bfrs

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A preview of Hyperloop (pipeline scene from 'The World Is Not Enough')(youtube.com)
2 points by bfrs 13y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 13y ago
a simple autostereogram: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
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by bfrs 13y ago
If you are having trouble with this, wikipedia has some good instructions which helped me. First try autostereograms [1] (these are more simpler to see), and then simple random dot stereograms (RDS) [2], and finally magic eye static and mov
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Software Tools User Group (STUG) awards(usenix.org)
1 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
worth rewatching: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrIrcV9Bgmc
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The answer to life the universe and everything(google.com)
1 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
Vicarious ( http://vicarious.com/ ) which recently got $15 million from Peter Thiel & Dustin Moscovitz would be a 9 on your scale.
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by bfrs 14y ago
Here's a recent anecdote: A few months back I got a stomach ulcer and before going to the doctor, I decided to do some research. I came to realize that the primary cause is not stress or excess spicy food, but a particular stomach bacteria,
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Vicarious receives $15M Series A Funding to build AGI(news.vicarious.com)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
Looks like you are forgetting manual override .
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Youtube on PS3...finally(tgdaily.com)
1 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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Google to Pay $22.5 Million in FTC Settlement(online.wsj.com)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
In winner-takes-all games, being even in the top 99th percentile is worse than useless. To use your own example, true you might get better than half the regulars in basketball if you spent 1 hr a day at it, but you'd make exactly $0 being
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iRobot and Willow Garage Debate Closed vs. Open Source(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
@zanny: A lot of the action in the brain seems to take place at the synapses. These are much smaller structures, and a useful brain scan will need to make precise measurements of the strength of each synapse. I need to study this more close
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by bfrs 14y ago
Well, to me it seems that fine grained brain scanning would need something like Laplace's demon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laplace%27s_demon
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by bfrs 14y ago
I have a question regarding this brain scanning and uploading idea: Won't Heisenberg's principle make this impossible?
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by bfrs 14y ago
Richard Dawkins made an excellent documentary, The Enemies of Reason , which covers homeopathy. Parts of the it can be found on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dawkins%20homeop...
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by bfrs 14y ago
How come you missed something more obvious? * Controlled Fusion My guess is that the politicians were sold on the unlimited energy that successful controlled fusion would provide. As somebody once said: Any problem on Earth can be solved w
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The Ultimate Datacenter: Googleplex Star-thinker or Matrioshka Brain(ludios.org)
1 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
"Defaults aren't usually in the best interests of those on the bottom (e.g., Ph.D. students), so it's important to know when to reject them and to ask for something different. Of course, there's no nefarious conspiracy against students; th
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by bfrs 14y ago
Reincarnation, telepathy, extra sensory perception etc. are pipe dreams for us, but ironically, for AIs that we build, they will be routine! Current operating systems are like rudimentary souls, and any OS routinely uses these capabilities:
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The magical illusion of vision(jvsc.jst.go.jp)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|0 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
nytimes story on previously posted article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4145558
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How Many Computers to Identify a Cat? 16,000(nytimes.com)
2 points by bfrs 14y ago|1 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
I think your comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838971 is very relevant to this discussion.
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by bfrs 14y ago
"supplements-eating Kurzweil", ROTFL!
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by bfrs 14y ago
Obligatory references: If it needs a long sermon to proclaim it's art, it's probably bullshit [1] Modern Art - A Skeptical View [2] [1] http://www3.sympatico.ca/manideli/Artsp.htm [2] http://www3.sympatico.ca/manideli/
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Refill cartridges cost more than a new (fully loaded) printer(plus.google.com)
46 points by bfrs 14y ago|44 comments
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by bfrs 14y ago
Since when did this point of view: The individual exists for the support and enjoyment of the state. overtake this: The state exists solely to facilitate the individual's pursuit of happiness.

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