I've seen a huge increase in spam calls in the past year (at least 6 calls over the past two days). Luckily, my cell phone area code is from a place where I only lived for a few years so that when they spoof a number it's always from that area and easy to determine as clearly spam.
The video implies that they were from separate ova and sperm. So they are fraternal twins, and only share ~50% of their DNA. That far outweighs any genetic difference caused by the gene edit.
On average fraternal twins (or you could think of them just as siblings who aren't temporally separated) share 50% of their DNA. On a case by case basis, it can wildly vary, however. Theoretically it spans from 0% to 100%.
I'd say that if humans were seeing 'art' that they knew was created by AI then it would never be judged to be 'true art'. They would talk about how artificial it was or find some other trivial flaw.
On the other hand, if it was a randomized test in which people needed to distinguish between art created by AI and by human artist then I believe it would be more difficult task.
If you can't accurately predict which piece of art is created by AI and which is created by human artist, then it would pass something like an 'Art-Turing test' and could be called 'art'.
That's exactly what I do too. After switching to commuting by bike (8 miles each way), I can never go back to driving to work. If the weather is especially nasty, I'll take public transportation or telework.
Plus sides include getting my exercise in for the day on my way to/from work, I'm super relaxed and more productive at work, I'm not putting miles on my car...
I suppose I'm lucky to live in the reasonably dense mid-Atlantic with plenty of biking lanes and paths. I grew up in Indianapolis and couldn't imagine trying to commute by bike there. Too much hostility towards bikers.
What's that a running joke in Star Trek? Chekov would claim that you hadn't really heard Shakespeare until you'd heard it in the original Russian version or the like.
Spent a large portion of my summer vacation in a cabin in Nova Scotia that had no electricity and no one around for miles. It was the absolute best, most restful sleep that I've ever, ever had. Pitch dark every night.
Now that I think about it again, it's time to look for some good blackout curtains. Any recommendations?
Nice try. You were almost there, but you forgot that other people actually have reading comprehension.
The planet's global surface temperature last year was second warmest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, due to slight variation in the ways that they analyze temperatures.
They don't say that 1880 was one of the warmest years. It just since 1880.
Spoken to an Australian recently? I think they'd argue about 2018 being one of the coldest on record. I assume you meant to include "so far" and "here".
I didn't bring up political parties, Obama or Trump. My objection to gerrymandering goes beyond my political beliefs.
And just because this stuff has been going on for a long time doesn't make it right. Just because the party that I may support is directly benefitted doesn't make it right.
This idea that the system is broken because it produced a result you don't agree with is even MORE dangerous to democracy than gerrymandering.
The results with which I don't agree is that citizens are effectively disenfranchised regardless of who wins. And when did I ever say that I didn't support the party that directly gained from the redrawn districts?
I stopped in at a White Castle (Oh, I loves it so much) in Columbus, OH about a year ago that was kiosk-only ordering. Man, let me tell you that it was GREAT! You could customize every single burger or item to any degree you wanted with no problem. I couldn't imagine needing to replicate the same order with a person behind a counter. This burger with extra onions and pickles, this burger with bacon, this burger with this cheese and that burger with that cheese. It would be a lot of "hold on sir, what did you say again??".
That's the same reason that I only order Taco Bell through their app. Endless customization and no need to try to communicate those endless customizations to another human being.
Frankly, automation will be eliminating plenty of jobs in the future no matter how much we argue about the merits. Sometimes it will be a better experience for the customer and sometimes it will be a poorer experience. My experience with fast food ordering automation says that it will be a much better experience for the customer.
I had the same thing happen to me. Some coworkers and I were sitting around talking about talking about old school cereals. Cream of Wheat, Malt-o-meal and such. Just discussing the shit our parents made us eat. As usual, I had my phone (iphone if that matters) in my pocket.
The next day I checked my fantasy football team (ESPN, which serves ads) on my phone. Can you guess what I saw? It was an add for Cream of Wheat brand cereal! Spooky. I mean, really, I can't believe that brand actually still advertises.
Maybe it's the old man in me, but I really don't like the idea that my phone is probably spying on me and I'm certainly not going to bring other "personal assistants" into my house.
Doing your homework? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Doing your chores? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Brushed your teeth? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Picking out your outfit for the day? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Eating dinner? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
I feel like it's an important lesson that there is a time and a place for using your phone. I hope that these small lessons will help her when she eventually becomes a driver. Your phone can wait, please focus on the task at hand.
Check out the Nazi medical experimentation for starters.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that most certainly was done for ideology and not science.
They were attempting to use science to justify their ideology, which is just as bad as people who use religion to justify their ideology and no different.
Youngsters will have never heard of a "Virtual Boy" and will be confused by the name while old fogies (like myself) will remember just how bad the Virtual Boy was and make sure to steer clear of the "Virtual Boy 2".
