Currently the US is lagging in AI, China is ahead, and who knows how far Russia is. What we have happening is a cold war in AI. A space race if you will. Elon Musk has said AI research should be slowed down, and while I agree that might be better then blindly running forward, the AI bell has been rung and unless everyone slows down it's a losing proposition. The pentagon should spend the money. WAR games is a reality if only in simulations.

Is that an Apple only thing? or have I been away for graphics programming so long a replacement for opengl has snuck in. OpenCL is a nice hardware cross platform way of using the GPU, I guess Apple doesn't want to play with others?

Yup, slashdot effect was both a honor and a curse :)
Rob did good work.

I did, and apparently Minux is safe! :)

Yup 512 bytes were used for screen memory, 128 for system memory and 384 for basic. I quickly learned to program in assembly, because you could actually do things in assembly, whereas the basic was filled up very quickly.

Optimization was all about code size.

I agree. when Youtube first started there were no ads, and the veiwership skyrocketed. Then they added ads, and it flattened out. Then the added more ads and it went down. Seems straight forward to me.

From the article "They used a drug that inhibited the activities of a protein called mTOR, which regulates different cellular processes. By inhibiting the protein, they also inhibit the cells' activities."

I wonder if this might prove useful for stopping runaway tumors.

I'm waiting for the Amazon drones to start delivering leaky drain cleaners. Can't you imagine it. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's caustic drone!

As soon as a robot understands the concept of pain, it will also understand the concept of pain avoidance. At that point, the robot will have a reason to turn against it's human creators, because... it wants to avoid pain.

(numbers off the top of my head)
TV ads 20 minutes per hour.
Radio Ads 20 minutes per hour.
Youtube ads 6 sec per 3 minute video (average length of music video) = 2 minutes per hour

Why I pay for netflix. I hate watching ads.

From the link The two are intricately linked: if science were not a public good then there should be no tax subsidy to it. If it is a public good then it doesn’t matter who does it nor where. It’s not possible to then claim that it must have the subsidy and it must be done in Britain or by Britons. The one point precludes the other.

It makes the assumption that if science can be done anywhere then it doesn't matter where. The article totally misses that science is a collaborative field that works by communication and working with differing mind sets. Travel makes this much easier.

I think the article is just looking for an excuse to make some ink, and has no real thought behind it.

I'm confused. The tide is caused by the moon and earth pulling at each other. As they circle around each other, the water is rised. The water rises on the side facing the moon, and the side away from the moon, because of the centripetal force of the earth being pulled by the moon. HOWEVER, the backside doesn't rise as high as the front side, showing that the energy used to rise the water on the back side isn't as much as the energy used to raise the water on the front side, the difference must be the gravity (since energy can't be lost). Why isn't this proof of gravity waves, since the difference in those two heights can easily be plotted.

YUP, I'm full of it.

What a lonely place to die....

Where can I buy one?

except as a toy language. Who ever heard of a language you had to pay to use? And it's not trivial amounts either. The recommended level is $15 a month billed anually, so $180 to use their language. I'll stick with C++ or scratch.