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For example, BioBots.io has developed a "living tissue" 3D printer that uses photolithography versus mechanical or chemical deposition. It sells for $5K per machine. With recurring revenue of ~$1K for each cartridge of "bioink"!

R&D expenditures in the space are offset by partnerships with research institutions. And clinical demand is gargantuan. Two factors that could result in a $2B+ industry by 2022[1].

12 Things We Can 3D Print in Medicine Right Now

https://3dprintingindustry.com/news/12-things-we-can-3d-prin...

[1] http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/3d-printing-...

This works remarkably well. Most journalists seem to practice a uniform style when it comes to paragraph composition. The first sentence is the "thesis", and the subsequent ones provide the "evidence."

Thanks togelius for the survey of the current state of the art around GVGAI! It will be interesting to see how adversarial methods influence future game design. Is a perfectly "instinctual" game possible? One that can never be beaten by any machine but that even a two-year old can master immediately?

guilty. typing in "go run" for quick scripts is one hard to conquer habit ;)

"Instead of calling it Work, realize it is Play" -Alan Watts

It may be that the inherent American modes of self-reliance, personal responsibility and individual liberty create natural frissons with innovators trying to implement the betterment of society via "liberation technologies."

Whereas Asia, with a deeper cultural affinity for familial duty over individual desire, and an inherent necessity to rapidly raise standards for the millions that still live in agrarian lands, would provide more fertile ground for "sharing economies."

In the near term, it may seem like all the excitement is occurring across the Pacific. But if we can recall the original mission of the PC Revolution: to empower and enhance our natural capabilities, that humans with machines are substantially better equipped at survival and the optimal pursuit of life than either alone can ever be. We may ultimately stumble into that New Jerusalem here in the West.

Where "Man is his own star; and the soul that can render an honest and a perfect man, commands all light, all influence, all fate!"

https://www.coursera.org/learn/gamification

You're in luck, next session starts August 15 ;)

From wikipedia:

Sampson fought in several skirmishes. During her first battle, on July 3, 1782, outside Tarrytown, New York, she took two musket balls in her thigh and a cut on her forehead. She begged her fellow soldiers to let her die and not take her to the hospital, but they refused to abandon her. A soldier put her on his horse and took her to a hospital. The doctors treated her head wound, but she left the hospital before they could attend to the musket balls. Fearful that her true identity would be discovered, she removed one of the balls herself with a penknife and sewing needle, but her leg never fully healed because the other musket ball was too deep for her to reach. On April 1, 1783, she was promoted and spent seven months serving as a waiter to General John Paterson.

I personally love the adverts from the 1940-50s that beckon entrepreneurial spirits to enroll in a radio or tv technician correspondence course. The copy is so similar in tone to modern day "Learn iOS" adverts from Flatiron School and the like: seize your destiny, build the future, get paid to do what you love, while changing the world.

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6296/263

"...in principle it has potential to enable the full use of the periodic table for optical applications.” Wow. Any Physics grad students looking for a topic, I'd say "surface plasmons" are about to get quite a bit more exciting ;)

Authors cite superior support for tty on variant archs. But by using golang as the central pipeline manager, calls to jsdom or PIL or ffmpeg simply become another stage in the pipeline. Any number of Python microservices can be composed, while retaining golang as the glue providing timeouts, sync, etc.

Still, whatever works for the Asciinema is OK in my book. Great service and will be recommending to all!

asciinema - Record and share your term sessions

https://asciinema.org/

I use dataset extensively. Once each DOM element is assigned a unique key id, many things get simplified: DOM manipulation, client server state sync, event handling, etc. Now if an additional data layer can resolve key id to semantic metadata, the only problem left would be to expose that data so third parties can read from it. So, the problem could be solved with three data points: url, dom key and the resolved metadata value.

What's really needed isn't a new protocol or set of rules and conditions. OpenGraph probably works just fine. It's a dedicated global database of metadata. A web white pages directory. As OpenGraph is perhaps dominant, it may make sense for someone like Facebook to provide this. Historically, third party non-profit services have not been popular.

All of this is of course contingent on the assumption that content hosters provide that metadata to begin with ;)

Install node-opencl and CL.js and check out how Graphistry is using scalable distributed gpus for visualization of massive data sets ;)

CL.js:

https://github.com/graphistry/cljs

Node-OpenCL

https://github.com/mikeseven/node-opencl

Graphistry

https://www.graphistry.com/

https://talks.golang.org/2016/applicative.slide#1

As well as this post on "Go Concurrency Patterns: Pipelines and cancellation"

https://blog.golang.org/pipelines

You'll get a feel for how you can use Go to quickly build and compose distributed microservices that can "time out" but still won't bring down the entire house of cards ;)

To me this is the toughest nut in the lot. Training a Pac-man agent to avoid ghosts and eat pellets, in a world of infinite hazards and cautions! Any strategies?

Any impetus into actually dreaming up what may come next after GPUs and Async DRL? Non-neural models, quantum computing based AI, optogenetic hacking ;)

Otherwise, excellent list!

http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/

I can also recommend the two novels by Anthony Horowitz, House of Silk and Moriarty. These are the only two contemporary works to earn the seal of approval from the Conan Doyle Estate. And Horowitz, creator of the beloved ITV British detective drama "Foyle's War", knows a thing or two about mystery and suspense ;)

But I don't think you can really discuss Conan Doyle without commenting on the influence of Edgar Allan Poe. And how even to this day in internet forms like creepypasta and #nosleep, Poe's innovations continue to, ahem, haunt us.