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  1. Re:It would be like old times with Debian on Working From Home: What if You Never Saw Your Colleagues in Person Again? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I just want to stop by to thanks you for your work. RESPECT !

  2. Does Tesla autopilot improves at lower speeds ? on Tesla Model S Plows Into a Fire Truck While Using Autopilot (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I was wondering if at lower speeds Tesla Autopilot is able to make better decisions...

  3. Re:Harder Than It Sounds on Nobody Is Moving, Especially Millennials (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Another option is to try to get your wife's mom to move to the midwest. That would probably be the easiest, logistically, but may have the disadvantage of being completely and utterly impossible.

    Actually that might be the best option if possible. You have to add health care costs in both places, since that will be the bigggest issue.

    I moved between countries 4 times. With wife and kids. The las time, at first I was alone for 6 months in realy cheap and small Hotel room (the kind of Hotel where you have to take care of all your belongings... while sleeping in your room). It really sucks, but thats the sacrifice I had to do to move to a a 6x income improvement and an 1/4 violent death rate place....

  4. Re: Something is missing on How UPS Trucks Saved Millions of Dollars By Eliminating Left Turns (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    Now imagine the near future with electric delivery tracks. When that happens, you dont burn any fuel by waiting at a red light. Only miles traveled counts, so they might need to change their algorithm.

  5. Re: Because on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Hi. Sorry. English is not my primary language. Can you please explain ?

  6. Re: Because on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us (nymag.com) · · Score: 1

    Although I like the old joke "there is no single report in human history of a woman falling in love of a handsome and sensible men reading poetry in the unemployment line", the truth is that woman (and men) vary a lot.
    From my own experience afet a several years long lousy relationship, I met another women that is lovely and kind and we've been together since 2001. And that was before Tinder time....

    The point here is that you really need to keep trying. It does get better.

  7. It would habe been a better idea to offer a lower amount of money to switch from iPad to Surface.
    What I really hate about my iPad is returning an hour latter to a tab in the browser for a Story I want to read and have to wait for it to fully reload.

    On Surface with Windows it does not happen, ever.

  8. Godel Escher Bach : hofstadter on Slashdot Asks: What Are Your Favorite Technology Books and Novels? · · Score: 1

    My favorite book

  9. Re: My favorite Minsky story on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry about that. It was written on a cell phone and I m not native english speaker.

        Nevertheless here goes the story ( http://www.andreykurenkov.com/... )
    Marvin Minsky, founder of the MIT AI Lab, and Seymour Papert, director of the lab at the time, were some of the researchers who were skeptical of the hype and in 1969 published their skepticism in the form of rigorous analysis on of the limitations of Perceptrons in a seminal book aptly named Perceptrons. Interestingly, Minksy may have actually been the first researcher to implement a hardware neural net with 1951’s SNARC (Stochastic Neural Analog Reinforcement Calculator) , which preceded Rosenblatt’s work by many years. But the lack of any trace of his work on this system and the critical nature of the analysis in Perceptrons suggests that he concluded this approach to AI was a dead end. The most widely discussed element of this analysis is the elucidation of the limits of a Perceptron - they could not, for instance, learn the simple boolean function XOR because it is not linearly separable. Though the history here is vague, this publication is widely believed to have helped usher in the first of the AI Winters - a period following a massive wave of hype for AI characterized by disillusionment that causes a freeze to funding and publications.

    The point here is that Minsky already knew that a multilayer Neural Network could solve XOR, but he nevertheless wrote a paper showing that a single perceptron could not solve XOR, in order to get funding away from perceptrons and towards his own line of investigation.

    All that said, I highly recommend his "society of mind" book. The idea to have each single page to explain a simple concept in a complete manner was mind blowing to me at that time. I still havent come across another book written that way.

  10. Re: My favorite Minsky story on Marvin Minsky, Pioneer In Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88 (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I read "society of mind" when it first got translated to Spanish. Lovely, lovely book. Each page was a concept by itself. You could literaly read one page a day an have a complete knwoledge exerience each time.

    What always makes me feel uneasy of Minsky was the story that he attacked perceptron showing that they could not solve NOR sending neural nets into a freeze for sevwral years drying founding to them, while at that time it was already known that multilayer nets could solve NOR.

