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This is very important, and not just to women.
And that’s just what justnotsorry chrome extension is for.
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Letter to a Young Woman in Engineering — Silicon Valley Robotics
Month: February 2016
Perceptual Constancy in Babies and Adults
Super interesting read from Scientific American discussing the change in perceptual constancy
Take a look at the red chips on the two Rubik cubes below. They are actually orange on the left and purple on the right, if you look at them in isolation. They only appear more or less equally red across the images because your brain is interpreting them as red chips lit by either yellow or blue light. This kind of misperception is an example of perceptual constancy, the mechanism that allows you to recognize an object as being the same in different environments, and under very diverse lighting conditions.
Watson for President
The Watson 2016 Foundation is an independent organization formed for the advocacy of the artificial intelligence known as Watson to run for President of The United States of America. It is our belief that Watson’s unique capabilities to assess information and make informed and transparent decisions define it as an ideal candidate for the job responsibilities required by the president.
[vote] [picture by The Watson Foundation 2016]
for the record: giving an AI executive powers (or any power over human beings) is a terrible idea (see Asimov’s laws of robotics), and is not something I would advocate.
But I could see how an AI could serve is some government capacity – in as transparent of a way as possible – and giving an AI an ability to advise and comment on president’s (and government’s) actions is a pretty interesting idea.
I probably wouldn’t mind one of the Supreme Court Justices to be an AI.
Need.more.sleep.
Amazon’s customer service backdoor
I want to assume the best about people and hate that we have to be ever more paranoid..
Also, some of the omissions on the part of this Nigerian bank are pretty egregious, but still, this makes me want to retreat into the 90s, and just do nothing online.
Todays celebration, despite all preparation anxieties, actually turned to be a success all around.
I am mostly happy with how it turned out.
Why does Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s app need to have alcohol, tobacco and drug use or references to mild sexual content and nudity?
Montville and Norwich won’t be mistaken for Canal Street, but Fan’s research points to a unique set of modifications to classic suburbia.
The casinos themselves attract Asian populations across the Northeast. At Mohegan Sun, many Asian patrons arrive by Asian bus lines before playing Asian table games and eating Asian food. The casino’s convention center hosts concerts and pageants that cater to Asian audiences.
Outside casino property, front lawns—a new concept to many Chinese immigrants—are often repurposed into places for growing vegetables and hanging fish to dry. Common now, such repurposing was a cause for debate in the Fan household growing up. “My father’s a first-generation immigrant, a rural farmer, and he wanted to grow vegetables in our front lawn,” he recalls. “My mother, fearing the neighbor’s disapproval, was very much against it.”
Connecticut’s Unexpected Chinatowns
[Graphic: Stephen Fan]
How much space do we really need?
As cool as this looks, this is actually really sad – it shows the continued destruction of rural China – these little houses, in Chongqing, in this case, are probably doomed
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