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lol

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because the topic makes me roll my eyes and it's fun to watch people 'sperg out*, when people argue about this nonsense - i'll tell them that i pronounce it: Zha-eye-ff the Zha sound as in Ja cques Cousteau. i can't remember who popularized this, either VlogBros or PBS Idea channel. *it's not just f...

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ding ding

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(everytime i refresh this i laugh, help)

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re: Will's article on AIs lying. Evolution makes these things self-regulate. If you're too selfish and lie to everyone for your own benefit, and you're thus successful, you'll spread your lying genes, and soon everyone will be lying to everyone. And thus an adaptation to not trust anyone becomes ben...

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Sorry for the misunderstanding. In a future of post-scarcity abundance, why would people be super-protectionist rather than generous and care-free? IMO when people are prosperous, happy, safe, and secure, they act less like assholes. But you're suggesting the opposite: that they'd be even more prote...

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So if everyone had enough land to live off of, why would you even need automation, you could just do it the old fashioned way. How old-fashioned are we talking here? If you wanna do it for fun, go for it. (sidenote: Although it's not necessary, we'll inevitably reach a level of AI automation where ...

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Will Robinson wrote:Tequila?

Surely this is already made by automated process. And it could be miniaturized somewhat, some people make their own tequila right?
Then once the farming of the ingredients is also automated, you're laughing.

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Trucks replaced horse drawn carts. And in-turn horse drawn carts had replaced a line of idiots on a single path, each walking with a single bag of rice over their shoulders. Scared of job losses? Replace all trucks with a million people walking the planet with bags of rice on their shoulders. Pretty...

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I'm confused, why is OP angry about something other than the gigantic elephant in the room: which is the fact that Russia invaded a sovereign nation in a land-grab act of expansionism.

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When i was looking into this (iirc a few months back), most of the talk was about the Parrot Zik ("best noise-cancelling headphones ever", etcetc blahblah), but at ~$400 (can get down to $200 if you look around ebay) they're slightly over your budget :(. They're also bluetooth wireless, or...

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You may not have realised you were exposed to the vocaloid characters in years past. My kinect-hacks thread from ~3 years ago touched on it: http://descentbb.net/viewtopic.php?p=276873#p276873 Article link is broken so here's a working archive link instead , or skip the article and just go straight ...

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Is this a BDSM thing?

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Firefox here too.
I'm thinking it's a problem with Google.com.AU

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It's a feelgood video in a "See, not all Americans are like this" way. But like Spidey, i'd prefer to see the raw stats rather than the cherry-picked cases they chose for the video. Without that, i'm afraid this video is nothing but an editor's opinion, i don't know what the real stats wer...

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The problem is you can have 10 expert "opinions" and none of them will agree. So is a pro opinion really any better than a laymans? This. Consensus within an expertise is what gives authority to the expertise' membership. If medical doctors all recommended vastly differing opinions on tre...

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Gigantic spinning helicopter rocket things

:O

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Even made it to Slashdot: http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/05/22/168204/its-time-for-the-descent-games-return "...could be even more exciting with the immersive potential of a virtual reality headset like the Oculus Rift or the Sony Morpheus..." oh man, even the Tuscany demo makes me po...

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Pathogens on earth are adapted for the physiology of various specific species, and generally can't infect much else. I doubt we'll have any problems with extra-terrestrial pathogens, biologically we'll have so little in common that they won't know what to do with us. Think of a Pine tree contracting...

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yeah when initially said "real-time" i was just meaning that it could process the entire stream as it came in, without discarding any packets nor needing to save the stream for later off-line processing. Basically just "before the next data packet comes in". Point cloud data take...

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It is a good idea, Isaac! The next U.S. president should be astronaut! It has lots of advantages and solutions to many problems. See, the astronauts are able to live together in peace and have a good relationship with the representatives of different countries, different races, regardless of their ...

