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  1. UK knows speed? Princess Diana's death? on Microsoft Money Leads To Street-Legal Porsche 959s · · Score: 1

    You would have to admit the element of speed helped contribute to Princess Di's death. If she was in a car that had a regulated speed chances are she would still be alive. On the note of motorcycle safety, all of the UK statistics I have seen show motorcycle fatalities from accidents increasing. Here's a report from Bristol City from 2001 that shows this: http://www.bristol-city.gov.uk/traffic/pdf/tt_pol_ safety_casualtyrep.pdf Just do a google search and you will find plenty of statistical arguments that show that motorcyclists have a more difficult time surviving accidents than those in cars. And if motorcycles make it easier for one to avoid an accident, then why have the accident rates been increasing?

  2. Re:How accurate is it? on Skulls Gain Virtual Faces · · Score: 2, Interesting

    By itself the technique may not add accuracy but will save time when rendering these models (obviously).

    To better enhance accuracy, the process should produce multiple image results to account for differences in skin color and weight changes, as previously mentioned.

    Perhaps this technique can be correlated with genetic attributes from the skeleton. These attributes may help determine the skin color, genetic weight predisposition, and any other physical attributes that can be ascertained from the genetic sequences.

    Of course, not all variables external to the genetic code would be accounted for. Unless you can correlate the person's features with anything from the civilization and era the person belonged to.

  3. The article doesn't say linux will be locked out. on Microsoft's Athens PC · · Score: 1

    So, is everyone getting fired up over news or embelishments to news? Athens is a prototype system, with a lot of PR-spin behind it. Companies display prototypes all the time. It's nothing to get bent out of shape over.

  4. Turing test? A few thoughts. on Kasparov OpEd On His Latest Match · · Score: 1

    I think to make the chess program pass the Turing test it would have to be able to understand when it's feasible submit a draw, and how to evaluate a draw proposal. This would exhibit the human behavior associated with "taking chances" and evaluating risks.

    I think during the Kasparov/Deep Junior tournament that the Deep Junior program creators were evaluating the draw proposals.

    Other attributes to make the chess program seem like a human player would be to add simulated fatigue and rare miscalcuations.

    Also, did IBM state their chess program was all about accomplishing the Turing test, or were they just trying to make a program that could beat a top-level human player? Or were they trying for both objectives?