is that they're doing it with robots now. It used to be only humans could do this kind of pretty fine grain work.
It probably relies on the components all being in the exact same place. If you really want to f*ck with Liam, open your old iPhone and rearrange the innards prior to sending it back to Apple for recycling.
As we move forward, the demand for goods will be lower than the supply of labor needed to produce those goods. Accelerating automation will exacerbate that problem ten fold.
This problem will be solved by robots that consume things that are made by other robots. In so far as consumers are already robots, figuratively speaking, it's not much of a conceptual leap to imagine the transformation of consumers into literal robots. It will be an economy by robots, for robots, and hopefully they will show some charity to us humans begging in the streets.
If the keys alternate in brightness, that would only tell you which half of the keys the user is looking at, not which particular key... unless I'm missing some handwaving mojo someplace.
There is no eye tracking. As you have observed, the system can only tell which half of the keys the user is looking at, so the system is only asking a binary question at each stage. The trick is that the letters change places within the groups depending on which groups the user attends to in earlier questions. This is an example of a binary search. Suppose the letter is H, it would work something like this:
Is the letter in the set ABCDEFGHIJKLM or NOPQRSTUVWXYZ? (user fixates on first set) Is the letter in the set ABCDEF or GHIJKLM? (user fixates on second set) Is the letter in the set GHIJ or KLM? (user fixates on first set) Is the letter in the set GH or IJ? (user fixates on first set) Is the letter in the set G or H? (user fixates on second set)
It only takes five choices for the system to determine precisely what letter the user is looking at.
If you can't move your eyes at all, then I don't see how you can "attend" to anything. Vision isn't possible without continuous saccades, your eyes are always moving.
You can actually focus your attention on objects in your periphery without moving you eyes to it. In vision therapy there is an exercise where you stare fixedly at a dot in the center of the page while finding letters that are scattered throughout the page. You can actually do this with some practice, although it's not particularly natural. Here is the exercise:
An interesting aspect of the test is that letters away from the center are printed much larger since the resolution of your vision drops sharply the further away you get from the fixation point.
It appears as if the letters are separated into two groups and that within that group the alternation of brightness is perfectly synchronized to the other letters in the group and opposite the color to the letters in the opposing group. Smaller sets of letters are presented over time until one letter is chosen. So this appears to be a binary search that reads one bit at a time, based strictly on the phase of the brightness signal.
What makes me wonder is why this is so constrained. Could the brightness of each letter be controlled independently to encode the letter directly? Perhaps the user could be presented with a full keyboard, with each "key's" brightness modulated to a different binary code. Presumably then the code of the character that the user was fixating on could be read from the pupil diameter variation directly?
To really piss off telemarketers, the robot should give itself away after a few minutes by saying "this has been a recording. Have a nice day." In this sample call, the telemarketer just eventually hung up, thinking he was talking to a person who just had too much time on their hands. I think the reaction would have been better had he known he had been duped by a machine.
No it isn't. Just forward a few ports and you are done.
And make sure you have a public IP address and DNS entry, make sure you are up on your security patches on your server and have help desk staff to help people configure their mobiles, etc. Furthermore, outsourcing e-mail typically gives you mobile device management, two-factor authentication and a lot of extra goodies. It's very hard to implement the complete package yourself.
Also, mobile devices. It's very hard to support mobile devices if your e-mail server is behind a firewall. So mail naturally moved to the cloud for most businesses. Once you're paying someone to host an Exchange server, you might as well pay them manage it, hence the rise of Office365 and what not.
Because pretty much everyone uses gmail, yahoo, Office365 or some other mail service which already does spam filtering. The only person in recent history that I know of running a private e-mail server was Hillary Clinton and see how much good it did her...
Is it good enough for the Oculus Rift? That's all I care about now, as I look to replace my 5 year old laptop with something Rift capable when it comes out next year.
Was it Dumas that said he liked to do his writing in a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, because it was the only place in town where he couldn't see the thing?
