Slashdot Mirror


User: thinkwaitfast

thinkwaitfast's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,077
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,077

  1. Re:not so fast on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They were given a more than fair chance. Perhaps they didn't fit into the way most people live.

  2. Re:Why... on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    They don't, only /. and similar sites.

  3. Re:not so fast on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    failed to take off

    They wee one of the defining status symbols of the 1980's.

  4. Re:A few changes and the Chinese eBikes would be O on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You can buy conversion kits on ebay for under $200 and stick one on a $50 craigslist bike.

  5. Re:Will never happen in the U.S on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In the 1980's, mopeds were very cool and essentially the same capabilities as an ebike. Apparently you can even by electric mopeds at walmart for $250.

  6. Re:It's not safe... on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about now, but when I was a kid, golf carts were allowed on the road in Sun City, AZ and many people used them instead of cars.

  7. Re: It's not safe... on Electric Bikes Won Over China. Is the US Next? (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Why would someone in a car be more prone to die of car-caused pollution than a cyclist? I've been blasted in the face with black smoke countless times when riding a bike, but never on the bus.

  8. Re:Before anyone starts the FETUS wars... on Wheelchair-Bound Stroke Victim Walks Again After 'Unprecedented' Stem Cell Trial At Stanford (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    It needs a little salt, but OK as is.

  9. Re:'AI' is just media hype, no such thing exists y on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    My TI-94a calculator has AI. It can multiply 2 8-digt numbers in a millisecond. Can you do that? It is smarter than you.

  10. Re:1.9 million truckers on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    AI appears Zero truckers In one day

    Yeah, reality doesn't work like that. More like Day one AI appears, but 99.9999% of all trucks have not converted yet. The conversion process takes a few years for all truck to be retrofitted. No one has enough money to convert all trucks all at once. The teamsters union (largest and most powerful union in the US), sees this, implements a nationwide strike until the conversion stops shutting down all food delivery across the country. The government declares marshall law and uses the army for food dispersement. A few days later with newly enacted laws against driveless trucks food delivery stars up again.

  11. Re:Tech CEO's on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you should be able to make a lot of money shorting companies.

  12. Re:Yep, still years away from a True Scotsman. on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    How would you go about proving that there is nothing a human mind can't learn?

    Computational irreducibility

  13. You don't need AI to ride a bicycle.

    Fifth order linear control (differential equations).

  14. Re:If only we had artificial intelligence on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    We have at least seven billion instances of self-aware intelligences

    Source?

  15. MadLibs approach to coding! on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Isn't that how it works today?

  16. Re: Good Time To Start Carrying a Taser on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe, but a true AI will start out much slower than real time taking hours or days to finish a complete thought. Flip the breaker after it kills a few people.

  17. To be fair, on North Korea Ballistic Missile Explodes On Launch Fourth Straight Time · · Score: 1

    No one else has been able to develop a missile that has blown up more than once.

  18. Re:All hype on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 2

    backblow will be when it fails to deliver. Read up about the AI winter which happened in exactly the same way in the 1980s.

    I vividly remember this and attended colloquia with Dr. Hecht-Nielsen.

    Concerning backblow, I used to like to temper people's hype with reality, but found it more entertaining to add to the hype and watch the downfall eating popcorn. Evil, I know, but I found schadenfreude much less stressful than living with a cassandra complex.

  19. nascent technology on Tech CEOs Declare This the Era of Artificial Intelligence (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think it means what they seem to think it means

  20. Didn't talk of secret government databases on people used to be reserved for people who talked to themselves on buses? Interesting to see this going mainstream.

  21. It's only a black box if you believe that it does not follow rules, even if you do not understand what those rules are (god of the gaps). You cannot have free will in a system that follows rules

  22. Re: Recession is really a depression on US Death Rate Rises, Health Officials Aren't Sure Why (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1
    That sounds like a problem with Canada. And yeast, you can keep alive and reproduce in the refrigerator indefinitely, so you only have to buy once, if that.

    http://www.amazon.com/Conagra-...

  23. Re:That's because they don't know on Startups Can't Explain What They Do Because They're Addicted To Meaningless Jargon (qz.com) · · Score: 1
    ...Joking Mr F.... I think.

    I read it when it came out, so maybe 30 years ago.

  24. That sounds like a local city problem, not national. If you live in the US, there are plenty of places to live as inexpensively as SE Asia.

  25. Re:Just Solipsism and Faith-Based Nonsense on Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I think yo can prove that it cannot exist.