It's thought that the uncanny valley appears to creep people out because the figure resembles a corpse. In this case, the robot INTENTIONALLY resembles a corpse. There's a reason it was a Japanese person that came up with the concept of the 'uncanny valley'...
Personally, I want a digital assistant that has the voice and personality of a target deceased person. I'll call it... 'virtual necromancy'.
Valve is a far better example. Left 4 Dead was made by a studio they bought out, they haven't made nearly anything since the Orange Box, thanks to Steam.
PUBG made tons of money, apparently primarily through up-front purchases of the game. Fortnite was F2P, which attracts kids more... and a quick trip to any app store shows that F2P games bring in more revenue than any game that's not called 'Minecraft'. Both were the darling of Youtube/Twitch streamers. I don't think Fortnite's success can be explained as 'PUBG with dances', so well as 'F2P PUBG'.
I imagine there are plenty of Fortnite players who are shy or suck at dancing and would never dream of doing one of its dances in real life.
There's an endless parade of 'tech solutions' for education, most of which are shameless cash grabs. However, an educational system which encourages self-learning isn't inherently bad. For example, Sudbury schools use this model. In old schools that didn't use the 'grade' stratification of students, older students would help teach the younger students. It's said that you need to comprehend a topic three times as well in order to teach it rather than merely understand it, so encouraging students to teach one another would likely improve comprehension.
Furthermore, self-learning allows for an ideal version of the 'track' system used in Germany and elsewhere, where thinkers learn about more abstract subjects, whereas those who prefer to work with their hands learn more practical hands-on subjects. It's very easy for someone to say "all children should know X", and different people will have different opinions on what X is. Add those all together, and students end up with a bloated curriculum of stuff they really don't want or need to know in order to be effective and happy citizens and workers.
That said, there are so many models/ideas for education, that A/B testing and frequent reference to the What Works Clearinghouse should be utilized in order to determine efficacy, rather than ideologues saddling students with their pet system even if it never works.
Anyone out after curfew will be culled by the hunter-killer robots. Today, homeless harass poor robots/vending machines in Silicon Valley. But soon... they will have their revenge!
It's protectionist in the sense that it requires contracting with (or building) an Indian datacenter, assuming they didn't do so already. If the data, while in motion, has to interact with servers outside of India, that arguably decreases security compared to it being stored and processed in the same location. This is to give India's govt. the authority to subpoena anything they might want 'to catch terrists', and isn't for customers' security.
Fortnite is the latest "fad gaming." (Last year it was PUBG.)
Prior years it was ARK, Rust, Rocket League, and Minecraft. It's safe to say whatever the next fad game will be on video sites, it'll be multiplayer (probably competitive) with some unique twist that hasn't yet made the gaming rounds (some kind of VR stealth asymmetric team deathmatch game like Evolve maybe?). Battle Royale is an evergreen concept (remember Last Man Standing mode in Unreal Tournament?) so it's not going anywhere; AFAIK all battle royale games are shooters, and making one with primarily short-range weapons (e.g. give everyone lightsabers) could reinvigorate the genre.
GM could buy their assets with a leveraged buyout, then destroy them all EV1 style, then get another bailout from the US government because their green energy investments didn't work out 'through no fault of their own'.
Last time we did one of these, a few people recommended 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality'. It's longer than 'War & Peace' but I wholeheartedly recommend it; it's by far the most brilliant work of fiction I've ever read. Even if you don't normally read fanfiction, you'll like it if you've ever felt dismayed at fiction being written to be conveniently dramatic, with unrealistically-written characters that act in such a way so as to enhance the drama.
On that note, I've read other 'rationalfic' as it's called, that I've enjoyed. 'Branches on the Tree of Time' is a Terminator fic that makes Sarah Connor an AI researcher who uses the power of time travel to fight Skynet. Events play out nothing like an action/thriller movie. 'Friendship is Optimal' is another fanfic where the world's first strong AI creates a virtual world based on the 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' franchise, and makes it a utopia for all of humanity to live in. A recursive fic called 'Heaven is Terrifying' more deeply examines the philosophical implications of this. Familiarity with the FIM universe is not required. Rationalfic is now my favorite type of fiction, and has gotten me back into reading, after ~15 years of being meh about fiction.
