Links for 08-07-2006
SF blogs, ‘friendly’ AI, open-source tracker-telescope…
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VCTB isn’t in there, largely because no-one knows who the hell I am, plus it doesn’t quite qualify to the criteria. If I was listed though, my current T’rati rank would put me in at about #44…
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Work to live, don’t live to work. An old saying, but the subject of a new book – here the author expounds his philosophy.
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Phil ‘Speculist’ Bowermaster discusses the notion that it may be hard for us to produce ‘friendly’ AI when we’re not all that friendly ourselves.
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The Guardian looks at differing attitudes between the UK and the US to the ‘war on terror’, in the wake of Independence Day and the anniversary of the London bombings.
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5 – openEyes……is an open-source open-hardware toolkit for low-cost real-time eye tracking. Well, come on, you never know when you might need one!
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Physics at its weirdest and coolest. Make a model of the solar system, fly it out to the Lagrange point, watch closely…
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New open-source home telescope design, eliminates many traditional mounting problems and can track objects across the sky automatically. Open source rules!
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Long overdue, I think. Link via Lifehacker.
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Does what it says on the tin. Thankyou, Metafilter.
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