>> ^mizila:
That was just mean.


But hilarious! C'mon now.

>> ^ReverendTed:
What young dobermen consider "fashionable" these days perplexes me to no end.
(Seriously, does anyone know what the deals are on his ears?)


those are horns. this is one of Satan's hellhounds..

Your video, Laser Pointer Dog Attack, has made it into the Top 15 New Videos listing. Congratulations on your achievement. For your contribution you have been awarded 1 Power Point.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by Stingray.

*dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Make-burning-laser-pointer-from-flashlight-and-dvd-player

It's a dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Make-burning-laser-pointer-from-flashlight-and-dvd-player

*discuss since us 100 star pointers can't invoke *dupeof anymore.

The biggest problem i see is that there are so many ways to approach to the problem that all seem to do what is needed, but right now are scattered between researchers and projects all over the world, and i dont have access to them! For instance, you have massively excellent ideas, but would i have even known about them if i didnt come on videosift? so who else might already have another piece to the puzzle that i am completely ignorant of? that is my base starting point, because of my experience level and resources.

you are correct in approaching the linguistic AI component as the heaviest and most critical task to work on. Everything else is trivial in comparison.

The researchers at Cornell started a project in 2004 with a 10 year goal to accomplish basically what we're talking about in terms of analysis, only for a different purpose. I would not like to... spend time on that component when that research will save time and ultimately be better than what i can think of or make with my resources. I could essentially dig the hole, and fill it in with their system... a desire not driven by a particular ... inability... but out of desire for maximum efficiency.

I seem to be my best at unifying already developed systems, so right now... im identifying what components are needed, in what stage, if any, do they exist currently, where do they exist, and how can i use them in this new way.

The database component and GUI is likely where i personally could do the most work, but soon i will have access to the brains here at the CS department, and hopefully they will be interested enough to give me pointers in the right direction for the rest. I am about 7 months out from even getting to that point, so in that time, i am going to keep basically brainstorming and researching all the stuff i can so that the concept is presentable and accessible to new minds.

I can't contribute much at this point besides vision, time, and energy, but i feel like its such a worthy goal that i could easily spend a lifetime on it and consider it well spent. Your ideas make total sense to me, but... i wouldnt have been able to produce them in such logical context as efficiently... so at least, i can identify the need to be educated and educate myself more. I want to see what specific areas i excel at here at school so i feel i have validity to ... waste the time of more brilliant individuals such as yourself.

I mean, you already have such practical solutions for an AI framework, and i haven't even done anything as defined. so it makes me feel .. unworthy of attempting to interact at your level when i know i am not ready... but i know now you have a piece to the puzzle... so progress has been made... perhaps soon i can make the call to arms for the project in a way that is appropriate to the end goal, which is participation of everyone.

That's all i can spew forth ... once again thank you for making me see that it really is important to other people... that alone is enough to keep me going on this. I belive soon i will make a .org website for people to start brainstorming on, with a forum and such... that is how i can most effectively contribute at this point... organizing channels for ideas regarding the various components, as they are identified. My younger brother, for instance, is getting heavy training in the PeopleSoft/oracle suites, so there is another piece right there.

Sorry to be so vague in response to your very specific ideas.. all i can say to them is... YES MOAR PLS!1 and lol you found the same funny definitions for the acronym i did... heh heh heh. There needs to be a clearing house for these ideas... that's where i can come in the soonest, i believe... i would love to watch the conversation develop between more parties with interests and abilities such as yours! ok, well, back to the drawing board to channel some of this excitement productively! i have a large break time coming up in late august, and with that i hope to be in full swing making the website and "conceptual" framework for others to spin off of.

boy this will be neat... thanks D!

Maybe you can add your time wasted throwing newscasts in the face of the unwilling to your resume-Every dying regime needs her familiars, finger-pointers, and informers. Congratulations. You have found a comfortable niche in rousing the mob. A thousand monkeys and a thousand typerwriter.

"Taking a nasty divorce.." was the first - you can see the precise date and time by hovering the mouse pointer over the "1 year 3 weeks ago".

