it seems like it would work really well along hwy 1 here in CA. plus I don't think someone needs to be a hitman to try this. It just needs to be someone looking for a little anarchy who isn't thinking about consequences. Kids throw stuff off overpasses all the time just to see some shit happen.
While macroeconomic challenges in some markets were a key contributor to this trend, we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies, US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements.
because that sounds a lot more like, "we had to charge a lot less for a service than we had anticipated."
maybe there's a decade of fewer mosquitos it's great, and the only result is the bat population starves to death.
Now the mutant mosquitos rise. their old nemesis, the bat is gone. we are overwhelmed with unchecked hungry insects.
oh, of course, not all the bats died. some bats had a predisposition to seeking out other meals. There's now a growing population of bats that make a living off of biting larger land mammals, including people. they also transmit disease.
I know that my human intelligence is certainly faulty. just the other day, i was driving home. out of the corner of my eye, i saw a woman walking down the street. her head was hung low and her collar turned up. from my perspective, it was as if her head was gone altogether. The first thought that occurred to me, "oh. that poor lady has to make it through life without a head."
literally, i thought that. for a fraction of a second i was sure that some unfortunate head amputee was struggling to make it in this world. honestly, i was impressed that she was doing as well as she was.
other parts of my brain quickly squelched that thought as nonsensical, but i suspect we have all had similar experiences where our first reaction to a situation was complete rubbish. It seems like there are processes in our own heads that both continually propose potential realities, even absurd ones, and then filter them over and over. Perhaps an AI would simply have gone with the head amputee interpretation of the scene because it had the highest confidence score based on visual input. It does seem like the systems i have worked with are missing some grander processing to filter out the absurd results.
zuckerberg came from a privileged background. i'm pretty sure he was eating fine. I think most of the people who captured the early 2k vc funds have similar backgrounds. This isn't intended as a class warfare kind of thing. It just seems like more evidence that living comfortably correlates with success.
what makes you think self driving cars will park? I imagine that here, in the san francisco area, parking facilities will be more expensive than just having your fleet aimlessly roam the streets. some cars will be charging. some cars will be actively carrying freight, and the majority will just be prowling around looking for something to do.
I think that description of being a grey blur is misleading. i'm certain that these people can pick out features on any given face. If you ask brad pitt to poke someone in the eye, i bet he could do it. They just are unable to build a map from a set of features to an individual. They are unable to build a hash from a set of facial proportions.
think about this. upon first meeting identical twins, they often look, well... identical. after spending some time with them, you get to notice subtle differences and suddenly they look more like individuals. When you first met them, you still saw faces, but you missed out on some subtle details in proportion and features. you still knew they were faces though. your hashing algorithm had to learn how to incorporate the data presented by this case. I think the experience for someone with prosopagnosia is similar to that experience of first meeting twins. Only it applies across the board, and they just never learn what the important little details are.
as to what they find attractive, it very well might be different from my criteria. then again, that kind of applies to all of us.
definitely a millennial. look at their benchmark of "the farthest a human's made it was set in 1970". that's looking squarely at the issue from the perspective of "this record wasn't set in my lifetime".
From the perspective of human history though, we were just on the moon a fraction of a second ago. We've barely stepped off the moon!
For a long time, i've contemplated my comfort level with riding in an autonomous car. I turned it over and over in my head wondering if i could ever be truly comfortable.
Recently, I found myself riding down the San Francisco highways in a coworker's model X on autopilot. I found i quickly became comfortable with my coworker answering emails while the car navigated the roads. It took me all of 10 minutes to just accept it as normal.
then the car lurched suddenly and veered wildly into the next lane. the driver quickly grabbed the wheel and put it back on course. He gave some explanations about the car losing sight of the vehicle it was tailing and deciding to pick up tailing the car in the next lane. We were totally safe he assured us. Maybe, but i realized something important.
These cars are already all around me. I don't really have a choice anymore on if i trust my safety to them. They are next to me on the highways. They are next to me in the city streets. It doesn't matter if i'm ready or not. I've been taking the risk the whole time they've existed.
Yeah. we are just tuned into different things, dogs and humans. For instance, my dog needed to get really close to a turd to smell it. He needed to be only a few microns from the surface of the poop. I am capable of detecting poop on the ground from several feet away.
It's not like you just grab some rattle cans and go to town. It sounds more like they put in an array of sensors, connect that to special software, and apply a coating of special conductive paint. I guess we can just say that researchers have learned how to create microprocessors out of rocks as well.
I imagine that cloth is going to be pretty gross after a couple months. it takes a good deal of scrubbing with alcohol to rid my current non porous laptop of the weird films and cultures that develop. At least it's a wipe off surface.
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it seems like it would work really well along hwy 1 here in CA. plus I don't think someone needs to be a hitman to try this. It just needs to be someone looking for a little anarchy who isn't thinking about consequences. Kids throw stuff off overpasses all the time just to see some shit happen.
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My mom's car was hit by a D battery thrown off an overpass once. She and her passenger saw the kids toss it. I don't think it was assassins.
I was once driving hwy 45 through northern wisconsin when some kids in the woods rolled a car wheel down a hill at me. again, probably not assassins.
if they don't handle this correctly, NY,NY could end up with one of the highest costs of living in the country.