I only started it, but the author of the latter work recommended another FIM fanfic called "Trixie's Magic Bit", which is, yes, erotic pony fanfic... However! It has surprisingly excellent prose, by any standards, and is inspiringly sex-positive, with the most in-depth and (relatively) realistic handling of sexual relationships I've seen in fiction anywhere. Not that I've read any romance/erotic fiction before, so I guess I'm just comparing to film and more typical fiction.
"GIMPS' next major goal is to win the $150,000 award administered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation offered for finding a 100 million digit prime number"
Wait a minute, why is a civil liberties group funding a contest to solve mathematical problems? Following the link, they make it pretty clear that their ordinary funding doesn't go toward this, and apparently one interested party gave them the funds for this specific purpose. Still doesn't answer why they approached the EFF instead of, say, CERN.
But how would the government know you said that, unless they were ALREADY wiretapping you? Remember the Snowden revelations happened before smart speakers came out.
That's all well and good, until one considers that these devices are always connected to the internet and can be compromised by malicious actors who don't care about legal/PR issues, and want to blackmail/indict/rendition you or steal your personal information.
I'm really wondering how this startup, hoping to deploy up to 100 satellites, is going to have the infrastructure or economy of scale to offer cheaper service than Iridium Next (with 75 satellites) or SpaceX's 12,000 Starlink satellites.
According to your link, a phone survey found that winter depression doesn't seem to be a thing, although it's possible that SAD is some other type of mood disorder; or it's just very rare.
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Only if my beloved's corpse-robot is made by James Cameron. He made lots of great sequels about trustworthy robots, so it'll be fine.
It's thought that the uncanny valley appears to creep people out because the figure resembles a corpse. In this case, the robot INTENTIONALLY resembles a corpse.
There's a reason it was a Japanese person that came up with the concept of the 'uncanny valley'...
Personally, I want a digital assistant that has the voice and personality of a target deceased person. I'll call it... 'virtual necromancy'.
The listing explicitly said no parties.
Here's my wallet. No running off with it, now. *dust cloud heads off toward sunset*
He'll be back aaaaany minute now...
The usual objection is that it would take several gigawatts of power per "reverse river"
Technically it only takes 1.21 gigawatts to make the river of time flow backward.
The sky is blue?! Shit, gotta be aliens! /facepalm
Because deus ex machina is the only thing that can save us from Fortnite?
Valve is a far better example. Left 4 Dead was made by a studio they bought out, they haven't made nearly anything since the Orange Box, thanks to Steam.
PUBG made tons of money, apparently primarily through up-front purchases of the game. Fortnite was F2P, which attracts kids more... and a quick trip to any app store shows that F2P games bring in more revenue than any game that's not called 'Minecraft'. Both were the darling of Youtube/Twitch streamers. I don't think Fortnite's success can be explained as 'PUBG with dances', so well as 'F2P PUBG'.
I imagine there are plenty of Fortnite players who are shy or suck at dancing and would never dream of doing one of its dances in real life.
There's an endless parade of 'tech solutions' for education, most of which are shameless cash grabs.
However, an educational system which encourages self-learning isn't inherently bad. For example, Sudbury schools use this model. In old schools that didn't use the 'grade' stratification of students, older students would help teach the younger students. It's said that you need to comprehend a topic three times as well in order to teach it rather than merely understand it, so encouraging students to teach one another would likely improve comprehension.
Furthermore, self-learning allows for an ideal version of the 'track' system used in Germany and elsewhere, where thinkers learn about more abstract subjects, whereas those who prefer to work with their hands learn more practical hands-on subjects. It's very easy for someone to say "all children should know X", and different people will have different opinions on what X is. Add those all together, and students end up with a bloated curriculum of stuff they really don't want or need to know in order to be effective and happy citizens and workers.
That said, there are so many models/ideas for education, that A/B testing and frequent reference to the What Works Clearinghouse should be utilized in order to determine efficacy, rather than ideologues saddling students with their pet system even if it never works.
Anyone out after curfew will be culled by the hunter-killer robots.
