Monitoring a brain seems reasonable - understanding how a brain will respond to hypothetical or predicting it seems insanely hard. Each stimuli can be processed in relation to others that were recently processed (like reading a book and using the words you read when speaking). I can't fathom how we could do more than track brain signals and potentially apply "how would this brain respond to this stimuli currently". There's just unlimited possibilities that are ever changing.
Though we all have to hope we uncover the source of truth in the brain so we can live forever embodied in some other medium :)
Except the same people that fret about privacy post sensitive information about their neighbors at the drop of a hat. These people have no clue about the ramifications of their actions.
This is terribly inaccurate - we have to remember to step outside our tech bubble and understand that in-person interactions are drastically different than comments on facebook or the web. I can despise people's views and like them individually.
Your comments are tone-deaf - most of the world doesn't care about creativity when taking photos. Photos of kids, dogs, people etc... Most of the photos I see on the web are NOT creative at all. They are utilitarian.
My crappy Chromebook is honestly the most pleasant out of all the laptops I have ever used. I would like to be able to load software on it but that's it's only shortcoming. ChromeOS is actually the best overall experience for me - especially since I do most of my work via SSH and vim. Not sure this solves much for me unless dev-mode linux is first-class, then it might be worth looking at.
No tool is good when abused. NoSQL was a knee-jerk reaction and the truth lies somewhere in the middle. Putting everything in relational databases is as bad as putting none of it there. If everything is treated like a tool the world becomes brighter at the cost of having to learn and understand more.
I thought the service was great at first - no hassle reservations with easy cancellation. That is until they billed for me a hotel I never stayed at. Ended up having to go through Amex and chargeback the charge since I had clearly cancelled it months before. It's a shame.
Yeah I could see how if you are used to seeing such posts it would come as more of a slight but from my perspective it's good to know people's gripes about a product having not followed much about this before - especially if some people might be trying it out as a result of the article. The ambiguity of purpose is the bane of internet comments.
VR won't be a huge knockout until wearable contacts get developed. I would imagine that would be followed by implants. Until then VR is a cool novelty and it will be spread by actual interesting apps/games being developed for it that aren't just ports.
Has anyone encountered an unsolicited internal memo or manifesto at a company from an employee that didn't end this way? It's really not how you handle situations like this in a company setting regardless of intention.
It's interesting to me to think if a bot could create it's own language it wouldn't be a far stretch to create an undetectable language inside the constructs of another. If those outputs are used for inputs to other systems it'd be a clever way to propagate.
It definitely seems problematic to put your entire foundation of travel in the hands of government or companies, though. They especially do not represent the concerns of all people. A car on the other hand is complete freedom. I would have expected to hear that driverless cars are the future since it's not contingent on an non-existent infrastructure, rather on the roads that already exist.
Well I suppose it would open up job opportunities assuming the price to go city-to-city is comparable to say, driving multiple hours each way in order to get to work. Of course that assumes you live near one city in order to get to another. Wouldn't help rural folks I'm afraid but there really isn't a transportation solution that can function on sparsely populated areas. Even the trains in London, for example, go through suburban areas that are still relatively densely populated.
From a GUI or any GUI? There are many, many GUIs implementing git and not all of them do it right or even well. A GUI is an abstraction and implementers are free to do it however they see fit. Not to mention having to deal with bugs in two separate systems.
It's sad so many people use GUIs on top of git - you really end up not understanding what git is doing and it can lead to problems. Command line is supreme for the same reason that a majority of books are better than their movie counterparts. They are easier, though, but in the case of git that isn't a good thing.
It's always nagged me that statistical problems are scoped so small. Surely in saying there's 6 outcomes on a dice you'd obfuscated the billions of interactions between atoms and input possibilities in doing so. Thrower A and thrower B will undoubtedly throw slightly different which might actually constraint the outcomes and skew the 1 in 6 percentages?
It's similar to me to condensing 30 characters to 5 via an algorithm. You can go one direction but not the other and if your model was centered around the resulting 5 it doesn't really reflect what's actually happening which may skew the probabilities quite a bit. e.g. if the algorithm was "if first letter is not q, then first letter in output is q". If you were saying each has an equal percentage of occurring it'd be flat out wrong.
* I am not a statistician and have no idea what I'm talking about
"If you followed the news at the time there was a ton of coverage in mainstream media with bold claims about how society was going to be transformed" You cannot control what the media decides to hype their purposes. It was not as if Google itself made those same claims - that wouldn't be confirmation that the goal of the product was to transform the lives of every consumer. If they were throwing a bunch of ideas around to see what sticks that is a far cry from a purportedly failed "massive consumer push"
What makes the most sense to me is making moves early on in your career then hopefully finding a company/CEO/team you really like and settle in for a while. You aren't going to learn some of the valuable lessons if you swap jobs too often as you will never really become an expert at what you're doing.
Certainly valid you are underpaid and don't particularly enjoy your job.
* Facts delivered with arbitrary fluff words is pointless even when written by a human - it obfuscates the
real purpose which is the data
* Companies pay humans to deliver articles in most cases and the bias of the writer or the institution
that paid for it shines through. I cannot find a real difference between intentional angling by
payment or by algorithm
* When the day arises where computers could generate actually new, intelligent and thoughtful pieces I
for one will be very interested in reading them. Sadly there would be millions of variations that could
occur at an astounding pace. We'd then need algorithms to filter the generated content for the things
that are really noteworthy.
* News at its core is a sequence of facts which begs the question if we really need the cruft around
those facts which can often lead to misinterpretation?
I used it for almost two years for a variety of reasons - primarily it forces you to be a better cook and cook a much larger range of recipes than you would select on your own.
Eventually I had a stockpile of recipes from them to pull off of and we moved right across the street from a grocery store so was pretty ridiculous to keep using it.
I don't regret it at all - I'm a much better cook and I can cook a much larger variety of stuff now than prior to using the service. These services don't seem like they are able to sustain people for long periods of time. If people are like me you'd use it for a while then eventually find it unnecessary. Seems like the model is short-lived propagation than long-term use but I could be an anomaly.
Also used a few others in that time - Blue Apron was the most consistent.