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2022-03-12T08:46:00.007-08:00

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2022-03-11T18:33:00.002-08:00

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BTC market

2021-05-13T12:12:00.004-07:00

Based on recent Elon's tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1392602041025843203

What do you think is it worth to hold BTC or trade now?

@elonmusk #BTC #crypto

Even wonder what people think about AI? What even AI means?

2020-09-10T19:06:00.002-07:00

Maybe the answer is to try and figure out what people think about the future.

There are many ways to ask the right question, but a big problem that many people are having is that they have forgotten the questions we might think of.

If you are someone who is interested in AI, think about the question:

What happens if humanity discovers a technology that eliminates us?

Most people think:

AI will take everything, so it should be safe. If it's just a matter of time before we destroy ourselves the best we can do is get an AI that has a high level of intelligence and self preservation potential.

Most people who study AI think the same thing, but they don't think of it as an end of human life but rather the last few steps before we die.

In other words, if AI does eliminate us, what happens to humanity?

The people who are interested in AI and have a question of their own need to ask some basic questions about what happens if humanity is completely wiped out. They can probably just as easily ask the question:

"What if they don't kill us?"

But that would be a very poor and very unsatisfactory way of thinking about the question.

The question is:

Is it more important to create the safest technology?

Or to create the biggest bang for the buck?

There are some important questions we could ask to try and get answers to those questions.

Can AI Save Us?

Are there better ways to think about this? Yes and no.

If you are going to tell people you believe in a hypothetical future, you have to tell them that you have some serious concerns about this, but also that you are certain these technologies can keep us safe. That is important, because people need to know these things.

So if you are willing to let people know you think this is a very real possibility and if you have doubts about this, it is useful to say so directly.

Happy Halloween everyone!

2019-10-31T20:07:00.000-07:00

Pumpkin made with ML AI

Active on Webtalk

2019-03-25T18:44:00.000-07:00

Recently I got very active on Webtalk.

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You can find me there.

Antikythera mechanism

2017-05-17T06:27:00.002-07:00

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer and orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes, as well as a four-year cycle of athletic games that was similar, but not identical to, an Olympiad, the cycle of the ancient Olympic Games.

Found housed in a 340 millimetres (13 in) × 180 millimetres (7.1 in) × 90 millimetres (3.5 in) wooden box, the device is a complex clockwork mechanism composed of at least 30 meshing bronze gears. Using modern computer x-ray tomography and high resolution surface scanning, a team led by Mike Edmunds and Tony Freeth at Cardiff University peered inside fragments of the crust-encased mechanism and read the faintest inscriptions that once covered the outer casing of the machine. Detailed imaging of the mechanism suggests it dates back to 150-100 BC and had 37 gear wheels enabling it to follow the movements of the moon and the sun through the zodiac, predict eclipses and even recreate the irregular orbit of the moon. The motion, known as the first lunar anomaly, was developed by the astronomer Hipparchus of Rhodes in the 2nd century BC, and he may have been consulted in the machine's construction, the scientists speculate. Its remains were found as one lump later separated in three main fragments, which are now divided into 82 separate fragments after conservation works. Four of these fragments contain gears, while inscriptions are found on many others. The largest gear is approximately 140 millimetres (5.5 in) in diameter and originally had 224 teeth.

The artefact was recovered probably on or about July 22, 1901, according to the Julian calendar (which the Greeks continued to use at the time). That date was August 4, 1901, in the Gregorian calendar (used by then in most of the West, and now used worldwide). From the Antikythera shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, which in antiquity was known as Aigila. Believed to have been designed and constructed by Greek scientists, the instrument has been variously dated to about 87 BC, or between 150 and 100 BC, or in 205 BC, or within a generation before the date of the shipwreck (in about 150 BC).

After the knowledge of this technology was lost at some point in antiquity, technological works approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the development of mechanical astronomical clocks in Europe in the fourteenth century.

