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CES 2013: Hands On With The Oculus VR Rift, Virtual Reality's Greatest Hope(pcmag.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Why the Feds Want to Give Aspiring Entrepreneurs Unemployment Benefits(businessweek.com)
6 points by rpm4321 14y ago|1 comments
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Cheap, Easy Technique to Snip DNA Could Revolutionize Gene Therapy(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Heads to Paris Court After Flood of 'Nazi' Posts(timesofisrael.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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John McCain: Google Delegation to NKorea ‘Useful Idiots’(abcnews.go.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'm very skeptical of this recent emphasis on the theory that our complete sensory experience has to be simulated (or replicated via robotics) in order for a strong AI to learn. All you need to do is read a bit about Helen Keller to know th
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hey Paul, thanks for responding. Just in case you’re interested, this Time cover story on him from a couple of years back actually does a reasonably good job on the broad strokes: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,0
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by rpm4321 14y ago
The notion is that they have a "monopoly" on search, and therefore have an unfair advantage in that they can promote their products over those of their competitors in their search results. As a simplistic example, say some grandmother sudde
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hey jacques_chester, fair enough. It obviously wasn't only you who assumed that, because unfortunately the post was flagged. In retrospect it was obviously the S word that did me in, but it really didn't seem out of line compared to the doz
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by rpm4321 14y ago
"No Guilty!" - Unfrozen Caveman Judge Edit: Shucks, this is a lot less funny now that the title has been changed from "On Anti-Trust Issue, Google Found No Guilty" ;)
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Ask PG: Is Ray Kurzweil full of it?
11 points by rpm4321 14y ago|2 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yeah, because it's perfectly logical that I would engage in a multi-thousand word, multi-month debate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4923914 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003916 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4791558
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Did you even read my comment? I'm genuinely very interested in PG's take on this, and it was inspired by a protracted debate from earlier today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5003916 Also, in my opinion "full of shit" accurately ref
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Ask PG: Is Ray Kurzweil full of shit?
9 points by rpm4321 14y ago|8 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I really wish you would read my comment further down the thread about not being a Kurzweil fan boy (I've copied it below for your convenience.) Kurzweil's theories deserve scrutiny and thoughtful criticism, just not the emotional middlebrow
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Eh, I'd tend to agree with you in general, and that was probably the weaker of my arguments, but the recipient list is pretty impressive: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, David Packard, etc: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Go to the 'Life, inventions, and business career' section here, as well as the overview section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Honestly, I think you're barking up the wrong tree here. Even his strongest critics generally concede that he's a brilliant man who has contributed significantly to technology. Please understand, I'm not a Kurzweil fan boy. I do think a lot
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by rpm4321 14y ago
God damn it... Not this again. =================MY PREVIOUS POSTS================= I don't think that's a very fair assessment of Kurzweil's role in technology. He was on the ground, getting his hands dirty with the first commercial applica
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Study: Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs May Put Health At Risk(commcgi.cc.stonybrook.edu)
3 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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If 7 Out of 10 Working Americans Got Fired Tomorrow, What Would They All Do?(kurzweilai.net)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
You may be right, but I can't help but smirk at the thought of PG or Buchheit downloading and installing the Bing Toolbar ;)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Eh, I'm pretty sure you should still feel violated. The fact that they are parsing your private documents for information that they can use to help another business unit is really sketchy. It would make me wonder what else they are scanning
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hi Ivan, glad to hear it. You can count on my purchase. Regarding pricing, yeah, you probably want to go cheaper than your print version. Maybe $19 or $9, depending on how much profit you are expecting to make on the physical copies. To be
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I actually clicked "Buy Now" before I realized this was a physical textbook and cancelled. To me, it's almost inexcusable to market this sort of text to this type of audience and not have a digital copy. Shouldn't the barriers to entry be m
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Single-Molecule Motor Sits On a Single-Atom Ball Bearing(arstechnica.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'd love to hear some opinions from anyone with speech recognition experience on how this stacks up to the commercial alternatives.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
This is a bit of a tangent, but I was wondering if anyone on HN has any experience moving from the US to Canada? I'd like to live in Toronto at least for a couple of years, but I'm not sure how involved the redtape would be, especially beca
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Now do Netflix! ;)
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Can someone chime in with how Pycharm compares to Komodo Edit - or maybe just if you've had a positive/negative experience with Pycharm? I'm starting to get a little frustrated with Komodo, and I remember liking a very brief Pycharm demo I

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