    Nowadays deep learning is all the rage...

  11. Re:Solution looking for a problem? Talk and drive! on Apple Watch Launches · · Score: 1

    I'm still not entirely clear what the Apple Watch is supposed to do for me, especially when it's still reliant on a cell phone to function.

    It does have a GREAT use. I see everyday people using their cell phones in their cars while driving, phone on the ear. All new and luxury cars even. Im sure those cars have bluetooth, but somehow people dont know how to use or dont like how it sounds or whatever.
    Since Apple watch allows to talk through it, Im sure it will diminished the chance of accident for those who drive with the phone on the ear. Since talking to the wrist allows the hand to grab the wheel, while if fit is holding a phone it is more difficult.
    I know that Apple wont be able to promote it this way, but I really believe that iphone users will have fewer accidents of they use an Apple Watch.

  12. Android App Inventor on The Abandoned Google Project Memorial Page · · Score: 1

    Android App Inventor was my favorite

  13. Garageband is iPads killer app on The iPad Is 5 Years Old This Week, But You Still Don't Need One · · Score: 1

    Garageband is iPads killer app

  14. Re:Well, what did you expect? on Secret Service Investigating Small Drone On White House Grounds · · Score: 1

    The world is changing fast and governments are not responding in a timely manner to the new reality.

    Everyone as able to get a cheap drone.

    Everyone is able to work as a Taxi without license nor paying taxes.

    Everyone is able to work as a Hotel without paying taxes.

    Regulations are no longer effective.

    We really need a new kind of government.

  15. Re:Cool product. Seems like a really nice guy. on DuinoKit Helps Teach Students About Electronics (Video) · · Score: 1

    PD: I really wonder if he makes money out of those. All the parts it have and the time it takes him to create it I really doubt he actually earns much money at all...

  16. Cool product. Seems like a really nice guy. on DuinoKit Helps Teach Students About Electronics (Video) · · Score: 1

    Not only the product looks great. He really seems like a nice guy. I wish him the best.

  17. Re:Profit? on Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software · · Score: 1

    Actually if this is as you stated, Google taking the lions share, free apps with advertise is the best way to get money without Google in the middle.

  18. Re: sorry, all my laptop batteries are dead on Using Discarded Laptop Batteries To Power Lights · · Score: 1

    It would be a good idea to force notebooks vendors to sell an adapter to ease the conection to old baterries.
    Like they are forcing cellphones to have USB chargers in Europe.

  19. I prefer to go with balloons with a control tether on SkyOrbiter UAVs Could Fly For Years and Provide Global Internet Access · · Score: 1

    This looks like a cheaper approach https://smartech.gatech.edu/bi...

  20. Will it support Whatsapp ? on Google's Android One Initiative Launches In India With Three $100 Phones · · Score: 1

    Will it support Whatsapp ?

  21. Re: Way to go on Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign · · Score: 2

    The role of the Patriot is to protect its country from its government.
    Way to go!

  22. Comic on Statistics on Statistics Losing Ground To CS, Losing Image Among Students · · Score: 1

    I read on Slashdor a lot time ago that there is a Comic book in Japan that teaches Statistics. I really would like to buy a copy in Spanish or at least in English.
    Any link on where to buy it it is welcome

  23. Re: "Now"? on Parallax Completes Open Hardware Vision With Open Source CPU · · Score: 1

    Opensparc delivered a gpl verilog several years ago.

  24. Stock exchange predictions on Interviews: Ask Dr. Andy Chun About Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    Dr Chiun,

      What do you see as the best AI based approach (fuzzy logic, neural networks, etc) to perform stock exchange predictions ?

  25. "gold standard" transformed to "lead standard" on Finnish National TV Broadcaster Starts Sending Bitcoin Blockchain · · Score: 1

    Although USD lost it "gold standard", but replaced it with "lead standard". That is the real intrinsic value. The US government wants taxes to be payed un USD. If you dont pay your taxes, the have a lot of weapons that fires lead that forces you to pay your taxes in USD.
    Thas the real "intrinsic value" for USD, that Bitcoins lacks.