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by saulrh 14y ago
A couple of differences. First, vision is much higher bandwidth. You can glance at a notification and immediately know that you have a message, who sent the message, and how you received it. Takes half a second. Bluetooth earpieces are only
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by saulrh 14y ago
If I remember correctly, someone addressed this pretty early on with an argument that hinged on economics. I'm going from memory, but I think that living off of the prepackaged predecessors would be either unworkable (not comprehensive nutr
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Thad Starner on the cognitive benefits of Google Glass(mashable.com)
4 points by saulrh 14y ago|0 comments
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by saulrh 14y ago
Deaths per day per cause, "sending a message", and "national security". All of these are heuristics, vague approximations, for the thing that we really care about: how do we save lives? Or, given that we will probably not be able to save al
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by saulrh 14y ago
This is a lot like the "efficient cross-domain optimization" definition from Eliezer Yudkowsky. It looks like they even use the same information-theoretic measure of optimization power across the distribution of possible futures. http://le
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by saulrh 14y ago
How about an animated hacker mascot that provides helpful tutorials for features, complete with colorful highlighting and font changes to indicate important UI elements?
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by saulrh 14y ago
The cables are there to prevent the robot from damaging stuff during testing. If a human falls, it catches itself, or at worst breaks a wrist and spends a couple weeks healing. Unrestrained robots have far more spectacular failure modes; a
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by saulrh 14y ago
> Why are benchmarks so focused on code no one writes? Mostly because, when you're doing something that cares about environmental overhead and compiler efficiency, it tends to involve the kinds of algorithms that benchmarks test with. I
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by saulrh 14y ago
As I've said before, maybe people should actually try one of these things before they assume they know how they work. I've seen them before. I've used them. One of my professors does research with them. In particular: A person displaying
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by saulrh 14y ago
That's exactly why I like Glass so much. Humans aren't the only things that have memories, as demonstrated by dolphins, chimpanzees, elephants, and dogs. Humans aren't the only things that can process data, as demonstrated by computers. The
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by saulrh 14y ago
I've actually worked with the Thad Starner and the Remembrance Agent before. Let me tell you, it's even cooler than it looks. Of note, there's a version of the RA that has additions that make it more suitable for use on wearable computers.
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by saulrh 14y ago
This was originally demonstrated by Professor Bach-Y-Rita in his work on neuroplasticity. Things other than cameras work just as well, interestingly; they've used the same kind of system to help people with inner ear damage learn to balance
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Humanity's Deep Future(aeonmagazine.com)
12 points by saulrh 14y ago|0 comments
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by saulrh 14y ago
Who would possibly want to hear what it has to say? Television executives. Everything has an application, and many fewer of those applications are useless than you'd think. Plus there are higher-order effects to consider, mostly rel
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by saulrh 14y ago
provide a network interface to them If you're trying to use partitions off a single disk, implement this using minimal virtual machines. OSX in single-user mode and only the necessary kernel modules loaded, windows server core, suit
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by saulrh 14y ago
Two things. First, when something is always available and you are always aware of it and taking data from it, it becomes part of you in the same way that your eyes or your clothing are part of you. It's part of you when you're talking t
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by saulrh 14y ago
The Tesla isn't just a "new car" - it's new technology. It doesn't have the years of accumulated wisdom and infrastructure that support normal new cars. The same way that you understand that cold weather means you have to let your car warm
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by saulrh 14y ago
He wouldn't have tried running the vehicle to the edges of its optimal-condition performance in non-optimal conditions. Or he would have been expecting trouble and reacted early enough to avoid being towed. Or, most of all, he would have em
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by saulrh 14y ago
This blog post states the obvious: early adopters better know what they're in for and what they're doing. The author isn't an experienced early adopter and doesn't know what they're doing, and rightly concludes that the technology isn't
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by saulrh 14y ago
It just means that your stop-loss order is working on unsmoothed millisecond-resolution data when it should be working on smoothed minute-resolution data.
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by saulrh 14y ago
That's one of the underlying causes of Moravec's Paradox, yes. Humans have a very difficult time with precision and regularity, which are exactly what current computer systems are best at. Computers, by contrast, have a hard time with gener
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by saulrh 14y ago
The abstract concept of a lever. And it is definitely much harder than it sounds, mostly because it's comparatively so easy for humans to do.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Roboticist here. This is actually a huge problem in robotics and causes all sorts of problems for real robots. For example, my current project is to teach robots how levers work.
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by saulrh 14y ago
I'd recommend the FTB Launcher, which is somewhat easier to use, is much more up-to-date, and actually got permission from all the mod developers. http://feed-the-beast.com/
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by saulrh 14y ago
Not... quite. Court stenographers only record speech, and it turns out that the fastest way to do this is by recording spoken syllables instead of letters and using a huge pile of shorthand to boot. Some more info here: http://plover.steno
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by saulrh 14y ago
Emacs, org-mode, org-capture, and a global keyboard shortcut that pops up an org-capture buffer when I have an idea. I just type it in, hit a few keys, and it goes into a nicely-formatted file with all my other ideas. Hitting slightly diffe
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by saulrh 14y ago
Right, forgot about that. My bad.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Not really. iOS was locked down well before Oracle had Java running on ARM, so getting java on ios wasn't a particularly reasonable goal. Getting Java on win8 arm is a reasonable goal.
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by saulrh 14y ago
Windows RT tablet users will be unable to run the game simply because they're ARM machines I'd be extremely surprised if Java doesn't get ported to WinRT. Especially because they've already done the work to get it running on ARM
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by saulrh 14y ago
Artificial diamonds are solid, physical proof of the achievement of mankind. We've taken the most regular, durable objects that nature can produce and we've duplicated and bettered them. Every time you look at an artificial diamond, that'

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