Guy de Maupassant, according to the same wikipedia article.
We've had people complaining from headaches caused by a cell tower.. which was never switched on. So I would not take people protests as a consistent sign that regulations must be changed. These protests sometimes just mean that something HAS changed.
According to Wikipedia, even the Eiffel Tower was highly objected to when it was first proposed. Here is the petition, which is quite fun to read, in retrospect:
"We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection... of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower... To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years... we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal."
They offered me [perks], they offered me everything but cash
The deal is that thanks to Congress NASA has no budget. They are scrambling to put together a bake sale to raise money for buying the rover, but it's hard to get aerospace engineers to bake anything that someone else would want to buy and eat.
But diesels can meet emission standards honestly if auto makers include a urea tank. They just fear consumer reaction to having another consumable fluid (that needs to be refilled every 9 thousand miles, or so) .
If auto makers were more like NASA, they would realize that the car already has a totally free and renewable supply of urea that could be tapped to solve this problem, as well as having the fortunate side of effect of ensuring a much longer uninterrupted driving range for the vehicle's operator.
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is that they're doing it with robots now. It used to be only humans could do this kind of pretty fine grain work.
It probably relies on the components all being in the exact same place. If you really want to f*ck with Liam, open your old iPhone and rearrange the innards prior to sending it back to Apple for recycling.
Careful, make sure you don't lose it.
Blood vessels are designed to carry, you know, blood. I'm not sure I want electrodes starving off the portions of my brain it is recording.
... You're blocking my Internet!
This is great for digital artists that work in 2D, but what about 3D models? Will this drive squash the files down to 2D?
As we move forward, the demand for goods will be lower than the supply of labor needed to produce those goods. Accelerating automation will exacerbate that problem ten fold.
This problem will be solved by robots that consume things that are made by other robots. In so far as consumers are already robots, figuratively speaking, it's not much of a conceptual leap to imagine the transformation of consumers into literal robots. It will be an economy by robots, for robots, and hopefully they will show some charity to us humans begging in the streets.
Is SpaceX taking a page out of AMD's playbook now?
If the keys alternate in brightness, that would only tell you which half of the keys the user is looking at, not which particular key... unless I'm missing some handwaving mojo someplace.
There is no eye tracking. As you have observed, the system can only tell which half of the keys the user is looking at, so the system is only asking a binary question at each stage. The trick is that the letters change places within the groups depending on which groups the user attends to in earlier questions. This is an example of a binary search. Suppose the letter is H, it would work something like this:
Is the letter in the set ABCDEFGHIJKLM or NOPQRSTUVWXYZ? (user fixates on first set)
Is the letter in the set ABCDEF or GHIJKLM? (user fixates on second set)
Is the letter in the set GHIJ or KLM? (user fixates on first set)
Is the letter in the set GH or IJ? (user fixates on first set)
Is the letter in the set G or H? (user fixates on second set)
It only takes five choices for the system to determine precisely what letter the user is looking at.
If you can't move your eyes at all, then I don't see how you can "attend" to anything. Vision isn't possible without continuous saccades, your eyes are always moving.
You can actually focus your attention on objects in your periphery without moving you eyes to it. In vision therapy there is an exercise where you stare fixedly at a dot in the center of the page while finding letters that are scattered throughout the page. You can actually do this with some practice, although it's not particularly natural. Here is the exercise:
https://visionhelp.files.wordp...
An interesting aspect of the test is that letters away from the center are printed much larger since the resolution of your vision drops sharply the further away you get from the fixation point.
It appears as if the letters are separated into two groups and that within that group the alternation of brightness is perfectly synchronized to the other letters in the group and opposite the color to the letters in the opposing group. Smaller sets of letters are presented over time until one letter is chosen. So this appears to be a binary search that reads one bit at a time, based strictly on the phase of the brightness signal.
