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This Robot’s Journey to an Icy Alien Moon Starts Beneath Antarctica
Via: TᵢG • Health, Science & Technology • 44 Comments • 8 Likes • 6 years ago
“NASA scientists completed field tests in November of a floating rover they hope will one day travel to Europa, the frozen ocean moon of Jupiter.”
A video of the Bruie rover is here.
Guide to Threads
By: TᵢG • TechMeta • 47 Comments • 2 Likes • 6 years ago
“Enhancements have been made to thread functionality for convenience and performance.”
Thread Basics NewsTalkers uses hierarchic comments to organize long discussions. First level comments have integer identifiers (1,2,… n). Second level comments have two integers such as 3.4 or 12.7. The third and final level of comments have three integers such as 3.3.1 or 12.7.5. First...
Yang swipes at Biden: 'Maybe Americans don't all want to learn how to code'
Via: TᵢG • News & Politics • 19 Comments • 4 Likes • 6 years ago
“"Give me a break! Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God's sake." ⇨ Joe Biden”
Anyone who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to design integrated circuits, become an automotive engineer, become a financial adviser, do genetic research, practice law, train to be a physician's assistant, become a corporate cost accountant. This just kills me. Apparently Joe...
Biblical Covenants in Christianity
By: TᵢG • Religious and not News Chat • 240 Comments • 8 Likes • 7 years ago
“The New Covenant is a concept devoid of defined content. It is a contract with an opening paragraph but no details.”
Christians routinely speak of the OC† and the NC (old and new covenants, respectively) when equivocating from the harshness of the Mosaic laws in the Old Testament such as Leviticus 20:13 which calls for the death penalty for homosexual acts or the various rules on how to properly enslave...
Intellectual Honesty
By: TᵢG • Critical Thinkers • 327 Comments • 9 Likes • 7 years ago
“Social media sites supporting debate, for example, typically have rules of conduct to mitigate abrasive behavior but rarely enforce truth. ”
Finding truth is a never-ending pursuit. It is the ultimate (at least in the ideal) goal of philosophy, science, jurisprudence and journalism. Truth is the light that guides our path, enabling us to make our best-informed decisions. Yet truth is often cavalierly discarded when it conflicts...
Self Deception
By: TᵢG • Critical Thinkers • 303 Comments • 11 Likes • 7 years ago
“… we often kid ourselves using tools such as confirmation bias to find positions that bring us comfort even if those positions are ultimately at...”
Objectivity takes Practice We like to think we objectively evaluate facts and come to reasonable conclusions. A suggestion from another that we might be biased on a topic is taken as an insult. Well we all have biases and it takes awareness and effort to keep them in check. It is too easy...
Meet the AI that could replace your baseball umpire
Via: TᵢG • Sports • 12 Comments • 1 Like • 7 years ago
“Trackman analyzes a handful of details about the ball as it breaks the plane in front of home plate. It can detect velocity, movement, the type of...”
This is inevitable and good, in my opinion. Not only will this address the biggest source of umpire mistakes in baseball, its success (I am predicting) will lead to application of technology elsewhere such as on the most active base — first base.
Washington Nationals beat Houston Astros in Game 7 to win franchise's first World Series
Via: TᵢG • News & Politics • 47 Comments • 5 Likes • 7 years ago
“The Nationals win their first championship by defeating the heavily favored Houston Astros.”
They broke all sorts of records to accomplish this. The most amazing is that this World Series is the first in any known seven series sport where the away team won every game.
Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data, researchers find
Via: TᵢG • Health, Science & Technology • 19 Comments • 4 Likes • 7 years ago
“"Nearly all TV devices in our testbeds contacts Netflix even though we never configured any TV with a Netflix account," the researchers wrote.”
By Jason Abbruzzese Smart-home devices, such as televisions and streaming boxes, are collecting reams of data — including sensitive information such as device locations — that is then being sent to third parties like advertisers and major tech companies, researchers said Tuesday. As the...