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  1. Re:Typical Microsoft on New Windows 10 Preview For PCs With Bash, Cross-Device Cortana Released · · Score: 1

    Users interested in it can enable the feature by turning on Developer Mode (Settings - Update - Security - For developers)

    Let me get this straight: to enable Developer Mode, you need to go into settings (okay), update (wait, what?), security (why?), for developers (could be named a bit better IMHO).

    No wonder I always feel lost when I use Microsoft products. They can't even make a proper navigation tree.

    Or you press the windows key on start writing "For devel.." and there you are.

    Same with Office 2016, no longer need to browse the menus, just type what you want. I really like the direction Microsoft is going with Bash and all.

  2. Re:Genetic Algorithm Re-framed? on New 'Deep Learning' Technique Lets Robots Learn Through Trial-and-Error · · Score: 2

    Here are the papers: http://rll.berkeley.edu/deeple...

  3. Re:Memorization = intelligence? on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    I used to think this way. Then I realized the less I need to interrupt my thought process by looking up the more I am able to reason-

  4. Re:Anyone has a link to a patent app? on Revitalizing Medical Imaging With Ultrasound-On-a-Chip · · Score: 1

    Would've been nice if TFA linked to the patent application, for the sake of completeness.

    https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

  5. Re:What wrong with a wireless keyboard and mouse? on Valve Announces Steam Controller · · Score: 2, Insightful

    No problem! You can do that too!

    What you have here is more choices.

  6. Neanderthals on Video Gamers See the World Differently · · Score: 0

    They are turning into Neanderthals!

  7. Re:One-dimensional Interface? on Roku Finally Gets a 2D Menu System · · Score: 1

    Dimension of a vector space is the number of linearly independent vectors in its spanning set of vectors. And I don't know how this applies to user interfaces.

  8. Re:Weightless cameras? on Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses · · Score: 1

    You are weightless in free fall. You don't experience the force of gravity, i.e. you cannot use a scale. That's weightlessness, not the absence of gravity, but when the force of gravity vanishes in a coordinate frame fixed to you. Thoughts like this brought Einstein to the theory of general relativity.

  9. Re:Ummmm, the Earths magnetic field is NOT static. on Indoor Navigation On Your Smartphone, Using the Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 1

    You know, nothing is static. Some things are just static enough for certain applications. You could also argue that geographic maps are useless since continents drift all over the place over time.

  10. Re:What...No technological advancement? on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    Internet for everyone. All the advancements that made it possible.

  11. Re:Fucking Magnets on First Measurement of Magnetic Field In Earth's Core · · Score: 1

    Does it explain how they work?

    No, but Richard Feynman does.

  12. Re:Here's the solution on Tide of International Science Moving Against US, EU · · Score: 1

    We've been doing it or 2,000 years, and it seems to have worked out ok.

    In the best country in the world, they have been giving free university education for 100 years, and they seem to be doing fine.

  13. Re:Time dilation woes. on Earth-Like Planet That Could Sustain Life Found · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone who is on an inertial frame. So according to nobody (I know of) the ship is accelerating at 1 g.

  14. Games on Windows 7 vs. Ubuntu 10.04 · · Score: 1

    Games:
    Ubuntu 10.04: 1
    Windows 7: 9

    Which quite much decides my living room PC OS choice for me.

  15. Re:Those statistics look familiar. on Study Finds 0.3% of BitTorrent Files Definitely Legal · · Score: 1

    waste of time porn :: disposable porn :: "secondhand" porn

  16. Re:What if this is RIAA? on Google Tells Congress It Disclosed Wi-Fi Sniffing · · Score: 1

    "Try replacing RIAA with any of your favorite organization, such as Microsoft, Apple, SCO, etc. Will your opinion change?"

    It is often characteristic to my favorite company that I share their ambition, and trust their intentions based on my previous experience and my best judgement. Thus, it does matter to me which company carries out an action, and my opinion would certainly change.

  17. Scientific method on Open Source Is Not a Democracy · · Score: 1

    Open source is not a democracy. I would consider it to resemble scientific method more than that.

  18. Re:Stupid on Pi Day and an Interview With a Pi Researcher · · Score: 1

    It should be 2010-03-14 so it sorts chronologically and intuitively can't get the month or day mixed up

    Yes, the only ordering of the triple {day, month, year} that is a total order in Z^3 which corresponds the chronology is (year,month,day). So does year*10000+month*100+day in Z, a good reason to name anythings date sensitive this way on computer to keep things in order.

  19. Re:Here's the actual paper. on IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm · · Score: 1

    It's O(n^3) to O(n^2) improvement in computational complexity essentially for the same problem, so much fewer instructions. So it "saves energy", which is a trendy, green-wash way of saying "runs faster" in today's climate. However, the actual paper doesn't talk about power consumption.

  20. Re:Why create a conscious AI? on Towards Artificial Consciousness · · Score: 1

    I think the goal here isn't to give computers consciousness, it is about simulating consciusness inside a computational model. Computer is still a tool here.

    After we have a working model of the device, we can build the actual physical device, the brain, which does not "compute" its actions, it just works. Compare this to an electric motor, which we first modeled using a computer. The actual motor just works as we intended given that the simulated model was accurate enough.

    Building an artificial synapses network might be an another matter though.

  21. Re:How about a policy: NO PAYWALLS! on MS Researchers Call Moving Server Storage To SSDs a Bad Idea · · Score: 1

    How about a slashdot policy of not linking to articles behind paywalls?

    And forget about most of the scientific articles?

  22. Re:"simple solution" on Valve Engineers Weed Out 'Lying' TF2 Game Servers · · Score: 2, Interesting

    While it is simple, it also has problems. What if I connected to a server and a minute later my PC crashed? Or there was a power outage and I turned off the game so my UPS would last longer? Or I thought I had time to play the game but it turned out I really didn't? Or ...

    Those kind of effects would spread quite evenly on all the servers.

    Even if some servers would have more restless players on average, isn't that exactly what the system is for, to warn players about a bad playing experience.