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Nah it's just the latest hype to deep learn everything with lots of variations. It'll hit it a local maxima soon of what's achievable and then will begin the task of integrating actual computer vision knowledge.

Yeah I just introduced my kids to http://computercraftedu.com/ and its visual minecraft programming language. They got the hang of it quickly because they really want to create things in minecraft.

I think in the aftermath of the US election cycle you'll probably view that differently. Replacing personal and business expenditure with government expenditure is a complicated equation, but Sanders plan absolutely required raising that amount of new taxes. It was probably more of a problem for the Sander campaign that more media wasn't more alarmed by his proposals, I don't think anyone much took them seriously. At least the WSJ was taking his proposals seriously in that article.

An element of the future economy that I don't see addressed in this comment thread is the ability of technology to improve our ability to DIY. While AI may replace the need to hire labour, sufficiently shareable DIY technology may replace some of the need for people to consume the resources of others.

Granted advanced manufacturing is likely to stay in specialised facilities, but with open source and self replicating tools we may be able to put power back in the hands of the masses.

An obvious step along this path is 3D printing, but I'd argue that wikihow and other sites are greatly increasing the ability of people to meet their own needs. My own interest is in 3D imaging so that computers can reason about the world more readily, and not just replace jobs but replace skilled labour by augmenting our abilities.

Personally I'm more interested in a future where we use our own machines to live how we choose, rather than be given a stipend to buy the labour of machines controlled by increasingly narrow monopolies.

Yes but the point is - it's a given that people want better cameras in their iPhones. They want to see DSLR images to see what they are missing out on and what they aspire to. The DSLR is just a sensor benchmark.

Yes the full simulation probability has to be something like the probability simulations are possible and the probability that simulations have been discovered and the probability that simulations are numerous and the probability that simulations are 'unaware' times the then (n-1) in n probability that you are in a simulation. The size of the (n-1) in n part of the probability is pretty irrelevant vs the other parts.

I've thought down these paths a lot, and I came to similar but different conclusion. It's not simply that I don't trust argument - I weight arguments with evidence.

If you take the simulation argument for instance - if you're contemplating the probability that we are living in a lifelike simulation you must factor in the number of lifelike simulations you have seen.

Yes, Surfaces are especially popular for enterprises right now. I think most enterprises had started to embrace iPads because iPhones are the number one phone choice, but it's a pretty easy sell to get an enterprise back on Windows when they are so entrenched in the desktop.

I think this is the angle of attack that Apple is taking here. They want to catch up to the handwriting and sketching abilities of Surface, but they don't want a hybrid OS.

In a lot of ways the Surface is a laptop with a detachable keyboard and the OS and eco system is still based on that. Apple wants their eco system to develop from a clean touch OS base into productivity areas. Having said that, they are really lagging in this area and the momentum has shifted well away from iPads in the business world.

The Surface might beat the iPad pro, but I do wonder if the either will be the future of productivity compared with a laptop and a tablet.

Stallman deserves a real doctorate no doubt about that. He shouldn't be seen as the same as someone who happened to donate enough or be famous enough, he's done so much more. He shouldn't pretend he has an honour he hasn't earned either, that's just sad.

It's not unclear, any substitution can be replicated by a deletion and insertion. I have no idea if that leads to a simpler case of the edit distance algorithm.

It's not out of the question, but it's back to distribution by physical media and the only unequivocal technical advantage is in the rendering of reflections and refractions.

Lightfields don't lose because of how they look, it's the lack of compression and difficulty in capturing them for real scenes that have held them back.

The problem isn't the individual, its the society that has to pay for it. We can find the exploration of Mars a worthwhile thing in the abstract. But as a society that interest will wane in the face of the reality. Then we aren't going to be paying billions to ship misanthropes off to Mars to thumb their noses at us.

Well to be fair, I grant you that certain people would find those awful conditions worth it for the sake of the mission. I just think the novelty will wear off and there won't be a stream of people heading off to colonise Mars.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to jump out of this deep gravity well just to be stuck on another one at our current technology levels. Instead asteroids will be much more inviting and the technology to harvest them will combat the large existential risk from rogue asteroids that is one of main arguments for the colonisation of other planets in the first place.

