Author Topic: Interesting "stuff" (Read 2,070,568 times)

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #825 on:** June 26, 2015, 11:50 PM »

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Ola biometric entry lock eliminates need to memorize a passcode

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Samsung doesn't want Windows Update running on your computer

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #826 on:** June 27, 2015, 09:25 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeZ_F1op9N8

The Avengers are off to see the Wizard

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All-in-Ones Take Desktop Computing into the Future

You can tell they're in the future, they're wearing clothes that are brightly colored (for boys).

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #827 on:** June 27, 2015, 09:29 PM »

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This Strap Will Add 30 Hours To Apple Watch Battery Life

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Colorado woman finds 8.52 carat diamond at Arkansas park

MilesAhead · « **Reply #828 on:** June 27, 2015, 11:21 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on June 27, 2015, 09:29 PM

Colorado woman finds 8.52 carat diamond at Arkansas park

I don't get it. Is the park a Mecca for careless rich tourists who just happen to drop multi-caret gems or is it a diamond field with this particular specimen larger than most?

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #829 on:** June 28, 2015, 12:55 AM »

Quote from: MilesAhead on June 27, 2015, 11:21 PM

Is the park a Mecca for careless rich tourists who just happen to drop multi-caret gems or is it a diamond field with this particular specimen larger than most?

It's a diamond field and the only one here.

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #830 on:** June 28, 2015, 12:59 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aebcJ6R0roA

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Samsung to stop Windows Update shenanigans Computerworld

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #831 on:** June 29, 2015, 04:47 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZQxH_8raCI

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Google Made a Chatbot That Debates the Meaning of Life

Target · « **Reply #832 on:** July 01, 2015, 12:56 AM »

do androids use robotic dogs to round up sheep? (sorry,very weak pun

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Sony's robotic dogs are dying a slow death

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #833 on:** July 03, 2015, 09:52 AM »

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Bing Pong is a wonderful, terrible distraction from your searches

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N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #834 on:** July 03, 2015, 06:33 PM »

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Is This a Long-Lost Prototype of the Nintendo PlayStation?

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #835 on:** July 03, 2015, 06:54 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on July 03, 2015, 09:52 AM

N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop

From "what is the point" department!
(Blah blah I know, cost savings, but still ! )

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #836 on:** July 03, 2015, 07:51 PM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on June 29, 2015, 04:47 PM

Google Made a Chatbot That Debates the Meaning of Life

This is more important of a discovery/result than you might think. It's a huge new step in "artificial intelligence" because unlike the typical need in early-generation scientific studies to keep muddying factors out of study parameters, there's nothing stopping a mix of iterative machine-learn/hand-code/machine-learn/hand-code.

You can build an "AI" out of modules. You might catch it twice-per-module-shift but then you would with real people too. Then once it knows "what it is talking about", that local expertise module comes into use.

And the "meaning of life" module is important because that's one of the famous categories in "Loebner 1.0" style contests to bust up the machine. But if it can almost sound like a burnt out college student, then when the questioner gets bored of his/her/(its?) "little joke", the convo goes back to the "meaty topic" and the comp just keeps right on going shifting modules again.

To me this is one of the raw fundamental fears we expressed in early scifi about machines/robots, because you just keep loading these convo engines aka "brains" at high speed en masse, and suddenly humans feel threatened because it takes us exhaustively long to gain our own experience and the comp just gets pushed a new module in minutes.

Notice how anti-AI folks keep using versions of "No True Scotsman" to hold back recognition that AI is coming. Once you have a comp mind engine that can do seventy things moderately well, what is left for a person of personhood?

4wd · « **Reply #837 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:34 AM »

Quote from: Arizona Hot on July 03, 2015, 09:52 AM

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N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop

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... recently developed a new type of its protective wrap called iBubble Wrap that is flat and airless ...

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... If you press one the bubbles the air will just shift to another sector of the column ...

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #838 on:** July 04, 2015, 01:58 PM »

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Quote from: Arizona Hot on July 03, 2015, 09:52 AM
N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop

WHAT!!! Bubble Wrap without Bubbles?!? Travesty! Heresy! Sacrilege - Burn the Witch!!! ... Society is doomed!

Edvard · « **Reply #839 on:** July 04, 2015, 05:45 PM »

Now THIS... this looks like lots of fun. Though the groin tag at 0:33 makes me cringe.

Archery tag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bz-uKlZiQo

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #840 on:** July 04, 2015, 07:54 PM »

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Amazon Could Be Building a Phone That Unlocks With Your Ear

How ear-y!

