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Nope, there is an overlap in the spectral response. If you knock out the specific wavelength that both receptors respond to, you can restore color vision in 80% of the cases.

https://youtu.be/OuDBRAC76Eo

Women can be colorblind too!

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I'm actually not racist at all on an individual level. To me it's an important distinction.

So, if I understand correctly, you're saying that you can be civil to black people individually, but you are also aware that they are inferior as a race.

That's interesting. I'm sure black people are thrilled with you.

https://youtu.be/8wcSSLo9TIs

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Creimer retiring from his I.T. government job and buying Slashdot for three pennies was a ballsy retirement strategy. You might want to suck up to the fat bastard now that he owns Slashdot.

Look, this is the future of warfare. Drag your heels on that one as much as you like and find yourself in the same position as the old fleet admirals that felt big battle ships were the way to go.

Airplane and carrier killed the battleship. Its done. Its an inferior weapons platform. If you had a choice going into war between having a bunch of battleships or a bunch of carriers with planes, trained pilots etc... you're going for the carriers or you're going to lose horribly.

same deal with the AI systems. If you go into war, which do you want?

Do you want to die?

One of the problem with the anti AI stuff is it tends to draw from the anti war political movements.

Keep in mind, I'm not advocating war. War is terrible etc.

But war also happens and is sometimes required. Disarming or debilitating yourself so that when it happens you'll be crippled is not how you preserve peace. You preserve peace by being a clearly formidable power such that generally no one is dumb enough to challenge you. All the wars stopped through the certainty that they'd lose the war are wars PREVENTED by military capability.

True, having military capability will also cause your own government to engage in adventurist military campaigns because they think they can win the wars so why not.

That is true.

But then you also have to factor the possibility you could LOSE a war. Consider that price.

When you logically weigh the pros and cons, having a strong military is obviously superior to having a weak military.

Pros:
Suppress hostile behavior from rivals.
You win when hostilities happen.

Cons:
Sometimes you'll have a dickbag government that will go to war when it shouldn't have gone to war.

Another good measure here is looking at what rivals would like you to do.

If you have some enemy power that would like nothing more than bathing in the blood of your people or whatever... what is their desire... going 180 degrees from that is often not far off wrong. I'm not saying just reflexively do that but naturally don't do exactly what they want. Unilaterally disarming yourself is what any hostile enemy power would love their opposition to do. Don't do it.

Here is my rule of thumb when it comes to military weapons etc... If I went to war personally, would I want that on my side or not?

If AI systems can save soldiers lives... which in this notional situation would be mine... I'm going to go with "yes, please".

If AI systems can help me achieve mission goals of killing my enemy etc... I'm going to say yes.

If we went with most of the logic of the anti AI robot crowd why would we have ICBMs, cruise missiles, high altitude laser guided bombs, artillary... In none of these cases are you looking into the eye of the enemy. You're pressing a button and people die.

We're not getting rid of this stuff.

The AI combat systems are going to happen. All you're going to decide here is whether you have them first or if you have to catch up as your people suffer.

But if Google doesn't want to participate? Cool. Plenty more where they came from. The people working for General Atomics are quite happy to make this stuff and are making it right now.

Behold the Predator C Avenger:
https://youtu.be/v0dHKWjXn-E?t...

This is a dumb argument. The robots are coming. Have your philosophical freak out over it if you like but its going to happen anyway.

Never mind that 70,000+ people* are expected to see Stan Lee at Silicon Valley Comic Con this weekend.

* That is the economic equivalent of 70,000+ people at a Super Bowl game watching overgrown boys knock themselves silly over pigskin.

https://youtu.be/OKdhI1uhgRc?t=59s

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> If you're Notch, and invented a new game genre

  Notch did NOT invent a new genre; he even admitted he blatantly ripped off Infiminer

Like most evenings after work, Markus was on the computer when he stumbled upon an indie game he hadn't tried before. It was called Infiniminer. Markus downloaded the game, installed and clicked it into motion, and then almost fell off his chair. "Oh my God," he thought. "This is genius."

https://youtu.be/F9t3FREAZ-k

In early May 2009, Markus uploaded a video recording (above) of a very early version of Minecraft on YouTube. It didn't look like much more than a half-finished system for generating worlds and Markus gleefully jumping around inside it, but still, the essence of it hinted at how the game might look when it was done.

"This is a very early test of an Infiniminer clone I'm working on. It will have more resource management and materials, if I ever get around to finishing it," -- Notch, May 2009

Zach, the creater of Infiminer, said this about Minecraft:

"The act of borrowing ideas is integral to the creative process. There are games that came before Infiniminer, and there are games that will come after MineCraft. That's how it works."

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See History of Computer Architecture and RISC (slides) by Dave Patterson.

Modern x86 chips are RISC processors, with an ugly compatibility layer on top which does have a cost. True, a number of processors that are ostensibly RISC (like ARM and PPC) do have many complex instructions and addressing modes, but the RISC ideal is alive and well with RISC-V. It is the best in class of conventional architecture, incorporating decades of wisdom. It offers a number of compelling advantages, and provides a solid and open foundation for future innovation.

There are a huge number of talks/slides available under workshop proceedings, for those with further interest.

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You're aware that creimer works for the FBI and now owns Slashdot.

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"I'm from a land called secret Estonia
Nobody knows where it's at "

Anyone who has played Burnout Paradise knows all about Estonia.

https://youtu.be/K6SvTAzZlLw

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Slashdot's new overlord will fix this wreck.

There's really no scenario in which an iPad is superior to a Chromebook for teaching students.

Yes, kids may clamor for iPads.. but they'd be clamoring for a lot of useless / fun things if they had the option.

Actually, Apple has already released a TV Ad which would belie your assertion. Using SOME Chromebooks, You MIGHT be able to do the Project that the students in the commercial did with the iPad, but it certainly would be much more clumsy:

https://youtu.be/IprmiOa2zH8

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Slashdot's newest owner will turn this wreck around.

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Injections can take time to incapacitate the target. These don't.

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I use Eset and purchase their antivirus software on a reg basis and i trust them but i don't for life of me Trust that google is only "scanning for virus's". Given how recent revelation I heard how good pretty much will track gps of where you been and save it for years. Also if sites you visit even when using incognito mode, only thing this tells me its harvesting more info on end users. this video kinda tells you exacty what they collect about you on a reg basis and its kinda scary: https://youtu.be/Ke1gViMc2dY?t...

Considering that Slashdot has a new owner, I doubt they will get into any new fights.

Creimer bought Slashdot for three pennies today. You might want to suck up to our new overlord.

Corsair on Youtube: Stop GPU abuse. #GPURESCUE

AVE on YouTube called it on March 16. Very informative visual demo.

" I ran a test to see why the post tension rod was sticking out of the rubble. There was a problem with cracking on the pylon side of the bridge."
https://youtu.be/KtiTm2dKLgU

they probably aren't accounting for leap years.

Yea, but she had a point. Scene in question. I don't agree with labelling everything a frivolous lawsuit :\

Or banning a Canadian girl from the country using terrorism laws even though they admitted they knew she was no terrorist. (Here she's explaining what happened at the European Parliament.)

Or banning a Canadian girl from the country using terrorism laws even though they admitted they knew she was no terrorist. (Here she's explaining what happened at the European Parliament.)