Comment Re:If you can work remotely... (Score 1) 455
If you can work remotely... it's probable that somewhere on the other side of the planet a potential employer will open up their work for you.
Pessimism or optimism. Choose one.
Comment kiloTONs of ENERGY? (Score 2) 196
Energy is measured in joules fools.
Curiosity Rover Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample 51
littlesparkvt writes "NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior. This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock to collect a sample on Mars."
Comment USERNAMES (Score 1) 383
Perhaps when sending an email the user does not want to reveal his or her real name. By putting names in email addresses you make this impossible.
Comment Re:P = NP? (Score 2) 244
If P = NP, then the world would be a profoundly different place than we usually assume it to be. There would be no special value in "creative leaps," no fundamental gap between solving a problem and recognizing the solution once it's found. Everyone who could appreciate a symphony would be Mozart; everyone who could follow a step-by-step argument would be Gauss... — Scott Aaronson, MIT
I think that this is a more accurate description of how creativity and intelligence works. People claim they "invented" or "created" a new machine or song, but in reality they just copied it from somewhere else in nature (with or without realizing it).
Comment P = NP? (Score 2, Interesting) 244
I am certain that the algorithms being used today will never result with human level AI. If we want to design strong AI we need to first prove P = NP. This is the missing key to solving our AI problems - it's why there's a huge difference between expectations and the reality of AI. I will spend much of my life trying to prove P = NP, no matter how many tell me it's completely futile.
Do you think P = NP?
Comment Bright Pink Luggage (Score 3, Funny) 293
There is 0 chance someone is going to steal your luggage if its bright pink. It's that simple.
Comment Re:Why is this not major news on Reddit? (Score 1) 589
Check your filters. Go to /r/all it is there
Comment Make it about YOU, not him (Score 4, Insightful) 683
Instead of criticizing him, say "I'm really struggling to read your code, could you do x y z to make it easier for me to understand? Thanks".
Submission + - Websites Are Designed Upside Down (wordpress.com) 2
Karganeth writes: A blog post on the state of web design reveals that even our most symbolic websites (including slasdot) have set up the site to be completely upside down.
Comment Re:I don't believe it (Score -1, Troll) 454
What the fuck is your problem? He stated "as far as I know..." which is the GOOD thing to do instead of saying "It is true that...". Nowhere did he claim that because he believe something it makes it true. It makes perfect sense to act in accordance with your beliefs (rather than what is true) because you can never know the truth with certainty.
You, sir, are a fucking idiot.
Comment Author doesn't understand pressure... (Score 0) 53
with tips just one-twentieth of the width of a human hair, but able to apply pressures that could compete easily with those from human jaws
The size of the surface area has no bearing on the amount of pressure that can be applied because pressure is force per unit area.
Comment Re:I Left Today (Score 2, Insightful) 722
The bottom line is that Reddit has been, and can be, an interesting site full of interesting content. But the willingness of the admins there to allow such abhorrent (and clearly illegal) content until publicity won't allow them to continue to do so is a glaring flaw in the organization of the site, and I'd rather not be associated with such a wild west approach to such things, especially when their morals seem to be dictated more on whether something will affect their reputation than whether or not it's right.
The admins NEVER allowed illegal content on their site. Child pornography was never allowed. Not caring about what people in each subreddit did was not a glaring flaw. If you didn't like a subreddit, you didn't go there. It worked pretty well actually - reddit is very popular.
Comment Re:Princess Syndrome (Score 2) 161
I don't know how you run things, but corporations are not people in the EU.
Comment Correction (Score 1) 93
IBM's Watson is made of many parts: speech recognition
Incorrect. Watson does not use speech recognition. The questions were fed to it by text when playing against Ken Jennings.
