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I think the next version of TextSecure will work over the internet.

Why is it so hard ?

At least in math, spotting areas of difficulty for students based on data on previous exercises and data from other students does seem possible.

Knewton.com claims it spots student weaknesses and adapts to it. And since it can offer full attention for each student it can offer better performance than teachers.

What do you mean by being a guide ?

Google's famous experiment did something similar: it offered the machine plenty of content(from youtube) and the machine on it's own discovered the category "cat", and others.

Free will is probably just an illusion anyway,according to neuroscientists.Tech could create a new illusion for us.

But why do we need to judge ai by our language? if were dealing with data and images, machine learning does do impressive things,including things that if were done by researchers would have certainly gotten them a place inside respectable academic journals.

For example ,a machine learning algorithm devised a new internet protocol that doubles the network capacity over best known methods.Another famous machine learning system understood own it's own how to classify images what belongs to the bucket of "cat" and many other object types.

Why isn't this enough to be considered intelligent?

You can do it with cloud VM's , but the problem is the startup time for a windows VM. The best i know of is ~400 seconds[1].

On the other hand, desktone(acquired by VMware) claims it can boot in 60 seconds[2], which might work for this use case.

[1]http://www.slideshare.net/mingtemp/a-performance-study-on-th... [2]https://twitter.com/Desktone/status/312990615229050880

Somehow that doesn't work this way. In israel monopolies and price gouging of food is pretty common(not 100X, but maybe 2x), and i haven't seen no violent acts.

Reading application notes can be helpful . They hold plenty of knowledge and in many cases they are described in a less formal more intuitive way.

How to build an app in a day :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/699085/Some-simple-tools...

But valve is doomed because of linux. MS don't have this problem. They could easily merge xbox + windows on a steam like platform if they wanted to .

Why should MS invest in hardware, when PC's offer better hardware, run the windows store to share profit with MS and have good enough DRM(as steam shows, and might even be improved by working with pc manufacturers) ?

Most likely in the future, MS will do something similar to steam - just sell software for so called "consoles", and have hardware partners. That will help with the losses issues.

This medium works pretty well for comedy, are there sites/channels for such stuff ?

Interesting. With the new intel processors you could get a $250 decent steam box. Amazon can get it for less,and than subsidize it some more and get it to a good price with a lot of really attractive content.

Still all signs point to android.

One interesting part of the story is amazon having a sub $300 console that competes directly with Sony and Microsoft.

My guess about that that it would be:

(a) a console financed by ads or amazon product sales on the tv

(b)A weaker console with quality content being offered through cloud gaming

(c) A combination of a,b. Also this console will be somehow tied to prime.

And my guess that the price would be substantially less than $300.

Does anybody have other rumors or guesses about that ?

you should check if there are Amazon lockers in your area or lockers from other companies you can receive packages in, so you could pickup the stuff yourself.

For low latency, That's the sort of problem google likes to have: hard technical problems that require a lot of capital(building plenty of gaming clouds physically close to users).Maybe onlive just didn't had enough money so your cloud is far from you.

BTW: sony will be also offering it , so maybe the tech is ready ?

Regarding VR: Valve claims that pc's are a better fit to VR and they've done some serious research on VR. I'm taking it on face value(maybe i shouldn't ?).

Cloud gaming is when games are run on a server and streamed to your home. Combine chromecast and cloud gaming, and you suddenly got a huge platform, with much more users than xboox one/ps4. And since it's google ,it would probably run android games which there are tons. This could make the platform preferable for AAA gaming.

One more element that could be important in this is microsoft's "project spark" which let users build games with amazing creativity and amazing graphics. It's still in beta , but when it's release it could be a huge force in gaming , especially together with VR.

Cloud gaming , chromecast and virtual reality(which better fits pc's due their power) will pose big challenges to the xbox .

Can't you say the same thing about infectious diseases, yet we have found a general tool(vaccine) to fight them off. Isn't it likely that some of the work done will generate a highly generic tool, that with a few changes could fit to new types of cancer ?

The general motivation behind the improvement of technologies is money and power given to those who control them. This could work for AI.

I'm not sure why awareness is critical to a singularity.Requiring machine intelligence to have a similar consciousness to humans is like asking submarines to swim like a fish, and anyways computer already have self awareness(reflection in programming languages, and some robots who use reflection to learn how to optimize movement) - it's useful but doesn't seem critical AFAIK.

Are there places to stream sports with reasonable amount of content without being tied to a cable company ?

And does it increase cord cutting ?

Phone(Malata I60 ) [1], chip [2].

[1] http://www.ebay.com/itm/4-Malata-I60-Android-4-1-Dual-Core-M...

[2] http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=13208...

For $55 you can get a Chinese android phone(and there are new chips that might take the price down to $35). Google can't reduce this price any further.

Other manufacturers can add the software to their device, in cooperation with google.

Maybe the issues you raised cause it to only "3D print parts that are stronger than CNC machined aluminum by weight."[1], according to the company, and not stronger as carbon fiber.

[1]http://www.3ders.org/articles/20140128-markforged-mark-one-w...

It's interesting ,but the abstract lacks any concrete details, like feature size in nm. Does anybody has access to the paper , and can share such details ?

To get some sense of the numbers:

labor currently takes around 65% of gdp[1]. Owners of the automation will take some of that gain ,so at best we'll see 50% reduction in prices.

According to one calculation, a $10K per person over 21 is a possible basic income proposal[2]. So for family , after adding the 50% deflation, each family will receive $40K in today's dollars.

$40K is close to the median family income in 2012($53K). And we still haven't factored non-automation based innovation.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_share

[2]http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/11/a-basic-income-of-about-100...

There's no fixed relation between labor and price of a product, robots can manufacture Veblen goods as well.