What makes me wonder is why this is so constrained. Could the brightness of each letter be controlled independently to encode the letter directly? Perhaps the user could be presented with a full keyboard, with each "key's" brightness modulated to a different binary code. Presumably then the code of the character that the user was fixating on could be read from the pupil diameter variation directly?
Can't wait until the DoD moves forward with Windows 10 and defense contractors have to disable this telemetry reporting.
An excerpt from a leaked Microsoft document reveal that the DoD version of Windows 10 will have the following additional build step:
win10-build-server$ sed -i telemetry.dll -e 's/microsoft.com/nsa.gov/g'
To really piss off telemarketers, the robot should give itself away after a few minutes by saying "this has been a recording. Have a nice day." In this sample call, the telemarketer just eventually hung up, thinking he was talking to a person who just had too much time on their hands. I think the reaction would have been better had he known he had been duped by a machine.
I once came across a CAT5E cable with a warning that it contained lead and that I should wash my hands after handling it.
I didn't.
Otherwise our boot loaders are going to get a hell of a lot more bloated with video drivers.
BTW, I wonder if text mode is ever going to go away...
No it isn't. Just forward a few ports and you are done.
And make sure you have a public IP address and DNS entry, make sure you are up on your security patches on your server and have help desk staff to help people configure their mobiles, etc. Furthermore, outsourcing e-mail typically gives you mobile device management, two-factor authentication and a lot of extra goodies. It's very hard to implement the complete package yourself.
Also, mobile devices. It's very hard to support mobile devices if your e-mail server is behind a firewall. So mail naturally moved to the cloud for most businesses. Once you're paying someone to host an Exchange server, you might as well pay them manage it, hence the rise of Office365 and what not.
Because pretty much everyone uses gmail, yahoo, Office365 or some other mail service which already does spam filtering. The only person in recent history that I know of running a private e-mail server was Hillary Clinton and see how much good it did her...
Is it good enough for the Oculus Rift? That's all I care about now, as I look to replace my 5 year old laptop with something Rift capable when it comes out next year.
Was it Dumas that said he liked to do his writing in a restaurant in the Eiffel Tower, because it was the only place in town where he couldn't see the thing?
Guy de Maupassant, according to the same wikipedia article.
We've had people complaining from headaches caused by a cell tower.. which was never switched on.
So I would not take people protests as a consistent sign that regulations must be changed. These protests sometimes just mean that something HAS changed.
According to Wikipedia, even the Eiffel Tower was highly objected to when it was first proposed. Here is the petition, which is quite fun to read, in retrospect:
"We, writers, painters, sculptors, architects and passionate devotees of the hitherto untouched beauty of Paris, protest with all our strength, with all our indignation in the name of slighted French taste, against the erection ... of this useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower ... To bring our arguments home, imagine for a moment a giddy, ridiculous tower dominating Paris like a gigantic black smokestack, crushing under its barbaric bulk Notre Dame, the Tour Saint-Jacques, the Louvre, the Dome of les Invalides, the Arc de Triomphe, all of our humiliated monuments will disappear in this ghastly dream. And for twenty years ... we shall see stretching like a blot of ink the hateful shadow of the hateful column of bolted sheet metal."
They offered me [perks], they offered me everything but cash
The deal is that thanks to Congress NASA has no budget. They are scrambling to put together a bake sale to raise money for buying the rover, but it's hard to get aerospace engineers to bake anything that someone else would want to buy and eat.
Will it blend?
So the solution to having to many people is to make more people? Got it.
But diesels can meet emission standards honestly if auto makers include a urea tank. They just fear consumer reaction to having another consumable fluid (that needs to be refilled every 9 thousand miles, or so) .
If auto makers were more like NASA, they would realize that the car already has a totally free and renewable supply of urea that could be tapped to solve this problem, as well as having the fortunate side of effect of ensuring a much longer uninterrupted driving range for the vehicle's operator.
...it's the rapid deceleration event upon encounter with the ground that does it.