July 2009
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A series of charts presented without comment
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Watchmaxhell:
“For when the metal ones come for you”
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Buy Robot Insurance Today
The incident took place in June 2007 at a factory in Bålsta, north of Stockholm, when the industrial worker was trying to carry out maintenance on a defective machine generally used to lift heavy rocks. Thinking he had cut off the power supply, the man approached the robot with no sense of trepidation.
But the robot suddenly came to life and grabbed a tight hold of the victim’s head. The...
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I just tumbl’d a cluster of 6 green seedless grapes into the dirty trash can, but I still want to eat them. What should I do?
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Teaching Robots the Rules of War →
continuum:
azspot:
“My research hypothesis is that intelligent robots can behave more ethically in the battlefield than humans currently can,” says Dr. Arkin. “That’s the case I make.”
Analogous to missile guidance systems that need the use of radar and a radio or a wired link between the control point and the missile, Arkin’s “ethical controller” is a software architecture that provides,...
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“Inhaling love exhaling fear”
– Twitter / doriansky
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emilyqualey:
The goal when varnishing is to fill the grain of the wood. After a coat of varnish dries, the product needs to be sanded. It needs to be wiped. Tacked. And then varnished again. It can take up to ten coats of varnish, or more to fill the grain. This is most definitly a tedious process. However, when completed, the wood enclosed in a sheen and a sparkle is glorious.
But overtime...
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“Suppose that you could mark the molecules in a glass of water; then pour the...”
– Erwin Schrödinger, quoting an example used by Lord Kelvin, to demonstrate how small atoms are (that is: how many of them there are in everything, like glasses of water).
As he notes, however, it’s not so much that atoms are small as it is that we are large, very large. Schrödinger begins What Is...
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WatchThis Earth (via Wreck & Salvage on Vimeo)
Video for latest Same Film, Different Use challenge (Vimeo group) at vimeo.com/groups/clipdub Based on the animated educational film Stop Driving Us Crazy archive.org/details/StopDriv1959
Watchkarenabad:
(via agsystems:07/24/2009 New challenge - Same video, different use forum on Vimeo)
Feeling creatively stumped or uninspired? Here’s a fun little project for the weekend. Visit the above link to check out the Same Video, Different Use project on Vimeo. Download the source file and re-edit the video provided. Be creative and have a lot of fun with it! Don’t forget to post your videos...
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WatchThe Falcon is a steampunk stop-motion film that takes place on an old wooden photo album and is entirely composed of macro-photographed hardware pieces from vintage, antique cameras that have been carefully disassembled.
It’s fantastic. The sound design is crucial and perfect.
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“I have a doctorate in internet video cats from Edmonton Soccer College. I...”
– Adam Quirk’s credentials
There seems to be some sort of shorty fire burning in this dance hall, right on the dance floor actually. Which number should I call?
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Abortion and Racism are evil twins
hilker:
sds:
Abortion has taken a gruesome toll on the black community, killing more than AIDS and crime combined. Some 14 million black babies have been aborted since the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in all stages in all 50 states. That’s equal to one-third of the number of blacks living today.
By the abortion industry’s own statistics, black women...
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