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- Visual Maps of the Can-Machines-Think Debate http://www.macrovu.com/cctgeneralinfo.html 20 comments cogsci
- Thinking of gifting Arduino to 17 YO, how easy/hard is it to accidentally damage USB bus on machine? https://www.reddit.com/r/arduino/comments/5isyg2/thinking_of_gifting_arduino_to_17_yo_how_easyhard/ 21 comments arduino
- Think a vote for Trump is a vote against the machine? Think again. http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/trump-emanuel-daley-chicago-machine/content?oid=24073577 5 comments politics
- Google’s Demis Hassabis: Who Should Control Our Thinking Machines? https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-demis-hassabis-interview-issue/ 14 comments artificial
- Edge.org Annual Question 2015: What Do You Think About Machines That Think? [122,100 words] http://edge.org/responses/what-do-you-think-about-machines-that-think 8 comments artificial
- The Govt wants to know what you think of the body scanners machines. https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2013/03/26/2013-07023/passenger-screening-using-advanced-imaging-technology 8 comments politics
- Hey Proggit, I wrote a drum machine using only HTML5+CSS+JS. What do you think? (Use Chrome!) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1077900/web/html54/index.htm 53 comments programming
- The Pentagon Thinks AI Could Help Troops Telepathically Control Machines https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2019/02/pentagon-thinks-ai-could-help-troops-telepathically-control-machines/154929/ 3 comments technology
- Could a Machine Think - Paul & Patricia Churchland [PDF] http://philosophyfaculty.ucsd.edu/faculty/pschurchland/papers/sciam90couldamachinethink.pdf 25 comments philosophy
- Fear of thinking war machines may push U.S. to exascale http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9240230/fear_of_thinking_war_machines_may_push_u.s._to_exascale 5 comments politics
- What player and team doing you think is being described in this excerpt from The MVP Machine? https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/cqhvmu/what_player_and_team_doing_you_think_is_being/ 7 comments baseball
- Take a look at this Portable Tennis Ball Machine, what do you think about it? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/768141337/slinger-the-most-portable-tennis-ball-launcher 13 comments tennis
- Finite State Machine Parsing for Internet Protocols: Faster Than You Think http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~pete/pubs/langsec-2014-fsm-parsers.pdf 8 comments programming
- "Century of Self Episode 1: Happiness Machines for Free." Hey Reddit. How much free will do you think you have? http://freedocumentaries.org/int.php?filmid=140 21 comments science
- "This is the story of how Thinking Machines got the jump on a hot new market -- and then screwed up, big time." http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622_printer_friendly.html 9 comments technology
- Canadians can read your mind: Toronto scientists have invented a machine that can guess what you are thinking, and it's 80 per cent accurate http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5774191.ece 48 comments science
- Stupid moron in the California government thinks that having security experts review voting machines was "like giving a burglar the keys to your house" http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/28/mngp6r8tjo1.dtl&hw=voting&sn=002&sc=878 49 comments reddit.com
- Israeli lie machine goes into overdrive -- Israeli soldiers didn't actually shoot a woman and kids that went the wrong way, "warning shots" were exaggerated by other soldiers. Does Israel actually think anybody anywhere buys this crap? http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/middleeast/28israel.html?_r=1&hpw 92 comments worldnews
- Daniel Dennett on AI: “The real danger, I think, is not that machines more intelligent than we are will usurp our role as captains of our destinies, but that we will over-estimate the comprehension of our latest thinking tools, prematurely ceding authority to them far beyond their competence.” https://philosophybreak.com/articles/what-happens-when-machines-become-smarter-than-people/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai&utm_content=december2019 391 comments philosophy
- Researchers analyzed how suicidal individuals think and feel differently about life and death, by looking at patterns of how their brains light up in an fMRI machine. The computational classifier was able to pick out the suicidal ideators with more than 90 percent accuracy. https://www.wired.com/story/fmri-ai-suicide-ideation/ 9 comments science
- So I had a go at landscape using World Machine and Blender Cycles. I'm quite pleased but I think there's still stuff missing... https://www.artstation.com/artwork/nL96r 4 comments blender
- With the rumors that have been swirling about the next MacBook Pro, do you think the machine will come with USB C 3.1 standalone or with Thunderbolt 3? https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/4mty7t/with_the_rumors_that_have_been_swirling_about_the/ 13 comments apple
- New top-down armchair racer BlazeRush [think Mashed or Micro Machines] has confirmed linux port! http://steamcommunity.com/app/302710/discussions/0/619569341127718919/ 4 comments linux_gaming
