"Simply be kind and/or friendly to people you work with or interact with."
This is such an important message. People do not realize that when they are bitchy to their coworkers, when they treat them unfairly, in some cases they are causing very real suffering and unhappiness. Please believe me when I say that, I have seen it first hand. The way you treat your coworkers, especially those who report to you, matters a lot.
For most of us it's easy to just "shrug it off" to some extent when we are treated poorly at work. We get mad, but we don't get miserable. But please hear me now: there are some coworkers who take these things much harder than you realize, and if we treat them poorly we are causing some very real suffering. To the point that it can make some people feel suicidal.
Wow, Kojima is a creative dude. He created another portable game called Boktai that came with a solar sensor on the game cartridge. Parts of the game required actual sunlight.
But vision is one of the hardest parts of robotics, and you don't want to have to write super sophisticated vision algorithms from scratch, so this is a good example of how ROS is useful. "Agricultural implement towed behind a tractor" + sophisticated computer vision = robot.
Clearly video lectures and a university setting each have much to offer. With video lectures you can pause and rewind, go at your own pace, learn from the world's best lecturers rather than your professor who is usually just average, even select a lecturer whose style you prefer. I say we switch to self-paced courses based on video lectures in university classrooms. The professor will still be there in the classroom but he will be focused entirely on his one irreplaceable contribution: answering questions and providing direct feedback to students.
FTA: "In the 1950s and 60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought. But those rules turned out to be way more complicated than anyone had imagined. Since then, artificial-intelligence (AI) research has come to rely, instead, on probabilities -- statistical patterns that computers can learn from large sets of training data."
From the viewpoint of Jaynes and many Bayesians, probability IS simply the rules of thought.
Taking notes has always detracted from my understanding of a lecture. A considerable portion of my attention is spent keeping things in short term memory until you can write them down. Meanwhile, the professor is already saying new things.
I rarely manage to write down the special insights that the professor says out loud but does not write on the board, even though these are often the most valuable parts of the lecture.
Now days I take notes with an electronic pen that records audio along with the notes I'm taking, and can play them back synchronized. But it's not as good as a video lecture would be.
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"Simply be kind and/or friendly to people you work with or interact with."
This is such an important message. People do not realize that when they are bitchy to their coworkers, when they treat them unfairly, in some cases they are causing very real suffering and unhappiness. Please believe me when I say that, I have seen it first hand. The way you treat your coworkers, especially those who report to you, matters a lot.
For most of us it's easy to just "shrug it off" to some extent when we are treated poorly at work. We get mad, but we don't get miserable. But please hear me now: there are some coworkers who take these things much harder than you realize, and if we treat them poorly we are causing some very real suffering. To the point that it can make some people feel suicidal.
If you look at the abstract, this was published in 2012.
Why do we always have to find new jobs? If technology can do everything humans used to do, can't we just stop working?
There's this constant assumption that "finding new work to do" is the right answer.
If you think it should be easy to recognize a stoplight, you haven't worked on computer vision.
It's hard to recognize the most basic objects, like cats. How our brain does it so easily remains a mystery.
You haven't even experienced Twitch chat yet.
Did you have to use the word "mancave" there? It sounds as if you are defining "gamer" to include only men.
You went a little overboard in that last sentence there.
Wow, Kojima is a creative dude. He created another portable game called Boktai that came with a solar sensor on the game cartridge. Parts of the game required actual sunlight.
Do you think there's life down there?
But vision is one of the hardest parts of robotics, and you don't want to have to write super sophisticated vision algorithms from scratch, so this is a good example of how ROS is useful. "Agricultural implement towed behind a tractor" + sophisticated computer vision = robot.
One solution to the Fermi paradox is that everyone is hiding.
And we should seriously consider hiding too.
Can you get into contracting if your specialty is scientific computing?
Is it possible, as a contractor, to work only part of the year?
If you read Noam Chomsky, you get the impression that our embargo on Cuba has been extraordinarily cruel.
So Google does something to promote science education, and you turn around and say, "Hey, focus on your profits."
Doesn't kinect have all the magnitude of a launch? And the Move also.
I'd like to make Hatsune Miku deliver video lectures for a calculus class. Can I do that?
Timez Attack looks amazing!
I just downloaded the free version but I can't seem to play it because I'm not a student/didn't have a password. =(
Am I doing something wrong? If I could try it out I'd probably recommend it for my cousins.
Now the vending machine just needs face recognition so it can base recommendations off of previous purchases...and who your facebook friends are.
And I want a badge saying I'm the "mayor" of a vending machine if I buy more sodas there than anyone else.
I want a virtual pet that I can buy virtual sodas for. He will gain experience points and armor and will battle other pets.
Right, those wage slaves just aren't grateful enough to their masters.
Clearly video lectures and a university setting each have much to offer. With video lectures you can pause and rewind, go at your own pace, learn from the world's best lecturers rather than your professor who is usually just average, even select a lecturer whose style you prefer. I say we switch to self-paced courses based on video lectures in university classrooms. The professor will still be there in the classroom but he will be focused entirely on his one irreplaceable contribution: answering questions and providing direct feedback to students.
Steven Weinberg is one example of a top scientist who has a problem with religion.
FTA: "In the 1950s and 60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought. But those rules turned out to be way more complicated than anyone had imagined. Since then, artificial-intelligence (AI) research has come to rely, instead, on probabilities -- statistical patterns that computers can learn from large sets of training data."
From the viewpoint of Jaynes and many Bayesians, probability IS simply the rules of thought.
Terence Tao scored a 760 on the math SAT when he was 8. He won a bronze medal in the international math Olympiad at the age of 10.
We need a system that respects the individuality of our students, not a one-size-fits-all approach.
What kind of motion control are you talking about?
Taking notes has always detracted from my understanding of a lecture. A considerable portion of my attention is spent keeping things in short term memory until you can write them down. Meanwhile, the professor is already saying new things.
I rarely manage to write down the special insights that the professor says out loud but does not write on the board, even though these are often the most valuable parts of the lecture.
Now days I take notes with an electronic pen that records audio along with the notes I'm taking, and can play them back synchronized. But it's not as good as a video lecture would be.