So your philosopher friend knows the secret to creating conscious AI? I don't think so.
no: he knows of a mathematical definition of Consciousness and has presented at multiple conferences on the topic of Consciousness for many years.
As they say in wikiland: 'Citation Needed'.
I study philosophy, specially philosophy of mind and more specifically the problem of consciousness, and have never heard of anything remotely like "a mathematical definition of Consciousness".
Can you please provide your friend's name and a reference to one of these presentations he has made regarding this, lest we be left imagining they are both just figments of your imagination?
The Earth has a magnetic field. I don't think they're going to make one bigger than that...
So, we don't need the wireless chargers in the first place, as the EV vehicles (and our smartphones!) can just charge off the Earth's magnetic field, right? Right?
Hint: it's not the *size* of the field, it's its *strenght*...
Hopefully we can get a few laptops that support ECC memory.
Absolutely, a machine like that (which can come with a Ryzen Pro desktop CPU) pratically begs for ECC memory support. Which the Ryzen Pro supports.
Unfortunately, it seems System76 dropped the ball on this one: an option for ECC RAM isn't even listed in their "Design & Buid" page. Probably because the 'motherboard' System76 is using doesn't have the traces, and/or its ROM doesn't enable it
Mark my words, their next step will be to fire their sales staff and replace them with attractive females (that's not tongue in cheek, I'm quite serious).
I hope you are right, as that would be a great improvement on the current situation...
The article also reminds us that "NT's not ancient history, in spite of its age. The NT 'core' is what's inside Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows Phone 8, Windows Azure and the Xbox One.
Indeed. No matter how structurally sound your operating system may be, UI developers (receiving messages from on high) can still make it look like trash.
Structurally sound? Are you nuts? NT (and all the crap MS did since they abandomned Xenix) is unsound structure with unsound UI on top of it...
HEAD CRASH!! FILES LOST!! Details at 11.