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btw, the problem with the turning tests is basically the "good" bots just kinda repeat what you say and aren't really intelligent at all. we've proven time and again that making computers insanely good at specific tasks is pretty trivial if you've got cash and man hours to throw at it (Deep blue, the jeopardy thing, turning tests etc).

as far as that article - reaperbot has been around since quake 1 and has been amazingly good since 1997. the guy got hired by epic (unreal team) and has pretty much perfected shooter AI bots. it finds all the powerups and ranks importance, then runs around between them with nearly perfect spawn timing. to make it more "human" all you need to do is insert randomness in movement and aim.

the thing already mapped levels on the fly, assigned waypoints to item spawns and used a "sound" variable to determine targets/target locations (Can i hear a gun around the corner? i should aim at the opening and wait a couple seconds). bot AI really hasn't jumped that massively since late 96/early 97 in all honesty.

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[url=http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/]Live Broadcast | Red Bull Stratos[/url]

The live stream of the world record of free fall jump from space. over 102,000 feet...lol He'll be breaking the sound barrier.

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[quote=NC_Skins;951880][url=http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/]Live Broadcast | Red Bull Stratos[/url]

The live stream of the world record of free fall jump from space. over 102,000 feet...lol He'll be breaking the sound barrier.[/quote]holy crap. 125,000 feet up now in a balloon, and he's going down the old fashioned way. great link.

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[quote=NC_Skins;951880][url=http://www.redbullstratos.com/live/]Live Broadcast | Red Bull Stratos[/url]

The live stream of the world record of free fall jump from space. over 102,000 feet...lol He'll be breaking the sound barrier.[/quote]

Jumped from about 128,000 feet.

I've been watching the whole thing. Pretty incredible.

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Pretty amazing he made it.

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Watched it for about a whole hour.
I thought my daughter was going to cry she was so wrapped up in it.
Totally amazing....congrats to Felix.
The private sectors space program is coming along nicely.

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[url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49688342/ns/technology_and_science-science/]Scientist seeks to search for Bigfoot with blimp - Technology & science - Science | NBC News[/url]

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Speaking of intelligent life:

[URL="http://www.disinfo.com/2012/11/how-slime-molds-redefines-intelligence/"]Slime[/URL]

[I]Something scientists have come to understand is that slime molds are much smarter than they look. One species in particular, the SpongeBob SquarePants–yellow Physarum polycephalum, can solve mazes, mimic the layout of man-made transportation networks and choose the healthiest food from a diverse menu—and all this without a brain or nervous system. “Slime molds are redefining what you need to have to qualify as intelligent,” Reid says.[/I]

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[url=http://news.discovery.com/space/habitable-zone-exoplanet-super-earth-121107.html]Super-Earth Discovered in Star's Habitable Zone : Discovery News[/url]

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[quote=Mattyk;962731][URL="http://news.discovery.com/space/habitable-zone-exoplanet-super-earth-121107.html"]Super-Earth Discovered in Star's Habitable Zone : Discovery News[/URL][/quote]

Matty, a 200 day year is going to mess with the NFL schedule. Can we just asset strip the planet?

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[quote=RedskinRat;962747]Matty, a 200 day year is going to mess with the NFL schedule. Can we just asset strip the planet?[/quote]

No we'll need it for when the Cylons attack.

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Total solar eclipse. Watch it live.


[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/13/total-solar-eclipse-2012-live-video-photos_n_2122596.html]Total Solar Eclipse 2012: Live Stream Of Celestial Event (PHOTOS, LIVE VIDEO, LIVE UPDATES)[/url]

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Want one:

[URL="http://www.tgdaily.com/trendwatch-features/67438-researchers-build-perfect-invisibility-cloak"]Invisibility Cloak[/URL]

Purely for good, not evil.

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More awesome:

[url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/nov/13/brain-damaged-man-aware?INTCMP=SRCH]Brain-damaged man 'aware' of scientists' questions | Science | guardian.co.uk[/url]
[I]
A crash victim thought to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade has used the power of thought to tell scientists he is not in pain.


Canadian Scott Routley, from London, Ontario, communicated with researchers via a brain scan, proving that he is conscious and aware. It is the first time such a severely brain-damaged patient has been able to provide clinically relevant information to doctors.


British neuroscientist Professor Adrian Owen, who leads the research team at the Brain and Mind Institute of Western Ontario, said: "Scott has been able to show he has a conscious, thinking mind. We have scanned him several times and his pattern of brain activity shows he is clearly choosing to answer our questions. We believe he knows who and where he is."[/I]

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Even more awesome:

[url=http://www.science20.com/beachcombing_academia/search_telepathy_center-95617]In Search Of 'the Telepathy Center'[/url]

[I]Experimenters from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences [joined with] the Vivekananda Yoga Research Foundation, Bangalore, India to perform “Probably the first fMRI study to analyse the neuroanatomical correlates of telepathy.”