I'm amazed that TFS says HIV as well as the first link. TFNA (The Fucking Nature Article) title is "AAV-expressed eCD4-Ig provides durable protection from multiple SHIV challenges". Wow, SHIV is right there in the title. Humans can be infected with "human immunodeficiency virus". Simians can be infected with "simian immunodeficiency virus".
Additionally, plenty of "monkeys" get SIV and don't become symptomatic because they're natural hosts. Rhesus macaques (as stated in the Nature article), however, are not natural hosts and do become symptomatic. Just using the over-arching term "monkey" is ridiculous for a "science" blog.
I've used my iPhone to track my steps as well as a FitBit to do so. I can agree from experience that they both track just as well as the other. The difference? My phone is much larger and is much more expensive to replace. I like that I don't have to bring my phone with me to track my activity when I'm out doing stuff (and no annoying calls). I also track my stats when playing ice hockey. What kind of fool would bring a phone for that?
They may be the same in terms of counting steps, but in terms of appropriateness in more situations the small, wrist based tracker wins.
My wife and I and our kids were just talking about TFA this morning. The reaction that I got from my kids (8 and 10) was something like "huh?". We live just a few doors from a park where all the neighborhood kids play together, unsupervised, when the weather is nice. I love being able to give them unsupervised play time! That's time when then can just be themselves and interact with their peers without adults there interfering. They get to explore and do all kinds of stuff.
My wife and I are even considering allowing our older child to take the Metro (public transit) to ballet by herself next year when she's in middle school.
It frustrates me that our parenting style is probably considered illegal and/or immoral by the county's standards. I'd say that obesity from spending too much time indoors in front of a screen instead of getting out there and mixing it up are greater dangers to our children.
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I've seen a huge increase in spam calls in the past year (at least 6 calls over the past two days). Luckily, my cell phone area code is from a place where I only lived for a few years so that when they spoof a number it's always from that area and easy to determine as clearly spam.
The video implies that they were from separate ova and sperm. So they are fraternal twins, and only share ~50% of their DNA. That far outweighs any genetic difference caused by the gene edit.
On average fraternal twins (or you could think of them just as siblings who aren't temporally separated) share 50% of their DNA. On a case by case basis, it can wildly vary, however. Theoretically it spans from 0% to 100%.
I'd say that if humans were seeing 'art' that they knew was created by AI then it would never be judged to be 'true art'. They would talk about how artificial it was or find some other trivial flaw.
On the other hand, if it was a randomized test in which people needed to distinguish between art created by AI and by human artist then I believe it would be more difficult task.
If you can't accurately predict which piece of art is created by AI and which is created by human artist, then it would pass something like an 'Art-Turing test' and could be called 'art'.
After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
That's exactly what I do too. After switching to commuting by bike (8 miles each way), I can never go back to driving to work. If the weather is especially nasty, I'll take public transportation or telework.
Plus sides include getting my exercise in for the day on my way to/from work, I'm super relaxed and more productive at work, I'm not putting miles on my car...
I suppose I'm lucky to live in the reasonably dense mid-Atlantic with plenty of biking lanes and paths. I grew up in Indianapolis and couldn't imagine trying to commute by bike there. Too much hostility towards bikers.
1/4 as good, 4x the price.
Just like kosher food!
What's that a running joke in Star Trek? Chekov would claim that you hadn't really heard Shakespeare until you'd heard it in the original Russian version or the like.
Spent a large portion of my summer vacation in a cabin in Nova Scotia that had no electricity and no one around for miles. It was the absolute best, most restful sleep that I've ever, ever had. Pitch dark every night.
Now that I think about it again, it's time to look for some good blackout curtains. Any recommendations?
The planet's global surface temperature last year was second warmest since 1880, NASA says. NOAA calls it the third warmest year on record, due to slight variation in the ways that they analyze temperatures.
They don't say that 1880 was one of the warmest years. It just since 1880.
Spoken to an Australian recently? I think they'd argue about 2018 being one of the coldest on record. I assume you meant to include "so far" and "here".
http://www.cnn.com/2018/01/10/...
And just because this stuff has been going on for a long time doesn't make it right. Just because the party that I may support is directly benefitted doesn't make it right.
This idea that the system is broken because it produced a result you don't agree with is even MORE dangerous to democracy than gerrymandering.
The results with which I don't agree is that citizens are effectively disenfranchised regardless of who wins. And when did I ever say that I didn't support the party that directly gained from the redrawn districts?
Purposely changing election maps in order to effectively disenfranchise citizens is unconstitutional? You've got to be kidding me.
...however, I'm not holding my breath.
