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Comment Type I and Type II errors? (Score 1) 62

My guess is that this would be useful for detecting people who only want narcotics to sell, or to use recreationally, But a computer algorithm that falsely identifies pain sufferers as fakers would be downright cruel, whereas a computer algorithm that fails to identify fakers is merely less useful for drug control efforts.

Comment Re:Ridiculous (Score 1) 914

Judge her by her own words, not edited snippets of them. It's the job of an ethicist to appreciate ethical dilemmas before they become practical reality. I'm not completely convinced, however that she hasn't crossed the line into advocacy of some truly disturbing proposals.

did you know that london tube officials are considering a scheme whereby passersby will be able to help stop runaway trains by pushing others onto the tracks, thereby saving the lives of countless others. It's true. I read it in the daily mail.

Comment Re:rub things (Score 2) 208

I'm sure that you can keep a porn diary in OneNote. Approach your habit as you would an academic discipline, and take notes on videos. Annotate your dickpics. Keep a running bibliography of interesting urls.

And upload the whole bit to microsoft servers so that you can enjoy a seamless experience on phone, tablet, tv, and laptop.

Comment Re:why not just 720p (Score 1) 377

There's a incredible amount of hype attached to "1080p", or "Full 1080" or whatever to the point that most TVs sold today seem to be either "crap", 1080p, or 4k, with 3d thrown in there along with "Smartness". Besides, most of those 720p sets are actually 768p, a quasi standard supported by almost no output device.

For a XBox One game not to support the "standard" 1080p resolution suggests early obsolescence is on the horizon.

Comment Re:How long id a song (Score 1) 100

The original ipod was described thusly

The original iPod features a 5 GB hard drive (10 GB option available after March 21, 2002) capable of holding 1000 songs in 160-Kbps MP3 format (or 2000 on the 10 GB drive), a high output amplifier (60-mW), a FireWire port, and a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack in an ultrasleek "iBook white" and stainless steel case with a 2-inch white backlit LCD display. Battery life is an estimated 10 hours

4 minutes per song. Which may be a the long side.
when hawking a large hard drive, it may be wiser to describe it in terms of "hours of high definition video", because compared to video, audio, even lossless audio, seems a bit of an afterthought.

Comment Re:size? (Score 2) 94

That's for the system.

Could an astronomer explain the \( 39_{--22}^{+40} \) notation? Seems a pretty big error margin, but I can't tell if it means "between 17 and 79 solar masses" or "between 22 and 40 solar masses"?

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