An alternative for alcohol that is as attractive from the point of view of intoxication quality but is easily and quickly reversible and has little hangover.
legalized weed?
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#552Hypnosis for HCI. (Neuralink et. al. are looking through the wrong end of the telescope. When you want to connect a computer and a brain the most effective thing to do is program the brain.)
Could you elaborate please?
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#553Improving validation and interpretation of DL. For all the leaps forward in NN models, I have a feeling it's at risk because of a lack of trust. It's potential may be limited if the public perceives it to be too brittle or maladaptive. DARPA is currently trying to work on DL models that are truly interpretable. If that gets sufficient progress I think the public/regulators will be much more willing to let software co…
Explainability is key for accelerating DL research!
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#554ML for healthcare. The whole industry is so far behind everything else, it is not even funny. Problem is, Just like Airbnb or Uber, the biggest road blocks are not technological, they are organizational and political. It is entirely possible, we might need some major privacy / security related leaps in ML to convince the medical industry to adopt it fully. ML in movies and rendering. Deep Fakes is just an amateur's t…
What you're talking with 'render rights' is a major plot point in:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Congress_(2013_film)
Re: Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
#555To borrow a term from Microsoft, "Intelligent Edge." With the shift to the cloud, we are finding there are still many scenarios that should start local for latency, bandwidth, or legal considerations. Organizations still want those scenarios to be easy to manage though. An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in.…
>An example might be in store retail analytics- a set up with a bunch of cameras that can detect what people are touching or otherwise interested in. Because the one thing desperately needed in this world is even more surveillance?
This already happens with bluetooth phones in stores. They simply ping you from an array and can track your movement throughout the store.
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#556Before facebook, there was myspace, before iphone we had java phones and winphones, before twitch there was chatroulette, etc.
Remember that it’s very hard to notice a « disruption » is taking place, because at the time it looks like just an evolution of something already existing.
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#557Communications technology has moved past the ability of human brains to tolerate and mitigate the adverse effects. Every addicting dopamine surge from a Like or Retweet is the evidence; every viral pile-on, every echo-chamber lunatic fringe. Making humanity resilient to the negative externalities of our own technological advancement is essential for the survival of our species. Right now, a vast army of the smartest…
I don't think it's the best way to make money, but this may be the most important topic for our near future as a species . Emphasis: not just civilization(s) but species as a whole, as in rewiring perception, brain functions, social life, freedom of thought. Here's my conundrum: we could design a transparent and 100% user-controlled communication network — basically some open-sourced Twitter / Facebook / Whatsapp / I…
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#558About time for a new social network.
Whats the killer feature that's missing from social networks right now that a 15 year old would care about?
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#559Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hmm, Hinkley C is signed up at a strike price of £92.50/MWh, in 2012 Pounds. A 400x reduction when so much of the cost of nuclear is safety, waste management and decommissioning? That's surprising to say the least. Can you give any clue on how? The trend of solar and wind continuing the inexorable march downward seems much more certain.
· Liquid fueled MSR, safety is best of any other source. So, we think regulators will lower barriers over time as we prove this. · Waste management is easier since our waste will be ~5x less mass per kg fuel (~500x less mass per kWh energy), and also returns to natural radioactivity much faster (one or two centuries). We actually plan to sell most of the fission products as useful materials. · As of now, our reactors…
Thanks. There's been quite the resurgence of interest in salt since it just about disappeared in the 70s or 80s.
I hope you manage it - though I tend to think we'll have a mix of sources rather than making renewables irrelevant. That may be reserve from having heard the "too cheap to meter" slogan a time or two too often. :) Even properly competitive nuclear will make decarbonising far easier, as I'm not at all convinced by grid scale battery, so I hope someone manages...
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#560I suspect online learning - especially through established universities - is ready to grow in a big way.