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  1. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Just" sloppy, you say? Because any group of 50 undergraduates is as close to the Platonic ideal as any group of 50 trillion electrons?

    WTF are you talking about?

  2. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Then publish the extra details somewhere else.
    If you are working at a university, the university's website will
    almost certainly provide space for your more detailed description.
    No excuse.

  3. Re:Fake science/sloppy science on Most Scientists 'Can't Replicate Studies By Their Peers' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Nothing to stop you publishing the added material on your own website.

  4. Re:that's it. the end game. on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    BUT this also has the potential to free us from work, specially repetitive low paid work.

    And at the same time, free us from having food to eat or a roof over our head.

  5. Re:How is that supposed to happen? on Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    And if there's really nothing else (not very likely in the foreseeable future),

    For tens of millions in the US (and hundreds of millions around the world) there is nothing else right now.

  6. Re:All I want is a goddamned car. on Researchers Discover Security Problems Under the Hood of Automobile Apps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes:http://nano.tatamotors.com/price-list-delhi.html.
    About 4 grand US. (That's four not forty).

  7. Fortran, especially classic Fortran 77, is really lacking in many ways

    But perfectly adequate for solving differential equations, which is the main task of scientific and engineering programs.

  8. Re:On regulation of AI development on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Before you are allowed to put a driverless car on the market, you must demonstrate that a prototype can drive so many miles under a range of typical circumstances with a limited number of accidents.

    More specifically, such a robocar should meet the same requirement that human drivers must meet:.
    That is, pass a standard driver's test in every state and province where it is licensed, day or night,
    and in every kind of weather that is likely to occur in that area.

  9. Re:On regulation of AI development on EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    There are only very few very weak pieces in it that come from the 'weak AI' research topics like pattern recognition and route planning.

    That's what most people mean by "AI": running algorithms developed by AI researchers.

  10. Re:Hypocrisy on both sides on 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Then how much does the Shakespeare estate deserve for West Side Story (1961) and Romeo + Juliet (1996)?

    I think his copyright expired around 400 years ago.

  11. As for the rest ... on 70 Percent of Young Swedish Men Are Video Pirates, Study Says (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    The other 29.9% either didn't reply, or just lied.

  12. Re:Arrow of time on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Well said.

  13. Re:Arrow of time on Autism Starts Months Before Symptoms Appear, Study Shows (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    It is unclear how sophisticated the observer has to be, but a machine will not do.

    Horseshit.
    In physics, an "observer" is just something that causes waveform collapse.
    Anything that absorbs energy at the given wavelength will do.
    It could be a person, a machine or a lump of coal.

    God, gweihir, you and your fantasy science.

  14. Re: Yeah he should have just said "of course we ta on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    Also, I thought Trump was taking orders from Putin. Why would Flynn need to tell the ambassador what Trump was going to do about sanctions?

    It was a confirmation that Flynn would do exactly what Trump told him to, no questions asked.

  15. What would the benefits be?

    Ask someone with locked-in syndrome.
    Although they probably won't be able to answer you.

  16. Miniscule minds post trivial ideas on /.

  17. Human beings (at least smart ones) seem to be fundamentally more than the sum of the parts we know.

    And your proof of this is what?

    You're right that no one has a clue as to how conscious awareness works.
    And includes you.

  18. Would a better connection between humans and machines be beneficial?

    Sure, that's where GUI's came from.
    Brain-machine interfaces will first be developed to aid disabled people (e.g. locked-in syndrome).
    Then, as they get better, the military will use them to get faster response times from aircraft, weapons systems, etc.
    Finally, ordinary (although wealthy at first) people will covet the advantages these
    super-soldiers have (faster reflexes, seeing outside the visible spectrum with 200/20 accuity, etc).

  19. Re:That's pretty stupid. on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The more I think about this, the more I think that what is wanted is a tentacle

    That would go down well in Japan, all right.

  20. Re: Radiation wrecks robots? on Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The NRA made them

    Then fuck the National Rifle Association and their damn second-amendment nuclear bullets.

  21. Re:So an American hero might be jailed for life on Russia Considers Sending Snowden Back To US As a 'Gift' To Trump (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Snowden hasn't been through due process, hasn't even been convicted of anything.

    Neither was Nixon.
    "Pardoning" someone who has never even been arrested, let alone convicted
    of a crime is routine for lame-duck presidents wanting to reward their buddies.

  22. Under the new so-called administration, ignorance and incompetence is a boon.

    As long as you refer to it as "alt-wisdom" and "alt-competence".

  23. Re:The Donald will fix their wagon on Lockheed Martin Screwup Delays Delivery of Air Force GPS Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Trump, whether you hate him or just strongly dislike him, will probably be tweeting about this tomorrow and LMCO will be up sh!t creek.

    As if.
    Tomorrow he will be tweeting about how those mean old judges won't bend to his will, or about how ugly some female critic is.

  24. Re:cost plus contract on Lockheed Martin Screwup Delays Delivery of Air Force GPS Satellites (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    WOOOOSH!

  25. Mostly from VAT. Wow, that was easy.

    Raise VAT and you lower sales.
    Lower sales means less income from the businesses that make and distribute the goods that are being charged VAT.
    Less business income means less tax paid.
    See a pattern here?