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A team of researchers from institutions in France and Switzerland has found that people asked to do a concentration test performed better when a "mean" robot was watching them. I thought they were called "managers"?
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How good is the machine at self-defense?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I thought they were called "managers"?
Kent once again pokes Robot Chris.
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A paper posted to arXiv last month claims to have achieved superconductivity at room temperature, but other physicists say the data may be incorrect. Paging Dr. Occam
And bring your Razor
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When asked for comment, Pons & Fleischmann replied: hopefully Thapa & Pandey replace us as an example of bad science. To which Shawyer bitterly responded that he keeps getting forgotten.
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He reportedly was able to access authorized keys, view customer accounts and download 90GB of secure files before being caught. Mental note: don't keep a folder on your desktop called, "hacky hack hack"
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Should casually strolling through the front [electronic] door even be called hacking?
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319. That’s the number of discrete advertisements, both online and off, served to me over the course of one Tuesday in July. I know because I counted each and every one. "Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless"
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Oracle is advising customers to update their database software following the discovery and disclosure of a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A flaw in an Oracle product? Whaaa?
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With DMF, not only can you easily develop simple and structured Windows Driver Framework (WDF) drivers but also share code amongst your drivers. Just in case you have your driver's license
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Multi-caret editing, better C++ 11 support, F# 4.5, TypeScript 3.0 support, and so much more The, "I didn't get anything done today, I was installing a new version of VS" Edition.
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It fixed a bug I reported (VS Crash when trying to load code from the source server) so I'm happy with it.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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The researchers published a study this month detailing a method in which common wifi can be used to easily and efficiently identify weapons, bombs, and explosive chemicals in public spaces that don’t typically have affordable screening options. "It's a b...?!"
I'll let you fill in the rest, Shirley.
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Sounds somewhat remarkable (for which read "too good to be true").
Am I missing something here? X-Ray wavelengths are measured in nanometers whereas wi-fi signals have a wavelength of about 12.5cm - so surely it can't be the same approach as the resolution would be so crude that the results would be meaningless if it were using that kind of imaging approach. Kind of like sonar - fine for detecting an oncoming battleship, not quite so good at finding a needle in a haystack.
And then, assuming it does work, weapons (especially bombs) can come in so many different shapes and sizes and be made of different things ... and well, come on! Really???
I'm emphatically not a scientist but I find this a far bigger stretch of the imagination than the claims of room-temperature super-conductivity, cold fusion and perpetual motion machines that usually come along on quiet news days.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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We released WebAssembly support in Unity 5.6 as an experimental feature, more or less when it also became available in the four major desktop browsers. Then in 2018.2, Wasm finally replaced asm.js as the default linker target. wawesome news.
Sorry, brain took a day off.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, brain took a day off.
Some Assembly required.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Forget peer pressure, future generations are more likely to be influenced by robots, a study suggests. If the robots asked you to jump off a bridge, would you?
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So we are already prepping to blame the robots for meddling with the elections?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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R2-D2 is the Secret Emperor, after all.
TTFN - Kent
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Then I need some robots to boss my granddaughters about.
Yeah, right...
(The nine-year-old would put makeup on it and then figure out how to turn it off. The two-year-old would dismantle it.)
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Slightly mindful on this, as I would add in studies to check if children are simply more persuaded by outside information in general rather then simply Robot vs Children influences.
If monotone information an influence a child like txt messages.
Another human can give off body language queues that a child might pickup on (the benefit of a few thousand years of evolution priming) which would help a child 2nd guess their persuasion.
Were with a robot, or if added to the study if text on a screen, which gives far less false flag indicators, if a child would be influenced?
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Starting today, Amazon and Microsoft will begin rolling out the first integrations between the digital assistants, allowing users to rouse Cortana on Echo devices and conjure Alexa on Windows 10 PCs and Harman Kardon Invoke speakers. At least they didn't go with 'Corxa' or 'Alexana'
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When does the next windows 10 update come? I think I will cook some popcorn and look for a comfortable sit.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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From border crossings to hacking conferences, that Bitcoin or political sticker may be worth leaving on a case at home. But "Hello, Kitty" keeps me safe
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