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Exactly! That's why I think we should keep building better AI. It'll be AI, which will be traveling out to the stars, not humans. We could send a probe to a star and once it reache…

You should be able to get Intex Aqua Fish phone (a manufacturer in India). It runs Sailfish 2.0 created by Jolla. (I haven't actually ordered Aqua Fish, so I can't say much about i…

Some monkeys are also flossing their teeth and teaching it to their children. Smart animals. http://www.allaboutwildlife.com/2009-10/monkeys-teach-their-...

Interesting that he mentions Bret Victor. He was actually one of the designers of the much criticised touch bar [1][2]. He is also working on some other changes for Apple. [1] http…

I got an update to 10.11 El Capitan yesterday, which probably fixes the vulnerability. You can see the fix in Apple's support page, have a look at the bottom of the page about "Sys…

Nice explanation. However, it didn't explain how the debugger can stop again at the breakpoint after the last step? The interrupt command has been replaced with the original comman…

What would be the purpose of such a simpler vector format? Several formats already exist for various use cases: PDF for printing, SVG for web graphics (simple content and icons), O…

You're right. SVG2 requires full CSS support. CSS brings lots of complexity, like calc(), CSS variables and so on. All that is needed, because web developers use SVG2 inline in HTM…

Laws about making copies for private use differ from EU country to another. The author is only talking about UK, which has strict laws about copying for private use. For instance, …

What about minimum of a non-differentiable function? I've been using something like Nelder–Mead method (downhill simplex method / amoeba method) [1], but it gets slow near the mini…

There are studies which show that flossing isn't effective. Here's an older article mentioning three studies: http://www.forbes.com/sites/rosspomeroy/2013/10/17/dentists-... I read…

The new Vulkan C++ API from Khronos is based on vkcpp. Here's examples for vkcpp to give an idea how code with the C++ API looks like: https://github.com/jherico/Vulkan Here's a ba…

The repository should really mention the origin of the source code and the license. I'm always a bit skeptical about the legality of ancient source code suddenly popping up. The or…

libui [1] is a promising new cross platform GUI toolkit. If I need a GUI for a small cross platform desktop app, I will definitely try it. It uses MIT license, which means there is…

They have an SDK built on top of Qt Creator and it runs on OS X, Windows and Linux [1]. Linux may offer some advantages, such as access to the phone file system. OSX has a bit cumb…

It has a bit unusual user interface. They designed it to be usable by one hand, but I think they just ended up with a bit messy UI. It takes some time to get used to and some featu…

Just few weeks ago, Nokia announced that Nokia branded smart phones and tablets will be entering market soon. This time they are based on Android OS. It'll be interesting to see ho…

I had a look at a Metal tutorial [1], which does the same initialization as the Vulkan tutorial. Indeed, it has similar concept, but is also simpler (partly because it is written i…

I've always wondered how Vulkan is bootstrapped and its drawing surface attached to a window. Now I know. I would assume that the code for Linux and Android is similar.

Looks like the EU will only get the standards from the US: "The US insisted on its request for the commission to “require” in its standardization request, CEN and CENELEC to involv…

And they are also planning a new Star Wreck short film! http://www.starwreck.com