Sapere Aude
Month: August 2015
europe has 0 decent homegrown streaming services, so of course yet another industry would rather make a lot of noise instead of getting off their ass:
US filmmaking was seen mostly as a business activity, while in Europe it was mainly seen as a cultural activity
so true
this looks interesting. it’s nice to see a “trickle down effect” from gaming to general accessibility.
The head and face controlled computer mouse. The KinesicMouse uses the Microsoft Kinect for Windows 3D camera for face tracking. Place the camera anywhere in front of you and you are ready to go. No tracking aids like reflective stickers, caps or other head mounted devices are required.
Unless one thinks the human way of thinking is the most optimal or most easily implementable way, we should expect de novo AI to make use of different, potentially very compressed and fast, processes. (Brain emulation makes sense if one either cannot figure out how else to do AI, or one wants to copy extant brains for their properties.) Hence, the costs of brain computation is merely a proof of existence that there are systems that effective – the same mental tasks could well be done by far less or far more efficient systems.
I wanted to show that god-fearing folks steeped in old-fashioned values are just as susceptible to the effects of shifting sex ratios as cosmopolitan, hookup-happy 20-somethings who frequent Upper East Side wine bars. I have seen more outrageous boob jobs and facial plastic surgery in Utah than almost anywhere in the country—especially among Mormon women. They may claim chastity as a virtue overall, but that’s not stopping anyone from getting a set of double-Ds.
This is amazing. There’s a lot of room at the bottom.
estimates of the total number of photos ever taken on film range from 2.5-3.5 trillion. More photos will be taken this year than were taken on film in the entire history of the analogue camera business.
With no specialist javelin coaches in Kenya, the then teenager turned to technology to see what Thorkildsen and other great champions such as Czech Jan Zelezny were doing. “I watched YouTube and it really paid off for me, to see the training techniques and skills they are using
besides all the time wasting & entertainment, there’s the occasional gem like this. he just won gold at the world championship.
For every active duty soldier killed in combat, 22 veterans died by their own hand.
“Look at the people who go to the military. Who are they, for the most part? They aren’t well-adjusted in the first place. If you want to send people to the military who don’t come back with trauma, send well-adjusted people. But well-adjusted people don’t want to go to war.”
Syrians are helped along their journeys by Arabic-language Facebook groups like “Smuggling Into the E.U.,” with 24k members, and “How to Emigrate to Europe,” with 39k. Migrants share photos and videos of their journeys taken on their smartphones. The groups are used widely by those traveling alone and with traffickers. In fact, the ease and autonomy the apps provide may be cutting into the smuggling business.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 