- The Day Yahoo Decided I Liked Reading About Child Murder - Algorithms are shaping how we see the world around us, with big consequences. What a machine thinks we need to know can become what we fear. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/the-day-yahoo-decided-i-liked-reading-about-child-murder/255970/ 2 comments technology
- Reddit, it begins! We design of a device capable of toppling the Tower of Babel. I present to you, the Thinking Machine (needs a new name!) http://news.discovery.com/tech/super-capacitor-power-energy.html 58 comments technology
- Idea Reddit: What if we make Diebold voting machines look so obviously tampered with, that the general populace thinks they have been hacked as well? http://politics.reddit.com/info/6580p/comments/ 12 comments politics
- Let machine to scan purity come, will think about women entering Sabarimala: Devaswom chief. He also urged to tighten the security in the temple to obstruct the entry of women http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/let-machine-scan-purity-come-will-think-about-women-entering-sabarimala-devaswom-chief-35998 18 comments india
- You think you have an old computer? Meet the company that's still doing all its accounting on a 1948 IBM-402, a machine that is programmed by moving jumpers on plug boards. http://www.pcworld.com/article/249951/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html?mwh=1 142 comments technology
- No computer has passed the Turing Test, but next Sunday, six computer programs will converse with volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first 'thinking' machine. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligenceai 32 comments technology
- [Caplan] Mavs GM Nico Harrison on long-term potential of Luka/Kyrie duo: “The potential is limitless. I think you have a Ferrari and a monster truck, you know what I’m saying? Both amazing and awesome machines, but different styles, which makes us super dynamic.” https://www.dallasnews.com/sports/mavericks/2023/03/30/nico-harrison-qa-mavs-gm-evaluates-jason-kidd-luka-doncic-kyrie-irving-since-trade/ 117 comments nba
- Elon Musk’s brain-interface company is promising big news. Here’s what it could be. We think Neuralink, which develops brain-machine interfaces, is recording from the neurons of monkeys as a stepping stone toward humans. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/613961/elon-musks-brain-interface-company-is-promising-big-news-heres-what-it-could-be/ 18 comments technology
- 'They think they are above the law': the firms that own America's voting system - A small network of companies hold a near-monopoly on election services such as voting machines and registration systems. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/22/us-voting-machine-private-companies-voter-registration 22 comments technology
- Computer programmed to think like serial killer has creepy hobby - “artificial intelligence software has been working non-stop to try and crack the serial killer’s letters in the hopes of revealing who it is. The machine, known as CARAMEL, was programmed to think like the killer.“ http://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/inventions/computer-programmed-to-think-like-serial-killer-has-creepy-hobby/news-story/0a34fd2ebfb5db2b894f21b7a4f59383 13 comments technology
- New study exposes major flaw in the Turing Test, a test posited by British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing which, if passed, would prove that machines could think http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/computerscience/major-flaw-turing-test-04000.html 10 comments science
- It’s been almost five years since the Transportation Security Administration quietly began installing its so-called Advanced Imaging Technology — better known as full-body scanners — at airports nationwide. And now the government wants to know what you think of the machines. http://www.stltoday.com/travel/christopher-elliot/4e3747ad-3634-5911-8282-4f0b70823644.html 8 comments politics
- The Right-Wing Machine Behind ‘School Choice’: Think public-school teachers are bad and vouchers are good? You may be prey to a well-funded stealth campaign http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13849/the_right_wing_machine_behind_school_choice 56 comments politics
- TSA in San Diego harass 95 year old man and 85 year old woman, both with artificial joints; the TSA also allegedly stole $300 from them because he had to take it out of his pocket and run it separately through the x-ray machine; "I think I was scammed" http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120418/opinion03/204180345/1409/metro/seniors-get-tsa-runaround-lose-300 117 comments politics
- This looks like the time machine that Napoleon Dynamite's uncle bought. Emits "biophotonic" RF that cures any disease by causing DNA coils to resonate, (I think). Base model priced at $6300. FAQ contains the biggest pile of psuedoscience I've ever seen. http://www.energizeforhealth.com/sead-units-products.html 39 comments technology
- Police in Derry, Pennsylvania are baffled by a June ATM robbery in which an unidentified man wearing flip flops and shorts strolled into Mastrorocco's Market and reprogrammed the cash machine to think it was dispensing dollar bills instead of twenties. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/atm-reprogrammi.html 70 comments programming