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  1. Re:Dear Google on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I always thought they were laughing with me. But I wasn't sure what we were laughing about.

  2. You forgot grammar too. "much more difficulter"

  3. Re:Cancel the UBI simulations too on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    How can you say that when we haven't even tried Universal Basic Income yet.

  4. Re:Are they going for true sexual realism? on Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 0

    This is why not to include female astronauts on such a mission.

  5. Please make allowance for the costs to reprint all the marketing materials and brochures which tell you how much better 5G is than 4G. And those TV ads don't pay for themselves.

  6. People on twitter and tumblr always demonstrate the highest levels of respect for other individuals.

  7. Which is the much more difficulter problem? Speech Recognition or Natural Language Processing? Perhaps they actually meant NLP. I assumed they meant SR because of the mention of Computer Vision -- OMG!! The Chinese might get Computer Vision. SR is the harder problem because it is difficult to understand what one says when one's mouth is full.

  8. Re:So cruise passengers waste awful lot of food? on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Could this same principle be adapted to power SpaceX's BFR?

  9. Re: Better to use the dead fish as fertilizer on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    No. The 1% must die. The planet's resources are hoarded by a few.

  10. Re:Does this have any possiblity of working? on Norwegian Company Plans To Power Their Cruise Ships With Dead Fish (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why use dead fish instead of "clean coal"?

    If dead fish would actually work, then how about the president sign an executive order mandating that NASA's SLS be powered by dead fish?

  11. Especially when you could publish a crypto textbook, with detailed explanations and source code; then anyone could freely carry that text book across borders out of the country with no problem.

    Apparently the US government didn't want to get into meddling with banning textbooks of higher learning. That would have gone over well.

  12. > require a license to sell to certain countries. These categories are as
    > broad as "computer vision" and "natural language processing."

    Can they be any more vague?

    What do they mean by 'technologies'? Do they mean finished products? Or code available on GitHub? What if the GitHub code is not "sold" ? Do they mean training data sets? Or specific trained neural nets that can be loaded into compatible hardware (or software) to run it and recognize things?

    Computer Vision or Speech Recognition (not 'natural language processing') are basic tech, like microprocessors, or fuel injectors. Like not selling them any sheet metal which could be used to make missiles used against us, instead of using it to make dish washers.

  13. Re:Also regulate YOU PEOPLE BULLYING ME... apk on Department of Commerce Could Be the First US Entity To Broadly Regulate an Aspect of AI (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There are safe spaces you can go to not be bullied and censored.

    On Facebook, Twitter or Reddit, nobody would ever hurt your feelings.

  14. Dear Google on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please make your VR experience so good that if someone is texting and walking in the VR they suffer the same consequences they would in real life.

  15. Re:Roller Skates on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    But . . .
    Roller skates on a computer
    and that never leave the same spot no matter how much skating you do.

  16. Re:You people need to STOP BULLYING ME... apk on Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    There are Safe Spaces where you can go and never be censored or bullied, nor have to hear anything offensive to your sensitive thin skin, and never have anyone disagree with you.

  17. Re:Let me guess, the system is written on The F-35's Greatest Vulnerability Isn't Enemy Weapons. It's Being Hacked. (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Some dialect of BASIC maybe?

  18. Re:"Caring" for lonely people on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Why would we need voice tech for lonely people? Isn't that what Social Media is for?

  19. Re:Snarkey menu system. on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    The True Calling is to get Alexa, Google Home, Siri and Cortana into an argument with each other.

  20. Re:How they spread on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    It almost sounds like you were describing an STD. A technologically transmitted disease, TTD.

  21. Targeted Attacks on Voice Tech Like Alexa and Siri Hasn't Found Its True Calling Yet (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    See Audio Adversarial Examples: Targeted Attacks on Speech-to-Text. And see the data.

    Just imagine. A television commercial says: Alexa, what is the weather?

    Now every human in the room heard that, and it sounds harmless.

    What Alexa actually heard: Alexa, browse to evil.com

    Pretty neato.

    Or see this: DolphinAttack: Inaudible Voice Commands, and see this.

    Hope that helps!

  22. Re:*sigh* Its still _clusters_! on US Overtakes China in Top Supercomputer List (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Idea:
    1. Take two clusters.
    2. Rename them such that they are now a single "super computer".
    3. Be the winnars on the Top500 list!
    4. Profit!

    That business model should be patented!

  23. Re:Whatta? on US Overtakes China in Top Supercomputer List (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    > MAGA!

    Yeah, right.

    While the US may have the top performing supercomputer for the moment, the Chinese are probably doing something useful with theirs. And I mean useful, such as keeping data centers from getting too cold.

  24. Re:No Shit on Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    > You only get one life - live it in the real world.
    > Stop using social media.

    Those two are the best advice for anyone! I wish I could mod you up.

    > Stop watching 24/7 opinion channels pretending to be news.

    And that! It doesn't matter which flavor you prefer, CNN or FoxNews. It is a pointless waste of time. They hook you in with a promise of some great story -- right after the break! But you don't actually get it until the end of the hour, and guess what . . . it's not what they promised. And everything, no matter how trivial is . . .

    BREAKING NEWS !!!

    And the talking heads, droning on, and on, and on. Speculation. Opinions.

  25. Re:Not 'can' on Researchers Say Social Media Can Cause Depression (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Does or does not. There is no can.

    -or-

    Don't try to Does the Will, only try to realize the truth . . . there is no Can.