Posts by mabl4367

World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave

Now, where did I put my fidget spinner?

I'll have this record beaten by Friday.

You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: A quirky investigation into why AI does not always work

I think Marcus Hutter is on the right track.

He starts out with a formal definition of what intelligence is. He then proceeds to define an optimal AI called AIXI. AIXI is just a theoretical agent as it would require infinite resources to implement it but it is till useful as it can be used to derive conclusions about intelligent agents and you can also create apporximations of AIXI and be aware of what compromises were made when doing so.

Apple heading for Supreme Court showdown over iOS App Store 'monopoly' gripe

Just to pint it out...

Apple taking 30% means the customer pays 1/(1-0.30) or close to 43% higher price.

England just not windy enough for wind farms, admits renewables boss

Re: "Solar only works in really sunny countries"

Sure Germany has a lot of solar power and solves the intermitense problem with coal gas and import of nuclear power from France. Germany could never stand on its own unless building a lot more of those nasty coal and gas plants.

Re: Knuckling under

Generators are already at about 80% efficiency. Even if we could by some miracle get to 99.999% efficiency it will not solve the problems of wind power.

We need a true breakthrough in grid level storage if we want to depend on wind and solar for a major part of our electric power needs. Without viable grid level storage of some kind we must have some alternative power generation for the nights when the wind doesn't blow.

Brits unveil 'revolutionary' hydrogen-powered car

If someone develops a way to produce hydrogen on the cheap and with a low impact on the envoirment then we can just use it to make alcohol or syntehtic diesel fuel for our cars.

Problems solved! No more infra structure, transportation storage, co2, fuel cell or battery problems. We don't even need new cars!