Aren't we used to seeing reenactments using live actors? This is just taking it one step forward, offering a faster, more affordable service. I say give them some time to improve the facial animations (I'm thinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX5d3rC6o ) and it'll really take off.
She doesn't say how she arrived at that number, but this video does shed some light on the fabrication/testing.
http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_100129_metal-foam . She has a paper "Evaluation of Modulus of Elasticity of Composite Metal Foams by Experimental and Numerical Techniques", to appear in the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering A. I guess we'll just have to wait.
It's not quite that simple either. People have 12 babies because they assume that the majority of them are going to die before the age of 5. However, if you lower the infant mortality rate and the expectation of infant mortality, you actually reduce the number of children born because you can reasonably assume you'll be able to raise each child to adulthood. At least, that's what they argue in this recent TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives.html
For the exact same reasons, going to the near earth asteroids would have been way more advantageous than going to the moon. I guess it's the private industry that's going to take up the slack. After all, someone has to invest in some serious space-based infrastructure if my battle cruiser is going to be operational.
Here's a protip I've learned from watching the internets and reading your first comment: The moment anyone brings to light something most people have been ignoring, there's always someone who comes along claiming that there's nothing new to see here and that anyone who doesn't know that is clearly misinformed. I'm sorry, but I've never heard of this theory before, and I daresay I'm not the only one. So, please, stop trying to take away my sense of wonder.
You're suggesting that those above median intelligence will be any more useful to robots than those below. Once we hit the AI singularity, even the smartest of us would have a hard time showing off their skills.
I think Devout may be promoting a false dichotomy here. Having everyone on "welfare" assumes they are not doing any work to receive a paycheck. I think instead the definition of what constitutes work will change. For example, I'm paid a modest graduate stipend to study physics and write papers, but in a lot of ways it is not work (it's play), no more than what George Jetson does is work. Because of my ethnicity alone, I would have been a lot worse off a hundred years, or even 50 years ago. The world is changing for the better so stop worrying.
It sounds they need to be using AML (Argument Markup Language). In fact, maybe we all need to be using AML. The world would be a better place.. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1430079
/. really needs to create some kind of LAML (Logical Argument Markup Language) so knara doesn't have to keep addressing the same damn issue over and over ad infinitum. In fact, the whole internet could really cut down on redundancy if there were a premiss-conclusion data type, perhaps with some cross-site referencing thrown in. Will someone please make it so?
Speaking of the gold standard, is it too late to start the Joule standard? As in, $1 would be worth exactly 5MJ (or something similar). Would it help/hurt the world's economy?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the appeal of Natal is not so much the motion sensing but the head and eye tracking. This means revolutionizing the way camera systems and perspective will work in games. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then watch this ted talk http://blog.ted.com/2008/04/wii_remote_hack.php and note that Johnny Lee has been on the Natal team for quite some time. Clearly the developers have a lot more to work with here than just motion controls.
Finally a use for transparent ferro-fluids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5Zzm2TXh4 ? I wish TFA had a better description of how this is supposed to work, so I will have to resort to some serious hand-waving: It sounds like they are trying to make field-aligned wave guides. This would be similar to the way our magnetosphere moves plasma from the night side to the day side by moving around the Earth's magnetic field, a process that happens whenever the magnetic field of the solar wind points south. The analogy can only be taken so far, but for a plasma the magnetic field is all you need in order to confine the average particle motion to surfaces of equal field line length (assuming no external electric field). To do this for photons, you would need the conducting silver layer to confine the light to parallel surfaces of the magnetic field. If all this were true then I say this is f'n brilliant. If not, well it's plausible enough to make for good science fiction.
Yes, I want the surgeon trained on Natal to work on my heart valves:
The system locates body parts to within a 4-centimetre cube
The brain? Meh, it might not matter so much.
To be fair, the interface looks a lot easier than the "state-of-the art" in virtual surgery. Just watch this promo video and tell me whether you'd be willing to go under the knife with this interface: http://www.simendo.eu/
Despite what they keep showing in the press releases, I don't think the gesture control is what the big titles will be using it for. Remember Johnny Lee's wiimote hack at TED? http://blog.ted.com/2008/04/wii_remote_hack.php According to his blog, he's been working on Natal and seems very impressed with the specs. http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-natal.html Anyway, I'm guessing it's new camera controls like his that would really sell this thing for the "serious gamers" and not necessarily the motion sensing.
