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andrewducker) wrote2018-03-29 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 29-03-2018
- Scientist think they found a new human organ—a fluid-filled “shock absorber”
- (tags: organs )
- Pirahã is the weirdest language
- (tags: language weird )
- AI generated nude portraits are surreal and horrifying
- (tags: ViaDrCross nudity art ai )
- Superbug That Killed A Nevada Woman Resisted 26 Antibiotics
- (tags: antibiotics OhForFucksSake thefuture )
- "London has numbed me to everything and I have lost all sense of wonder"
- I'm very glad to live a long way from London
(tags: London ) - No, I’m not angry with Jeremy Corbyn because I want him to lose
- (tags: Labour politics )
- Labour will probably vote for Theresa May's final Brexit deal
- (tags: Labour UK europe OhForFucksSake )
- Sean Penn The Novelist Must Be Stopped
- (tags: review books awful )
- Corbyn supporters targeting Labour MPs who went to antisemitism protest
- (tags: labour Jews OhForFucksSake )
- Man has 'world's worst' super-gonorrhoea
- (tags: disease sex antibiotics doom )
- In a first, a new UK coal mine is rejected on climate change grounds
- (tags: coal uk globalwarming GoodNews environment mining )
- Calling for a Land Value Tax “to shape society and economy in fair and just way”
- (tags: tax land wealth scotland )
- Fleet of automated electric taxis could deliver environmental and energy benefits
- (tags: automation driving taxi )
- Why fanfic is important
- (tags: writing fanfic )
- Cot death risk increased by rare genetic mutation
- (tags: babies death genetics )
- Parental conflict can do lasting damage to children's ability to read emotions
- (tags: children parents emotion psychology )
- Call to restore historic footbridge over Waverley Station roof
- (tags: bridge trains edinburgh )
- A good, nuanced, look at sexy costumes on female superheroes. I particularly liked the line about tuxedos
- (tags: sex superheroes clothes society )
- Tesla is trying to overautomate their production line
- (tags: automation cars Tesla fail )
- Intervention increases in socio-emotional and socio-cognitive abilities in autistic adults
- (tags: autism emotion psychology )
- Scientists discover promising off-switch for inflammation (in mice)
- (tags: inflammation GoodNews )
- 80% of rubber ducks are infested with bacteria
- (tags: disease bacteria baths toys )
- Finally, a use for literature
- (tags: funny literature books weight )
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Assuming they can iron out the remaining kinks.
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One of the most useful bits of wisdom I was given about technological innovation was this rule of thumb.
Getting a technology to the point where it is 80% ready will cost you one unit of time and one unit of money.
From 80% to 90% will cost you one unit of time and one unit of money.
From 90% to 95% ready, one unit of time, one unit of money.
95% to 98% ready, one unit of time, one unit of money.
98% to 99%, the same.
99% to 99.5%, again, one unit of time, one unit of money.
99.5% to 99.9% ready will again cost you one unit of money and one unit of time.
Now you might be able to sell things which are 80% ready but my guess is that for self-driving cars to be *fully* autonomous on a public highway then you are looking at the 99.9% readiness or more.
It's the reason why I generally think autonomous vehicles will arrive a bit more slowly than other people who are as supportive of them.
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A while to go.
You can trade time for money a bit and accelerate the timelines but you can't speed up things like a test where the vehicle spends six months on the road with no software support.
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Or similar tests where elapsed time is important. How compromised is the autonomy if the LIDAR isn't calibrated for three or six or twelve months? Is the software able to optimise for reducing wear and tear over a two year period? What happens when the cars start going in to predominately British Asian neighbourhoods and 10% of the humans are wearing headresses and facial coverings - and you haven't recalibrated your LIDAR for six months or updated your software for three?
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Probably still need to test that sort of thing out in some depth.
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I try to squirt the dirty water out of bath toys into the washbasin most bathtimes. That's as good as it's going to get.
The kids will just have to cope with the germs.
They basically need to make toys that open up so you can clean them. We have a cloud toy that rains after you've dunked it, and because that's hard plastic, it's in two halves that pop open. Not that I remember to clean it, but I have done, and it's easy.
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I'm skeptical partly because the article also claims that it's "impossible to learn" Sentinelese, which is true only in the sense that nobody has gotten to try, because the Sentinelese aren't speaking to anyone outside their group. "Impossible to learn" implies that if an outsider who is good at learning languages was working with a speaker of that language, they would be unable to learn it.
That said, if "weirdest language" is a meaningful claim (rather than subjective the way "tastiest food" is), it's possible that Piraha is the weirdest, and more likely than for (say) English, which is related to a lot of other known languages.
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New squooshy organ all over.
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automated taxis
Weighty tomes.
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