XenaAllWetDownthere - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Start with primitive C Elegans Worm (Score 1) 89

by XenaAllWetDownthere on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:01PM (#54519495) Attached to: AI Could Get Smarter By Copying the Neural Structure of a Rat Brain

can only agree. not sure what mapping these neurons should help in understanding AI. the real question remains a logic one: Is it actually possible to recreate a human ai or is that actually beyond us. And wouldn't it be better to try a different sort of AI, not based on the way we think.

Comment Re:What if we make a better world for nothing? (Score 1) 737

by XenaAllWetDownthere on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:56PM (#54519463) Attached to: Trump Is Pulling US Out of Paris Climate Deal: Sources

What the...the real solution would be fighting fake news...The VW diesel emission scandal is not even remotely linked to global warming. It's just another scam to trick you into buying different cars. While the excess of particulate matter the diesel motors create, isn't especially nice, cities like Hamburg are a testament, that the big diesel sinners are container ships and not cars.

Submission + - DNA from ancient Egyptian mummies reveals their ancestry (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by HanzoSpam on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:12AM

HanzoSpam writes: Ancient Egyptians were an archaeologist's dream. They left behind intricate coffins, massive pyramids and gorgeous hieroglyphs, the pictorial writing code cracked in 1799. But there was one persistent hole in ancient Egyptian identity: their chromosomes. A study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Tubingen in Germany managed to plug some of those genetic gaps. Researchers wrung genetic material from 151 Egyptian mummies. radiocarbon dated between Egypt's New Kingdom (the oldest at 1388 B.C.) to the Roman Period (the youngest at 426 A.D.).

Submission + - Is Del.icio.us dead? (del.icio.us)

Submitted by brentlaminack on Tuesday May 30, 2017 @03:15PM

brentlaminack writes: One of the first and best social bookmarking platforms, Del.icio.us has changed hands about four times, , one was to Yahoo for >$15M. Its most recent relaunch was over a year back, which was their last blog entry. Now images are broken, little "advertisement" blocks show up with no advertisements, things seem moribund. What's the deal?

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