Just like Iraq - so simple. Except a bit more nuclear, chemical-weapony and bio-weapony. You are the pure definition of dangerous moron.

Is that you, Cheney?

.....with something we call 'Artificially Intelligent', when in the same post it is identified that it "may be unequipped to consciously counteract learned biases".

Is it just me, or is there something fundamentally wrong with this logic?

*"The device can produce nearly 3 liters of water per day..."

*"...homes in the driest parts of the world could soon have a solar-powered appliance capable of delivering all the water they need, offering relief to billions of people."

Same sentence, yet the statements are not even close to existing in the same galaxy.

That is not even mentioning that this is less efficient that currently existing systems. Bob help us all.

Lol modded 'Insightful"?!?! HAHAHA

'Feeding the rumour mill' and giving sworn congressional testimony from - and to - some of the nation’s top security officials are not the same thing, Trumpeter.

No easier than it is to scroll through the rest of the internet looking for decent tech-related articles. That is why we come here.

My wife voluntarily stopped working to raise our 2 children. 7 years later and she is thinking about going back to work. She has a degree in International Studies and is a very intelligent woman. She was considering going into accounting - she has an amazing work ethic and did not care what she did - as long as it paid well (see where this is going?), I suggested to her that coding was less difficult than learning a new language and showed her the pay rates for proficient coders who are management material locally: $USD80,000-$USD170,000 per annum. I logged her onto Khan Academy.

Three months later and this woman has surpassed my coding skills. In another month or so I would suggest she has reached the average skill of any professional coder here (with better theory). She will ACE her first interview (she is also beautiful) and I have no doubt she will soon be managing a group of male coders on close to $USD200,000. Such is the advantage of being a female in the Information Sciences. I can retire and keep being kept in the way I have become accustomed, being just a man.

I am sorry, but I have no sympathy for these women. They have every door open already.

Careful. I am being targeted as a 'troll' and down modded for saying just the same things. It seems /. doesn't care what regulars readers want anymore.

...and comments section ever

...that /. was starting an 'Explain Like I am 5' section, just like Reddit.

"Killed By Man Yelling...

Congrats on the worst headline-gore I have seen this year.

How much of this is related to the fact that the original researchers were pioneers in their field - experts? Either that or their 'discovery' would be of no note.

What makes another scientist capable of exactly reproducing an extremely complicated set of dependent tasks? A set of instructions? Who is to say they can carry this out in the required identical manner?

In reality, the ONLY thing that matters is that the original researcher can reliably recreate the results. The ability of someone ELSE to perform it is subject to far too many untraceable mistakes - not least of all the original discoverer's ability to write papers.

Is this 'reproducability crisis' a result of the original author's error's, or partly to do with the uncertainty inherent with 'reproducing' a set of conditions and causes, accurately?

"Basic math shows that one large indoor farming skyscraper like they are building in Singapore or even an underground facility powered by a large solar array or other power plant (nuclear fusion, maybe in 25 years) would be able to provide all the food for a large city."

I am not sure what industry you are in, but I know you have not looked into intensive food production productivity per square meter per year. A large skyscraper for a large city?

Not even close. Your basic math is woo, hence no sources.

When a human job is replaced by a robot, a significant fraction of tax dollars is lost to the local community and is not made up by the corporation.

This undermines our whole civilisation. Blind capitalist idealism has no solution to this problem of society devolving into a dog-eat-dog situation of black-and-white have's-and-have-not's. There is no value in gaining hegemony of a population of monkeys reduced to eating body-lice.

We need to find a solution to this abominable greed.

It is hilarious reading so many comments from posters who have pro-Trump posts to their name on /.

There are far, far too many who seem to have no memory of supporting him......

That little evolutionary thing that requires reproduction is also a decent reason for having children. I am sure nature will cope with having all the genes of people who didn't want to have children for selfish reasons removed from the gene pool.