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    ✈These Are The Things You Shouldn't Do When Traveling Abroad

    For anyone wanting to visit our country and use our roads, honking is also widely used to show appreciation. Someone cuts you off in traffic? Give 'em a single but short toot. Someone performs a dangerous overtake? Give 'em a single but long toot. Someone pulls to the left in a slow vehicle...
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    Artificial Intelligence Might Threaten Millions Of Jobs

    I can try, although it's quite diverse depending on the application. My focus was using smart-meter data from homes to produce generic energy consumption profiles. Do you have access to MATLAB? There are toolboxes with a few different mining techniques included. Sometimes the documentation is...
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    Artificial Intelligence Might Threaten Millions Of Jobs

    There does seem to be a lot of confusion surrounding what constitutes AI, that may be where the fear comes from. A system doesn't strictly need to learn and adapt to be AI, it just needs to exhibit some rudimentary form of intelligence. My previous posts talked about machine learning but the...
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    Artificial Intelligence Might Threaten Millions Of Jobs

    You're right. I'm not certain that the same rules will apply to general purpose AI, however, to the best of my knowledge we don't have any yet. To develop a learning AI we generally use some form of fitness function or stopping criteria to indicate the desired outcome is met. For single purpose...
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    Artificial Intelligence Might Threaten Millions Of Jobs

    The current form of machine learning isn't going to induce consciousness in machines. Machine learning, a large part of AI, is the ability to learn without explicit programming. In general that means you don't have to hard-code every possible combination for a system to reach its desired...
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    News for iPhone owners or you have freinds who own them

    This sounds like an issue with epoch time. 12:00:00am on 1st January 1970 is a very common reference point. Every point in time is then defined by how many units (seconds I think) have passed. As the article says, resetting the clock may cause the time variable to become negative, or even...
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    ?Octopuses Might Be Alien Lifeforms

    Waindo that's not the problem, or at least it isn't from my perspective. If you want to bring these topics to the General Discussion forum then we'd like to see you discussing them too. At the moment your threads are literal copy/paste from articles you find. Your opening posts often don't...
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    ?Fontus - Self Filling Bottle | Groundbreaking Device That Turns Humidity Into Water

    Colour me extremely skeptical. For this to work you'll need high humidity and more energy than can be provided by such a small array of solar cells. In principle it makes sense, just no way near the level of ~500mL an hour.
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    How to create a "poll" and how to participate in fan fiction contests?

    It sounds like you've got the poll issue resolved, however, if you want more details then I'll link the relevant FAQ section below. I'm a little unsure about the fan fiction myself. There is a sub-forum dedicated to user fan fiction and also one for the monthly contest I believe. I'll link...
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    A Huge Underground Ocean Has Just Been Discovered Beneath The Earth's Surface!

    That doesn't answer my question. I had already read the click-bait article along with the published abstract when I commented, replying with quotes from those sources doesn't further explain it. I was hoping that, having read the paper yourself, you would be able to go a bit further into what...
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    A Huge Underground Ocean Has Just Been Discovered Beneath The Earth's Surface!

    Have they actually identified pockets of water beneath the crust, or have they identified magma which suggests the presence of water constituents? I've heard the same story being told differently elsewhere, probably means it's time to make an account so I can get past that pesky registration...
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    How do you think Tobi escaped Itachi's timed Amaterasu?

    Even though the majority is going against it, I think Izanagi makes more sense than Kamui. http://narutobase.net/manga/Naruto/397/10 "Fortunately I managed to keep a few secrets even from him..." Tobi never made any real effort to hide Kamui. Whenever he was attacked he let attacks phase...
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    Do You think Kakashi will take obito's MS to get third ability?

    Would Kakashi survive if he took the other eye? He always keeps his current sharingan covered when not in use as it is a constant drain on his chakra. If he took a second eye then he would need to keep that covered too. Not much fun having to cover both eyes to avoid exhausting all your chakra...
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    IPhone theft . a couple was attacked on a bus. pregnant girl in danger.

    I was about to say I'm sure I've seen this before, then I noticed the 2010 time-stamp. The bystander effect in action I suppose. Everyone thinks someone else will step in and take care of the problem, leaving nobody actually acting on it.
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    wow read this

    I'd say it's a bluff to try and get more aid from major powers. Make a threat then wait and see if people try to appease you.
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