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GNU's Not Uber, FOSS won't give me a ride to the airport. So, there are nice things you don't get either way.

>But I doubt it is really in the interest of the manufacturers who want to be able to offer a complete "solution". Then they'll be leaving room for a newcomer to do it.

>but definitely options for professionals that make their living outdoors My thinking was also that this makes a great platform for professional tools that are currently standalone…

The physical world is so slow to give you feedback, I think DeepMind has the right approach with video games, you can move to 3d games, then games with physics where the agent dire…

>While it seems intuitive that most individual "intelligent" systems in animals can be seen as unsupervised, isn't life itself driven in a reinforced manner? I think apparently uns…

>What we don't know is whether there is a logistic curve on technology as a whole. Belief in the Singularity is premised on this not being the case. That's a version of the Singula…

Their owners want safe and steady profit. They aren't interesting in taking risks.

Look at how the plastics industry handled the scientific evidence that Bisphenol-A affects development. They switched to closely related chemicals with less data available, Bisphen…

Experiential and statistical evidence presented in a summary meant to convince a person of something would be known as an argument.

The West Antarctic Ice sheet is still flowing into the ocean, and accelerating. It's actually not even clear atmospheric warming is the ultimate cause. But it is clear that it's re…

The other sources are glacial melt, heat expansion, and water storage on land decreasing. You need both the models and the data. Facts without theory answer only what happened, not…

Sea levels are rising 2.6-2.9mm per year. “The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away,” Zwally s…

You might have a tip about a merger because a PI is watching a corporate parking lot. Just because something is a secret, doesn't mean an insider leak is the only way for it to be …

Convincing people to buy things using psychological manipulation is what marketing is all about.

>The hobbyist. Why would anyone else be liable for something a person did that then failed and caused harm? The hobbyist isn't the one with money. The manufacturer will be sued, an…

He didn't have a stable enough income to always maintain a gym membership. I doubt a daily commute and rent would be cheaper.

You're looking at a piece of equipment that can be used to generate income, maybe that's what it's for. It also could have been cheap/broken/free, and they intend to flip it.

>I think it's easier to defend the claim that the kids lacked guidance and support to take advantage of the education provided for them. That guidance is a critical part of a "good…

>How would you propose I monetize creating my own free open-source programming language? Forget it, work for the man, save your money, retire young, then work as much as you want o…

That's the proof of concept prototype. If they achieve their stated targets, it would be a leap in computing capability. http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/08/06/exascale-breakthrough-wev…

Recognizing patterns in data is so easy to do, that how easy it is, turns out to be a major problem in machine learning. You can always find some explanation that perfectly fits al…