In all seriousness, I do hope that something like this will be implemented in its stead:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
I stopped in at a White Castle (Oh, I loves it so much) in Columbus, OH about a year ago that was kiosk-only ordering. Man, let me tell you that it was GREAT! You could customize every single burger or item to any degree you wanted with no problem. I couldn't imagine needing to replicate the same order with a person behind a counter. This burger with extra onions and pickles, this burger with bacon, this burger with this cheese and that burger with that cheese. It would be a lot of "hold on sir, what did you say again??".
That's the same reason that I only order Taco Bell through their app. Endless customization and no need to try to communicate those endless customizations to another human being.
Frankly, automation will be eliminating plenty of jobs in the future no matter how much we argue about the merits. Sometimes it will be a better experience for the customer and sometimes it will be a poorer experience. My experience with fast food ordering automation says that it will be a much better experience for the customer.
I had the same thing happen to me. Some coworkers and I were sitting around talking about talking about old school cereals. Cream of Wheat, Malt-o-meal and such. Just discussing the shit our parents made us eat. As usual, I had my phone (iphone if that matters) in my pocket.
The next day I checked my fantasy football team (ESPN, which serves ads) on my phone. Can you guess what I saw? It was an add for Cream of Wheat brand cereal! Spooky. I mean, really, I can't believe that brand actually still advertises.
Maybe it's the old man in me, but I really don't like the idea that my phone is probably spying on me and I'm certainly not going to bring other "personal assistants" into my house.
Besides, a stray dog or cat did NOT CHOOSE that lifestyle.
As many as 33% of the homeless have serious mental illness so I'd say that they hardly chose that lifestyle. I'd argue that even more have less "serious" mental illness.
http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/features-and-news/2596-how-many-people-with-serious-mental-illness-are-homeless
Makes me happy to know that we use primary cells in the research in my lab rather than cell lines.
Still, I wonder how many primary cell lines become contaminated with immortalized in labs where both are cultured in the same space?
And the innocent (maybe stupid, maybe smart, maybe average) people that die because of the "Stupid People" who coincidently die?
There is a time and a place for using your phone
Doing your homework? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Doing your chores? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Brushed your teeth? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Picking out your outfit for the day? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
Eating dinner? Nope, don't use your phone because you'll be distracted by your friends.
I feel like it's an important lesson that there is a time and a place for using your phone. I hope that these small lessons will help her when she eventually becomes a driver. Your phone can wait, please focus on the task at hand.
Check out the Nazi medical experimentation for starters.
I hate to burst your bubble, but that most certainly was done for ideology and not science.
They were attempting to use science to justify their ideology, which is just as bad as people who use religion to justify their ideology and no different.
Youngsters will have never heard of a "Virtual Boy" and will be confused by the name while old fogies (like myself) will remember just how bad the Virtual Boy was and make sure to steer clear of the "Virtual Boy 2".
Are you bleeding from your eyeballs? Well, you might have Ebola.
Tada!
Um, SHIV is a man-made construct. It's SIV with the envelope coding region from HIV.
I'm amazed that TFS says HIV as well as the first link. TFNA (The Fucking Nature Article) title is "AAV-expressed eCD4-Ig provides durable protection from multiple SHIV challenges". Wow, SHIV is right there in the title. Humans can be infected with "human immunodeficiency virus". Simians can be infected with "simian immunodeficiency virus".
Additionally, plenty of "monkeys" get SIV and don't become symptomatic because they're natural hosts. Rhesus macaques (as stated in the Nature article), however, are not natural hosts and do become symptomatic. Just using the over-arching term "monkey" is ridiculous for a "science" blog.
I've used my iPhone to track my steps as well as a FitBit to do so. I can agree from experience that they both track just as well as the other. The difference? My phone is much larger and is much more expensive to replace. I like that I don't have to bring my phone with me to track my activity when I'm out doing stuff (and no annoying calls). I also track my stats when playing ice hockey. What kind of fool would bring a phone for that?
They may be the same in terms of counting steps, but in terms of appropriateness in more situations the small, wrist based tracker wins.
My wife and I and our kids were just talking about TFA this morning. The reaction that I got from my kids (8 and 10) was something like "huh?". We live just a few doors from a park where all the neighborhood kids play together, unsupervised, when the weather is nice. I love being able to give them unsupervised play time! That's time when then can just be themselves and interact with their peers without adults there interfering. They get to explore and do all kinds of stuff.
My wife and I are even considering allowing our older child to take the Metro (public transit) to ballet by herself next year when she's in middle school.
It frustrates me that our parenting style is probably considered illegal and/or immoral by the county's standards. I'd say that obesity from spending too much time indoors in front of a screen instead of getting out there and mixing it up are greater dangers to our children.
We all know that cavemen lived to be at least 150 years old due to their superior diet!!!
Seriously, though, I have no doubt that there are some health benefits to eating more leafy greens and fewer starches, but this guy is whacko.