You haven't heard climate scientists say we may have started a runaway greenhouse effect? Not that I think think this is possible with Earth, but the last time I took astronomy I was told that the runaway greenhouse effect is what made Venus inhospitable for life.
Don't be put off by the kind of do-gooders who have a heart but no brain. They are in fact the ones who are responsible for creating the whole mess. But just for their edification... It is well-recognized now that "foreign aid" in the form of shipping food, medicine, etc. to starving populations has done little but exacerbate the problem.
I think I read into this a little bit, thinking you meant that it's the do-gooders that are the root of the cause by staving off starvation. The sentiment I was referring to is the apathetic idea that doing nothing is better than trying to help. The eugenics point came up because of the wikipedia reference from turbotroll about population control in the face of scarcity. But anyway I've obviously misjudged the point you were trying to make and I apologize. Namely, we are both saying that there are smarter ways of dealing with these issues and that the traditional approaches are not working. Savvy?
In this case the wells didn't dry up. They were getting their water from local streams that had become contaminated. Children were dying from dehydration due to diarrhea. In this case, they needed a naturally filtered water source that wasn't open to the air, hence the wells.
For the wells dug in Liberia, the water sources hadn't dried up. Sure, in some cases they were miles away and the villagers would spend hours transporting it by foot, but it was accessible. The problem was that the water sources had become contaminated for whatever reason, and people were dying from dehydration due to diarrhea. So in this case adapting to the situation meant digging a well (inside the village) that provided a means for natural filtration of an already sustainable water source. In one village this meant drilling through rock and breaking a few bits in the process, but in the end it worked. What was required was the technical expertise and some equipment in order to do it.
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Aren't we used to seeing reenactments using live actors? This is just taking it one step forward, offering a faster, more affordable service. I say give them some time to improve the facial animations (I'm thinking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLiX5d3rC6o ) and it'll really take off.
She doesn't say how she arrived at that number, but this video does shed some light on the fabrication/testing. http://www.livescience.com/common/media/video/player.php?videoRef=LS_100129_metal-foam . She has a paper "Evaluation of Modulus of Elasticity of Composite Metal Foams by Experimental and Numerical Techniques", to appear in the Journal of Materials Science and Engineering A. I guess we'll just have to wait.
The pursuit of publishable research and what is best for humanity are not necessarily the same thing.
It's not quite that simple either. People have 12 babies because they assume that the majority of them are going to die before the age of 5. However, if you lower the infant mortality rate and the expectation of infant mortality, you actually reduce the number of children born because you can reasonably assume you'll be able to raise each child to adulthood. At least, that's what they argue in this recent TED talk http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jane_chen_a_warm_embrace_that_saves_lives.html
For the exact same reasons, going to the near earth asteroids would have been way more advantageous than going to the moon. I guess it's the private industry that's going to take up the slack. After all, someone has to invest in some serious space-based infrastructure if my battle cruiser is going to be operational.
Sincerely, the misinformed
You're suggesting that those above median intelligence will be any more useful to robots than those below. Once we hit the AI singularity, even the smartest of us would have a hard time showing off their skills.
I think Devout may be promoting a false dichotomy here. Having everyone on "welfare" assumes they are not doing any work to receive a paycheck. I think instead the definition of what constitutes work will change. For example, I'm paid a modest graduate stipend to study physics and write papers, but in a lot of ways it is not work (it's play), no more than what George Jetson does is work. Because of my ethnicity alone, I would have been a lot worse off a hundred years, or even 50 years ago. The world is changing for the better so stop worrying.
I would venture to say that climate science is harder to model than the world's economy. And no I don't participate in the stock market either.
It sounds they need to be using AML (Argument Markup Language). In fact, maybe we all need to be using AML. The world would be a better place.. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1430079
Ok the 10% is bogus, but I still contend that games could require a lot more brain power in the future.
This idea might actually turn out to be more informative than funny.
In answer to my own question: http://www.springerlink.com/content/c2u10m3511536m5x/ Now all we need is a firefox plugin!
