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by stillsut 9y ago
It's an interesting question. I'd look at it from the angle of ability to marshal resources for an to meet constantly arising but unanticipated threats and opportunities. So not the Genome Project, we always knew we'd need to
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Was the car electric? I've had a close call with a silent electric car which would have been my fault. The scenario goes like this: I'm saying goodbye to Joe and about to cross the street and notice there is no traffic around. I r
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by stillsut 9y ago
I think these obnoxious people are experienced outside the gym - there's one or two at your office, one of two in your wife's friends, one of two of your old college friends. When the conversation turns to what's new in their
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by stillsut 9y ago
So RapGenius for Financial Statements?
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by stillsut 9y ago
> Where is my equal representation, as, say, a first generation Austrian Jewish immigrant with an anxiety disorder? I think that's Peter Parker a.k.a Spiderman, the nebbish boy living in a multi-generational Brooklyn walk-up, with o
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by stillsut 9y ago
There's this huge class of video games that feature: skill-building, leveling-up, acquisition, and when networked, involve team dynamics, assessing other's skill, leadership, earned respect, and a social hierarchy that's base
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by stillsut 9y ago
I feel for the grown man who dresses up in costumes to read stories for children. I respect him. And yet if there were some subjective corporate performance metrics he had to game to keep his job, I think other employees may know how to wor
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by stillsut 9y ago
Certain elite grad program dept's might have best-in-world knowledge in a particular niche e.g. ETH Zurich has these acrobatic indoor drones better than even NASA / US Military / Boeing right now. If I were doing a make or br
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by stillsut 9y ago
The problem is you can't cut people off of the only form of urban transportation available. Who is banned from the subway? And the other problem is there are a lot of people who want to get around without getting their identity associa
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by stillsut 9y ago
The most interesting phenomenon is "sleepers": people who sleep Friday night as their car drives to some scenic overlook sunrise and drive them home from retreat on Sunday night. Rural back roads will be moving at full stream in t
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by stillsut 9y ago
How about slip him a Playboy ? Play a little good cop / bad cop: you know mom is sensitive to stuff like that, but guys can have a little fun. And it's better when you don't have to see the naked dude. Maybe in a week rein
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by stillsut 9y ago
I would like thank this 'namc' for putting in the journalistic-legwork to get us all closer to the truth. And also letting us draw our own conclusions. I think what's upsetting to me is not really this case in particular, but
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Debating Autonomous Weapons(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by stillsut 9y ago
How about we let flip phones with the speaker visibly ripped out still be carried? It has terrible video and audio recording capabilities, people know how to use them already, and there's nothing on that tiny screen worth distracting y
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by stillsut 9y ago
Isn't the whole point of paying $5000/month to live in SF the access to cultural benefits? If you want a strict monastic environment for your company, rural Idaho would probably get the job done at 1/10 the price. I'm re
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by stillsut 9y ago
Well if the truck is your work then obviously people are going to draw distinctions over it. Which operating system shows you're smart: Windows or Linux? Is it "xenophobic" to prefer linux people? Also, Milton "ked&quo
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by stillsut 9y ago
This guy: A.) makes stuff, B.) The stuff works and is useful to other people c.) Challenged himself to drill into the "crass" business side to make himself far more profitable. But would anyone here in a cool startup hire him?
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by stillsut 9y ago
Did you do something nice for a coworker today? When's the last time you said more than 'hello' to a neighbor? The only substitute for Social "Media" is a Social Culture. The reason most mature adults are checking t
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by stillsut 9y ago
I wonder if he asked any women to watch him shower...while wearing Google glasses.
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by stillsut 9y ago
I believe the political class will use "AI risk" as a rationalization for tyranny, poverty and enforced ignorance on the population, long before any actual risk materializes from an AGI.
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by stillsut 9y ago
I'd really need more information about what Rick was building to make up my mind on this one. Based on what I could google about the author, he has always worked for a large research university IT department. In this light, I've s
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by stillsut 9y ago
> it finally looked like the UWP Plattform might do the trick. Well nope. The SDK is garbage. Scaling from phone to desktop is hidiously bad and afaik still not solved. A lot people tell me Xcode is garbage, Eclipse is a nightmare, but t
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I used to sit for the national anthem too(wsj.com)
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by stillsut 9y ago
An AI that can watch videos: - automated security guard, especially in sensitive areas like public restrooms - watching and editing hours of stock footage for a good summary, or the highlights - automated refereeing in sports
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by stillsut 9y ago
This is something I've noticed too. I tend (when I'm coding well) to write with many clauses, and also elaborate them with elaborate punctuation, [, ( ,- , etc... ak, I believe you may have just written something moderately insigh
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by stillsut 9y ago
There's a trade-off: MoreFrames vs. EasierToUse. Imagine placing one of these images on machine for say telescope positioning and performing a controlled rotation with a perfectly immobile observer. You could probably get 100+ frames.
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by stillsut 9y ago
Lenticular Images allow you to create 2D photos that move: https://media.giphy.com/media/ZPJO1M6RViPT2/giphy.gif
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by stillsut 9y ago
There's a weak post at the top, I'd start with a few of the 'Top Posts': https://slatestarcodex.com/about/
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by stillsut 9y ago
Couple years ago some enterprising folks got together to teach "Software Carpentry" to academics: git, open data, plotting with open source software, etc... Seems like there's a new set of skills that academics need to learn;
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by stillsut 9y ago
"This is Git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model. Cool. How do we use it? No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your

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