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I had similar problem few days ago. No threat for life but serious threat for my car - the route suggested was full of very deep holes.

I've just tried to suggest a change, but as it happens often with Google documentation - the description of what to click matches nothing (there's no menu item labelled with the phrase from documentation - I use Polish version).

Edit: found it, but docs are misleading.

Funny, because I've seen just one talk in 2020 and it was that one :) I'm not too much into talks and conference stuff, mostly because almost all the time I find the subjects of talks completely irrelevant, to specific, too general etc. That one was really entertaining and I was looking for something similar, but haven't found anything.

Very cool.

And it can be extended further by adding videos from exploring the website itself ;))

For me it's a quite distracting experience (the whole AR part, with glitches and lack of background). I think that well-done animation could be much better (and would't require more effort)

Sure, I completely agree. There are many fields where those technologies will be able to do great job.

I just doubt the very big vision of "immersive revolution", as I think that most usages will be strictly for entertainment, and some more specific cases like therapies and simulations.

I don't think that "immersive experiences" are going to play huge part in our lives. The other side of "immersion" is escapism from the real world, which is the most complex RPG, so "immersion" would be rather likely to be absorbed by current economical mechanisms to deepen that escapism. Information access is so trivial even with current technologies, that it's not something that makes anybody high (as with everything: what makes one high is acceleration, not speed, so new technologies are charming at the beginning, than they are absorbed as habits).

What a great potential fictional character: enlighted & unpractial, free & lost. I suppose the real enlighted wouldn't ask himself (who?!). Maybe that's why they usually stay aside.

But seariously: many forget that the goal of spiritual practices is the ability to DO (instead of react)

That's exactly my problem as well. I have GearVR headset which fits seversal Samsung smartphones and it's really nice to play around (and it's cheap), but the only piece of software written for WebVR is Three.js module, which doesn't allow different scene presentation to each eye.

But maybe I'll get back to work on my hack. Some suggestions are here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53775620/webvr-update-sc...

> If you have a VR headset, I recommend playing around with showing different colors to either eye.

Do you have any idea how to do this? I was trying to hack Three.js to enable binocular presentation (I have only Gear VR headset for my Samsung smartphone), but I wasn't able to do it. And as far as I'm concerned it's the only library providing WebWR functionality.

The only solution to mentioned problems is IMO: we'll have to adapt our environment to the moving machines. At least in early stage, before they will do it autonomously. Language will adapt more by itself (to make machines pass Turing test we need change in language, just as we need change in machines - people will adapt to useful machines)

No. For any meditation object one can have pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

I've been practicing meditation for several years now.

The phenomenon described in the article is very obvious to every practitioner - it can happen that for some time you will feel worse (actually I'm surprised that it's only 8%).

It is related to psychological mechanisms of repression, which is weakened during meditation practices. That is why during serious meditation retreats (like 10 days vipassana) some people freak out and they aren't able to finish the retreat. It's perfectly normal and usually has positive effects in the long run. Although sometimes meditator is not able to work through the energies released - he should seek (any) professional help then.

I have always one nostril blocked (not completely thought) and according to "Kundalini Tantra" book that I read it's usual state for most people. In the book it was connected to the activity of brain laterals (one is dominant) and forcing yourself to breath equally through both nostrils will make both halves more balanced. Not sure if the explanations were correct, but the practice itself provided me with some really high states. Breathing is extremely powerful tool.

The worst thing ever is end-book-notes (or end-chapter ones) in a paper book. I have the habit of "precise reading", e.g. I usually read books from first to last page without skipping information. The "end-notes rich" books are the worst reading experience for me (bottom page foot-notes are OK).

When I write text I quite often use footnotes - they are special for the organisation of the text, adding kind of additional dimensions to the main narration.

I don't (or very rarely) use ebooks, so hard to tell.

I'm not surprised. Since I've seen S. Altman talking in one of his videos about "things that you (the employer) can't tell to your employees" I completely don't trust that guy.

Personally I measure happiness and fullness of life :)

Maybe developers stop learning because they realize that that to learn how to do the same thing with 167 technologies is not a real development. Maybe they realize (they should) that self-development should be we well balanced, so after programming workday they should invest their time into sports and work with their emotions and take care of interpersonal aspect of their lives.

The older I am the more I'm convinced that development is not individual thing - it's a team sport.

Hey, company: divide your workday into 4h work for external projects and 4h work for team development.

Smart, mature developer, will realize that the most inhibiting phenomenon for him is usually the job itself.

What do you mean by "permutation-dependent"? I'm curious, because I write an article about permutations and I'd be happy to introduce some astrology :)

Tachyons' job. It had been taken to frontpage to get enough votes to appear on the frontpage. If you can see that from the out-of-time perspective, it makes sense.

Edit: Sphere here.

Not sure if "idea", but the word that comes to my mind is "meditation".

This article is from 2013 and is not relevant anymore. Dozens of concepts useful even for writing desktop apps with PHP (I don't claim that it is the best choice) were presented in book "PHP Beyond the Web".

I never use term "working for someone". I can work "with someone" as a part of the team. In my native language (Polish) "employer" could be literally translated as "workgiver", which is a complete bullshit, because "work" is not a social construct, but kind of relation between living organism and nature (and only because of that it is derivately social).

Thank you! I will have a look :)

Thanks for answering :) I have never heard about Fasttext - I will take a look.

I wonder if there are any good sets of word vectors in languages other than English (I'm specifically interested in Polish).

Same with any other language models and NLP related stuff. It's hard to find anything valuable.

>>> My theory is that all animals have extensive defense mechanisms to prevent motor entrainment to external stimuli, since that would make one very vulnerable. Therefore, they only exhibit entrainment during ritualized mating, etc.

Wow, seems very reasonable! It made mi think about it in a bit different way: as other animals are thought as "following instinct" and "closer to nature" maybe this inhibition systems are way more advanced in humans than in other animals. It would make explaining dance harder, but would fit great to big literary topos "men vs nature".

Is it completely your theory or was it inspired by something that you could recommend?

The "feeling of doing something wrong" - as mentioned in the article - when automating your tasks is somehow relevant but not in current context of alienated work. For natural working context (e.g. a team) it's normal to look for something else to do once you finished your tasks or got rid of them completely by automation. It is because the natural flow of profits considers you as as beneficient. Dooing good for your team, company, etc. = doing good for yourself.

On the other hand in current working context that feeling arises as an error (like non-adaptive-anymore feature of organism, not yet cancelled by evolutionary processes).

Looks like an early entry point for something that can raise something completely new in computer games.

I'm looking forward to progress concerning generating some graphics based on text. I'd be even more "lucid dream" experience.

My adventure with computer games finished quite early - around Fallout2 and Baldur's Gate. Since then nothing could impress me, except maybe few examples (one I can remember was a racing game, which I found interesting, because it mapped a real world city, I can't remember the name, thought). I think that the main reason is that when I discover inner mechanisms of something it stops being interesting for me. With that kind of experience, which is more like digging into some subconscious areas of mind it won't happen to soon ;)

I divide my working time sth like 50/50 for actual tasks solving and learning. My company doesn't understand it, but I work remotely and no one notices. But soon I'm back to office.

I've joined my current company two years ago. We are small (but constantly growing) company - about 10 programmers at the moment. 10 separate programmers, lack of notion of any "team". Time (and money) lost on problems arising from that fact is XXX% or even XXXX% per project.

The most important thing about learning is not accumulation of knowledge by individual, but accumulation of knowlege by group, making knowledge common, therfore creating higher level being called "team".

Vote up. I think it'd be a great primer for more complex concepts.