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Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality, musician, and currently the lead scientist for the National Tele-Immersion Initiative, worries about the future of human culture more than the gadgets. In his "Half a Manifesto" he takes on those he terms the "cybernetic totalists" who do not seem "to...

Without taking one side of Jaron's dogma or another (place me somewhere else entirely) I would disagree strongly with his "Argument from Software" — which is as flawed as Bishop Wilberforce's Argument from Design. Back in the days when programs could be debugged but processing could not be...

Sealed within a transparent, tapered, liquid-filled cylinder, illuminated colored globs slowly rise and fall. Meandering and deforming, their shapes and paths change unpredictably. Invented in 1963, a decorative fixture in many homes during the 1970s, and still in production, Lava Lite lamps are...

The GENETIC ALGORITHM is a model of machine learning which derives its behavior from a metaphor of some of the mechanisms of EVOLUTION in nature. This is done by the creation within a machine of a POPULATION of INDIVIDUALs represented by CHROMOSOMEs, in essence...

EVOLUTIONARY PROGRAMMING, originally conceived by Lawrence J. Fogel in 1960, is a stochastic OPTIMIZATION strategy similar to GENETIC ALGORITHMs, but instead places emphasis on the behavioral linkage between PARENTs and their OFFSPRING, rather than seeking to...

(You have to subscribe to Scientific American) ... "THE TWO CIRCUITS shown below are both cubic signal generators. The upper circuit is a patented circuit designed by a human; the green and purple parts of the lower circuit were evolved by genetic programming (the other parts are standard...

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. Individuality is irrelevant.

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So let me get this straight. You think that there are no poor white people? You think that you have to be hispanic or black to sweep the floors at the NYSE? The real irony is that you consider yourself a liberal but hold all these really nice biases about demographics, ethnic backgrounds...

Scientific American -- Recent Article (Uh-oh! They're evolving!) Evolution is an immensely powerful creative process. From the intricate biochemistry of individual cells to the elaborate structure of the human brain, it has produced wonders of unimaginable complexity. Evolution achieves...

vladiator, Did you write this?

Only a deranged, lonely, anti-social, sexually-frustrated, psychotic man who plays with photoshop all day would really worry about questions like that. Who gives a shit how many posts I have? Baron could reset it to -2000 and it wouldn't ruin my day. Do you really just sit there all day...

Where is your source for this? $200 a week in Manhattan? Assuming a basic apartment would cost around $3k - $5k a month, wouldn't they have to pay just a little more for living expenses?

Man, we'd have a field day with you in our psych classes. Not only do you have a reclusive, sexually frustrated personality but you are also a bigot on top of it all. You demonstrate total class -- congratulations on being a total piece of shit.

Rs7, This was my friends Olympus D550 camera that is also compatible with Macintosh as well as IBM computers. Actually, the pictures I posted were scaled down by at least 50% -- this camera has 3.0 megapixels. My camera is a Sony DSC-P71 camera and can take 320x240 movies as well as...

But I don't think anyone can beat FasterPussyCat's system -- he's up 400% already from midnight Saturday.

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lol. Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. We could set up a system that monitors how much the trade is going against you and give electric shocks that get larger and larger. Then, we could put some electromagnetic field on the head that causes orgasms (this is getting close to reality)...

I'll post more later if people are interested in seeing other parts of Manhattan like SOHO, Chinatown, Little Italy, Financial District, etc.