If police have no probable cause and there's no emergency they shouldn't force you to stop your vehicle and begin "interacting" with you in full bust mode. That's obtrusive. Cars aren't airplanes, rockets or guns; some people even live in them. Some people don't have cars but live in the street. Arbitrarily stopping people hurts everyone. Coercing a needle into your arm would spread disease. Voluntary disclosure of genetic material widens searches for database hits, including family members with partial matches.
Not using a turn signal, creeping through Stop signs, following too closely, failing to maintain lane, contiguous lane shifts, accelerating and passing in order to merge in traffic, unnecessarily and repeatedly applying light braking, failing to reasonably "read" other driver intent, unsafely exhibiting one's own intent before executing a move, etc., should be punishable by DEATH. Muuhoohoohwah!
I think bad drivers, with an accusatory finger at the sober ones, probably kill more people than murderers. Is it really that hard to train people to drive like they have some pride in their skills? Polyphony Digital? Anyone?
Hopefully those models aren't covered under their site's general license (bans commercial use), as it would be awesome to be able to use these in games.
Awesome post; couldn't agree more. When you consider how ignorant a lot of people are about science, the idea of making it difficult for those inclined to better themselves through reading journals seems detrimental to society and archaic. The "oracle on the mountaintop" shit really needs to go.
I always liked the film. Hell, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies right alongside Alien, Aliens, Predator, 2001, Moon, etc. It wasn't difficult for me at all to identify and appreciate the satire, and I'm no literary genius or film critic. Watchmen did something similar, creating what seemed to be an alternate dimension of stereotypical right-wing ideology. I don't even agree with half the stuff either of the films were implying, but rather than being offended I was immensely entertained and even found them (gasp!) thought provoking.
In summary, movie critics are generally shitbags full of methane and are lucky to have a job...doing anything.
Is to be active in the mailing list and simply give them money (PayPal, whatever they accept). It lets them know that you value their work, and human nature tends to take over after that (hopefully for the better!).
I suspect sometime this century the combination of creative human genius (throwing ideas at the wall) and extraordinary increases in computational power and AI capability will take away much of the burden you describe. For example, a physicist (or even an amateur) could state a hypothesis in plain language to the AI which would then parse its meaning, request clarification if necessary, restate the hypothesis in more specific terms for verification, then attempt to adjust known theories, algorithms, laws, etc., to see if the observed data set more closely matches and report how close that match is. Basically take what people are good at (being creative) and what computers are good at (doing what they're told) and try to marry them to science's benefit.
They could just give out free televisions with integrated webcams, and as an added bonus it would come with a screensaver of some mustached dude staring sternly at you. And paint their drones black. And start calling their datacenters "ministries". How's the war with Google going, Mark? Same as it always has?
Maybe all the cost savings from wrecked vehicles and injured people can be applied toward the construction more race tracks so people can get their rush in a controlled environment and far away from family-filled minivans. Or put Playstations with free copies of GT6 in each autonomous vehicle. Or if you really need a rush just snort some coke before your GT6 Occulus Rift session.
Those who install NVIDIA'S binary drivers on Linux disagree. And they are many. Open source is nice, but it's not all or nothing. Having an open source OS is important, but requiring that every shiny also be open source is fanatical. That's not the world we live in, nor should it be.
God is just Nature. Sometimes it giveth, sometimes it taketh away. The problem is people reading "meaning" into it. When your crops wither in drought it's not because someone is punishing you; it's because there wasn't enough fucking rain. If you really want to know what God's thinking, ask a scientist. They're great at explaining why things happen.
Couldn't agree more. With respect to algorithms already implemented, there should be a one-stop repository of them with descriptions and variations for different languages. Like Wikipedia but just for algorithms (even painfully simple ones). More than anything else this would benefit all programmers, but especially newer ones. Searching Google for stackoverflow/etc. posts sometimes helps but is often an unnecessary timesink when you have a specific algorithm in mind but don't know what it's "called".
Not sure, but the other day I was slicing some brain with a bandsaw and not only did it make a big mess but I cut my god damned finger off and further contaminated the sample. So who knows.
Not a problem: Hyper Tyrannical Markup Language and Hyper Tyrannical Transfer Protocol. They can just drop the "s" after http, as we all know that's a joke by now too.
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Sounds awesome. May we be less wasteful by the day and get more help from technology. Think more. Exert less, yet create more.
The FBI's not the only one looking for this guy: http://youtu.be/eHHT7dTmw8U?t=57s
If police have no probable cause and there's no emergency they shouldn't force you to stop your vehicle and begin "interacting" with you in full bust mode. That's obtrusive. Cars aren't airplanes, rockets or guns; some people even live in them. Some people don't have cars but live in the street. Arbitrarily stopping people hurts everyone. Coercing a needle into your arm would spread disease. Voluntary disclosure of genetic material widens searches for database hits, including family members with partial matches.