That said, I'm 99% sure that the other video originally had a different video embedded. The crazy lady made a series of videos about the divorce and I'm quite sure I saw them both posted here at the time. The "Future Ex Wife" video has a comment from oxdottir saying it's dead (didn't invoke *dead though), so I guess the original submitter substituted it with the other video when trying to resurrect it.

If I'm right I guess I should *dead the Future Ex Wife one and that's it.

Sounds like you're involved in some pretty interesting circles!

In reply to this comment by honkeytonk73:
Yes, a really nice guy. His talk was quite 'out there' by most standards, but a man of his stature most definitely has the right to go out on a limb with ideas that challenge the establishment and help foster alternative ways of thinking. If you check the twitter for 'exoplanetology.org', they have a pretty good running commentary on what was discussed Friday/Saturday during the crossroads conference at Harvard.

I also met Prof David Charbonneau, one of the leading astronomers in the search for exoplanets. Really nice guy as well. I got some pointers on how I could contribute to the search. Being an amateur astronomer/astrophotographer, I wanted to try to get more involved and help provide observations/data. Of course I suspect I have a bit of a learning curve to climb, but that is half the fun.

They have a month of science in Cambridge/Harvard every year. With events, talks and the like. I suspect they'll try to put together another such event next year. Search for the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics. A person by the name of Christine Pulliam has a mailing list for sponsored events.. from talks by scientists, to SciFi B-Movie night. Quite funny. Sometimes these talks are webcast, so for certain events you don't have to be local!

Yes, a really nice guy. His talk was quite 'out there' by most standards, but a man of his stature most definitely has the right to go out on a limb with ideas that challenge the establishment and help foster alternative ways of thinking. If you check the twitter for 'exoplanetology.org', they have a pretty good running commentary on what was discussed Friday/Saturday during the crossroads conference at Harvard.

I also met Prof David Charbonneau, one of the leading astronomers in the search for exoplanets. Really nice guy as well. I got some pointers on how I could contribute to the search. Being an amateur astronomer/astrophotographer, I wanted to try to get more involved and help provide observations/data. Of course I suspect I have a bit of a learning curve to climb, but that is half the fun.

They have a month of science in Cambridge/Harvard every year. With events, talks and the like. I suspect they'll try to put together another such event next year. Search for the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics. A person by the name of Christine Pulliam has a mailing list for sponsored events.. from talks by scientists, to SciFi B-Movie night. Quite funny. Sometimes these talks are webcast, so for certain events you don't have to be local!


In reply to this comment by budzos:
Really? You met Freeman Dyson? That's fucking awesome! He's one of my heroes!

In reply to this comment by honkeytonk73:
VERY nice clip. Surprised to see Professor Freeman Dyson there. I just met the man just a days ago. We were both heading to the same place, and accompanied him to a talk near Harvard College. He was among a few other amazing speakers. They discussed the future of mankind, the search for exoplanets, detecting live elsewhere and the like.

Sorry DTF, I just can't bring myself to watch this.

I put the mouse pointer over the "play" button and I'm suddenly overcome with nausea and anxiousness to the point of incapacitation.

Oh, as a quick BTW. For anyone who is concerned about the effects of smoke on the air passages there's a simple solution to the vast majority of it which medical marijuana users make use of on a regular basis. Vaporizers.

Cheap ones are pretty much worthless but you can get quality ones starting at about $120 to $150 or so, they go up from there but you should be able to get good quality for that. If anyone needs pointers let me know, I will not suggest specific brands or places to buy from since it depends too much on your preferences and who has a good sale right now but I can point you to a place or two that have good forums on the subject and where you can ask users about them and what style might suit you. Bag, whip, or whatnot.

One thing I will warn about though, avoid the cheap imports. Some are known to use cheap construction and metals which when heated can leach toxins. This is one case where the name brands are worth the few extra bucks and a little time shopping can be worthwhile.

I often put in where I found my videos, but I sometimes don't, and I don't feel bad about it. For one thing, things come in waves, and sometimes things are 4 or 5 places I look, and sometimes I see a pointer to an idea one place and get the video elsewhere (like today when I saw an article on neatorama about glasswing butterflies, and then went looking for videos with them in them--no video was at the original article).