The Blue brain project have modelled a rats brain down to molecular resolutions, they are now working on a human brain. The project is directed towards medicine not AI, however I believe IBM's Watson is a spin off from the BB project,

The current oil glut is a deliberate move by OPEC, they are trying to put Iran out of business.

Fast uptake, minimum fuss: Tell them to read the doc, then talk to them.

Shhhh, if IT actually worked most of us would be out of a job.

They didn't get $40B by paying fines issued to the driver, if the driver could afford the fines he wouldn't be working for uber in the first place.

Your mistake is not being alarmed by the facts.

I'm over 50, I don't lament it, yes it was much more exciting from a child's POV, but with the 20/20 hindsight of an adult, it's clear that the Apollo project was driven by the fear of sputnik. Today NASA's goals appear to be driven by intellectual curiosity and the desire to explore, neither of those drivers attract as much money as fear.

Being a member of mensa indicates you failed the selection criteria for membership in mensa.

I played Pong on an arcade machine circa 1970, it was awesome.

Nobody said it was funny. "comedy of errors" == "unbelievable fuck-up".

The collapse of the Ottoman empire occured 1000yrs after the crusades, the event is now referred to in history books as "WW1".

They are expressing opinions that (they believe) justify the murders, they did not carry out the act themselves. Shutting down free speech to protect free speech is the act of an immature morality. When one side can't speak we get the kind of vile propaganda that occurred in Nazi germany and Rwanda, it ultimately led normal people to support and take part in those infamous genocides. Anonymous do not have the wisdom to be the arbiter of free speech, fortunately neither they or the (other) terrorists have that power.

This is done routinely, it's known as the model's "hindcasting skill", Michael Mann's website 'RealClimate' is a good source of general info on climate models, you should find out what they do before criticizing (lest someone accuse you of building a 'straw man argument').

It's difficult to criticise the model denier's use since they have never produced one, they just put out press releases containing nonsense such as "models can't reproduce 20th century climate", assign the opposite statement to that all American bogeyman 'Al Gore' and people like you lap it up.

IIRC the original star trek series also had several stories criticizing various alien 'utopias'.

The Roman's had welfare, each 'Roman' was entitled to ~30kg of grain from the emperor per month for their 'loyalty', it was distributed in the form of bread from local bakeries. This meant that the people in conquered lands quickly started signing up to be 'Romans'. Once they had conquered all of Europe the scheme could no longer keep up with demand and the empire simply fell apart.