They asked Mr. Gerard Senehi, “well known for his mind reading and telepathy”, to try to reproduce an unseen sketch which had been drawn by the experimenter. An anonymous control subject was also tested. During their attempts, both individuals were continuously scanned in an fMRI machine.

“The image reproduced by the ‘mentalist’ showed striking similarity to the original drawn by the experimenter, whereas the drawing by the control subject did not. Furthermore, the fMRI scans showed measurable differences in brain activity of the two subjects — “This study’s findings are suggestive of an association between telepathy and the right parahippocampal gyrus.”[/I]

Im living in yesterdays tomorrows

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[url=http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/super-material-stop-speeding-bullet-181133971--abc-news-tech.html]Super Material Can Stop Speeding Bullet | ABC News - Yahoo![/url]

awesome

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SarcasticRover ‏@SarcasticRover

Great… 100 days on Mars and I'm still stuck in a damn crater.
________________________
Paul Revereless ‏@yewkalaylee

@SarcasticRover Bitch, bitch, bitch.... today WE lost our Twinkies.
________________________
SarcasticRover ‏@SarcasticRover

If Mars was covered in Twinkies, I bet NASA would already be planning a mission to bring them back to Earth.

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I love sarcastic rover.

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[url=http://scitech.foxnews.mobi/quickPage.html?page=43765&external=1823984.proteus.fma]FOX News - Science - Latest Headlines - 'Bigfoot' is part human, DNA study claims - Page 1 of 7[/url]

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[URL="http://www.space.com/18596-mars-colony-spacex-elon-musk.html"]Mars, please![/URL]

[I]Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip.

In Musk's vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer than 10 people, who would journey to the Red Planet aboard a huge reusable rocket powered by liquid oxygen and methane.

"At Mars, you can start a self-sustaining civilization and grow it into something really big," Musk told an audience at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London on Friday (Nov. 16). Musk was there to talk about his business plans, and to receive the Society’s gold medal for his contribution to the commercialization of space. "But we don't want the Irish!", Musk said, plagiarizing Blazing Saddles funniest line.
[/I]

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[URL="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html"]Creating moral machines - New Yorker[/URL]
[I]
Many approaches to machine ethics are fraught [with problems]. An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us all to an intravenous dopamine drip; an automated car that aimed to minimize harm would never leave the driveway. Almost any easy solution that one might imagine leads to some variation or another on the Sorceror’s Apprentice, a genie that’s given us what we’ve asked for, rather than what we truly desire.[/I]

Love this topic.

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^^[url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G]Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker[/url]

[quote]Building machines with a conscience is a big job, and one that will require the coordinated efforts of philosophers, computer scientists, legislators, [B]and lawyers[/B].[/quote]

dibs.

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[quote=JoeRedskin;971297]^^[URL="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G"]Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker[/URL]



dibs.[/quote]

:argue:

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Meant to post this a couple months back.


[url=http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/09/warp-drive-plausible/]Warp Drives Might Be More Realistic Than Thought | Wired Science | Wired.com[/url]


**** yeah!!! Warp drive bitches!! I'll be officially changing my name to James Tiberius Kirk.

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[quote=JoeRedskin;971297]^^[url=http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/google-driverless-car-morality.html#ixzz2ECYuk41G]Google’s Driver-less Car and Morality : The New Yorker[/url]



dibs.[/quote]

If anyone has seen Terminator or BSG they know self-aware machines are bound to kill us all.

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Nope, they just hire robot lawyers who will win every case b/c they will all be heard by robot judges and juries.

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i use e-trial

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and here is a look at the interface

[url]http://www.thewarpath.net/parking-lot/8823-super-happy-fun-thread-280.html#post971412[/url]

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SarcasticRover ‏@SarcasticRover

Sunrise on Mars is beautiful… if you happen to enjoy the gradual illumination of a desolate and murderous wasteland.