/. really needs to create some kind of LAML (Logical Argument Markup Language) so knara doesn't have to keep addressing the same damn issue over and over ad infinitum. In fact, the whole internet could really cut down on redundancy if there were a premiss-conclusion data type, perhaps with some cross-site referencing thrown in. Will someone please make it so?
Speaking of the gold standard, is it too late to start the Joule standard? As in, $1 would be worth exactly 5MJ (or something similar). Would it help/hurt the world's economy?
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the appeal of Natal is not so much the motion sensing but the head and eye tracking. This means revolutionizing the way camera systems and perspective will work in games. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then watch this ted talk http://blog.ted.com/2008/04/wii_remote_hack.php and note that Johnny Lee has been on the Natal team for quite some time. Clearly the developers have a lot more to work with here than just motion controls.
Not to mention they still transmit excess power to turn on the little LED that confirms your FM radio station is in stereo.
Most movie actors are probably used to lip syncing anyway, since they have to re-record the dialogue for a lot of scenes.
Finally a use for transparent ferro-fluids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me5Zzm2TXh4 ? I wish TFA had a better description of how this is supposed to work, so I will have to resort to some serious hand-waving: It sounds like they are trying to make field-aligned wave guides. This would be similar to the way our magnetosphere moves plasma from the night side to the day side by moving around the Earth's magnetic field, a process that happens whenever the magnetic field of the solar wind points south. The analogy can only be taken so far, but for a plasma the magnetic field is all you need in order to confine the average particle motion to surfaces of equal field line length (assuming no external electric field). To do this for photons, you would need the conducting silver layer to confine the light to parallel surfaces of the magnetic field. If all this were true then I say this is f'n brilliant. If not, well it's plausible enough to make for good science fiction.
Yes, I want the surgeon trained on Natal to work on my heart valves: The system locates body parts to within a 4-centimetre cube The brain? Meh, it might not matter so much.
To be fair, the interface looks a lot easier than the "state-of-the art" in virtual surgery. Just watch this promo video and tell me whether you'd be willing to go under the knife with this interface: http://www.simendo.eu/
Despite what they keep showing in the press releases, I don't think the gesture control is what the big titles will be using it for. Remember Johnny Lee's wiimote hack at TED? http://blog.ted.com/2008/04/wii_remote_hack.php According to his blog, he's been working on Natal and seems very impressed with the specs. http://procrastineering.blogspot.com/2009/06/project-natal.html Anyway, I'm guessing it's new camera controls like his that would really sell this thing for the "serious gamers" and not necessarily the motion sensing.
You haven't heard climate scientists say we may have started a runaway greenhouse effect? Not that I think think this is possible with Earth, but the last time I took astronomy I was told that the runaway greenhouse effect is what made Venus inhospitable for life.
Don't be put off by the kind of do-gooders who have a heart but no brain. They are in fact the ones who are responsible for creating the whole mess. But just for their edification... It is well-recognized now that "foreign aid" in the form of shipping food, medicine, etc. to starving populations has done little but exacerbate the problem.
I think I read into this a little bit, thinking you meant that it's the do-gooders that are the root of the cause by staving off starvation. The sentiment I was referring to is the apathetic idea that doing nothing is better than trying to help. The eugenics point came up because of the wikipedia reference from turbotroll about population control in the face of scarcity. But anyway I've obviously misjudged the point you were trying to make and I apologize. Namely, we are both saying that there are smarter ways of dealing with these issues and that the traditional approaches are not working. Savvy?
In this case the wells didn't dry up. They were getting their water from local streams that had become contaminated. Children were dying from dehydration due to diarrhea. In this case, they needed a naturally filtered water source that wasn't open to the air, hence the wells.
For the wells dug in Liberia, the water sources hadn't dried up. Sure, in some cases they were miles away and the villagers would spend hours transporting it by foot, but it was accessible. The problem was that the water sources had become contaminated for whatever reason, and people were dying from dehydration due to diarrhea. So in this case adapting to the situation meant digging a well (inside the village) that provided a means for natural filtration of an already sustainable water source. In one village this meant drilling through rock and breaking a few bits in the process, but in the end it worked. What was required was the technical expertise and some equipment in order to do it.