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Where's the camera icon gone? i can't do visual searches (ie: reverse image searches, like http://www.tineye.com ) without it. It happens with javascripts enabled or disabled, signed in and signed out of my google account. This is on the google.com. au page, google.com automatically redirects to .au...

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this modular-development aspect is interesting, split a big project up and tackle it in small chunks yeh?

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tunnelcat wrote:Way to go snoopy! No more pencils, no more books, no more teacher's dirty looks! Ya know, this little ditty needs updating.

No educational apps, on Khan i tread, teacher stop downvoting my thread.

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TBH i see myself in it. It speaks to me in the same vein as this.

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...Instead, they use XDMA to open a direct channel of communication between the multiple GPUs in a system, operating over the same PCI Express bus... Interesting! Seems to be suggesting that the CPU doesn't even need to be involved (or at least, isn't a limiting factor) for devices to communicate d...

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hmm yeah you're right, bandwidth may not be an issue. From the point of view of building a SLAM map from the incomming RGBD data, the GPUs will likely be quite happy doing all the computation internally once they've received each frame, or part-frame since i imagine the data can be split-up quite we...

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been this for 10 months

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Top Gun wrote:roid have you been sleep-eviscerating again?

RIP AND TEAR!

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This is just a thought experiment. Say if i wanted to build a GPGPU cluster, basically a sub-$10,000 GPU based supercomputer distributed across 2-5 PCs, each PC having 4x SLI-linked video-cards chosen solely for their cuda-cores/$ price point. (I want as many GPU cores as possible, coz it'll theoret...

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vision wrote:I miss pizza. I can't eat it anymore for health reasons. So sad.

this makes me so angry

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normal ★■◆●. i've moved house recently and the road (and even the property, one border is a creek now woooooo) floods over during INTENSE weather, not that i care i'm a hermit GET OFF MY LAWN LAKE. I'm not used to having land, space. This property is pretty funny: Found a few feet of ENTRAILS on the...

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I didn't watch the whole video disclaimer: i havn't even clicked the link lol ...some pretty goofy claims; my favorite I've seen here is the idea that the cosmic background radiation is some sort of "reflective glow" produced by Earth's oceans. Yeah that's a bit of a red flag for prolly-a...

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is anyone interested in mechanical joystick hacks? ie: not so much the circuitboards or software, but the actual shape and mechanical movement of the joystick . Gimball design, springs, motor & button placement/feel, etc. A guy at my local hackerspace has been experimenting with his own joystick...

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I think a while back there was a samsung screen with a built in camera that: "The flaws in Samsung Smart TVs, which have now been patched, enabled hackers to remotely turn on the TVs’ built-in cameras without leaving any trace of it on the screen. While you’re watching TV, a hacker anywhere ar...

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:-/
my posts are fine

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my browser just ate half my post.... >:( it was better before, but this quick rewrite is close enough: So.... unwanted sexual advances are womens' own fault, because they dress attractively? You do know that people just like to be attractive for it's own sake thought, right? We all dress to look goo...

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i didn't think i was formally refuting , so much as just conversing . It was a way of introducing my POV that homophobia has a fair bit in common with mysogyny, and i do wonder if a large chunk of the psychology underlying them both isn't just one single phenomenon: a negative view of femininity. I ...

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Since it doesn't seem to be a constant thing - i'd probably have to live there to get a chance of hearing it. but i'll keep it in mind tho

maybe you'll hear it on TV? https://www.youtube.com/user/BondiRescue/videos

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STRAIGHT guys can also have these very-feminine mannerisms btw, best not to base anything around it. This guy is sexually only interested in women. He's so mentally feminine he's practically a transwoman, but he still considers himself male and is only interested in sex with women. [youtube]3pwQLko...

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sounds to me like underground heavy-vehicle (ie: trucks) road traffic. lots of tunnel-work around my city, i notice this sound when waiting at the lights while on a small bridge near the tunnel entrance/exits, it shakes the whole car (it shakes the whole bridge , they must have had to suspend it on ...

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