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[url=http://science.time.com/2012/12/07/voyager-6-billion-miles-later-photos-from-the-depths-of-our-solar-system/?hpt=hp_t3]Voyager | Voyager, 11 Billion Miles Later: Photos from the Depths of Our Solar System | TIME.com[/url]

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[quote=los panda;971411]i use e-trial

[YT]XL2RLTmqG4w[/YT][/quote]

I made sure to purchase Balls insurance as well.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD9y2-AGqjA]Tim and Eric: "Balls Insurance" (Awesome Show) - YouTube[/ame]

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[url=http://news.yahoo.com/brilliant-geminid-meteor-shower-peaks-tonight-122200382.html]Brilliant Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight - Yahoo! News[/url]

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Why not:

[URL="http://www.disinfo.com/2012/12/scientists-create-proteins-to-enable-human-eyes-to-see-a-wider-color-spectrum/"]Scientists create proteins to enable human eyes to see a wider color spectrum.[/URL]

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[url=http://news.yahoo.com/first-alien-earth-found-2013-experts-170808230.html]First 'Alien Earth' Will Be Found in 2013, Experts Say - Yahoo! News[/url]

would be awesome

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More awesome from [URL="http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120321-searching-for-a-starship"]NASA[/URL]

[I]While the US government’s manned space programmes appear stuck in Earth’s orbit, this audacious project aims to kickstart efforts towards interstellar space travel – journeys over vast distances to stars outside of our solar system. It is driven by ideas that range from ensuring the survival of the human species and searching for intelligent alien life to the desire to overhaul space propulsion and just pure academic endeavor. Science fiction favourites from wormholes and warp drives to light speed and lasers are all on the table, meaning parts of the project can end up sounding like the wish list for an episode of Star Trek.[/I]

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[URL="http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/dna-profiling-catches-repeat-criminals/"]DNA and Crime[/URL]

[I]First, as DNA databases grow, “easy to catch” offenders are deterred or incarcerated quickly, so new crimes are committed by more elusive offenders, resulting in new crimes that are more difficult to solve. Second, as police officers become more familiar with DNA and other forensic evidence, they grow more aware of the limited accuracy of tools they once relied upon—like eyewitness testimony—and are increasingly selective in whom they arrest, resulting in fewer but more accurate arrests.[/I]

And:

[I]The cost of collecting and analyzing each DNA sample is less than $40, according to a US Department of Justice estimate, and less than $20 in several states. The marginal cost of analyzing new DNA samples continues to fall as technology improves, and DNA databases exhibit tremendous returns to scale. There are large startup costs for crime lab equipment and computer databases, but the cost of expanding the program is relatively small.[/I]

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[quote=RedskinRat;987760][URL="http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/dna-profiling-catches-repeat-criminals/"]DNA and Crime[/URL]

[I]First, as DNA databases grow, “easy to catch” offenders are deterred or incarcerated quickly, so new crimes are committed by more elusive offenders, resulting in new crimes that are more difficult to solve. Second, as police officers become more familiar with DNA and other forensic evidence, they grow more aware of the limited accuracy of tools they once relied upon—like eyewitness testimony—and are increasingly selective in whom they arrest, resulting in fewer but more accurate arrests.[/I]

And:

[I]The cost of collecting and analyzing each DNA sample is less than $40, according to a US Department of Justice estimate, and less than $20 in several states. The marginal cost of analyzing new DNA samples continues to fall as technology improves, and DNA databases exhibit tremendous returns to scale. There are large startup costs for crime lab equipment and computer databases, but the cost of expanding the program is relatively small.[/I][/quote]doesn't make sense to me, they take your fingerprints and your image, but not your dna...

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[quote=RedskinRat;987760][URL="http://www.futurity.org/society-culture/dna-profiling-catches-repeat-criminals/"]DNA and Crime[/URL]

[I]First, as DNA databases grow, “easy to catch” offenders are deterred or incarcerated quickly, so new crimes are committed by more elusive offenders, resulting in new crimes that are more difficult to solve. Second, as police officers become more familiar with DNA and other forensic evidence, they grow more aware of the limited accuracy of tools they once relied upon—like eyewitness testimony—and are increasingly selective in whom they arrest, resulting in fewer but more accurate arrests.[/I]

And:

[I]The cost of collecting and analyzing each DNA sample is less than $40, according to a US Department of Justice estimate, and less than $20 in several states. The marginal cost of analyzing new DNA samples continues to fall as technology improves, and DNA databases exhibit tremendous returns to scale. There are large startup costs for crime lab equipment and computer databases, but the cost of expanding the program is relatively small.[/I][/quote]

Yeah, but that also opens up some questions on the validity of these DNA tests. There have been several cases (with identical twins and what not) where it becomes nearly impossible to determine who did the crime.

Secondly, there also exists an unknown number of people who are Chimeras (other than Jason's family). They are people who actually possess two different strands of DNA. For instance in a maternity case they almost took a woman's children away from her because they didn't match her DNA. It wasn't until they had someone watch another child exit her womb, DNA that child, and come up with the same non-match result to hold up in court.

There are some serious drawbacks to DNA testing that need to be explored, but overall its a much more accurate method than eye witness accounts.

[URL="http://boingboing.net/2009/05/01/the-mind-blowing-wor.html"]The Mind-Blowing World of Human Chimeras - Boing Boing[/URL]