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Starting with the words:
In a decades-long game of telephone [...]
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For example, there’s no truth to the idea that
the brain is half android and half artist, with
a left hemisphere dedicated to logic and analytical
thinking and a right hemisphere for intuition and
creativity.
I have no idea what that is supposed to mean.
A sensible title would be more like: Shortage of dermatologists in India could be remedied with AI.
I don't have a problem meeting those demands, and composing my thoughts, and contemplating what I wish to type usually consumes more time than the act of typing itself.
Bandwidth measured in bytes probably makes more sense these days. But again, I haven't bothered to measure how fast I type, other than a gut intuition for how often I get sniped in chat rooms, when people beat me and say something before I can, alongside how impatient people seem to get with me.
The ~15 year-old trilogy remains awesome, and needs no competitor. This is just going to needlessly mutate a familiar and well-received thing.
If Amazon wants to do something new, then Amazon should do something new under a different name, and not co-opt brand recognition for a cheap bonus.
Both touch typing and hunt and peck typing are in severe decline. Mobile devices have created all kinds of mutants, and no one gives a shit about "the home row" anymore. I watch those old videos about posture and training oneself to type without looking at the keyboard by typing endless garbage over and over, and I have to laugh, because I've never seen anything less important seem like such obvious brainwashing.
It would warrant criticism if the pilot tried it without informing the crew prior to takeoff. All participants entered into the activity with an understanding that they were risking their lives.
These people did it because they enjoyed the challenge, not to score points with corporate overlords or jockey for a raise and a promotion. The marketing angle was simply to provide cost justification and demonstrate that a perceptible reward would be earned with the risk undertaken.
Buffeting occurs when the soundwaves of the noise of the craft and its motion directly affect the air as it flows across the surface of the plane.
This happens as the plane enters the shockwave of the sound barrier, and ceases when they accelerate beyond the speed of sound.
At and beyond Mach 1 the buffeting is behind the plane, and flight is smoother, with no rattling or shaking from the incidental turbulence.
It also happens when decelerating, although it’s easier to decelerate safely through the buffeting quickly, since less time is spent in the shockwave, and a reduction in speed grants improved control.
tricking business
EDIT: ...probably one of the anticipated phone typos, fat fingering 'i' instead of the 'u' key.
It was a trend that started, and progressed like many other marketing arms races. One stand-out product emerged and out sold the normal offerings, due to novelty, and all other imitators jumped on the band wagon to cash in on that novelty.
[0] http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/packag... / http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/sql/package-s...
[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/servlet/package-s...
[2] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javaee/jsp/index.html
I still fail to see why having a single
neuron that circumnavigates the brain should
lead to consciousness.
Reasons it makes sense include the singular perception of self. No longer does that sense of being in one place, and perceiving one experience seem mysterious. If there's one container, and one self, the idea that the core of our living self ultimately resolves down to a single-celled animal depending on a collective of subordinate cellular tissues wraps up so many other details in an easily understood package.
Of course it raises the question of what mechanism drives such king-making? Is the sheer size of the neuron a factor? Is status determined as a zygote? Does status last from cradle to grave? If there's one master neuron at a time, does the master neuron's identity get exchanged or relayed to other neurons throughout life? How would hand-off work? What if there are conflicts? I'm sure there's no simple answer in any of these ideas, and the reality of such details will remain as complex as ever, if this is even the right track to follow...
But if it were true, maybe it opens the door to mastering one's entity of self, such that a person, or any similar organism might be capable of existing temporarily in a petri dish, lunching on agar, while the body goes in for a tune-up.
1. An overload of Big Macs eventually becomes bad for you.
2. There's no real barrier to people helping the homeless
by donating their Twitter handle to this minor
activity.
3. People without private personal access to the internet
still have public resources they can manipulate, if
some trivial social media account eventually nets them
a burger.
4. There's no real barrier to creating unlimited Twitter
accounts. I could whip up 100 disposable handles at a
moment's notice if so inclined. Side note: how does
twitter feel about this?
5. Because there are such low barriers to burger
acquisition, and the available inventory of burgers is
finite, do not be surprised when the not-so-infinite
supply of burgers dries up, if machines get mobbed.
So, while the machines are not a bottomless pit of
burgers (lest cows go extinct) the non-homeless do
clearly possess an advantage in emptying out the
machines. Can't win 'em all...When some of us get re-orged to that remote mining outpost and are forced to share quarters with some cheap, rubbery-skinned, impolite replicants, we're just going to have to make do, and don some superfluous equipment from sporting goods.
Question:
How secure is LinkNYC Wi-Fi?
Answer:
The LinkNYC Private network is one of the first
free municipal Wi-Fi services in the country to
offer an encrypted network connection between your
device and the hotspot, securing all wireless
communications between devices and the Link.
And uh... how many people will know enough to be mindful on the total lack of encryption?
You know, just like at Starbucks and the like?
Also, the clickbait advertising on that site is just plain weird.
The reason we benefit from GUIs is the same reason we benefit from our predatory binocular vision. A hunter that can see its prey can home in on a target quickly.
Terminal commands are a completely different strategy. Terminal commands only become intuitive, once you memorized chains of commands, and learned their interchangability.
Terminal commands gain practicality through practice, like knowing where all your home's light switches are in the dark. After you've lived there for a while, your hands move to them involuntarily, when you get up in the middle of night for a glass of water. But try the same thing in a hotel room.
All of this rides on top of a layer of muscle memory, but it's an order of magnitude more advanced, and decoupled. In league with playing an instrument, stenography and taking letters by dictation, that sort of thing. It's all blind and sightless.
The scientist, David L. Parnas, a professor at the
University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia