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Studying Ethical Questions as the Brain’s Black Box Is Unlocked(nytimes.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Bit of a tangent, but I'm wondering if anyone here has had any luck with Cython? I'm starting to run into some performance bottlenecks with Python, and so I'm just now looking at Cython, PyPy, Psyco, and... gasp... C. From what little I've
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Yes and no. I believe 10 years is obviously a bit much in this case, but if you tweak the variables a bit, this sort of thing can be tantamount to a sexual assault. Imagine it's your sister or girlfriend involved, and the pictures are splas
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Mind Over Matter Helps Paralysed Woman Control Robotic Arm(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I'm a programmer with a fair amount of experience managing graphic designers, and I have a pretty good eye for design - if I do say so myself ;) After not having personally touched any frontend code for a num
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by rpm4321 14y ago
First of all, I would strongly encourage anyone who is interested to check out Kurzweil's 2009 predictions in his 1999 book Age of Spiritual Machines, rather than this Wikipedia synopsis. It puts his predictions in a much more accurate cont
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Yahoo Looking to Acquire Teen-Founded News Summarization App Summly(allthingsd.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I don't mean to pick on you (and I certainly didn't downvote you), but you seem like a posterboy for just how easy it is to take inventions and innovation for granted after the fact. I find it instructive to occassionally go to Youtube and
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by rpm4321 14y ago
fMRI is extremely high bandwidth and still in its infancy, and we are currently getting pretty good performance from relatively basic invasive neural implants on the disabled. I've read a couple of interesting articles on breakthroughs rega
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Here's Norvig himself on Kurzweil: “Ray’s contributions to science and technology, through research in character and speech recognition and machine learning, have led to technological achievements that have had an enormous impact on societ
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NASA Eyes Mission To Icy Jupiter Moon Europa To Gauge Habitability(space.com)
38 points by rpm4321 14y ago|7 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
In addition, I'd rank Minsky, Larry Page, Bill Gates, Dean Kamen, Rafael Reif, Tomaso Poggio, Dileep George, and Kurzweil's other supporters as much more qualified to judge the merits of his ideas, than Kurzweil's detractors like Hofstadter
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I know. He has DRF, so I was just letting him know about a confusing typo.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I'm reposting this comment I made a couple of months ago. He's no John McCarthy, but he was a true pioneer in the commercial applications of AI: ================================== I don't think that's a very fair assessment of Kurzweil's ro
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by rpm4321 14y ago
DRH?
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History's Biggest Scientific Fraud Goes Under the Microscope(livescience.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Alien Nile: River of Liquid Methane Seen on Saturn's Moon Titan(slate.com)
3 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I think where people get into trouble in this whole debate is by taking one of two binary positions: Climate Change is a fraud, or Climate Change will turn Earth into a Martian hellscape within a century. Both are absurd, and are simply for
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by rpm4321 14y ago
"NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" - No one
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GoldenEye Source 4.2 Trailer(youtube.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Hey, quick question for you. I've got a version of Chrome with JS and plugins disabled that I use for not entirely trusted links. Do you know if there are still some exploits we're vulnerable to, especially on Win? I think I remember hearin
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Steve Jobs Building NEXT - 20 min. 1986 PBS Documentary(youtube.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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20 Minute Behind the Scenes Documentary of Steve Jobs Starting NEXT(m.youtube.com)
1 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
God, what a great system that was. I was 11 when that thing came out, and after seeing just how great the quality jump was from the NES to SNES (and my half-remembered, dust-covered Atari before that), it suddenly became clear to me just ho
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by rpm4321 14y ago
I disagree somewhat. While it's not a traditional 3D printer, it may as well be. It's essentially CAD software for DNA molecules, which automatically outputs self-assembling DNA structures which combine to create the desired formation of mo
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Organic metamaterial flows like a liquid, remembers its shape(kurzweilai.net)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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A Tumultuous Trip to Mobile App Transparency(nytimes.com)
3 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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Foods You Should Never Eat(prevention.com)
2 points by rpm4321 14y ago|0 comments
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by rpm4321 14y ago
You should put (2004) in the headline, or it'll look like Karma Fishing.
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by rpm4321 14y ago
Meh, 58% if you click 'Top Critics' and filter out the blog-spam critics. A solid F+. Plus all the big national papers: the Times, Post, Journal, and LA Times, plus all the trades: Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly all shat

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