I doubt that Kurzweil has truly been granted "unlimited" access to Google's resources. His title of "director of engineering" sounds impressive, but there's so far little indication he will be a very senior figure at the company.
Considering the resources given to something as standard as a team working on a better search algorithm, which is thousands of servers, I'm pretty sure he's going to have access to pretty much whatever he wants.
A petabyte of memory? Two hundred thousand cores? Done and done.
Blindsight seems to be a powerful demonstration of how a brain can perform high order actions - e.g. respond to social stimuli such as facial expressions - without consciousness. It's a reminder that many things we think inseparable from self awareness and consciousness are no such thing. Perhaps you could consider a person with blindisight to have been "downgraded" to the condition of a mammal without consciousness.
I think it's a bit more complicated, since mammals without consciousness (ouh, vague concepts ftw) still show immediate reaction to visual stimuli, where as patient TN and others can react and act upon to visual stimuli, although the traditional "chain of command" is broken.
I was conscious of my usage although ill be the first to admit i make typos all the time. To elaborate, writing can evoke feelings good or bad, feelings of familiarity or confusion, and these feelings can lend to a more persuasive writing. This was my point in the second paragraph.
The article cites Apple's roving check out approach as an attempt to "solve line issues". Isn't this close to the most inefficient way to organize the checkout/queuing experience in terms of creating uncertainty and the need for everyone (even their staff) to move around? I can see that it has a lot of psychological value, though.
Except Zuckerberg knows that our feelings about privacy aren't all that consistent. People have become more willing to share personal information online; things that previously caused public outcry about privacy have become normalized.
Zuck's confounding privacy settings aren't (completely) to blame. Facebook and other online social tools have led us to genuinely change our feelings towards privacy.
Because humans, by evolution, are adaptable to their surroundings. We don't enthusiastically embrace the decreased privacy, but learned how to live in that world. This type of forced changed will almost certainly lead to a world where criticizing Julian Assange about the contents of his OkCupid profile will be mere child's play.
It's apparently part of the discovery documents from one of the ongoing lawsuits Google is involved in. You know as much as I do about it now; I have no idea whether the rest is available without looking in court records.
The price drop - from $500 to $300 - is the most significant new 'feature' here. These devices just aren't ready to replace a conventional laptop yet for most people. I've got a Samsung one and it struggles with complex websites and sometimes hangs, too. I wonder if even $300 is too much.
Credit cards act as a buffer between steady salary income and patchy spending. Many people both in the US and Europe live within their means across the whole year, but take a big holiday or trip in the summer and spend more in one month than their usual disposable income. Having a credit card makes it easier to accommodate lumpy spending like that.
