When Kevin Andersson rolls out of bed each morning, his bedroom lights automatically turn on. So do the lights in the hall, and throughout the house. Then, when he walks across the room and steps on the scale, the coffeemaker in the kitchen turns on to brew the day’s first cup of joe.
You see, there’s a motion sensor in Andersson’s room, and it’s connected to his household lighting system by way of an internet service called IFTTT, short for “If This, Then That.” The same service connects his scale to his coffeemaker, and he arranged all of this without writing a line of code. He simply bought a few pieces of hardware, hooked them up, and tinkered with the web service to ensure all the pieces could talk to each other. (...)
Even useful without hardware, as it allows you to perform actions between/with Facebook, Twitter, last.fm, Dropbox, Google Drive, email, phone, SMS, weather, date/time, etc., etc.
Proclivities
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
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Jun 7, 2013 - 6:28am
Proclivities
There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.
Location: Paris of the Piedmont Gender: Zodiac: Chinese Yr:
"It's frustrating having four years to get to a single point go down the drain," Farnsworth said. "And it's silly. It's a science fair. Seriously, aren't they supposed to be promoting science and not bureaucracy?"
The problem was too many fairs, in the wrong order.
Yeah I forgot to post that. It's too bad but at the same time they're downplaying the fact that the rules are clear and not arbitrary. The fact that they never had anyone qualify before made it never an issue before, but it does make sense that you can't just shop your project around until someone passes it to the next level.
And more important, how the hell did it not pass to the next level at the Wyoming fair? Did someone there have an anti-nuke problem? I'd like to see what *did* qualify.
"It's frustrating having four years to get to a single point go down the drain," Farnsworth said. "And it's silly. It's a science fair. Seriously, aren't they supposed to be promoting science and not bureaucracy?"
The problem was too many fairs, in the wrong order.
“We are democratizing creation,” said Genome Compiler co-founder Omri Amirav-Drory. “Cells are nothing more than a computer, running a program and the program is the genetic code. The code is DNA. The software are the chromosomes. The hardware is the wetware.”
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn’t have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year. Nonetheless, the hiring raised some eyebrows, since Kurzweil is perhaps the most prominent proselytizer of “hard AI,” which argues that it is possible to create consciousness in an artificial being. Add to this Google’s revelation that it is using techniques of deep learning to produce an artificial brain, and a subsequent hiring of the godfather of computer neural nets Geoffrey Hinton, and it would seem that Google is becoming the most daring developer of AI, a fact that some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both.
On Tuesday, Kurzweil moderated a live Google hangout tied to a release of the upcoming Will Smith film, After Earth, presumably tying the film’s futuristic concept to actual futurists. The discussion touched on the necessity of space travel and the imminent resolution of the world’s energy problems with solar power. After the hangout, Kurzweil got on the phone with me to explore a few issues in more detail.