All known fragments of the Antikythera mechanism are kept at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, along with a number of artistic reconstructions of how the mechanism may have looked.

A schematic representation of the gearing of the Antikythera Mechanism, including the 2012 published interpretation of existing gearing, gearing added to complete known functions, and proposed gearing to accomplish additional functions, namely true sun pointer and pointers for the five then-known planets, as proposed by Freeth and Jones, 2012. Based also upon similar drawing in the Freeth 2006 Supplement and Wright 2005, Epicycles Part 2. Proposed (as opposed to known from the artefact) gearing crosshatched.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

Double king

2017-04-02T13:25:00.001-07:00

Super Deluxe animation

2017-01-10T09:00:00.000-08:00

Here is the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeJLx_Dy_icz3oDHhJeMe9g

Singamajig

2016-11-22T19:50:00.000-08:00

Masashi Wakui

2016-11-15T19:04:00.001-08:00

Here is flickr page of this amazing photographer: https://www.flickr.com/photos/megane_wakui/

Halloween games

2016-10-31T17:19:00.001-07:00

If you bored or tired after today's hard working day, I recommend you to spend rest of Halloween by playing in some very atmospheric games. So here is a list of most memorable:

- Forbidden Siren
Siren (Japanese: サイレン), known as Forbidden Siren in the PAL regions, is a survival horror stealth game developed by SCE Japan Studio and Project Siren, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2 in 2003. The game's plot revolves around an interconnected cast of characters that possess a power which enables them to see and hear what a nearby character sees. It was followed by two sequel/remakes and a loose film adaption. On June 14, 2016 it was re-released for the PlayStation 4.

- Dementium II
Dementium II is a first person, survival horror video game developed for the Nintendo DS. It is the sequel to 2007's Dementium: The Ward, also for the Nintendo DS. The game was developed by Renegade Kid and published by SouthPeak Interactive. A remastered version of the game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X on December 17, 2013.

After 5 weeks being unconscious, William Redmoor's nightmares have ended, or have they? Now he's trapped in the clandestine Bright Dawn Treatment Center and discover that his nightmares haven't ended. Now he must fight the monstrosities that appear once again and stop Doctor once and for all.

You can get Dementium II on Steam sale, for less then 1$: http://store.steampowered.com/app/217100/

- Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth is a survival horror video game developed by Headfirst Productions and published by Bethesda Softworks with 2K Games and Ubisoft for the PC and Xbox systems. The game was published for the Xbox in 2005 and the PC in 2006. Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth combines an action-adventure game with a relatively realistic first-person shooter and elements of a stealth game.

The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos. It is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth. Set mostly in the year 1922, the story follows Jack Walters, a mentally unstable private detective hired to investigate in Innsmouth, a strange and mysterious town that has cut itself from the rest of the United States.

- ObsCure
ObsCure is a survival horror video game developed by Hydravision Entertainment and published by DreamCatcher Interactive in North America, Ubisoft in China and MC2-Microïds in other territories for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Xbox. It was released on October 1, 2004 in Europe and North America on April 6, 2005.

Strange things are happening at Leafmore High. Three teenagers set out to search for their missing friend. Finding themselves locked inside the school overnight, they now have to get to the bottom of the strange occurrences.

- ObsCure II
ObsCure II is a survival horror video game developed by Hydravision Entertainment and published by Playlogic in PAL regions and Ignition in North America for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2 and Wii. It is the sequel to the 2004 video game ObsCure. The game was released on September 7, 2007 in Europe, March 25, 2008 in North America (under the name ObsCure: The Aftermath), and June 12, 2008 in Australia. A PlayStation Portable version was released on September 29, 2009. The game was later released on Steam in 2014.

Two years after the events of ObsCure, Shannon and Kenny are now enrolled in the nearby Fallcreek University, while Stanley is making ends meet as a pizza delivery boy. Stanley and Kenny have to take medication to prevent the effects of the plant from infecting their bodies, while Shannon has been able to adapt to the changes.

