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Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Uber’s self-driving unit gets $1B investment from SoftBank

Who else have they invested in?

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

I always preferred Grendel by John Gardner. But if Zach Snyder directed the original with Ben Affleck as Beo.... oh, hell, I'd hate that.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Orbit. His Body Is Not Quite the Same

Maybe the reality is that all the science fiction stories have got it wrong all these times: that we have to genetically engineer different humans to traverse interplanetary (and in the far future, interstellar) distances and to live in alien worlds, so that we have less in common with them, physiologically, than we have with, say, the Cro Magnons.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Opening up BBC Sounds to others’ podcasts and commercial radio

I love the Radioplayer and to date I can’t get my head round Sounds. It just hasn’t got the same functionality unless one wants to listen to music. Radio plays, comedies et al are my listening menu. It seems that things are gradually being removed from the iPlayer. I’m old so not important to the new BBC.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: IMF approves $4.2bn loan for Ecuador

Just a few days later Assange is evicted from their ambassy in London. that must have been one of the conditions. It's how the IMF rolls, clearly, totally in the pocket of the vile empire called the USA.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Epic Games Launcher appears to collect Steam friends and play history

Even if you didn't install it, one of your steam friends probably did which included you with it :O

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other words? (2012)

I can actually answer this question. Back in the day I was going through Oxford Dictionary and it mentioned that all the meaning use words from a like of about 3,000 words. The list, IIRC, was also at the back of the dictionary. And it also mentioned that on rare occasions they have to use words outside of those 3,000.

Source: My memory of something I read at British Council Library 17 years ago.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: New Skype for Web is live for Edge and Chrome browsers

Did someone still use Skype?

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Is It a Duck or a Rabbit? For Google Cloud Vision, Depends on Image Rotation

I was ONLY seeing clockwise in all images until the counter-clockwise one went about 8 rotations and all of a sudden I saw it counter-clockwise. Now I can’t unsee it.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Intellectual Denial of Service Attacks

Let’s say the internet denial of service is controlled by a hacker who owns bots, and is the mastermind. It is possible that in an intellectual denial of service by non-experts there is an expert mastermind.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: 19th Century Moral Panic Over Paper Technology (2017)

I sometimes work with old newspapers in bound volumes. It is immediately obvious when a newspaper switched to wood pulp, typically in the 1870s. The earlier editions are beautiful, the pages supple and in nearly as good condition as they were new. Then as soon as the switch occurs the pages are yellow and brittle. The challenge is to turn the page without it crumbling.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Frans de Waal Embraces Animal Emotions in ‘Mama’s Last Hug’

Emotions are physical. They register in the pits of our stomachs, in our hair that stands on end, in our racing hearts, in sudden flushes of heat. Most animals, and certainly most mammals, have nervous systems very similar to ours, up to and including the mid-brain structures where emotions "report" to our cognitive structures, which are the only part of us that's really different from all those others. We can articulate our feelings and make more intricate plans to change or prolong them. But there's no reason to think our racing hearts FEEL any different from theirs.

Gunstig2Snath | 7 years ago | on: Let an algorithm tell you how to eat

Dr. Topol is making some reasonable observations and then extrapolating wild and wholly unsupported conclusions from them. The Mediterranean diet data is better than many pharmaceutically funded drug studies that medicine bases wide ranging guidelines on. It’s harmful for scientists to be led into such wild speculation when there are plenty of studies with endpoints like death that are measurable and real vs these bizarre end point measures.