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futurescope: Robot paralysed by choice of who to save New Scientist has a story about a new experiment that tests Asimov’s fictional First Law of Robotics in which ethical robots prevent humans from coming to harm. CAN we teach a robot to be good? Fascinated by the idea, roboticist Alan Winfield of Bristol Robotics Laboratory…
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Almost as if engaged in an elaborate troll, Finland has apparently organized its educational system in exactly the opposite way as the reform movement here claims is necessary. America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty program – Salon.com (via feministlibrarian)
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Almost as if engaged in an elaborate troll, Finland has apparently organized its educational system in exactly the opposite way as the reform movement here claims is necessary. America’s dangerous education myth: Why it isn’t the best anti-poverty program – Salon.com (via feministlibrarian)
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I played Walden at IndieCade and I believe it will be beatiful.
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I played Walden at IndieCade and I believe it will be beatiful.
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What Columbus did to the Arawaks of the Bahamas, Cortes did to the Aztecs of Mexico, Pizarro to the Incas of Peru, and the English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts to the Powhatans and the Pequots. They used the same tactics, and for the same reasons — the frenzy in the early capitalist states of…
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What Columbus did to the Arawaks of the Bahamas, Cortes did to the Aztecs of Mexico, Pizarro to the Incas of Peru, and the English settlers of Virginia and Massachusetts to the Powhatans and the Pequots. They used the same tactics, and for the same reasons — the frenzy in the early capitalist states of…
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prostheticknowledge: MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction Interesting development for 3D video: a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method of video photogrammetry to capture 3D motion, using a spherical array of video cameras at various angles within a space entitled ‘The Panoptic Studio’ – video embedded below: Many traditional challenges…
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prostheticknowledge: MAP Visibility Estimation for Large-Scale Dynamic 3D Reconstruction Interesting development for 3D video: a team at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a method of video photogrammetry to capture 3D motion, using a spherical array of video cameras at various angles within a space entitled ‘The Panoptic Studio’ – video embedded below: Many traditional challenges…
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brucesterling: *Well, if you amend that to “clutching the Old Testament and consulting the Koch Brothers,” it’s pretty spot-on, Carl