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I've yet to find a falsifiable definition of consciousness. I do believe in intelligence (which is measured against a particular task) and ego (which inflates the self over the oth…

you can build it and simply use it in your own office? There is no need to shout about it if the cost of writing software goes to zero (but the value remains non-zero!).

i agree; but perhaps also it is the difference between managers and SWE? The former (SWE team leaders included) can see that engineers aren't perfect. The latter are often highly f…

i used to do lots of graphics, and love these bugs. They give an enjoyable insight to the development process and algorithms as the progress through a project! i have my own archiv…

The Turing had an interesting approach to naming, not only stealing the Glasgow group's name, but also choosing the initials 'ATI' (in 2015...). It's recently struggling for releva…

My old supervisor wrote a book on computational socialism back in 93. I rather like some of the ideas (can a participatory centrally planned economy work now that we have internet/…

fantastic book. Made me consider the question of whether consciousness exists at all or if it is just some hack by evolution to allow introspection. I haven't found a definition of…

Other causes include the pressure to publish quickly in ML (while your approach is en vogue), with small teams, before your funding runs out, while hitting conference deadlines. In…

Academics are judged by the publications not their implementations, so the system favours over-sold manuscripts and it-ran-once implementations. Until funding is conditional-on (an…

> It’s not to say the developers and scientists at Adobe are lesser adobe research scientists are crazy-strong in the area of deep/neural graphics[1]. Perhaps we should disentangle…

Look awesome - I've been looking for some hackable code like this to present my photos from google drive. Cheap photo hosting from google + minimal load on my server...

Within the UK there is a large variety of cycling cultures. Cambridge is a city where everyone cycles to work in jeans/office clothes. (Don't confuse "track bikes" and "road bikes"…

a counter point: when cycling in London you have to be aware that 30% of the time there will be be a vehicle stopped the protected bike zone in front of the lights...

I guess I was thinking that a good way to simplify many video UIs would be to remove these buttons. Perhaps the browser-esque way of providing this functionality would be to use bo…

Goal was to create a platform for sharing user video that would otherwise be too awful to watch. By dropping length, but increasing variety, it's easier to create something like to…

The papers written at Esri R&D Zurich this year also include: CGA++ http://research.michael-schwarz.com/publ/2015/cgapp/ Interactive Handles (by me!) http://twak.blogspot.ch/2015/0…

It's always slightly surreal to see your employer on the front page of hn, even more so when you find you find your colleague making the second comment.

Another solution is to put the pixel order in the html header. A smart browser showing the same page spread over two different monitors would then download twice as much, but every…

It's easy to imagine EC2 expanding beyond 1U servers and databases to GPGPUs, FGPAs or quantum cores. There's a lot of potential for a gpu cloud - from quick rendering (xtraNormal/…