While macroeconomic challenges in some markets were a key contributor to this trend, we believe there are other factors broadly impacting our iPhone performance, including consumers adapting to a world with fewer carrier subsidies, US dollar strength-related price increases, and some customers taking advantage of significantly reduced pricing for iPhone battery replacements.
because that sounds a lot more like, "we had to charge a lot less for a service than we had anticipated."
maybe there's a decade of fewer mosquitos it's great, and the only result is the bat population starves to death.
Now the mutant mosquitos rise. their old nemesis, the bat is gone. we are overwhelmed with unchecked hungry insects.
oh, of course, not all the bats died. some bats had a predisposition to seeking out other meals. There's now a growing population of bats that make a living off of biting larger land mammals, including people. they also transmit disease.
I know that my human intelligence is certainly faulty. just the other day, i was driving home. out of the corner of my eye, i saw a woman walking down the street. her head was hung low and her collar turned up. from my perspective, it was as if her head was gone altogether. The first thought that occurred to me, "oh. that poor lady has to make it through life without a head."
literally, i thought that. for a fraction of a second i was sure that some unfortunate head amputee was struggling to make it in this world. honestly, i was impressed that she was doing as well as she was.
other parts of my brain quickly squelched that thought as nonsensical, but i suspect we have all had similar experiences where our first reaction to a situation was complete rubbish. It seems like there are processes in our own heads that both continually propose potential realities, even absurd ones, and then filter them over and over. Perhaps an AI would simply have gone with the head amputee interpretation of the scene because it had the highest confidence score based on visual input. It does seem like the systems i have worked with are missing some grander processing to filter out the absurd results.
the ghostly jellyfish experience is pretty cool, but it's not something i want my life to depend on.
also, nobody is expecting Ken Jennings to go around diagnosing cancer.
zuckerberg came from a privileged background. i'm pretty sure he was eating fine. I think most of the people who captured the early 2k vc funds have similar backgrounds. This isn't intended as a class warfare kind of thing. It just seems like more evidence that living comfortably correlates with success.
we do try to make them look like trees.
An ordinary car successfully forces the human to be vigilant.
what makes you think self driving cars will park? I imagine that here, in the san francisco area, parking facilities will be more expensive than just having your fleet aimlessly roam the streets. some cars will be charging. some cars will be actively carrying freight, and the majority will just be prowling around looking for something to do.
Just like the article points out. You can't make it as a professional go player anymore.
It's not like these things are really used for phone calls.
I think that description of being a grey blur is misleading. i'm certain that these people can pick out features on any given face. If you ask brad pitt to poke someone in the eye, i bet he could do it. They just are unable to build a map from a set of features to an individual. They are unable to build a hash from a set of facial proportions.
think about this. upon first meeting identical twins, they often look, well... identical. after spending some time with them, you get to notice subtle differences and suddenly they look more like individuals. When you first met them, you still saw faces, but you missed out on some subtle details in proportion and features. you still knew they were faces though. your hashing algorithm had to learn how to incorporate the data presented by this case. I think the experience for someone with prosopagnosia is similar to that experience of first meeting twins. Only it applies across the board, and they just never learn what the important little details are.
as to what they find attractive, it very well might be different from my criteria. then again, that kind of applies to all of us.
I'm a software engineer. I'm no good at finding bugs. It always works on my machine.
who am i to begrudge someone doing such a valuable job?
definitely a millennial. look at their benchmark of "the farthest a human's made it was set in 1970". that's looking squarely at the issue from the perspective of "this record wasn't set in my lifetime".
From the perspective of human history though, we were just on the moon a fraction of a second ago. We've barely stepped off the moon!
i imagine pressure loss doesn't bring the train to an indefinite halt. it just limps along at regular train speeds.
For a long time, i've contemplated my comfort level with riding in an autonomous car. I turned it over and over in my head wondering if i could ever be truly comfortable.
Recently, I found myself riding down the San Francisco highways in a coworker's model X on autopilot. I found i quickly became comfortable with my coworker answering emails while the car navigated the roads. It took me all of 10 minutes to just accept it as normal.
then the car lurched suddenly and veered wildly into the next lane. the driver quickly grabbed the wheel and put it back on course. He gave some explanations about the car losing sight of the vehicle it was tailing and deciding to pick up tailing the car in the next lane. We were totally safe he assured us. Maybe, but i realized something important.
These cars are already all around me. I don't really have a choice anymore on if i trust my safety to them. They are next to me on the highways. They are next to me in the city streets. It doesn't matter if i'm ready or not. I've been taking the risk the whole time they've existed.
At 54, he's someone who didn't like his job.
for (int i = 0; i < 7000001; i++)
printf("Nutella %i\n", i);
mine's better. 7 million and ONE unique labels
Yeah. we are just tuned into different things, dogs and humans. For instance, my dog needed to get really close to a turd to smell it. He needed to be only a few microns from the surface of the poop. I am capable of detecting poop on the ground from several feet away.
It's not like you just grab some rattle cans and go to town. It sounds more like they put in an array of sensors, connect that to special software, and apply a coating of special conductive paint. I guess we can just say that researchers have learned how to create microprocessors out of rocks as well.
I imagine that cloth is going to be pretty gross after a couple months. it takes a good deal of scrubbing with alcohol to rid my current non porous laptop of the weird films and cultures that develop. At least it's a wipe off surface.
Valve can't keep the russians and peruvians off the north american dota servers.
they always work. it's just not in the way we expect.