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by svantana 13y ago
Indeed, I think that one and The Thirteenth Floor are much better explorations of virtual (simulated) reality than, say, the superficial zen & mainstream action of The Matrix.
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by svantana 13y ago
Nice! WRT to the icon, you should add stereoscopic imaging (red/green style) to geek out even further!
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by svantana 13y ago
I don't see how transmitting the power 10 inches would make charging any easier. The MIT spin-off WiTricity has been working on a better(?) solution since 2007, they have been consistently overpromising and underdelivering, but recentl
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by svantana 13y ago
As a Swede I'm not sure there's any base for this claim, other than that we now have racist politicians who make populist statements like this one without shame, referring to cherry picked data at best. Generally, if you're g
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by svantana 13y ago
The linked article was published last year, although the entire article body is copied from a 1996 NYT article titled "The Artificial Womb Is Born". Case closed...
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by svantana 13y ago
Yet another headline phrased as a question without a clear answer in the article body...
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by svantana 13y ago
I was most surprised that they don't include disclosure of this relationship when mentioning Amazon in the article. I thought that was comme-il-faut of serious journalism.
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by svantana 13y ago
I think the point is rather: even if you're doing the startup thing and devoting your whole life to a project for a few years - even then you should take time off (and not feel guilty).
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by svantana 13y ago
That gives me an idea: messaging apps shouldn't use the default OS keyboard, but write their own. In that case, NSA would need to target that messaging app specifically.
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by svantana 13y ago
I don't care too much for gaming, but I'm in the market for a CUDA box, and this looks pretty much ideal...
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by svantana 13y ago
He's most likely referring to the homoiconicity of lisp ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoiconicity ) - when processor operations are a data type, writing a subprogram and executing it is as simple as filling in an
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by svantana 13y ago
Very nice, but is this practical for games? What about collision detection, AI players etc? Or would you use it mainly for backgrounds, skies and such?
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by svantana 13y ago
Very well written, and I applaud the effort. But personally I don't care for the "magical" aura that writers tend to give ANNs - to me, they are simply (non-linear) function approximators that have a nice fitting algorithm. T
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by svantana 13y ago
Looks really nice, but I don't see why this isn't just a mobile web page? What's the advantage of having a native app in this case?
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by svantana 13y ago
He certainly doesn't shy away from questionable use of statistics for his own benefit. That and the quip about the odds of being struck by lightning are quite ridiculous IMO.
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by svantana 13y ago
Well to be fair, the camera exists, you just can't buy it yet. But perhaps it would be good to have some way of differentiating headlines about buyable products from prototypes/research projects etc.
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by svantana 13y ago
Well ultimately it's the consumer/user who does the work. I've considered buying second-hand disks just to get around this problem. Although that usually comes with other issues...
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by svantana 13y ago
It disgusts me how much talent is wasted on nonsense like this. Like Haim is alluding to in the documentary, imagine if all these smart people focused on real problems instead. If this isn't a good argument for a transaction tax, I don
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by svantana 13y ago
Cool, but wouldn't it be better/easier to have a tool where you actually draw a depth map by hand but the tool shows you illumination from various directions in real time? At least for the pixel art case. I'm not an artist bu
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by svantana 13y ago
Interesting, but doesn't it scale kind of badly? Imagine if thousands of devs were using the service, then it would get really competitive to get any of these leads, thus lowering the value of the leads for the devs.
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by svantana 13y ago
I don't see any contradiction here? Both systems are opaque and vulnerable, and both may need government regulation. Some people would have it that the repeal of Glass-Steagall is what indirectly lead to the '07 crisis.
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by svantana 13y ago
>Bitcoins should lose 3 zeros, like many countries do to their currencies. I've never heard of that, although the opposite has been done plenty of times. But that's rarely a sign of a healthy economy, most of the time it's
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by svantana 13y ago
Is it really illegal to try to buy drugs? Doesn't an actual illegal substance need to be involved/seized for it to be a crime? Honeypot sellers don't really make sense to me.
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by svantana 13y ago
If slavery was the foundation of the economy, then wouldn't the economy have collapsed when slavery was abolished?
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by svantana 13y ago
But before that, we will have some pretty amazing tools that will make us feel like magicians (regrettably for all too short a time though)
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by svantana 13y ago
But that doesn't mean we need to reinvent the wheel every single time. Now look at something like Macaw and tell me that doesn't look like a useful tool: http://macaw.co/peek/
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by svantana 13y ago
whereas a manned truck in the same situation would just run over the guy? And what about locks, cameras, burglar alarms etc? Surely a manned truck of today is easier to rob. You don't even need to move the goods, just steal the whole t
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by svantana 13y ago
Exactly. Even in places that are generally enamoured with free markets, you never see this. It would be fun to see market-priced parking in places like Manhattan - what would happen?
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by svantana 13y ago
Why not both? The legal/liability issues are there either way.
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by svantana 13y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to design a self-optimizing antenna, perhaps with MEMS switches, that randomly tries different configurations to maximize signal strength?

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