In other news today...
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@Fox if it's 10000 times more powerful than heroin, it's 15000-20000 times more powerful than morphine
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
@Fox if it's 10000 times more powerful than heroin, it's 15000-20000 times more powerful than morphine
But it isn't 10,000 times more powerful than heroin, it's 10,000 times more powerful than morphine.
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@Jaloopa only 0.1% as powerful as my cock then.
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@Fox said in In other news today...:
But it isn't 10,000 times more powerful than heroin
Yes it is. It says so right there in the headline
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I don't know which of the above two posts I hate more.
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@Jaloopa said in In other news today...:
so, same order of magnitude whichever they use then?
Surely you don't expect to understand orders of magnitude?
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Good long overdue.
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@fbmac said in In other news today...:
In reality, there are elephants as small as 15cm and 500g, we call them microelephants.
You may be thinking of shrews, who are related to elephants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_shrew
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@chozang said in In other news today...:
@fbmac said in In other news today...:
In reality, there are elephants as small as 15cm and 500g, we call them microelephants.
You may be thinking of shrews, who are related to elephants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_shrew
Extremely relevant:
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@fbmac said in In other news today...:
there are elephants as small as 15cm and 500g, we call them microelephants.
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@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
New drivers caught using phones to lose licence
So, judging by this headline's structure... the new drivers for some reason are trying to lose their licence with help of their phones, and someone's been catching them?
UNAMBIGUITY MOTHERFUCKERS, DO YOU COMPREHEND IT
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You know, in case you're on the fence as to whether to buy a Switch or not. Sure it's got this great portability feature and new Zelda, but the cartridges taste terribly, and to me it's a deal breaker.
Your move, Sony. I fully expect the new Uncharted to taste of sirloin with garlic butter.
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Is this a by-product of the manufacturing process, or is Nintendo making their Switch games taste bad on purpose to save them from ravenous hordes of plastic-eating children? I don’t know. What I do know is that if you’re getting a Nintendo Switch, you should not put the cartridges in your mouth.
And what I do know is you're a moron who's desperate for a 'story'.
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@boomzilla in other news today, vegan turns out to be really bad at playing chicken...
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@masonwheeler Um, because when people have overdoses, the paramedics/fire fighters get called to provide medical assistance.
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Sir Ken Dodd. That just sounds weird
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DeepCoder uses a technique called program synthesis: creating new programs by piecing together lines of code taken from existing software – just like a programmer might."
So they made a program to copy/paste from StackOverflow. What could possibly go wrong?
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@homoBalkanus said in In other news today...:
What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing that isn't already industry standard practice.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
Sir Ken Dodd. That just sounds weird
not as weird as Sir Cum Cision
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I don't normally like linking to tabloids, but this is worthy of note:
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Doctors in Brazil are testing the skin of the fish tilapia as a bandage for second- and third-degree burn
Finally, a good use for tilapia*!
*Yes, I know you can eat it. Rice cakes are also edible, so what's your point?
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@antiquarian with the right seasonings, it's delicious. You just have to make sure you don't overpower the flavor.
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@anotherusername Rice cakes or tilapia ?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
with the right seasonings, it's delicious. You just have to make sure you don't overpower the flavor.
You can have it. I'll take cod or salmon over tilapia any day of the week.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
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@antiquarian said in In other news today...:
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@RaceProUK Poland will win. Apparently Polish Firms after watching some docs. They basically looked at the English Footie Hooligans of the 80s for inspiration and improved.
However I think there should be an Scottish League. Not even the sectarian violence in the middle east comes close to the hatred between Rangers and Celtic Fans.
BTW The whole "lets have a football tournament for hooligans" idea has been floated quite a few times over the year.
As a Cherries supporter we really don't have any problems with regards to violence.
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“It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it”
A few days with most clients and the first law of robotics goes straight out of the window.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
“It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it”
A few days with most clients and the first law of robotics goes straight out of the window.
I always thought that was dumb. "Through inaction, allow another human to come to harm" What constitutes harm?
See, that's the problem with laws; they assume you apply the spirit of the law until it's convenient to smash based on the letter of the law! Fricken retarded!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I always thought that was dumb. "Through inaction, allow another human to come to harm" What constitutes harm?
A number of Asimov's stories in I, Robot deal with that very issue.
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@RaceProUK said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I always thought that was dumb. "Through inaction, allow another human to come to harm" What constitutes harm?
A number of Asimov's stories in I, Robot deal with that very issue.
You know, for those who don't read....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I always thought that was dumb. "Through inaction, allow another human to come to harm" What constitutes harm?
I think these robotics laws dumb because, look at current neural networks. There is no place to put rules there, it's incomprehensible how they work internally. It learns, and there is no figuring out how the knowledge or thought happens inside it.
Do anyone think that it would be any easier when we reach strong AI? I doubt that.
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@fbmac said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I always thought that was dumb. "Through inaction, allow another human to come to harm" What constitutes harm?
I think these robotics laws dumb because, look at current neural networks. There is no place to put rules there, it's incomprehensible how they work internally. It learns, and there is no figuring out how the knowledge or thought happens inside it.
Do anyone think that it would be any easier when we reach strong AI? I doubt that.
I just imagine that the "rules" will be chanted at the bot in a loop during development so it becomes a well-stored piece of data...
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@RaceProUK Still wondering why we are at war with a plant
That's basically the entire premise for the first expansion pack to Guild Wars 2.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpeLj-fDK-4
It's pretty good.
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@Maciejasjmj said in In other news today...:
“It could allow non-coders to simply describe an idea for a program and let the system build it”
A few days with most clients and the first law of robotics goes straight out of the window.
I wonder what we can call the people skilled in telling a computer what they want a program to do...
Programmers?
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
Can tilapia skin be used to bandage burns?
Yes. Most flat, flexible objects can be used as bandages. You can bandage Mr. Burns with an empty mailing envelope for all I care.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
You know, for those who don't read....
Well, for you who don't read then, the plot of the Will Smith movie is not the plot of the book, and it goes against some of the core principles outright — basically, creating a robot without the Laws built-in should be damned near impossible to do in secret since positronic brains aren't programmed to do stuff, they are built that way.
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@Onyx the closest in the books was a robot with a weakened first law IIRC. Removal of the through inaction part.
Also, the zeroth law later on but that didn't remove the first law, just superseded it
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@Onyx There's a lot of great stuff on Computerphile lately about AI and how the most benign utility functions can cause devastating effects. I always figured the positronic brains had hardwired utility functions and all the "must nots" are really "reject this outcome no matter what"
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@Yamikuronue basically, the way they were described positronic brains are pretty much hardware neural networks. All of the stories in I, Robot revolve around one law or another taking precedence when it shouldn't, basically a bad weighing function in the neural network. I'm not sure how many of these concepts were an actual thing at the time it was written, but it sure reads that way.