Somebody who self-identifies as a feminist in a civil, western country is doing it either out of pure ignorance or wanting to earn brownie points. Both, if said feminist is a man.

Being a feminist in Islamic and African nations? Fucking go for it. I got your back.

Stop stealing my presents, cunt.

She looks 12.

He goes to my fucking college.

Fucking hell.

I'll just leave this here.

Whoops, I missed this squabble <_<

And it seems to have blown over, so well done everyone have a gold star.

From Betabeat

In college, it wasn’t rare to hear a verbal battle regarding artificial intelligence erupt between my friends studying neuroscience and my friends studying computer science.

One rather outrageous fellow would mention the possibility of a computer takeover, and off they went. The neuroscience-savvy would awe at the potential of such hybrid technology as the CS majors argued we have nothing to fear, as computers will always need a programmer to tell them what to do.

Today’s news brings us to the Neural Turing Machine, a computer that will combine the way ordinary computers work with the way the human brain learns, enabling it to actually program itself. Perhaps my CS friends should reevaluate their position?

The computer is currently being developed by the London-based DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence firm that was acquired by Google earlier this year. Neural networks — which will enable the computer to invent programs for situations it has not seen before — will make up half of the computer’s architecture. Experts at the firm hope this will equip the machine with the means to create like a human, but still with the number-crunching power of a computer, New Scientist reports.

In two different tests, the NTM was asked to 1) learn to copy blocks of binary data and 2) learn to remember and sort lists of data. The results were compared with a more basic neural network, and it was found that the computer learned faster and produced longer blocks of data with fewer errors. Additionally, the computer’s methods were found to be very similar to the code a human programmer would’ve written to make the computer complete such a task.

These are extremely simple tasks for a computer to accomplish when being told to do so, but computers’ abilities to learn them on their own could mean a lot for the future of AI.
Elon Musk is not going to be happy about this.

Make them feel welcome.

I'm no economist expert-guru but if I correctly remember, the depression worsened when the Fed started to raise interest rates which caused business going bankrupt (making more people unemployed) because the cost to conduct business skyrocketed.

That's probably the Austrian perspective, but I can't say I agree.

Interest rates were very low in the mid '30s, but it didn't spur any sort of economic activity because everybody was afraid of falling into deflationary spiral due to the sheer shortage of money travelling through the economy.

No.

Quote from: Meta Cognition on October 29, 2014, 08:17:25 PM

I haven't.

Socialism is fundamentally inevitable.

*sigh*

When you grew out of distributing the wealth equally.

Oh, you mean like a deterministic socialism?

Shit, I don't know. Like 16.

Everything that can be privatized, should be.

Well, here we're talking about how we aren't talking about anything.

This, Max, is a conversation and you have the power to invite others to discuss whatever you want if you don't like what's on offer!

Trussing Door has twelve letters.
Lemy the Lizard has thirteen.
Lemy is also green, and we know Door was incredibly envious.

Given the numerical proximity of twelve to thirteen, it's safe to say that Door was a very unholy individual, lacking faith and without proper moral guidance. Too close to the unlucky number, he was. And, as we know, he was a pathological fedora tipper.

Therefore, I have reached the vindicated conclusion that - since we are coming up to Hallowe'en - Lemy is the unholy manifestation of Door's godless spirit, which possess him and forces him to make ungodly claims about other users.

Pray for Door. Pray for his damned soul. 

Where, O where is thine handjob?
Hark! It is in thine hand!
O Lord! Thou hast smote mine willy!
I shalt never feel the glory of mine daughter's pusseth for a score!

So? Since when were you sentimental?

Since I became a sensitive writer of deeply personal erotic poems.

Where, O where is thine handjob?
Hark! It is in thine hand!
O Lord! Thou hast smote mine willy!
I shalt never feel the glory of mine daughter's pusseth for a score!