It wasn't AI. The original script for the ending showed that a family man was controlling the dog from the comfort of their home office.

The first draft, though, afforded us a glimpse behind the curtain. "Originally, we also showed a human operator operating the dog robot from across the ocean at his house," Brooker told Entertainment Weekly.

"There was a bit I liked, where he leaves the [control unit] while the robot is watching her while she's up in the tree and he goes and gives his kids a bath. But it felt a bit weird and too on-the-nose. It kind of felt superfluous. We deliberately pared it back."

it was able to predict the outcome of untested reactions with more than 80-percent accuracy

The skeptic in me wonders if 80% of the combinations had no reaction

They don't need a guide dog... too slow, hard to maintain, and move around. An infrared HUD would be perfect for this

Giving the entire US an F in science reminds me of the Doomsday clock (a few minutes from the world's destruction!!). Making these sort of statements is just hyperbole intended to grab attention. Saying these sort of things immediately drops the speaker's credibility.

I'm guilty of interviewing by asking (almost exclusively) language questions, CS theory, and programming small functions.

Knowing any language well correlates with a person who hones their craft and continually improves.

Solving problems with optimal algorithms correlates with with someone who can think through complex problems.

For me, asking about previous experience isn't as valuable because it can't be verified on the spot. So it boils down to: "show me your skills" vs "tell me about your skills".

Are you a hot magnet company? (well known pre-IPO) Are you paying above market value?

My guess is that the best devs have already been scooped up, and the ones interviewing are comfortable enough where they are

The standard recommendation to reduce eye fatigue when using a computer screen is to stare off into the distance every so often. By using reading glasses, and with the right diopter, you can let your eyes focus as if looking into the distance while still focusing on your screen.

This has notably reduced eye fatigue for me.

If you wear contacts or don't need any correction, I recommend getting +1.5 diopter reading glasses if you sit a couple feet from your monitor, and less if you sit further. To test it out, go to a drugstore, pick some text that is the same distance as your monitor. Let your eyes relax as if staring off in the distance, and pick the diopter which gives the sharpest text

If you have glasses already, you can order a new pair and add 1.5 to your existing prescription. You can order online without a prescription (I used Zenni optical)

I stumbled upon a solution while taking an online course... watching the lecture at 2x speed helped me focus.

It turns out that watching a lecture in real time allows me to get bored and I end up doing a context switch. Perhaps distraction isn't the problem, but in this age, we've learned to process information more quickly.

"No... just, you know, growing a new liver and heart in mah belly"

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Let's math:

Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks

The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/)
A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller
If you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (http://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=428636)
12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh
Wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh
5e9 kWh * .05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars

This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars

Let's math: Assuming that the miles high pyramid uses free sun power to melt sand and we only need PV to power lifting the glass blocks The great pyramid of giza is 455' tall and has 10^12 joules of potential energy (http://what-if.xkcd.com/95/) A 2 mile high pyramid with the same dimensions is about 12x taller if you scale up the pyramid by 12, that's 12^4x more energy (using this formula: http://www.physicsforums.com/s...) 12^4*10^12 joules=2e16 joules = 5e9 kWh wholesale price of electricity is 5 cents per kWh 5e9 kWh * .05 dollars/kWh = 250,000,000 dollars This could easily triple depending on motor losses and other energy costs. So you could make your giant pyramid with "free" energy or you could sell the energy on the open market for almost a billion dollars

If the inability to code review spreadsheets was a real issue, it wouldn't be too hard to convert spreadsheet functions into a functional language. For non-programmers, a spreadsheet lowers the barrier to entry. This allows people to do something useful and productive who couldn't do so otherwise. That's a good thing.

It's interesting that the treatment is hypothesized to have failed for people who already had measles antibodies. Perhaps the "extinct" viruses the CDC keeps around might be good for engineering future treatments.

With a light colored hood, the heads up display during the day would be washed out.

I imagine that cars with this technology would benefit from a matte black hood, making future cars look like modders with carbon fiber hoods. Next, we'll see some technology that requires a huge spoiler :)

+5 insightful? 2:1 or 3:1 ratio of workers to roles? While it would be fun to feed into the frenzy going on in this message board, that means for every job, there are 1 or 2 unemployed people... 50-66% unemployment And before you say that they're just underemployed, I've interviewed hundreds of candidates and the vast majority can't do simple aspects of the job (in my case, it was to write code). So, no, you're dead wrong and the people who modded you just have some sort of agenda or lack critical thinking