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A police officer is directing traffic in the intersection when he
sees a self-driving car barreling toward him and the occupant looking
down at his smartphone.
The officer gestures for the car to stop, and
the self-driving vehicle rolls to a halt behind the crosswalk. This
seems like a pretty plausible interaction.
Human drivers are required to
pull over when a police officer gestures for them to do so. It's
reasonable to expect that self-driving cars would do the same.
It added, "One can readily imagine abuses that might occur
if, for example, capabilities to control automated vehicles and the
disclosure of detailed personal information about their occupants were
not tightly controlled and secured."
The bill passed the California Assembly
easily. Tech advocates have been battling privacy advocates to influence
the inevitable regulation of private and commercial drones.
If passed, the bill could influence how other states regulate
drones. The article notes that 156 different drone-related bills have
been considered in 46 different states this year alone, and the FAA will
issue nationwide rules in September.
Put in
layman's terms, "this jumbled return of information was like burning an
encyclopedia:
You wouldn't technically lose any information if you kept
all of the ashes in one place, but you'd have a hard time looking up the
capital of Minnesota."
Information can leave the black hole via Hawking
radiation, though it will be functionally useless. Hawking worked with
Cambridge's Malcolm Perry and Harvard's Andrew Stromberg on this theory.
*** Crowd Funding is the wild-wild west of business financing, and it's
not just the people starting campaigns that are playing without many
rules.
One of Kickstarter's sort algorithm triggers is the "Staff Pick."
Research indicates being featured by Kickstarter staff is a huge predictor for success.
But there is no published benchmark for how these are chosen. Oddly, Kickstarter only discourages
users from falsely labeling their campaign as a Staff Pick. To protect
backers and ensure the crowdfunding ecosystem isn't sullied by scammers,
Kickstarter needs to boost their transparency starting with this Staff Pick conundrum.
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I don't know, we don't know, they don't know.
In the mid-1980s, a University of Arizona surgery professor, Marlys
H. Witte, proposed teaching a class entitled "Introduction to Medical
and Other Ignorance.
Now Jamie Holmes writes in the NY Times that many scientific
facts simply aren't solid and immutable, but are instead destined to be
vigorously challenged and revised by successive generations.
According
to Homes, presenting ignorance as less extensive than it is, knowledge
as more solid and more stable, and discovery as neater also leads
students to misunderstand the interplay between answers and questions.
"This
crucial element in science was being left out for the students," says
Firestein."The undone part of science that gets us into the lab early
and keeps us there late, the thing that "turns your crank," the very
driving force of science, the exhilaration of the unknown, all this is
missing from our classrooms. In short, we are failing to teach the
ignorance, the most critical part of the whole operation."
The time has come to "view ignorance as 'regular' rather than deviant,"
argue sociologists Matthias Gross and Linsey McGoey. Our students will
be more curious — and more intelligently so — if, in addition to facts,
they were equipped with theories of ignorance as well as theories of
knowledge.
Falling cost is one factor driving investment. "Another reason for the
boom: Texas recently wrapped up construction of $6.9 billion worth of
new transmission lines, many connecting West Texas to the state's large
cities.
These massive power lines enabled Texas to become, by far, the
largest U.S. wind producer.
Solar developers plan to move electricity
on the same lines, taking advantage of a lull in wind generation during
the heat of the day when solar output is at its highest."
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