Comment Re:Interesting, but N=1 and... (Score 4, Interesting) 284
I find the whole think kind of surprising, since it is known that the whole brain doesn't go to sleep at the same time. Sleepwalking happens when part of it isn't asleep at all.
I find the whole think kind of surprising, since it is known that the whole brain doesn't go to sleep at the same time. Sleepwalking happens when part of it isn't asleep at all.
Neat. Could be used during surgeries instead of anesthesia, or could be weaponized to disable enemy combatants.
Sure, just capture them and subject them to brain surgery for the implant, then turn them lose so you can capture them easier next time.
I have a few. whichever ones i successfully snatched off the playground. usually the slowest runners.
In case you haven't heard, there's a more fun way of getting kids.
Those damb religio-political dogmatists keep blocking publication of my papers on the theory of anturgic phrogneal boropathy.
he believes in some mythical exponential increase in computer intelligence
FTFY
Something about a beast named DCLXVI ? Dacelixovius the bigfoot?
And let me guess: we'll all be riding on hoverboards...
AI has to get in line behind my flying car.
MAYBE machine intelligence will surpass humans in some ways, but where the hell do we get this idea that they’ll decide we’re unstable and wipe us out? Sci Fi? Do we get it from anything RATIONAL?
Your subject line holds the answer: Maybe the idiot futurists really are in danger of being surpassed by machines!
They just haven't figured out that the rest of us aren't idiots too.
People who think AI is a looming threat to humanity learned all they know about AI from comic books and movies.
20 years ago I was using a computer monitor with better resolution than the one today.
Really? Do tell -- what was the resolution of that monitor, and how much did it cost you at the time? (Also, what computer monitor are you using today?)
Then you have never looked at a ten line C program to implement a PID control loop for a servo motor.
I don't think that would count as learning. That ten-line program will always do exactly what it was programmed to do, neither more nor less. An adaptive program (in the sense the previous poster was attempting to describe) would be one that is able to figure out on its own how to do things that its programmers had not anticipated in advance.
if it got 60 miles electric I'd have to make sure I used the gas engine occasional to make sure it didn't have problems.
An interesting feature of the Volt is that it will handle this for you -- i.e. if the gas engine hasn't been used in a long enough time, the Volt's computer will force it to be used for a little while just to give it some exercise (and keep the gas in the tank from getting too stale IIRC).
Elon Musk is south african.
He was born in South Africa, yes. But he's also a US citizen, and lives and works in the USA.
Throw out HTML, throw out CSS, throw out JavaScript. Take the best *ideas* from them all, use C# (nothing to do with Microsoft though) and create a common framework on all platforms embracing those *ideas* and use OpenGL as the composition engine.
I'd try to explain the problems with this line of thinking, but I think xkcd does a better job.
bullshit. I just was in an accident as a cyclist earlier this year, not wearing any protection. none would have protected me, I broke my wrist and i have a serious shoulder injury.
Your single data point doesn't demonstrate anything one way or another about "most accidents".
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