ObsCure II - is available on steam now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/254480/

- Dead Space and Dead Space 2
Dead Space is a science fiction survival horror video game developed by EA Redwood Shores (now Visceral Games) for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. The game was released on all platforms through October 2008. The game puts the player in control of an engineer named Isaac Clarke, who battles the Necromorphs, monstrous reanimated human corpses, aboard an interstellar mining ship, the USG Ishimura.

The player controls Isaac Clarke, a ship systems engineer who must fight his way through a mining starship infested with an alien scourge. The crew has been slaughtered, and their corpses reanimated into creatures known as "Necromorphs". Various types of necromorph appear throughout the game, each with different abilities and requiring different tactics to defeat. The game is played from an over-the-shoulder third-person perspective.

You can get Dead Space pack on steam sale - http://store.steampowered.com/sub/8672/ right now!

- Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason
Cryostasis: Sleep of Reason is a psychological horror video game developed by Action Forms for Microsoft Windows.

The game story develops with help of a unique system called Mental Echo – the ability to penetrate another character's memory and change the actions taken by that character in the past. This can involve saving people's lives by taking over their bodies in their memories and changing the course of history.

The game, being set in an arctic setting, employs body heat as a health meter – the player must use heat sources (such as lights or stoves) to replenish health. The gameplay is from a first person perspective.

- Scratches
Scratches is a mystery adventure computer game by game developer Nucleosys. Scratches is the first commercial adventure game ever to be made in Argentina. The game tells the story of the Blackwood estate on the outskirts of Rothbury, a small rural town in Northumberland, England in 1976.

Originally owned by James T. Blackwood in 1963, the house is passed to Christopher Milton after Mr. Blackwood is accused of murdering his wife. A couple of days later, Mr. Blackwood dies of a sudden heart attack though some in the town start rumors that he might have committed suicide. The police decide to close the case seeing there is no further evidence left. Shortly after acquiring the house, Milton inexplicably disappears in 1970 leaving no visible trace.

The player assumes the role of the house's next inhabitant, Michael Arthate, an author seeking seclusion to work on his next book. He moves in only to find that the house still echoes its horrible past quite literally as scratches are heard all around, particularly in the basement and fireplaces, and soon becomes more interested in researching the house's history than his writing.

- Nocturne
Nocturne is a survival horror adventure video game set in the late 1920s and early 1930s – the Prohibition and Great Depression era. The player takes the part of The Stranger, an operative of a fictional American Government secret organization known as "Spookhouse", which was created by President Theodore Roosevelt to fight monsters. He investigates four strange cases and saves people from classic monsters such as werewolves, zombies, and vampires.

- The Suffering
The Suffering is a 2004 first and third-person shooter psychological horror video game, developed by Surreal Software for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.

The game tells the story of Torque, a prisoner on death row for murdering his ex-wife and two children, a crime of which he claims to be innocent, saying he blacked out and cannot remember what happened. Shortly after he arrives in Abbot State Penitentiary on Carnate Island, off the coast of Maryland, an earthquake rocks the island, and the prison is attacked by strange supernatural creatures. Torque must attempt to fight his way to freedom, whilst also battling the demons within him, and attempting to remember what really happened to his family. The game features three endings, depending on the players' actions throughout, each of which reveal a different version of the murder of Torque's family.

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- The Forest
The Forest is a first-person open world-survival video game developed by Canadian company Endnight Games for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. The game's pre-alpha version was released through Steam Early Access on May 30, 2014. The game takes place on a heavily forested island where the player character and a young child are the survivors of a plane crash. The game features nonlinear gameplay, with no set missions or quests, empowering the player to make their own decisions for survival. Early reviews for the pre-alpha version were highly positive. The alpha is currently in a playable state with additional gameplay features planned and in development.

