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Comment Margaret Thatcher slept 4 hours a night (Score 1) 49

by Melipone on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:05AM (#62821679) Attached to: Sleepless Nights Make People More Selfish and Asocial, Study Finds

...adds up

Comment In other news... (Score 1) 100

by Melipone on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @04:53AM (#61675249) Attached to: Vodafone Latest UK Carrier To Reintroduce Roaming Charges in Europe After Brexit

A company has announced it would like to fuck you

Comment Re: Three-Dimensional Donut? (Score 1) 182

by Melipone on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:14AM (#61600933) Attached to: Our Universe Might Be a Giant Three-Dimensional Donut

The kind you buy from a donut store. The number of dimensions refers to the surface of the donut, not its volume.

Comment Re:Limits of Measurement (Score 1) 144

by Melipone on Thursday July 31, 2014 @08:58AM (#47573549) Attached to: More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties

I wish I could vote this comment up - you've hit the nail on the head.

Comment Re:I was able to sneak into their laboratories (Score 2) 238

by Melipone on Monday July 14, 2014 @10:12AM (#47448275) Attached to: Scientists Have Developed a Material So Dark That You Can't See It

Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at Leeds University, told the paper: 'These new materials, they are pretty much as black as we can get, almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.'

It's ok, they managed to get this quote into it. Everything is operating as normal.

Comment Re:where is west (Score 1) 387

by Melipone on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @08:08AM (#47210977) Attached to: Geothermal Heat Contributing To West Antarctic Ice Sheet Melting

Oh damn you both I can't resist. It's only left if you're standing on the south pole. From the north pole it's right.

Comment Re:Good for him (Score 1) 199

by Melipone on Tuesday October 01, 2013 @11:54AM (#45003559) Attached to: Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Doesn't Trust Company, Uses Open Source Software

Neither does RMS...is he a bit tinfoil-hat too?

Comment Re:Oklahoma? (Score 1) 1161

by Melipone on Friday March 06, 2009 @08:03PM (#27100093) Attached to: Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution

If you read the god delusion, and listen to Dawkins' speeches, he does not say that science can be used to disprove god. Rather that in can be used to guide our analysis of the situation - specifically that when examined probabilistically the likelihood to god existing is rather slim, to the point of being equivalent of the probability of there existing a teapot orbiting Mars. That's an important distinction, and one which means he is not in conflict with Kant's argument. I'm a bit late on this one but I thought I'd chime in anyway...

Variations On the Classic Turing Test 82

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 23, 2009 @09:49AM from the climbing-out-of-the-uncanny-valley dept.

holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."

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