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  1. Re:robots will just push the manufacturing back to on Foxconn Cuts 60,000 Jobs, Replaces With Robots (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    No, all the new robotics equipment will be made in the U.S. by robots.

  2. Re:Any day now! on Craig Wright Claims He's Satoshi Nakamoto, the Creator Of Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Well? Did he ever meet anybody else with a Zune?

  3. Wikipedia has details on this on Half of Scotland's Energy Consumption Came From Renewables Last Year (heraldscotland.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Wind, wave and tide make up more than 80% of Scotland's renewable energy. They are considering nuclear as renewable in the 57% figure.

  4. Re:Stupidity abound on Berlin Gets First Taste of In-Store Vertical Micro-Farms (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    That's right, it will never work!

    For example, the population of Houston, TX (Harris County is 4.337 million people.
    The area of Harris County is 1,777 square miles or 4.60e+09 square meters.
    The solar insolence of Houston is 5 kWh/m/day.
    So that yields 2.30e+10 kWh/day.
    Divide that by the population and that's 5.306 Megawatt hours per person per day.
    Who's going to be satisfied with only 5.306 MWh?

  5. Map Blindness on Drivers Need To Forget Their GPS · · Score: 1

    I call it map blindness when someone doesn't constantly maintain or at least try to maintain a map in their mind whenever they go somewhere. One of my office mates can be considered map blind. When he gets off of the elevator after arriving at our floor he has to look around to get his bearings visually in order to figure out which way to go to the office. This is especially because there are 2 + 2 elevators on opposite sides of the hall in our building. Whereas another office mate can point out the directions in 3 dimensions of any destination or office in our building,

    The point is different people have different skills in this area. I sort of assume it to be innate.

  6. Unsupervised Learning on Wolves Howl In Different 'Dialects,' Machine Learning Finds (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a textbook case of unsupervised learning. Andrew Ng would be proud.

  7. Re:Timothy step away from the computer. on Harnessing Artificial Intelligence To Build an Army of Virtual Analysts · · Score: 1

    When was the last time anyone other than Timothy posted an article on Slashdot? (I gave up after scrolling through to Saturday) This guy must be the last man standing, working 24/7 after some sort of staff reduction.

  8. Re:vacation on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it's a four-piece body and the successor company is researching a five-piece body for the Space Launch System. (TIL)

  9. Re:Speed of Light on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    While that could explain why sunrise reaches two points of the globe at different times, it fails when considering the timing of sunset for the same two points.

  10. What about WebSockets? on Firefox 44 Arrives With Push Notifications (mozilla.org) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Web push is already easily handled through WebSockets. I wrote a couple applications that are able to handle hundreds of random notifications per second coming from a server. Works with Chrome, Firefox and even IE. Older versions of IE require a polyfill but even that works great.

  11. Seems simple to me on Can Author Obfuscation Trump Forensic Linguistics? (webis.de) · · Score: 1

    All the obfuscation software has to do is change things so it casts enough doubt. I assume the stylometry analysis doesn't return a 1 or 0, it probably returns a probability. Once the probability is below a certain threshold, the job is done. An example of obfuscating: How about a simple machine translation to another language?

  12. Measures -> Counter Measures -> Repeat

  13. Oops? on Seismic Data From North Korea Suggest a Repeat of 2013 Nuclear Test · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Unfounded speculation here but...Maybe this was a mistake where they really thought they had achieved H bomb detonation because in order to do so, you must first detonate a fission bomb. Except the H bomb, for whatever reason, didn't work.

    I mean, let me ask you this, would you like to be the guy that tells Mr. Un that the H bomb fizzled?

  14. Re:Good times there in the 90's on A History of Innovation and Dysfunction At Los Alamos National Laboratory (santafenewmexican.com) · · Score: 1

    "Hey look, Jim, there's a 'Property of D.O.E.' sticker on each rim of this Lambo!

  15. Hmm, I may have an unfair advantage after having read the top of this page but, if I ventured a guess I would say a group called "BlackEnergy?"

  16. Coursera, Andrew Ng on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Sign up for Coursera and take Andrew Ng's Machine Learning course. It's excellent (took it twice).

  17. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 5, Informative

    For the genetics part see Gregor Johann Mendel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Mendel was a monk.

  18. The Most Interesting User In the World! on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 1

    I don't always connect to my ISP using dial-up on a 1200 baud modem with an acoustic coupler, but when I do, I use Kermit!

  19. Kermit on Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Whenever I dial up to my ISP on my 1200 baud modem using an acoustic coupler, I prefer using Kermit!

    http://www.columbia.edu/kermit...

  20. If I were king... on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I'd define a second to be exactly 1/86,400th of a day (where a day is the time for the earth to rotate about it's axis in reference to the sun)

    Thereby making each second a unique length of time. Each second going forward is slightly longer than the previous one. For consistency of measurement you must specify which second you are referring to. For example give me a second*, will ya? *The second that will occur on April 30, 2017, 16:07:54 UTC.

  21. An...an... while they're at it... on Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Make water boil at 200F and make pi be 3 again!

  22. Re:As expected on Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Nonsense, it just takes the right equipment and practice. You will want a fixed-wing drone that can fly at least 250 MPH. That will enable you to hover, fly backwards and forwards.

  23. I don't get your point at all, 238Pu has an energy density of 0.5 W/g and 90Sr has 0.536 W/g so that means it gives off a bit more energy per gram than Plutonium. Both elements are beta emitters so should have the same shielding requirements. Both have been flight-proven in RTGs.

  24. Re:Don't over-think it on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I heard this on the Ted Radio Hour. Kids were learning how to use the computer even when the computer was in another language the kids weren't familiar with.

  25. Re: There's more to it than developing the drugs. on What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? · · Score: 1

    Rabies vaccine is only $40k? What a bargain Hepatitis C drugs cost $80k.