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Comment Why Eugenetics will always fail (Score 1) 72

Mostly because Eugenics doesn't understand genetics or breeding and has little appreciation for the broad horizons and deep histories of our DNA. Replacing these little topics and their boring scientific rigor with hubris certainly won't end well.

Unless you are from some remote village in Finland or Tennessee, it's unlikely you have a suitable percentage of inbreeding to have a genetic concentration that would reliably produce equal or better offspring. Instead, each breeding will be mutts diluting any potential benefit of lineage further.

But crossbreeding can also have advantages that can revitalise stale line breedings as seen in the hybrid vigor found in crossing two lines such as the Labradoodle.
Hybrid vigor is magical and can produce offspring better than both parents. Sometimes. So too can the mutt strategy. Sometimes.

However, if you don't understand the concept of hybrid vigor being a terminal breeding, you will be quite frustrated in attempting to extend your line when you discover there is no line. Even if you put out the dough to send your kids to vaccine free Waldorf schools, you will not erase the likely reality that you are a lucky mutt, not even a hybrid, simply a product of random breeding. As a result, you are a terminal breeding yourself.

If you really want intelligent children, you would be miles ahead to buy them from a reputable breeder with a track record of proven test breedings; making a family isn't a DIY weekend project - it takes centuries.

Submission + - Glastonbury Fashion Tips for Evading CV (thetimes.com)

databasecowgirl writes: When out and about I normally rely on my electric hoodie, hacked to illumate my face with UV LEDs to avoid surveillance, but this sounds like a great summer look — for those who prefer not to be seen.

The brainchild of Adam Harvey, who coined the term “CV dazzle” when experimenting how to break facial recognition software for his masters thesis in 2013 is based on nautical camouflage first pioneered in WW 1 to confound U-Boats is becoming derigeur this summer for the more privacy conscious and freedom loving bonvivantes about town.

Comment Another Bubble (Score 3, Interesting) 128

Yet another bubble. Just like the dot com, it will shake out the coders from the gold diggers. Fair play.

It's a game that moves as you play and most programs in the US are light on the basics in order to meet market demand. That's really what needs to change. If I had a nickel for every software engineer who couldn't explain Big O or various sorting algorithms... It's like focusing on the needs of Big Lit using shortcuts to matriculating classes of English majors who couldn't tell you what a gerund is. Annoying.

ThIng is, writing AI applications requires a lot more maths and a totally different toolset than writing a J2EE portal so most coders will need to either retool or change their line of work. I've been building AI tools for two decades and I am back in school to level up. It's not a whole new world, just an ever raising bar.

Comment Law of the Sea (Score 1) 57

The ship was originally named Salute which is also the name of a ship that sunk in the Pacific during WW 2. Any seadog worth his salt will tell you it's considered bad mojo to name a ship after one that sunk -- it can really mess up Posedian's invoicing system.

If a rechristening wasn't performed, or performed improperly, one can understand why Posedian took swift action. Basically an accounting error. No two ways about it.

Tis a darn shame.

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Comment Re:Gotta love America (Score 1) 64

Are you familiar with Angola prison in Louisiana? It's a cotton plantation where inmates are forced to work without pay for the first two years of their sentence. Afterwards, they get 2 an hour for the remainder of what will basically be a life sentence.

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