Maybe it shouldn't delete it but maybe more than one folder or putting a confidence level might be nice. It has multiple categories for the inbox now, why not multiple categories for spam? There is spam and then there is SPAM. My spam folder on google is full of stuff like viagra, russian bride, nigeria scams, emails written in chinese I can't even read and other 110% obvious SPAM. There are also a few emails or newsletters from companies with mediocre records. If my spam was split into 2 categories, my guess is that 100% of the messages that occasionally get misplaced in my spam folder are in this questionable category not the blatantly obvious category.
Also, by outsourcing space exploration, congress can outsource failures and liability. When a private spacecraft kills someone, congress can shutter the company responsible without taking any responsibility itself.
I also think a third factor in a plane crash is the lack of control. It's the same reason people fear school bombings so much. In a car, you feel (probably wrongly) that you can prevent an accident. In a plane you are at the complete mercy of the pilot with no escape route.
The whole reason H1N1 was scary was that it fucking killed mostly healthy people and NOT the sick or young.
It still killed a very small percentage of people. Also, I'm personally suspect of the H1N1 killing "healthy people". Everyone "healthy" that I heard of that died of H1N1 were almost "too healthy". It seemed to be attacking marathon runners, body builders, etc... I wonder if there was something about them that made them more vulnerable (like possibly a very low body fat percentage, etc...)
I'm sorry about your friend but ebola scares me ALOT more than the swine flu, h1n1, or sars. Shutting down airports for sars was probably a bit of an overkill. Yes, sars is contagious but it's also highly survivable. My guess is that your friend was already compromised in some way whether it was extremely old, extremely young, weak immune system, etc... Until we have an effective cure for ebola (80% survival rate or better), then it's much better to be overly cautious with ebola. Can you imagine what would happen if this made it to an elementary school where hundreds of kids are in close contact? Give me sars any day.
Because, how much easier does it get than lifting stuff from a dead guy?
They specifically mention treating "a large number of patients". Even if extraction was simple, and ignoring getting permission from next of kin, there is not a large enough supply of transplant quality cadavers for the number of people with diabetes. Also, doing anything with the pancreas is extremely time sensitive because it starts digesting itself pretty much as soon as a person is dead.
Why full employment? Why aren't we all working half time and spending more time living our lives?
I agree. I think we've added more than enough labor saving devices that we should be able to start redefining "full employment" as less than 40 hours per week. We have a long way to go though as (at least in the USA) we can't even seem to get people and companies to limit their work to 40 much less something less than 40.
They are good when we are making use of the additional labour we are freeing up to reduce the workload on the rest of the workforce and making sure the benefits spread to all of humanity.
That's a second problem that needs to be solved. Finding full employment for people after all the shit jobs are eliminated is important but that still doesn't mean that we shouldn't be trying to eliminate all the dangerous and unhealthy jobs that we can. There are certain jobs (like old fashion coal mining) that you're probably better off sitting at home on welfare than you are being at the bottom of the coal shaft slowly dying.
Companies like Amazon don't do shit like this based on the goodness of their hearts.
It's not the goodness of their heart. They are doing it because they want people to focus on a problem that they want to solve. My guess is that the reason the prize money is so low is because the problem has been simplified and they don't expect a perfect commercial ready solution. I would also guess that if you managed to solve it well enough to impress amazon then they would offer you considerably more than the 20k and try to buy you out and/or hire you. They are looking for original ideas and/or new employees with this contest. They are not looking for a complete solution.
Sinister conspiracy?? I vote money was someone involved. Maybe they wanted money from oculus rift or oculus rift wanted money from them. Maybe they wanted to do more testing or charge extra for it as an addon later. I bet in one form or another it can be traced back to money.
It would be interesting to experiment with this. microclimates are interesting. I know in the winter I tend to like it warmer inside than in the summer. I also know that if it's really cold outside wood heat seems to warm me better even if the thermostat is the exact same.
One possible theory that might make antartica and mars behave differently is that maybe there is a minimum amount of cosmic radiation that is needed for proper healing of injuries. That is one place where mars will have a lot more while antartica has a lot less. This theory could be tested with an underwater biodome or possible with a tanning bed in antartica. Mars and antartica are definitely a little bit different but antartica is probably the closest to mars condition that we have on earth and failure wouldn't necessarily be quite so catastrophic.
