by orders of magnitude(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by rndn 12y ago|0 comments
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by rndn 12y ago
https://www.coursera.org/course/hciucsd https://www.coursera.org/course/design http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134... And, finally, if you want

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