In The Forest, the player must survive on a forested island after a plane crash during which mutants are seen taking the player's son away. The player survives by creating shelter, weapons, and other survival tools. Inhabiting the island, along with various woodland creatures, are a tribe of nocturnal, cannibalistic mutants who dwell in deep caves beneath the island. While they are not necessarily always hostile to the player, their usual behavior is aggressive, especially during the night. For example, when first encountering the player, the cannibals may hesitate to attack and instead observe the player from a distance, attempt to communicate with the player through effigies, and send patrols around the player's base camp. In combat, they regularly attempt to protect one another from injury, remove torches, surround the player, hide behind cover, drag wounded tribesmen to safety, keep their distance, use tactical decisions, not overextend into unknown territory, and occasionally surrender out of fear. They are also afraid of fire, and will refrain from approaching the player if there is a campfire or torch nearby.

The game features a day/night cycle, with the player able to build a shelter and traps, hunt animals and collect supplies during the day, and defend themselves against the mutants by night.

Get it on Steam sale: http://store.steampowered.com/app/242760/ and start surviving today.

Google halloween doodle 2016

2016-10-30T14:33:00.000-07:00

Very nice mini game up-here: https://www.google.com/doodles/halloween-2016

The very first video on Youtube

2016-09-24T09:00:00.000-07:00

Nearly a billion litres of radioactive water leak out through Florida sinkhole

2016-09-20T09:00:00.000-07:00

The accident happened at a fertilizer plant near Tampa. The company involved says it believes it can pump the water, containing slightly radioactive phosphogypsum back before it mixes with drinking supplies.

grickle

2016-09-16T19:00:00.000-07:00

Quirky Robot Dog

2016-09-15T09:00:00.000-07:00

The Broad and Narrow Way

2016-08-30T09:00:00.000-07:00

323 reindeer was killed in Norway

2016-08-29T19:44:00.001-07:00

How is it even possible?

Game glitches

2016-08-26T06:39:00.000-07:00

Text version: http://top15s.net/showthread.php/7-Top-15-SCARIEST-Video-Game-Glitches

Comfy collection part #3

2016-08-15T21:20:00.000-07:00

Comfy collection part #2

2016-08-14T21:19:00.000-07:00

Comfy collection part #1

2016-08-13T21:18:00.002-07:00

Steve Cutts animation

2016-05-10T10:06:00.000-07:00

Home web site: http://www.stevecutts.com/

Catacombes de Paris

2016-04-16T10:26:00.001-07:00

Catacombs of Paris (fr. Les catacombes de Paris) - a network of corridors in the old quarries Denfert-Rochereau from the time of the Roman Empire. Paris catacombs have a length of up to 50 kilometers and extend over an area of approximately 770 hectares and are a remnant of the quarries, which ever since the Roman Empire mined limestone needed for the construction of the city. In 1786 for health reasons, in order to avoid epidemics in the crowded city of King Louis XVI commissioned the architect responsible for the renovation of tunnels here bear the delay of the Parisian cemetery of Les Halles district, later from other cemeteries of Paris. In the nineteenth century created spaces that are designed today to explore, for example. The crypt of the Passion (Rotunda Bones), "Tomb of Gilbert." The entrance is located in the Office of Inspector quarries.

The tunnels are covered with numerous graffiti of the nineteenth century, providing that the place was frequented by Parisians. Victor Hugo, frequenter of the underworld here placed the action of his novel Les Miserables. During World War II, the catacombs were the site of clandestine meetings of the members of the French Resistance.

Currently part of the catacombs is available for tourists. The entrance to the tunnel is located in a small green building at the subway station Denfert-Rochereau, which can be reached 4 and 6 subway line [1]. In the catacombs you can take pictures at no extra charge, but you may not use the flash. The entire route has a length of 2 km and starts from going down the steep stairs several meters deep into the earth. Darkness, silence and the presence of so many human remains here makes an electrifying impression and makes you think. In the tunnels from time to time standing stone benches just waiting for the daredevil who sit on them and devotes himself to contemplation of the fragility of human life.