So you state it's a cop-out answer and then go on to trash all the remaining languages. I was specifically thinking of php when I wrote that answer. Php is a mix of randomness. So, yes, in theory you can write a better language. The bar's actually rather low. You could even branch off an existing language if you were willing to break backwards compatibility (add threads to python, standardize all the conventions in php, etc...) but that still doesn't disprove my point that all the languages kindof suck especially in the web development and interpreted domains. Java and C are ill-suited for just in time compiling and web development. Ruby, python, php, and perl are the best we have. They all 4 suck but pick your poison or write a decent language and try to get everyone else to join you. Oh, and I might go ahread and throw this in: on the frontend, javascript/html/css are even worse.
I would like to see a list of languages that are not known-shitholes. Yes, perl and ruby have their problems but so do python, c, c++, php, and java. Each has a place where they excel and each has places where they suck. Name a programming language that doesn't start to have major problems somewhere when you start getting into the details.
Exactly. I didn't understand this part. If there really was too much it seems like it would be a simple enough solution to either let in some co2 from outside, vent the excess oxygen out, or a combinition of the two. Assuming you had proper ways of measuring the concentration of oxygen and co2 then getting the right balance seems relatively straightforward.
Harder to test would be the problems caused by low gravity, lower atmospheric pressure and increased radiation. Well, for the latter I guess we could just open the ozone hole for them again;-)
Low atmospheric pressure would be easy enough to test with a (de)pressurized base on earth but then again on mars presumably you could pressurize the colony to the same pressure as earth.
Increased radiation is also easy enough to test if you really wanted to. There are plenty of sources of radiation from tanning beds to radon to radioactive waste. We have already done plenty of those experiments (intentionally or unintentionally) on earth and pretty much know the outcome of those.
Except there's oxygen and water in Antarctica, and those would presumably be some of the biggest challenges.
So it should be easy. We should require anyone who wants to move to mars to spend 5 years in antartica. Antartica is a cake walk compared to mars. My guess is that a majority of those people wouldn't make it five years and might reconsider their desire to go to mars.
Intelligence as a survival trait, we (at least collectively) are second to none. A few animals might be able to use simple tools and solve simple problems but doing things like surviving in a hostile environment, getting out of a trap, etc.. no other animals even gets close. No other animal can survive equally as well in the desert and a blizzard. No other animal has mastered fire, weapons, or escaping from a deadly situation better than humans. Being able to escape a deadly situation is probably one of the best universal tests of intelligence for living organisms.
Not true. TV commercials have an exact value. You're paying with your time/attention to watch the show. So there is an exact value greater than zero for your time/attention. This is even more applicable where there is a place you can buy a commercial free version of the same show. Facebook only makes about 50cents per user so if they wanted to they could in theory make more money by offering a $1/month buyout for a no ad version of their website. Pandora and several other companies do exactly this.
Also there are places where your time/attention are nearly worthless. Any place you are waiting, whether it is a doctor's office or a bus stop and you aren't occupied with something else then your time/attention has very little value.
you talk AS IF there is an infinitude of 'good/great' jobs out there going begging, and all one need do is be 'qualified', and you can hopscotch up the corporate ladder with nary a hitch...
You talk as if the only way to get ahead is to move up the corporate ladder. Most of the people I know who are intelligent, ambitious, or successful run their own business of some kind. They don't depend on someone giving them a job. I'm not saying that you can't be successful working for a corporation but you shouldn't be dependent on them for a job.
Sure it could. The only thing the keeps it from happening is the bread and circuses. In the USA, if you are moderately ambitious and/or moderately intelligent then you can be moderately successful. So basically, it's not worth rocking the boat because you're doing "ok". Polititians aren't stupid. They know that as long as they mostly appease the people with ambition or intelligence then those people aren't likely to start a rebellion because the risk/reward ratio is not in their favor. The (longterm) walmart and mcdonald employees are either not ambitious or not intelligent (or else they would quickly find a better job) and therefore don't pose any threat as you need both a little bit of intelligence and a little bit of ambition to organize a successful rebellion and if you have either intelligence or ambition then there is usually much safer ways of getting ahead than plotting an overthrow.
Key findings are: (1) HSGPA is consistently the strongest predictor of four-year college outcomes for all academic disciplines, campuses and freshman cohorts in the UC sample;
Of course it is. That's like saying "doing well in school is consistently the strongest predictor of doing well in school" The people that are good at making good grades in HS are also going to be good at making good grades in college. I was an A- student in HS and an A- student in college but I tutored 4.0 students that had a much poorer grasp of the concepts than I did. Why did they have a 4.0 while I hovered around a 3.5? Because they hired a tutor before they needed it, because they knew how to take tests, etc... Basically, they excelled at school. The bigger question is does this actually translate into excelling in your career or in life in general. Many of the people I graduated with that had higher GPAs than me there is no way that I would ever hire them as a programmer while many of the people I graduated with that had lower GPAs than me were excellent programmers.