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The Internet is officially too big

TaoPhoenix · « **Reply #841 on:** July 04, 2015, 09:40 PM »

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Quote from: Arizona Hot on July 03, 2015, 09:52 AM
N.C. company rolls out new Bubble Wrap that won't pop
WHAT!!! Bubble Wrap without Bubbles?!? Travesty! Heresy! Sacrilege - Burn the Witch!!! ... Society is doomed!

They're using the letter i in front.

Maybe they're just trolling to be bought out by Apple as iPhone packaging!

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #842 on:** July 04, 2015, 11:48 PM »

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Spot the space station in this incredible celestial portrait

You will probably want to expand the thumbnail, the full-size picture is 2000x 1227.

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Malwarebytes offers pirates and duped customers 12 months of its premium antimalware product for free

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #843 on:** July 07, 2015, 12:42 AM »

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Here's What Happens When You Mix Pot, Booze

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Having Light-Colored Eyes Is Linked to Alcoholism

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #844 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:31 PM »

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21 Ad-Libs That Became Classic Movie Lines

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Disney announces Han Solo spin-off

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #845 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:39 PM »

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The Strangest Stuff That Fell From the Sky

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6 annoying things only time travelers will understand

Any time-travelers here want to comment on this article?

Arizona Hot · « **Reply #846 on:** July 08, 2015, 10:44 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HysjmxAGQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP2OyNgaiO0

Any land sharks here want to disagree?

bit · « **Reply #847 on:** July 09, 2015, 03:14 AM »

Quote from: TaoPhoenix on July 03, 2015, 07:51 PM

Quote from: Arizona Hot on June 29, 2015, 04:47 PM
Google Made a Chatbot That Debates the Meaning of Life

This is more important of a discovery/result than you might think. It's a huge new step in "artificial intelligence" because unlike the typical need in early-generation scientific studies to keep muddying factors out of study parameters, there's nothing stopping a mix of iterative machine-learn/hand-code/machine-learn/hand-code.

You can build an "AI" out of modules. You might catch it twice-per-module-shift but then you would with real people too. Then once it knows "what it is talking about", that local expertise module comes into use.

And the "meaning of life" module is important because that's one of the famous categories in "Loebner 1.0" style contests to bust up the machine. But if it can almost sound like a burnt out college student, then when the questioner gets bored of his/her/(its?) "little joke", the convo goes back to the "meaty topic" and the comp just keeps right on going shifting modules again.

To me this is one of the raw fundamental fears we expressed in early scifi about machines/robots, because you just keep loading these convo engines aka "brains" at high speed en masse, and suddenly humans feel threatened because it takes us exhaustively long to gain our own experience and the comp just gets pushed a new module in minutes.

Notice how anti-AI folks keep using versions of "No True Scotsman" to hold back recognition that AI is coming. Once you have a comp mind engine that can do seventy things moderately well, what is left for a person of personhood?

Actually, little kids already have a time-honored AI response to everything they wish to mock (or truly lack adult understanding of).
"...but why?" (repeated 1,000,000X in response to increasingly detailed and exasperated adult-level explanations).

bit · « **Reply #848 on:** July 09, 2015, 04:46 AM »

^Contrariwise if you try the endlessly repeated "...but why?" trick on a sufficiently young child, say age 6 or 7, they (he or she) will realize instinctively you have caught them in a trap (similar to Star Trek's Spock instructing the renegade computer to calculate pi to the infinite decimal place), but be unable to intellectually conceptualize and encapsulate how to crack it and argue their way out.
This will be seen in the child becoming increasingly frustrated at your "...but why?" gambit and resorting to more and more emotional demonstrations of frustration combined with shared amusement at the 'joke', while failing to 'think outside of the box' and put a stop to your silly nonsense.
"Because..." (child)
"...but why?" (you)
"Because..."
"...but why?"
"Because..."
"...but why?"
"Because..."
"...but why?"
They know you're pulling a fast one over on them, but cannot find sufficient justification to shed the unspoken obligation to give a meaningful answer to each new "...but why?" from you.

OTOH, try this on, say, a slightly more intellectually mature child of age 8, 9, or especially 10 on up, and they'll crack the intellectual trap and nail you for it.

bit · « **Reply #849 on:** July 09, 2015, 05:14 AM »

Incidentally, speaking of AI, if you don't want your child's RI (real intelligence) and intellectual growth stunted, here are some vid exposees on sources of mercury and how it is toxic to brain cells;
smoking teeth poison gas
Mercury-silver amalgam dental fillings should be replaced with white resin or tooth caps.

What's In A Flu Shot
I'm not against vaccines, just the toxic and totally unnecessary mercury (thimerosol) additive and a few other toxins, which could easily be replaced with safer preservatives for a slight cost increase.