Waiting for ME4 :)

The combination of *good* AI + Social Media could perhaps help prevent bad behavior in general, by showing users what they need to see in order to cure their "evil" tendencies. The one thing all people have in common is the "good". The differences are what makes people do evil. Obviously, one can easily imagine the horrible consequences if the above is taken too far or if "bad" AI is involved. Be the change you want to see in the world, and don't be evil.

Why not just increase the entropy by just using a compressed version of the text, eg: instead of using the text of the first article, zip it, and use that as the pad (removing headers etc). Or use some compressed H.264 youtube videos as the pad (arithmetic coding pretty much guarantees a relatively high entropy).

To be fair, virtually all of CUDA is reasonably close to standard C++, so the learning curve is relatively small compared to previous graphics-oriented languages, and it's easier to get more gpu !/$ than with OpenCL. NVIDIA is also pretty much the only serious GPGPU HW available, so you're kind of tied to your GPU vendor no matter what language you use.

I get the feeling he's growing only one specific type of "plant" for "medicinal" uses...

Like George Costanza said in an episode of Seinfeld: you're not lying if you believe it to be the truth.

I'm going to quote Odin Zeus McGaffer on this one: "After getting booted out of the garden, Adam and Eve sex it up and pump out 2 sons named Cain and Abel. Despite the odds, Cain and Abel manage to have kids as well... don't ask."

Didn't a working original Apple I recently sold for like 300 bucks on Pawn Stars ?

The fewer people know how to code, the more valuable good coders are... Just sayin'

Your fancy FBC compiler will be written in C[++], with its primary purpose being that folks who suck at programming also get to do some programming...

My personal favorite: Random "Sleep(10);" inserted in the code to "fix" race conditions... In my experience, there is about 10% of SW engineers that are actually good at what they do, 80% that basically suck, and at the opposite end of the spectrum, the remaining 10% are basically borderline retarded.

What about: -> "guy-paid-to-feed-virtual-pets-on-facebook" ? I guess that would fall in the new upcoming "Virtual Subsistence Agriculture" category

+1 Funny

I wonder what kind of latency they're getting for the controls. Seems like you'd want roundtrip latency to be under 50ms, which best case with speed of light transmission, line-of-sight controls and infinite transmission rate would correspond roughly to a limit of 4000 miles away for the operator... (probably much less in practice since you'd need to account for the time to send visual feedback presumably as a compressed video stream)

Huh? Sounds like a faith-based argument to me -> it's a slippery slope from that to talking snakes :)