You can restrict first sale but I know places like ATT have tried to do that with the iphone but I had friends that still managed to resell dozens of them over to china without much effort.
Google will most likely just enforce it by excluding it from their play store so they can't officially sell it thru normal channels but they can still "enable 3rd party apps" and be fine.
Facial recognition, like all biometrics, is not good for this purpose.
Even if the technology is poor, it should be able to pop up a photo and a confidence level then the cop can look closer and decide if it really is the right person. Even with today's technology a computer is going to be much better than a cop studying a list of a thousand pictures and trying to memorize them. If a computer can narrow it down to the top 10 most likely then it's made the cop's job alot easier.
Of course, this is Dubai, everyone knows what they are really looking for. They aren't looking for criminals. They are looking for escaped slaves.
Failing in your parallel construction, and telling the court you discovered evidence in a way you couldn't have, seems to me to be perjury.
Not admitting to parallel construction under oath is perjury. You're just stating how you get caught. The act of parallel construction is "almost" lying and denying it under oath is definitely lying. The only way to prevent perjury with parallel construction is to make sure that the people who know about the parallel construction don't ever testify. One way to do this is with anonymous tips which at least gives plausible deniability but unless the new investigation is unaware of the previous investigation then there are still people who know about the parallel construction. It would be interesting for lawyers to start calling the primary investigators to the stand at every trial and asking the simple question "are you aware of any parallel construction?" Basically force investigators to give up the practice, admit to it, or commit perjury.
It isn't terribly surprising that adding a cartoonish rendering effect to both real and virtual objects would make them more difficult to discern as such. I certainly wouldn't call it more immersive - quite the opposite, in fact. It is extremely obvious that what you are looking at has been altered and that you are not looking at "reality".
immersive != realistic
Basically, by making the real world less realistic you can increase the immersiveness of the experience. You obviously know that it's not real just like you know that a movie is not real but you still get a more immersive feel. I think the real takeaway from this isn't that it's harder to tell real from virtual when you make the real look virtual (duh!) but rather that a seemless less realistic cartoon environment feels more immersive than a realistic environment with virtual items added.
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Maybe it shouldn't delete it but maybe more than one folder or putting a confidence level might be nice.
It has multiple categories for the inbox now, why not multiple categories for spam? There is spam and
then there is SPAM. My spam folder on google is full of stuff like viagra, russian bride, nigeria scams,
emails written in chinese I can't even read and other 110% obvious SPAM. There are also a few emails
or newsletters from companies with mediocre records. If my spam was split into 2 categories, my
guess is that 100% of the messages that occasionally get misplaced in my spam folder are in this
questionable category not the blatantly obvious category.
Also, by outsourcing space exploration, congress can outsource failures and liability.
When a private spacecraft kills someone, congress can shutter the company responsible
without taking any responsibility itself.
I also think a third factor in a plane crash is the lack of control. It's the same reason people
fear school bombings so much. In a car, you feel (probably wrongly) that you can prevent
an accident. In a plane you are at the complete mercy of the pilot with no escape route.
The whole reason H1N1 was scary was that it fucking killed mostly healthy people and NOT the sick or young.
It still killed a very small percentage of people. Also, I'm personally suspect of the H1N1 killing "healthy people".
Everyone "healthy" that I heard of that died of H1N1 were almost "too healthy". It seemed to be attacking
marathon runners, body builders, etc... I wonder if there was something about them that made them more
vulnerable (like possibly a very low body fat percentage, etc...)
I'm sorry about your friend but ebola scares me ALOT more than the swine flu, h1n1, or sars.
Shutting down airports for sars was probably a bit of an overkill. Yes, sars is contagious but
it's also highly survivable. My guess is that your friend was already compromised in some
way whether it was extremely old, extremely young, weak immune system, etc...
Until we have an effective cure for ebola (80% survival rate or better), then it's much better
to be overly cautious with ebola. Can you imagine what would happen if this made it to
an elementary school where hundreds of kids are in close contact? Give me sars any day.
Because, how much easier does it get than lifting stuff from a dead guy?
They specifically mention treating "a large number of patients". Even if extraction was simple, and
ignoring getting permission from next of kin, there is not a large enough supply of transplant quality
cadavers for the number of people with diabetes. Also, doing anything with the pancreas is extremely
time sensitive because it starts digesting itself pretty much as soon as a person is dead.
Why full employment? Why aren't we all working half time and spending more time living our lives?
I agree. I think we've added more than enough labor saving devices that we should be able to start redefining
"full employment" as less than 40 hours per week. We have a long way to go though as (at least in the USA)
we can't even seem to get people and companies to limit their work to 40 much less something less than 40.