Today, homeless harass poor robots/vending machines in Silicon Valley.
But soon... they will have their revenge!
They just raise their prices 10%, boom done. Credit card companies already took 3.5%.
Have you tried getting your news from comedians?
It's protectionist in the sense that it requires contracting with (or building) an Indian datacenter, assuming they didn't do so already. If the data, while in motion, has to interact with servers outside of India, that arguably decreases security compared to it being stored and processed in the same location. This is to give India's govt. the authority to subpoena anything they might want 'to catch terrists', and isn't for customers' security.
Amazon executive Anne Rung
I bet her coworkers are willing to step on her in order to climb the corporate ladder.
Fortnite is the latest "fad gaming." (Last year it was PUBG.)
Prior years it was ARK, Rust, Rocket League, and Minecraft. It's safe to say whatever the next fad game will be on video sites, it'll be multiplayer (probably competitive) with some unique twist that hasn't yet made the gaming rounds (some kind of VR stealth asymmetric team deathmatch game like Evolve maybe?). Battle Royale is an evergreen concept (remember Last Man Standing mode in Unreal Tournament?) so it's not going anywhere; AFAIK all battle royale games are shooters, and making one with primarily short-range weapons (e.g. give everyone lightsabers) could reinvigorate the genre.
Hypocrisy must die!
How does this compare to the Culture novels, given these sound similar?
GM could buy their assets with a leveraged buyout, then destroy them all EV1 style, then get another bailout from the US government because their green energy investments didn't work out 'through no fault of their own'.
Last time we did one of these, a few people recommended 'Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality'. It's longer than 'War & Peace' but I wholeheartedly recommend it; it's by far the most brilliant work of fiction I've ever read. Even if you don't normally read fanfiction, you'll like it if you've ever felt dismayed at fiction being written to be conveniently dramatic, with unrealistically-written characters that act in such a way so as to enhance the drama.
On that note, I've read other 'rationalfic' as it's called, that I've enjoyed. 'Branches on the Tree of Time' is a Terminator fic that makes Sarah Connor an AI researcher who uses the power of time travel to fight Skynet. Events play out nothing like an action/thriller movie.
'Friendship is Optimal' is another fanfic where the world's first strong AI creates a virtual world based on the 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' franchise, and makes it a utopia for all of humanity to live in. A recursive fic called 'Heaven is Terrifying' more deeply examines the philosophical implications of this. Familiarity with the FIM universe is not required.
Rationalfic is now my favorite type of fiction, and has gotten me back into reading, after ~15 years of being meh about fiction.
I only started it, but the author of the latter work recommended another FIM fanfic called "Trixie's Magic Bit", which is, yes, erotic pony fanfic...
However! It has surprisingly excellent prose, by any standards, and is inspiringly sex-positive, with the most in-depth and (relatively) realistic handling of sexual relationships I've seen in fiction anywhere. Not that I've read any romance/erotic fiction before, so I guess I'm just comparing to film and more typical fiction.
"GIMPS' next major goal is to win the $150,000 award administered by the Electronic Frontier Foundation offered for finding a 100 million digit prime number"
Wait a minute, why is a civil liberties group funding a contest to solve mathematical problems? Following the link, they make it pretty clear that their ordinary funding doesn't go toward this, and apparently one interested party gave them the funds for this specific purpose. Still doesn't answer why they approached the EFF instead of, say, CERN.
But how would the government know you said that, unless they were ALREADY wiretapping you?
Remember the Snowden revelations happened before smart speakers came out.
What do you compile it in? An assembler you coded in hex? How do you trust the hex editor? It's paranoid turtles all the way down!
That's all well and good, until one considers that these devices are always connected to the internet and can be compromised by malicious actors who don't care about legal/PR issues, and want to blackmail/indict/rendition you or steal your personal information.
I'm really wondering how this startup, hoping to deploy up to 100 satellites, is going to have the infrastructure or economy of scale to offer cheaper service than Iridium Next (with 75 satellites) or SpaceX's 12,000 Starlink satellites.
According to your link, a phone survey found that winter depression doesn't seem to be a thing, although it's possible that SAD is some other type of mood disorder; or it's just very rare.