It wasn't AI. The original script for the ending showed that a family man was controlling the dog from the comfort of their home office.
The first draft, though, afforded us a glimpse behind the curtain. "Originally, we also showed a human operator operating the dog robot from across the ocean at his house," Brooker told Entertainment Weekly.
"There was a bit I liked, where he leaves the [control unit] while the robot is watching her while she's up in the tree and he goes and gives his kids a bath. But it felt a bit weird and too on-the-nose. It kind of felt superfluous. We deliberately pared it back."
Giving the entire US an F in science reminds me of the Doomsday clock (a few minutes from the world's destruction!!). Making these sort of statements is just hyperbole intended to grab attention. Saying these sort of things immediately drops the speaker's credibility.
I'm guilty of interviewing by asking (almost exclusively) language questions, CS theory, and programming small functions.
Knowing any language well correlates with a person who hones their craft and continually improves.
Solving problems with optimal algorithms correlates with with someone who can think through complex problems.
For me, asking about previous experience isn't as valuable because it can't be verified on the spot. So it boils down to: "show me your skills" vs "tell me about your skills".
The standard recommendation to reduce eye fatigue when using a computer screen is to stare off into the distance every so often. By using reading glasses, and with the right diopter, you can let your eyes focus as if looking into the distance while still focusing on your screen.
This has notably reduced eye fatigue for me.
If you wear contacts or don't need any correction, I recommend getting +1.5 diopter reading glasses if you sit a couple feet from your monitor, and less if you sit further. To test it out, go to a drugstore, pick some text that is the same distance as your monitor. Let your eyes relax as if staring off in the distance, and pick the diopter which gives the sharpest text
If you have glasses already, you can order a new pair and add 1.5 to your existing prescription. You can order online without a prescription (I used Zenni optical)
I stumbled upon a solution while taking an online course... watching the lecture at 2x speed helped me focus.
It turns out that watching a lecture in real time allows me to get bored and I end up doing a context switch. Perhaps distraction isn't the problem, but in this age, we've learned to process information more quickly.
Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks
The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/) A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller If you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=428636) 12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh Wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh 5e9 kWh *.05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars
This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars
Let's math:
Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks
The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/)
A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller
if you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (using this formula: http://www.physicsforums.com/s...)
12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh
wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh
5e9 kWh *.05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars
This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars
If the inability to code review spreadsheets was a real issue, it wouldn't be too hard to convert spreadsheet functions into a functional language. For non-programmers, a spreadsheet lowers the barrier to entry. This allows people to do something useful and productive who couldn't do so otherwise. That's a good thing.
It's interesting that the treatment is hypothesized to have failed for people who already had measles antibodies. Perhaps the "extinct" viruses the CDC keeps around might be good for engineering future treatments.
With a light colored hood, the heads up display during the day would be washed out.
I imagine that cars with this technology would benefit from a matte black hood, making future cars look like modders with carbon fiber hoods. Next, we'll see some technology that requires a huge spoiler:)
+5 insightful? 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of workers to roles? While it would be fun to feed into the frenzy going on in this message board, that means for every job, there are 1 or 2 unemployed people... 50-66% unemployment And before you say that they're just underemployed, I've interviewed hundreds of candidates and the vast majority can't do simple aspects of the job (in my case, it was to write code). So, no, you're dead wrong and the people who modded you just have some sort of agenda or lack critical thinking
Exactly, let's factor in the cost of my time sitting in traffic. If you assume 1 extra hour round trip at 1.5x pay, $100k turns in to $84k for the time you're actually at work and $16k for sitting in traffic. Until self driving cars come along, you'll be staring at the truck in front of you for a non-trivial portion of your life
The great recession of 2009 became the justification of many companies to lay off workers despite healthyrevenue and increasingprofits. While this may contribute to the GDP, it doesn't do much for employment.
This study doesn't have to do with dreams so much as word association. If you think that multiple cultures having similar dream interpretation reinforces anything about what the dreams actually mean, you'd be a bit misled
You're missing the point of the GP post. Yes, if you eat more calories, you're going to get fatter than if you didn't. But his point is this: why are some people constantly hungry when they eat the same amount of food that fills another person? What in the environment is changing that is causing various groups of research animals (across different species) to increase their weight over the years? According to this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/, the odds of this trend happening by chance is 1.2 × 10^7.
Before you start with righteous indignation, maybe you could try playing the game created by this specific algorithm? It seems like it might be fun. Any takers?
Exactly -- I'm looking for a consistent quality ACROSS brands. Certification should mean that el cheapo brand performs well, and that I don't need to do my own test to see which brands work better or to pay more for a more expensive brand because it might work better
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It wasn't AI. The original script for the ending showed that a family man was controlling the dog from the comfort of their home office.