They are good when we are making use of the additional labour we are freeing up to reduce the workload on the rest of the workforce and making sure the benefits spread to all of humanity.
That's a second problem that needs to be solved. Finding full employment for people after all the shit jobs are eliminated is important
but that still doesn't mean that we shouldn't be trying to eliminate all the dangerous and unhealthy jobs that we can.
There are certain jobs (like old fashion coal mining) that you're probably better off sitting at home on welfare than you are being at
the bottom of the coal shaft slowly dying.
Companies like Amazon don't do shit like this based on the goodness of their hearts.
It's not the goodness of their heart. They are doing it because they want people to focus on a problem that they want to solve.
My guess is that the reason the prize money is so low is because the problem has been simplified and they don't expect a
perfect commercial ready solution. I would also guess that if you managed to solve it well enough to impress amazon then
they would offer you considerably more than the 20k and try to buy you out and/or hire you.
They are looking for original ideas and/or new employees with this contest. They are not looking for a complete solution.
Sinister conspiracy?? I vote money was someone involved. Maybe they wanted money from oculus rift or
oculus rift wanted money from them. Maybe they wanted to do more testing or charge extra for it as an
addon later. I bet in one form or another it can be traced back to money.
It would be interesting to experiment with this. microclimates are interesting. I know in the winter
I tend to like it warmer inside than in the summer. I also know that if it's really cold outside wood
heat seems to warm me better even if the thermostat is the exact same.
One possible theory that might make antartica and mars behave differently is that maybe there is
a minimum amount of cosmic radiation that is needed for proper healing of injuries.
That is one place where mars will have a lot more while antartica has a lot less.
This theory could be tested with an underwater biodome or possible with a tanning bed in antartica.
Mars and antartica are definitely a little bit different but antartica is probably the closest to
mars condition that we have on earth and failure wouldn't necessarily be quite so catastrophic.
So you state it's a cop-out answer and then go on to trash all the remaining languages. I was specifically thinking
of php when I wrote that answer. Php is a mix of randomness. So, yes, in theory you can write a better language.
The bar's actually rather low. You could even branch off an existing language if you were willing to break backwards
compatibility (add threads to python, standardize all the conventions in php, etc...) but that still doesn't disprove
my point that all the languages kindof suck especially in the web development and interpreted domains.
Java and C are ill-suited for just in time compiling and web development. Ruby, python, php, and perl are the best
we have. They all 4 suck but pick your poison or write a decent language and try to get everyone else to join you.
Oh, and I might go ahread and throw this in: on the frontend, javascript/html/css are even worse.
I would like to see a list of languages that are not known-shitholes. Yes, perl and ruby have their problems
but so do python, c, c++, php, and java. Each has a place where they excel and each has places where they suck.
Name a programming language that doesn't start to have major problems somewhere when you start getting
into the details.
Exactly. I didn't understand this part. If there really was too much it seems like it would be a simple
enough solution to either let in some co2 from outside, vent the excess oxygen out, or a combinition
of the two. Assuming you had proper ways of measuring the concentration of oxygen and co2 then
getting the right balance seems relatively straightforward.
Harder to test would be the problems caused by low gravity, lower atmospheric pressure and increased radiation. Well, for the latter I guess we could just open the ozone hole for them again ;-)
Low atmospheric pressure would be easy enough to test with a (de)pressurized base on earth but then again on mars presumably you could
pressurize the colony to the same pressure as earth.
Increased radiation is also easy enough to test if you really wanted to. There are plenty of sources of radiation from tanning beds to radon to
radioactive waste. We have already done plenty of those experiments (intentionally or unintentionally) on earth and pretty much know the
outcome of those.
Except there's oxygen and water in Antarctica, and those would presumably be some of the biggest challenges.
So it should be easy. We should require anyone who wants to move to mars to spend 5 years in antartica.
Antartica is a cake walk compared to mars. My guess is that a majority of those people wouldn't make it
five years and might reconsider their desire to go to mars.
Intelligence as a survival trait, we (at least collectively) are second to none.
A few animals might be able to use simple tools and solve simple problems
but doing things like surviving in a hostile environment, getting out of a trap,
etc.. no other animals even gets close. No other animal can survive equally
as well in the desert and a blizzard. No other animal has mastered fire,
weapons, or escaping from a deadly situation better than humans.
Being able to escape a deadly situation is probably one of the best universal
tests of intelligence for living organisms.
Not true. TV commercials have an exact value. You're paying with your time/attention to watch the show.
