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      CommentAuthorHollisb
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2009 edited
     
    Huh, I didn't know Vivaldi was gay. He composed my favorite violin concerto

    I'd read about this story but I didn't know that the apple folks were "inspired" by his form of suicide for their logo. Interesting.
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      CommentAuthordchamp
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2009
     
    It's good that they did apologize, but it hardly changes the harshness of his treatment. He was still fairly young at his time of death - 42 years old - my age. Who knows what other technology he could have advanced, had he been allowed to keep up his work instead of being persecuted?

    Another prominent computer scientist who is openly gay is Eric Allman, who brought us sendmail, which was the standard program on which email servers were based. Many servers either still use sendmail, a derivative, or something inspired by it.

    "There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the Internet without its being touched by a gay program. That's kind of funny." - Eric Allman
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      CommentAuthorSammyD
    • CommentTimeSep 14th 2009
     
    that is kinda funny.
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeOct 5th 2009 edited
     
    A techie's guide to sleeping on the sofa
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    Someone may have said that the rich are going to evolve into another species!

    I am more amused by the idea of a TechnoRapture, where the only individuals "Left Behind" and not integrated into a cybernetic artificial hyper-intelligence are the religious fundamentalists who eschew scientific progress.
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    First universal programmable quantum computer created

    as mentioned in the comments:
    Quantum computers increase in power exponentially with each qubit added. For example, let the number of qubits be n and the number of calculations a QC can perform in a single cycle will be 2^n.

    To give you an idea of what that means a QC with 300 qubits would be able to perform more calculations in a cycle than there are atoms in the visible universe.

    There are more possible brain states than atoms in the visible universe of course, which has so far remained a problem for developers of A.I.
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    Brain radio invented!

    I would tune into the Charlie Kaufman channel, it would be like Synecdoche, New York
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    A more recent overnight success, Google (GOOG), is perfecting SmartPhone technology that will let users snap a photo of nearly anything, only to have the company spit back a fact sheet on whatever the object is, whether a wine label, a mountain, or a margarita. The Times says that “Goggles, in essence, offers the promise to bridge the gap between the physical world and the Web.” They are calling it “Goggles,” and a Google executive admits the product is not perfect and not original, but the implementation and connection to a database like Google is what makes this app, well, killer. As far as the perfect goes, the paper says, Goggles had trouble recognizing the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, for example, when the image was shot with several trees in the way of its suspension span. But it did recognize it when the picture was snapped with fewer obstacles in the way.” One thing that is already worrying privacy experts is the potential for face recognition via camera phone. Google has turned that buggy feature off for now, but admits that more computing power could soon make it a reality.


    That'll do pig. That'll do.
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    To summarize this video in a few words: There is going to be a new $10 million X-prize for brain-computer interface technology development
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    Short Concept Video: The Future of Augmented Reality


    If I get sent to a nursing home with ads all over the wall like that I may have to blind myself to preserve my neurocognitive resources... It's The Persuaders x 1000
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeFeb 17th 2010 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeFeb 24th 2010 edited
     
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    A website has been created devoted to mesofacts
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    Growing new organs

    If they would commercialize these findings I'm sure we would all be most appreciative
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    Pancake Robot Invented

    Well Gentlemen (of varying genitalia), I think that we may finally be getting somewhere! Janis insists that Okonomiyaki are not pancakes, but "pancake" is clearly written MORE THAN ONCE in this article in the media source of record, which I believe clearly signifies the truth
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      CommentAuthordchamp
    • CommentTimeApr 4th 2010
     
    Looks like a pancake, quacks like a pancake, it's a pancake.
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    Memristors actually do stuff

    When these were discovered I thought that they would have potential- but these days if you go to any computational development lecture and three or four audience members will bring these up as "the new sexy", now it seems for good reason!
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2010 edited
     
    Culture immersion will stop us from going out to the stars

    It could be argued that I live in this world he is proposing, but is life itself not just another simulation that we are inventing to tell ourselves how things are in the universe? How are computer games any more dystopian than losing yourself in prayer to a deity? How are those weak enough of mind to fall prey to forms of fanaticism going to resist the lure of a world they themselves can engineer to be any way they want it to?
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    poor kitties...
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      CommentAuthorSillyYak
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010
     
    i love the photos with these cartoons. the dinosaurs crack me up.
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeApr 22nd 2010 edited
     
    Dinosaur Comics by Ryan North. I have been reading them every week for FIVE YEARS thanks to Sammy posting a MacHall comic once that recommended the site in the comments section. This led then to me reading North's friends' comics: Asofterworld, wondermark, picturesforsadchildren, harkavagrant, dresdencodak, questionablecontent, xkcd, etc. and now the comics of the friends of the friends sometimes too! It's a viscous fractal.

    today's comic:

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    The kitten machine

    Memristor Meow
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeMay 4th 2010 edited
     
    Laser Clouds

    Ok, so there are not many who would actually want this as a cybernetic capability- but maybe one would just want some crazy hallucinogens delivered to one's system through embedded mechanics in order to appreciate the sheer SPECTACLE of this sort of Pink-Floydian wunderf...udge.

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    The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

    Shameless... Philosopher Nick Bostrom has fallen back into my good graces by getting this published in a peer-reviewed journal of no small distinction.
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      CommentAuthorTheSasquatch
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010 edited
     
    THEY DID IT!!!!!!!!

    omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg omgomgomgomgomg

    Six, now much more likely, terrifying hours of hypergenetics!
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      CommentAuthorSammyD
    • CommentTimeMay 20th 2010
     
    dun dun dunnnnnn

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