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Medicine

Submission + - The dangers of being really, really tired. (slate.com) 1

Sleepy Dog Millionare writes: Brian Palmer writing for Slate asks Can you die from lack of sleep? and shockingly the answer may very well be yes you can. Palmer points to "ground breaking experiments" in the areas of sleep research. It turns out that sleep deprivation can actually be deadly in rats. The obvious conclusion is that it is probably deadly in all mammals. So the next time you think you need to pull multiple all-night hack-a-thon ask yourself if it's worth risking your life for?
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Submission + - U.S. Attorney's office bans Drudge Report

Strudelkugel writes: The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site. In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney's Office at the Department of Justice asked them "to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site." "Please avoid the Drudgereport website from the [United States Attorney's Office] computers," Harvey wrote. Harvey said that if employees had a "work-related reason to visit the site," access could be provided off the government network.

Comment Re:How about NO image recognition? (Score 2, Interesting) 100

Except to do something like that you have to analyze the program code of every game you make a trainer for. I've never done that sort of thing, but it seems scary.

An approach like the one they've outlined can probably be moved from game to game with only parameter tweaks.

That is the true beauty of machine learning :)

Comment Re:Hilarious Overkill (Score 1) 100

Template matching might have been faster. If you know exactly what image you're looking for, you can find it in time linear with the number of screen pixels. I didn't bother reading the article, but it seems unlikely that their algorithm started with the icons it was looking for. I am not an expert on neural nets specifically (though I am a machine learning researcher so I have a passing familiarity with them) but I don't know how you would give it that knowledge. It's possible that the NN figured out the icons on its own, which would be a *very* cool result.

Comment Re:Does anyone do this right? (Score 5, Insightful) 328

I refused to learn latex when I was in academia. I am shocked it is still around. But the apps I saw that might have replaced it are probably either too pricey or long dead these days. I remember writing my thesis is Word and I had to reboot the PC after every major format change to free up memory. (Days when 8MB as a lot of memory.)

Or you could have just learned latex and saved yourself the hassle.

Comment ahh, slashdot and AI (Score 0) 34

Whenever I read slashdot comments, I always think "man these people are insightful", until there is a story I actually know something about (AI). Then I think "man these people only have the barest clue about what they're talking about. this is quite pathetic". I wonder if it's like that for experts in other topics as well?

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