Not using a turn signal, creeping through Stop signs, following too closely, failing to maintain lane, contiguous lane shifts, accelerating and passing in order to merge in traffic, unnecessarily and repeatedly applying light braking, failing to reasonably "read" other driver intent, unsafely exhibiting one's own intent before executing a move, etc., should be punishable by DEATH. Muuhoohoohwah!
I think bad drivers, with an accusatory finger at the sober ones, probably kill more people than murderers. Is it really that hard to train people to drive like they have some pride in their skills? Polyphony Digital? Anyone?
http://www.si.edu/termsofuse
Hopefully those models aren't covered under their site's general license (bans commercial use), as it would be awesome to be able to use these in games.
Awesome post; couldn't agree more. When you consider how ignorant a lot of people are about science, the idea of making it difficult for those inclined to better themselves through reading journals seems detrimental to society and archaic. The "oracle on the mountaintop" shit really needs to go.
I always liked the film. Hell, it's one of my favorite sci-fi movies right alongside Alien, Aliens, Predator, 2001, Moon, etc. It wasn't difficult for me at all to identify and appreciate the satire, and I'm no literary genius or film critic. Watchmen did something similar, creating what seemed to be an alternate dimension of stereotypical right-wing ideology. I don't even agree with half the stuff either of the films were implying, but rather than being offended I was immensely entertained and even found them (gasp!) thought provoking.
In summary, movie critics are generally shitbags full of methane and are lucky to have a job...doing anything.
Is to be active in the mailing list and simply give them money (PayPal, whatever they accept). It lets them know that you value their work, and human nature tends to take over after that (hopefully for the better!).
You're correct; that's exactly what I meant. Feels nice for someone to actually understand me every now and then, LOL.
I suspect sometime this century the combination of creative human genius (throwing ideas at the wall) and extraordinary increases in computational power and AI capability will take away much of the burden you describe. For example, a physicist (or even an amateur) could state a hypothesis in plain language to the AI which would then parse its meaning, request clarification if necessary, restate the hypothesis in more specific terms for verification, then attempt to adjust known theories, algorithms, laws, etc., to see if the observed data set more closely matches and report how close that match is. Basically take what people are good at (being creative) and what computers are good at (doing what they're told) and try to marry them to science's benefit.
They could just give out free televisions with integrated webcams, and as an added bonus it would come with a screensaver of some mustached dude staring sternly at you. And paint their drones black. And start calling their datacenters "ministries". How's the war with Google going, Mark? Same as it always has?
Maybe all the cost savings from wrecked vehicles and injured people can be applied toward the construction more race tracks so people can get their rush in a controlled environment and far away from family-filled minivans. Or put Playstations with free copies of GT6 in each autonomous vehicle. Or if you really need a rush just snort some coke before your GT6 Occulus Rift session.
A giant cage to trap Cthulhu for their Japanese R&D branch. Google Tentacle; the perfect accessory for Google Glass.
It's just programmed that way.
You'll still earn an Illegal Alien flag for having such bizarre DNA, but nice try.
Those who install NVIDIA'S binary drivers on Linux disagree. And they are many. Open source is nice, but it's not all or nothing. Having an open source OS is important, but requiring that every shiny also be open source is fanatical. That's not the world we live in, nor should it be.
I'm doing my part, much to my potential peril as I've devoted 3.5 years to it and it stands at over 30k lines of code:
http://eightvirtues.com/sanctimonia/
Yo Dawg, I herd you like freedom, so I put freedom in your patriotism so you can be free while we watch you.
God is just Nature. Sometimes it giveth, sometimes it taketh away. The problem is people reading "meaning" into it. When your crops wither in drought it's not because someone is punishing you; it's because there wasn't enough fucking rain. If you really want to know what God's thinking, ask a scientist. They're great at explaining why things happen.
Couldn't agree more. With respect to algorithms already implemented, there should be a one-stop repository of them with descriptions and variations for different languages. Like Wikipedia but just for algorithms (even painfully simple ones). More than anything else this would benefit all programmers, but especially newer ones. Searching Google for stackoverflow/etc. posts sometimes helps but is often an unnecessary timesink when you have a specific algorithm in mind but don't know what it's "called".
Not sure, but the other day I was slicing some brain with a bandsaw and not only did it make a big mess but I cut my god damned finger off and further contaminated the sample. So who knows.
The moderation around here has been terrible lately. Not sure what's going on with that.
No sense of humor, then. Wow.
Caught some of it on my phone: http://youtu.be/h4UfgMkBB40.
Who manufactures tennis rackets, WD-40 and lighters over there?
Not a problem: Hyper Tyrannical Markup Language and Hyper Tyrannical Transfer Protocol. They can just drop the "s" after http, as we all know that's a joke by now too.