Go to a rocky desert, there are huge ones out there (albeit nothing compared to Mars), and tell me if you find parts of it that make you want to set up life in tank or if it all looks the same.

We evolved to be interested in the things that keep us alive or can kill us - other flora and fauna and water are the top of that list. We find variations of that endlessly interesting. Rock formations, not so much.

Man wants to conquer Mars but I don't to see the pitiful existence of those poor few fools who sacrifice themselves for our collective egos. Especially the first settlers who can't come back and beg for their lives over the video link constantly.

Well here's my take. Although they said 'cloud computing' I don't think they mean spinning up an AWS instance to do computation on your device. Rather what they want is the client to 'power' both sides of a computation. So you build bitcoin into the http and use the power in your battery for your device and to pay the server costs at the same time.

Sure it'll be cheaper to preload with bitcoin but at least you can always burn your battery to get access to whatever site you want.

I suggest you stick with your current thin-air holographic solution if you have one :)

It's definitely real. I've seen it, and no doubt so have many many others. As someone else here speculated it's a transparent screen moving up and down over a projector. It's pretty cool and worked in a reasonably light environment.

Exclusive programming - where only you can read the code you've written.

The previous generation experienced massive pressure not to return to the workforce after having children, so it makes sense that the pendulum would swing to having career success before children. Hopefully the future actually involves flexibility about career/job breaks required for having children as well as the care situation afterwards.

The biology of the situation doesn't just relate to fertility though, life spans have an impact on the probability of seeing your children and grandchildren reach certain ages.

I used to use Firefox, so when I saw some hype around its tab collection stuff the other week I downloaded it and gave it another try. It was slow and paused the whole interface regularly for a second or two. I can't say I used it exactly like I use Chrome, but there wasn't much point using it if I can't use the tab collection stuff properly. Just another anecdote, this one from an outdated Macbook Air.

I love Common Sense Media. My kids don't like to be scared, it negatively impacts their sleeping and frankly their general well being but I'm not really concerned about bad language or minor innuendo - CSM is the best way to get an idea if my kids are going to enjoy something.

I understand and I agree. My point is just that sites make money with fake claims of viruses on your computer - I think real browsing history would scare the money out of enough unsophisticated people to make it profitable.

Yeah I thought r/bitcoin was a good place to argue against the idea that any altcoin is automatically subsumable by bitcoin. Needless say the downvotes came pretty quick. I think the chance that Bitcoin simply changes to match any competitors is ludicrous. Only consensus changes are possible whilst preserving the Blockchain. Any controversial change that has enough merit will split the market between Bitcoin and an altcoin and divide supporters along those lines. Meaning the holders of Bitcoin become more resistant to change as the altcoin becomes more successful. Its definitely not clear that scenario ends in a change to Bitcoin early enough to defeat the altcoin.

I also think the OPs point about the highlander effect isn't well made - a coins mining pool only needs to be strong enough to protect itself from attacks that it's value incentivises.

Presumably they can't verify it, but I feel like real data would be much more likely to convert to 'sale'. Besides if that's the particular strategy the site takes then it may well develop a reputation for reliability in some sort of way.

I would think a lot of people would pay to keep such information secret though. Maybe not enormous sums individually but given data that you can personally verify this would be a fairly effective threat.

I'm imagining the typical popup - 'Warning your browsing information is compromised - pay us to remove the offending data!'. Add to that page a list of actual viewing history and I think conversion ratios would increase.

It's even worse as a theory when you consider the hijackers give out accurate information as to their distance from the satellite but bet on inaccurate directional data to throw everyone off. You've still narrowed down the search space considerably - not to mention all the time between finding the distance pings and directional pings when the correct path is being checked.

I suspect the Andaman Sea would have served that purpose just fine. There are other options like the burst data has just been misinterpreted, but the deliberate faking of a never before used piece of data seems very unlikely.

You can also ponder it from the perspective of a rational hijacker. Why fake BFO when you could have just had no pings at all?