The skeptic in me wonders if 80% of the combinations had no reaction
They don't need a guide dog... too slow, hard to maintain, and move around. An infrared HUD would be perfect for this
Giving the entire US an F in science reminds me of the Doomsday clock (a few minutes from the world's destruction!!). Making these sort of statements is just hyperbole intended to grab attention. Saying these sort of things immediately drops the speaker's credibility.
I'm guilty of interviewing by asking (almost exclusively) language questions, CS theory, and programming small functions.
Knowing any language well correlates with a person who hones their craft and continually improves.
Solving problems with optimal algorithms correlates with with someone who can think through complex problems.
For me, asking about previous experience isn't as valuable because it can't be verified on the spot. So it boils down to: "show me your skills" vs "tell me about your skills".
Are you a hot magnet company? (well known pre-IPO) Are you paying above market value?
My guess is that the best devs have already been scooped up, and the ones interviewing are comfortable enough where they are
The standard recommendation to reduce eye fatigue when using a computer screen is to stare off into the distance every so often. By using reading glasses, and with the right diopter, you can let your eyes focus as if looking into the distance while still focusing on your screen.
This has notably reduced eye fatigue for me.
If you wear contacts or don't need any correction, I recommend getting +1.5 diopter reading glasses if you sit a couple feet from your monitor, and less if you sit further. To test it out, go to a drugstore, pick some text that is the same distance as your monitor. Let your eyes relax as if staring off in the distance, and pick the diopter which gives the sharpest text
If you have glasses already, you can order a new pair and add 1.5 to your existing prescription. You can order online without a prescription (I used Zenni optical)
I stumbled upon a solution while taking an online course... watching the lecture at 2x speed helped me focus.
It turns out that watching a lecture in real time allows me to get bored and I end up doing a context switch. Perhaps distraction isn't the problem, but in this age, we've learned to process information more quickly.
"No... just, you know, growing a new liver and heart in mah belly"
(sorry, lost formatting)
Let's math:
Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks
The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/) .05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars
A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller
If you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=428636)
12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh
Wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh
5e9 kWh *
This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars
Let's math: Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/) A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller if you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (using this formula: http://www.physicsforums.com/s...) 12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh 5e9 kWh * .05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars
This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars
If the inability to code review spreadsheets was a real issue, it wouldn't be too hard to convert spreadsheet functions into a functional language. For non-programmers, a spreadsheet lowers the barrier to entry. This allows people to do something useful and productive who couldn't do so otherwise. That's a good thing.
It's interesting that the treatment is hypothesized to have failed for people who already had measles antibodies. Perhaps the "extinct" viruses the CDC keeps around might be good for engineering future treatments.
With a light colored hood, the heads up display during the day would be washed out.
:)
I imagine that cars with this technology would benefit from a matte black hood, making future cars look like modders with carbon fiber hoods. Next, we'll see some technology that requires a huge spoiler
+5 insightful? 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of workers to roles? While it would be fun to feed into the frenzy going on in this message board, that means for every job, there are 1 or 2 unemployed people... 50-66% unemployment And before you say that they're just underemployed, I've interviewed hundreds of candidates and the vast majority can't do simple aspects of the job (in my case, it was to write code). So, no, you're dead wrong and the people who modded you just have some sort of agenda or lack critical thinking
Exactly, let's factor in the cost of my time sitting in traffic. If you assume 1 extra hour round trip at 1.5x pay, $100k turns in to $84k for the time you're actually at work and $16k for sitting in traffic. Until self driving cars come along, you'll be staring at the truck in front of you for a non-trivial portion of your life
The great recession of 2009 became the justification of many companies to lay off workers despite healthy revenue and increasing profits. While this may contribute to the GDP, it doesn't do much for employment.
This study doesn't have to do with dreams so much as word association. If you think that multiple cultures having similar dream interpretation reinforces anything about what the dreams actually mean, you'd be a bit misled
You're missing the point of the GP post. Yes, if you eat more calories, you're going to get fatter than if you didn't. But his point is this: why are some people constantly hungry when they eat the same amount of food that fills another person? What in the environment is changing that is causing various groups of research animals (across different species) to increase their weight over the years? According to this paper: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/, the odds of this trend happening by chance is 1.2 × 10^7.
Except that will to persevere and pleasure are two distinctly different things.
Let's say I'm a CEO. Anyone below the 20:1 salary ratio gets "outsourced" to a different company sharing the same parent company.
Moments before a car accident, things seem to slow down and reaction times increase... because adrenaline would increase your metabolic rate
It depends on how much talent versus how much skill. You COULD just calculate the area under the curve to get total value...
Before you start with righteous indignation, maybe you could try playing the game created by this specific algorithm? It seems like it might be fun. Any takers?
Exactly -- I'm looking for a consistent quality ACROSS brands. Certification should mean that el cheapo brand performs well, and that I don't need to do my own test to see which brands work better or to pay more for a more expensive brand because it might work better