monk_e_boy

Interviewing Nick Bostrom was cringe worthy. I don't know what Joe was trying to achieve - maybe forming an argument against the simulation theory? But it was so bad. The youtube comment section is amusing.

But mostly Joe gets it spot on and does a great interview. What this does to popular discourse? When a small % of the population watch these types of long form interview and get deep, thoughtful and insightful answers to complex ideas .... and some % of the population watch Fox and read tabloids to get their news.

How does society fix this huge knowledge divide?

Bingo! Correct answer. Anyone can learn to 'act' ... I got into teaching to help myself be more confident infront of adults. It turns out that groups of strangers are perfectly normal people, and there isn't anything to worry about.

Someone is going to cover the Sahara with solar panels and make some serious cash. Bonus points for automating the production of solar panels out of sand.

Been laid off a few times. Mostly businesses run out of money and the IT department are first to go. You can run a business on old IT with an old website, no need for those pesky webdevs.

Moved from code monkey to lecturer. More stress. More fun.

Side note: people thse days who take quallifications in Comp Sci very rarely have a side project (coding) or take any time out of school to code. Most are extremely surprised to hear that it's my hobby to code, you know, just for fun. They couldn't imagine wanting to do it for fun. It's sad. But it says more about how we educate and test people, rather than their attitude towards programming.

What was the problem that you gave to the interviewees? Sounds interesting.

alienware. it glows and has an alien head on it

Living in the UK, I think AR for walking apps would be neat. Label all the routes, the interesting ruins, old settlements etc. Looking out to sea for wrecks, sea life, label ships and aircraft.

Then put pokemon GO into the mix and it'd be really fun.

I dunno, we have voluntary insurance for kitesurfing. Why not? Insurance companies will do it pretty cheap.

I doubt the police would stop you. I can't believe you won't use one if it saves that much time! Be brave!

I see how it measures distance and direction, but how does it estimate height? Are there multiple antennas in the phone?

Are gun laws a bug in the system, fixable albeit a hard bug to fix.

Or, as I suspect, a design flaw that is impossible to fix. So you have to patch around it.

The SE has those lovely square edges. New phones are too curved and slippery, like a bar of soap

Lots of people think lile you, gambling todays poor behaviour on solutions that MAY come tomorrow, next week or never.

We need to change today. But it’s very hard.

GPS doesn’t do height accurately :( 10m error

... $10?! Really? Can we hook one up to a Raspberry Pi?

This would be a game changer for my sport (kitesurfing)

Oh yeah - radar! Duh, I was thinking lazers or something.

That was really amazing. I've been following it closely on YouTube but to see it actually fly - mind boggling! Not quite clean room facilities. The nose blew over in a storm. Locals streaming video from cameras mounted on telegraph poles. When it landed various parts came shooting off spraying gas as they tumbled away.

Full-flow engine - first to ever fly. And boy did it fly!

I love it. Back yard hacking hardware.

Summary - SpaceX are the first people to land rockets for reuse. Then they go and do the same thing with a different engine design, different fuel, in a water tower controlled with Falcon 9 reaction control system.

Quick question for the experts:

1 - how do they measure altitude? GPS is notoriously poor at this.

2 - any idea of how the control software was written for a flying water tower? Could they use the Falcon 9 software?

I've heard very similar tales. A local lad who works at a very large meat processing factory, McDonalds buy the cheapest meat possible. Other chains buy middle of the range meat.

Minor point: not everyone is American. Some countries are democratic without the need to bear arms.

Tesco have always weighed loose veg at the till. In france they till person doesn’t care if fruit and veg are bagged, just so long as you have weighed it and have the little sticker.

It’s so easy to teach. Learninh html css and php is such a win. Quick to bash out a simple site.

You’re being down voted, but you raise a valid point. We are helpless. Even our first world governments are helpless to save the amazon. It’s just so damn sad.

The UK is pretty far behind France in the water department. I talked to a French couple who had just got off the beach and were looking for showers and drinking water. There are none at our local beaches. When they asked where they could go for a shower and to fill up their water ... I couldn't think of anywhere they could go for free. Showers and drinking fountains are all over France, along with free camping.

Have you thought about using AI instead of parts of the government? There must be a lot of bits that can be automated. Do you think that an AI led government could remove the left/right divide that there is at the moment? If everyone just filled in a huge form that told the AI what was important to them, this could be used to drive policy.

Me and the kids played for hours, but there were some parts that were far too frustrating. I often ran out of those stupid red crystals and couldn't find any on the planet. So I'd be stuck there for hours and hours just dying and looking for them. Also, the story/UI were confusing as hell, I could never remember what was going on, who I was friends with, where I was going next. Overall, a confusing and boring game.

> And then suddenly all this effort that Waymo is > putting into coexisting with humans will be redundant

I can't imagine this will ever be removed. Take rural UK, there are still steam powered traction engines on the road (occasionally), pony and traps, horses, cyclists.

India will never be 100% AI cars .... not even in the cities.

No one I talked to was surprised. I've always thought it was pretty neat. As a human I tag people in my photos, I let the machine do the boring stuff (this photo contains trees)

Triangular UFOs are interesting. When i was at work one day, (we work on top of a large hill that overlooks land to the horizon) I see a triangular UFO light up and fly slowly towards us. I tell my colleagues, but they are surprisingly not interested. I watched it for a while, my heart in my mouth, sweating. It turned out to be helicopters flying in formation through a very light mist.

I wonder what sound they will choose. Part of me wants the sound of horses hooves, but I expect something like “Teslaa-aaa”

No pics?