toshiro-mifune:
““ Toshirō Mifune
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toshiro-mifune:

Toshirō Mifune

Kid makes an informative video on how to make “Hot Dr Pepper”

Rashida Jones Remembering a Conversation with Tupac Shakur

protect yourself and have supplies.

Bonnefon and co are seeking to find a way through this ethical dilemma by gauging public opinion. Their idea is that the public is much more likely to go along with a scenario that aligns with their own views.

So these guys posed these kinds of ethical dilemmas to several hundred workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to find out what they thought. The participants were given scenarios in which one or more pedestrians could be saved if a car were to swerve into a barrier, killing its occupant or a pedestrian.

At the same time, the researchers varied some of the details such as the actual number of pedestrians that could be saved, whether the driver or an on-board computer made the decision to swerve and whether the participants were asked to imagine themselves as the occupant or an anonymous person.

The results are interesting, if predictable. In general, people are comfortable with the idea that self-driving vehicles should be programmed to minimize the death toll.

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If I designed a self-driving car and you were riding in it and the car ended up in a life or death situation–where you die or a pedestrian dies– would you want me to base what the default mode is (kill you or kill pedestrian) based on what a few hundred people on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk thought?

I’m almost certain the answer to that question should be “No,” but, you know, think about it.

This rad looking class pointed me toward this video about deep learning. if you want to get excited about it, check out this vid.

The device pictured in the image you see above might look a bit primitive, but it’s actually a prototype built to showcase technology that may very well be the future of touchscreens. Researchers from Technische Universität Berlin in Berlin, Germany built the device, which offers a brilliant solution for touchscreens by giving them real physical buttons that appear temporarily when you need them, and then vanish when you don’t.

new-aesthetic:
“ “The cyborg sensorium is possible because, as it turns out, the human brain is quite happy to accept whole new forms of peripherals. Neuroplasticity, we now know, is the natural state of the brain; we’ve only just developed the...

new-aesthetic:

The cyborg sensorium is possible because, as it turns out, the human brain is quite happy to accept whole new forms of peripherals. Neuroplasticity, we now know, is the natural state of the brain; we’ve only just developed the technology to properly take advantage of it. It’s like we were always meant to merge completely with the machine world. To fuse into a new kind of organism.

via LOVECRAFTIAN CYBORGS AND THE ALIEN AESTHETIC: Part 1 – Cyborgs of the Abyss | Journal of a Cosmic Anthropologist

also a link to a Bruce Sterling talk on alien aesthetics at the beginning of that article, so…