Readit NewsIt's hard to recycle electronics, because separating materials that are chemically bonded together is very labor intensive and isn't worth it from the price of aluminum, copper, lithium, etc alone.
It would have to cost more to dispose of a laptop for this to work out financially.
Was drone-proofing civilian cars a mistake?
Ideally I would want to use Linux but I also want to play games that are only supported on windows.
Does using WSL help or is an outdated windows base still going to be the weakest link in the security onion?
Even in a very well functioning system similar cases might happen eventually, anyway (but at a much lower frequency). ROC plots come to mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteris...
Insulin from pigs can be used by humans, right? But maybe there's more to diabetes than just a new pancreas. Interesting development, in any case. Thanks for sharing.
Sentience as in having some form of self-awareness, identity, personal goals, rankings of future outcomes and current states, a sense that things have "meaning" isn't part of the definition. Some argue that this lack of experience about what something feels like (I think this might be termed "qualia" but I'm not sure) is why artificial intelligence shouldn't be considered intelligence at all.
Humans have always believed that we are headed for imminent total disaster. In my youth it was WW3 and the impending nuclear armageddon that was inevitable. Or not, as it turned out. I hear the same language being used now about a whole bunch of other things. Including, of course, the evangelist Rapture that is going to happen any day now, but never does.
You can see the same thing at work in discussions about AI - there's passion in the voices of people predicting that AI will destroy humanity. Something in our makeup revels in the thought that we'll be the last generation of humans, that the future is gone and everything will come to a crashing stop.
This is human psychology at work.
We are living in a historically excepcional time of geological, environmental, ecological stability. I think that saying that nothing ever happens is like standing downrange to a stream of projectiles and counting all the near misses as evidence for your future safety. It's a bold call to inaction.
Earlier in my career, I found that my employers would often not buy Matlab licenses, or would make everyone share even when it was a resource needed daily by everyone. Not having access to the closed-source, proprietary tool hurt my ability to be effective. So I started doing my "whiteboard coding" in Julia and still do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
I think it seems pretty interesting.