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An imaging system that can read closed books is currently being developed. In a new article, researchers describe a prototype of the system, which they tested on a stack of papers, each with one letter printed on it. The system was able to correctly identify the letters on the top nine sheets. Cliff's Notes have been helping high school students do that for decades
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I don't know exactly why... but I can only think on illegal or "national security" usages for something like that.
M.D.V. 
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Not quite. Some (very) old books might fall to dust if you open them, so reading them in this manner might be the only possible way to salvage their contents.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Yes of course, but still think that it will be very fast missused to take "private" profit instead of human profit.
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Nelek wrote: but I can only think on illegal or "national security" usages for something like that.
Just read the article:
Quote: "The Metropolitan Museum in New York showed a lot of interest in this, because they want to, for example, look into some antique books that they don't even want to touch"
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Ok, there is one or two usages out of that scope. I have to recognize it.
But... Nulear fision was thought as a cool energy source and then came the military...
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... And ended WWII with that.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I think you have history the wrong way round there.
The German's and the U.S. worked on Nuclear bombs way before Nuclear Reactors. The first Fission-powered power plant went on live in 1954.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The first fission reactor was built in 1942 under the University of Chicago's squash court, as part of the Manhattan Project. This was about three years before the explosion of the first fission bomb.
While the target of the Manhattan Project was development of nuclear weapons, they got there via nuclear piles. The hydrogen bomb, OTOH, was developed directly. We still don't know how to make fusion reactors.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Hmm... Most of the books I have have more than nine pages. I already have a good system for reading closed books. Step 1: open the book...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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To misquote Charles H. Duell: Everything that can be read has been read.
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Bassam Abdul-Baki wrote: To misquote Charles H. Duell: Everything that can be read has been read.
Except EULA's. Who reads that nonsense?
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Not sure if this is actually anything new or not...
We can already read the interior of scorched (or otherwise damaged) scrolls that are so fragile they disintegrate if you attempt to unroll them; since these can be blackened to the point that there's not any naked eye difference between the parts that have pigment and those that don't this sounds like a more difficult problem to solve.
... or does this approach have a better scaling potential to actually being able to image an entire book in a single pass.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This question was put to me by Motherboard Editor-in-Chief Derek Mead and I can't stop thinking about it: What is the smallest code? We're not getting into that kLoC discussion again, are we?
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You’ve heard of résumé inflation. But certification inflation is becoming a big issue for tech firms, according to a new TEKsystems survey of more than 300 tech leaders and 900 tech professionals. I have a MCSFBW certification
"Microsoft Certified Sometimes Funny Blurb Writer"
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I once worked for a company that contracted outsourced developers for the sole reason of using their certificate status to gain partner points at Microsoft. The indian programmer got no real work from the company.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Message Closed
modified 12-Sep-16 1:38am.
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ID10T. Do you realize what you saying. Certification is not bug tracking assistant or defect less software assurance.
modified 11-Sep-16 19:46pm.
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Of course. The concept of certification is useful because it allows to group candidates and reasonably expect the same minimum set of knowledge from each group. Too many groups means there is no meaningful partitioning.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Computational thinking is going to be a defining feature of the future — and it’s an incredibly important thing to be teaching to kids today. They might have to start with teaching thinking first
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I thought we all working on the next generation AI to teach computers think like human, now I see it is all the way around...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh, this is all an egotistical rant by Wolfram about how awesome he is. (And trying to ignore why his fabulous "invention" has been ignored by everyone.)
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Alan Kay and Seymour Papert were pioneering teaching coding to children in better ways, 30 years ago.
Those who cannot learn from history are condemned to produce pale imitations of it.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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