JibberMeTimbers's comments

JibberMeTimbers | 5 years ago | on: Poor evidence that Q-tips are harmful

It's completely the opposite at my local ENT. There are many signs saying to NOT use Q-Tips. In the exam rooms, at the reception, in the waiting area, down the hall, etc. It's funny but it does align with being overly cautious. I wonder if they've had too many cases of people puncturing their eardrums.

JibberMeTimbers | 5 years ago | on: Twitter and Facebook's action over Joe Biden article reignites bias claims

From the article, I'm seeing this:

>"We have reviewed Joe Biden's official schedules from the time and no meeting, as alleged by the New York Post, ever took place," it said.

>"Investigations by the press, during impeachment, and even by two Republican-led Senate committees whose work was decried as 'not legitimate' and political by a GOP colleague, have all reached the same conclusion: that Joe Biden carried out official US policy toward Ukraine and engaged in no wrongdoing," said Andrew Bates, a spokesman for Mr Biden.

>"Trump administration officials have attested to these facts under oath."

I'm not sure what there is to deny.

JibberMeTimbers | 7 years ago | on: Interviews with developers who became managers

Delegating interviews isn't a unique thing. A team Lead or a senior dev can handle a good portion of it. It's also important that a candidate have a good fit personality-wise with the team he'll be working with, not just the manager.

JibberMeTimbers | 10 years ago | on: AlphaGo beats Lee Sedol 3-0 [video]

I don't like the idea of FPS'. We'd expect them to behave the humans when they play FPS - they run looking forward and will occasionally look left or right and follow some predetermined pathing that they are familiar with.

With an AI, if we base it on pixels, what they will do is spin around 360 degrees about 60 times a second while moving forward so that it can maximize all of the pixels inputted at a time. It would compare it against the stored level design and shoot at anything that is off (or against character models). I can just see that it's not going to behave like anything we'd expect.

JibberMeTimbers | 10 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs and the $580M Black Hole (2012)

I'm calling you out for this lazy comment.

"Ensuing" in this context means after the the failed acquisition and bankruptcy (2001). "Continues" means it's still ongoing. And keep in mind the context of this article is 2012.

There is no redundancy.

JibberMeTimbers | 10 years ago | on: Darpa is testing implanting chips in soldiers’ brains

The article also somehow associated treating TBI/PTSD through this BCI with creating Super Soldiers. I am not seeing that jump. Super Soldier would imply that they are able to carry out the same tasks that a team could by themselves. We are still very, very far away from that.

I think people are mixing with this article about with their future "expectations" about DARPA

JibberMeTimbers | 10 years ago | on: The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car, Chapter 2

We can throw the same question right back at you. What would you do - kill the girl or kill yourself?

These hypotheticals don't really help the conversation. I don't know how the car would react but it would be nice to know if the car is going to try and work with neighboring cars to try and not hurt anyone. Not to mention that the car will already see the girl crossing the highway before she ever does get out there because of how sophisticated the sensors are.

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