Author Topic: The most interesting thing I saw today (Read 10655 times)

How Googles self driving car works

It's interesting that traffic would be a lot safer with todays autonomous driving systems already, but until the accident rate is down to absolute 0% no company is likely to bring it to market. The 0.001% that does experience a car accident caused by some AI is right to sue.

Raizor · « **Reply #72 on:** May 02, 2012 »

Looks very interesting Kirl. It's a bit of a hefty read, so I'll save it for bed tonight

I would certainly love one. I can't park a car properly to save my life! haha

Kirl · « **Reply #73 on:** May 21, 2012 »

10 of the world's biggest unsolved mysteries

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Few stories have the power to captivate us more than those that remain unresolved. Codes, puzzles and cryptic public art tease us with their intrigue: Why is their message coded? What great secrets might they hide? Despite the efforts of our most learned historians, cleverest cryptographers and most determined treasure hunters, history is replete with riddles that continue to confound us today. Fictional tales like those featured in “The Da Vinci Code” and the movie “National Treasure” have got nothing on these real-life puzzles. Here's our list of 10 of the world's most cryptic unsolved mysteries and codes.

Shockwave · « **Reply #74 on:** June 02, 2012 »

This is pretty interesting stuff.. I was reading a book about how the power of the crowd drives the worlds stock markets and my searching for links led me off on an interesting tangent..

That Google can predict the future of stock markets, disease epidemics etc, just because they know what everyone is searching for..

http://business.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/15/google-searches-predict-stock-market-moves/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/12/google-health

Kirl · « **Reply #75 on:** June 03, 2012 »

Forget the secret services, the Google is all knowing!

Kirl · « **Reply #76 on:** June 11, 2012 »

Tracking the trackers

Crap, now I got to go and use firefox again...

n00bstar · « **Reply #77 on:** June 12, 2012 »

http://www.youtube.com/user/scishow

I'm a huge sucker for documentaries and sciency shows...I've been watching way too much of these little videos lately. Its a science show aimed mostly at teenagers, kind of like what Bill Nye The Science Guy used to do. The guy is a very good communicator and is entertaining to watch. There are a few playlist categories which are all equally interesting.

I wonder how many red dots I get coming here?

egons · « **Reply #78 on:** June 12, 2012 »

benny! · « **Reply #79 on:** June 13, 2012 »

Totally useless on the one hand but on the other totally amusing ...

http://www.pointerpointer.com

Does not work with Chrome unfortunately, use Firefox instead

Btw, for those who are interested in how this FX is done, they are using voronoi for matching - here the FX is explained:

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZXW2HBLPM" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ZXW2HBLPM</a>