So there is an exact value greater than zero for your time/attention. This is even more applicable where there
is a place you can buy a commercial free version of the same show. Facebook only makes about 50cents
per user so if they wanted to they could in theory make more money by offering a $1/month buyout for a
no ad version of their website. Pandora and several other companies do exactly this.
Also there are places where your time/attention are nearly worthless. Any place you are waiting, whether
it is a doctor's office or a bus stop and you aren't occupied with something else then your time/attention
has very little value.
you talk AS IF there is an infinitude of 'good/great' jobs out there going begging, and all one need do is be 'qualified', and you can hopscotch up the corporate ladder with nary a hitch...
You talk as if the only way to get ahead is to move up the corporate ladder. Most of the people I know who
are intelligent, ambitious, or successful run their own business of some kind. They don't depend on someone
giving them a job. I'm not saying that you can't be successful working for a corporation but you shouldn't be
dependent on them for a job.
The FCC does not regulate torches and pitchforks.
That will never happen.
Sure it could. The only thing the keeps it from happening is the bread and circuses.
In the USA, if you are moderately ambitious and/or moderately intelligent then you can be moderately successful.
So basically, it's not worth rocking the boat because you're doing "ok".
Polititians aren't stupid. They know that as long as they mostly appease the people with ambition or intelligence
then those people aren't likely to start a rebellion because the risk/reward ratio is not in their favor.
The (longterm) walmart and mcdonald employees are either not ambitious or not intelligent (or else they would
quickly find a better job) and therefore don't pose any threat as you need both a little bit of intelligence and
a little bit of ambition to organize a successful rebellion and if you have either intelligence or ambition then
there is usually much safer ways of getting ahead than plotting an overthrow.
Key findings are: (1) HSGPA is consistently the strongest predictor of four-year college outcomes for all academic disciplines, campuses and freshman cohorts in the UC sample;
Of course it is. That's like saying "doing well in school is consistently the strongest predictor of doing well in school"
The people that are good at making good grades in HS are also going to be good at making good grades in college.
I was an A- student in HS and an A- student in college but I tutored 4.0 students that had a much poorer grasp of
the concepts than I did. Why did they have a 4.0 while I hovered around a 3.5? Because they hired a tutor before
they needed it, because they knew how to take tests, etc... Basically, they excelled at school. The bigger question
is does this actually translate into excelling in your career or in life in general. Many of the people I graduated with that
had higher GPAs than me there is no way that I would ever hire them as a programmer while many of the people I
graduated with that had lower GPAs than me were excellent programmers.
You can restrict first sale but I know places like ATT have tried to do that with the iphone but
I had friends that still managed to resell dozens of them over to china without much effort.
Google will most likely just enforce it by excluding it from their play store so they can't officially
sell it thru normal channels but they can still "enable 3rd party apps" and be fine.
Facial recognition, like all biometrics, is not good for this purpose.
Even if the technology is poor, it should be able to pop up a photo and a confidence level then the cop can look closer
and decide if it really is the right person. Even with today's technology a computer is going to be much better than a
cop studying a list of a thousand pictures and trying to memorize them. If a computer can narrow it down to the top
10 most likely then it's made the cop's job alot easier.
Of course, this is Dubai, everyone knows what they are really looking for.
They aren't looking for criminals. They are looking for escaped slaves.
Failing in your parallel construction, and telling the court you discovered evidence in a way you couldn't have, seems to me to be perjury.
Not admitting to parallel construction under oath is perjury. You're just stating how you get caught. The act of parallel construction
is "almost" lying and denying it under oath is definitely lying. The only way to prevent perjury with parallel construction is to make
sure that the people who know about the parallel construction don't ever testify. One way to do this is with anonymous tips which
at least gives plausible deniability but unless the new investigation is unaware of the previous investigation then there are still
people who know about the parallel construction. It would be interesting for lawyers to start calling the primary investigators to
the stand at every trial and asking the simple question "are you aware of any parallel construction?" Basically force investigators
to give up the practice, admit to it, or commit perjury.
It isn't terribly surprising that adding a cartoonish rendering effect to both real and virtual objects would make them more difficult to discern as such. I certainly wouldn't call it more immersive - quite the opposite, in fact. It is extremely obvious that what you are looking at has been altered and that you are not looking at "reality".
immersive != realistic
Basically, by making the real world less realistic you can increase the immersiveness of the experience.
You obviously know that it's not real just like you know that a movie is not real but you still get a more immersive feel.
I think the real takeaway from this isn't that it's harder to tell real from virtual when you make the real look virtual (duh!) but
rather that a seemless less realistic cartoon environment feels more immersive than a realistic environment with virtual items
added.