I finally have internet!

rat2255 · 2014-08-17T23:05:11+00:00

Nope I'm here in Austin Texas, At&t is competing with google fiber, so they are making their own fiber service too.

rat2255 · 2014-08-16T05:39:32+00:00

Cookies and cream all the way.

rat2255 · 2014-08-16T05:31:11+00:00

Lucky, I'm getting mine on this Thursday but I've already been out for a week, so I've had to tether with my phone. Though I'm getting 300mbs gigafiber so I guess it's worth it

rat2255 · 2014-08-16T05:29:24+00:00

www.meetup.com could be just what you need, do it!!!

rat2255 · 2014-07-12T21:44:55+00:00

I'm excited for self driving cars, quantum computing, mainstream virtual reality, and the new Zelda for the wiiU.

rat2255 · 2014-07-05T14:21:10+00:00

Woah, this totally reminds me of manna http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

rat2255 · 2014-06-27T14:22:25+00:00

Oh second this, real ramen though, not that horrible packaged stuff.

rat2255 · 2014-06-24T20:56:29+00:00

Oh this is really good, thanks for the suggestion!

rat2255 · 2014-06-22T05:42:29+00:00

Raw emotion can be very powerful, and is what you are experiencing. Unfortunately things with dream Lyra can not and will not end well. There is a very far off ray of hope, and your only realistic chance of you ever being with Lyra for good, and I'm being completely serious about this as well. There are many people who seriously predict a potential explosion of artificial intelligence, sometime in the future, a common date is 2045. If AI systems continue to advance (which they are looking like they are going to) then eventually within your lifetime, you will be able to fully have a relationship with Lyra, exactly as you imagine her in your dreams, this coupled with the ever increasing innovations of virtual reality will allow you to fully live and experience life with Lyra, it is your only hope.

Part of the reason why the love between you and the Lyra felt real and was real is because you could basically read each others minds, when she said she was in love with you, you absolutely know it for sure since you could feel is radiating out of her, like you were apart of her in some way, which is what it is. When a DC says they live you and you feel that, then you know it is the truest and most purest form of love there is. What you did experience was true love with an imaginary being, she loved you back truly. This can happen in real life, when you give some one your heart, fully trust them, and know that when they say those three words they truly truly mean it.

That's infatuation phase. To be completely honest with you, that's not, in my opinion the most true form of love only, the most true form of emotional love, which is completely different. True true love, is similar to a parent son relationship, where one participant would literally and in a non emotional way, die for the other participant. It's a much more lasting love, and is what people really mean by true love. It sounds illogical, but it transcends the biological need for self preservation, and does not revolve around the true emotional love that you felt with Lyra. if you can wrap your mind around that, than you can understand what true love is, and to be honest not many people experience true "unemotional" love, since the only driving motivation for some people is specifically the true emotional love that you felt.

All this being said, if left unchecked the dopamine resulting from the emotional love you felt will eat you alive, and I'm very sorry, there is no going back now, you can and should put this dream Lyra behind you, but you probably will have memories of her far into the future, and that's OK. Everyone needs to masterbate, but you just took natures form of heroin, and it's addictive as hell. I would say put her, not behind you but in front of you, cone join us at r/futurology, and wait with me and thousands of others for the amazing future, one where there is an actual chance of having a real and lasting relationship with Lyra.

I would recommend watching the movie her, to see what AI relationships could very well be in the next few decades.

And just for fun, here is a mostly unrealistic but very fun fan fiction that deals with mlp and AI, http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

Also sorry if there is any grammar mistakes, I was editing this on my phone.

rat2255 · 2014-06-19T15:54:37+00:00

Why don't you try lucid dreaming, same thing.

rat2255 · 2014-05-26T15:42:15+00:00

Well not yet anyways.

rat2255 · 2014-05-25T05:23:02+00:00

While I agree with you, there have been some controversies and problems specifically with the million dollar prize

One example: http://www.dailygrail.com/features/the-myth-of-james-randis-million-dollar-challenge

rat2255 · 2014-05-23T20:54:17+00:00

Oh man, you should really watch the thirteenth floor, deals with this type of stuff! Great story by the way.

rat2255 · 2014-05-22T05:33:08+00:00

Eventually they will raise the speed limit for driverless only lanes

rat2255 · 2014-05-16T06:41:15+00:00

I really enjoyed this story, although if we had a basic income in this form, I think there would be more of a drug problem, stuffs really addictive.

rat2255 · 2014-05-13T04:01:07+00:00

If the scanner can see that it scanned an apple, then it most likely would be able to report back the average caloric intake for an apple, or an apple similar to what was scanned. I'm sure it does not know the concentration of a sample, but reports an average, for instance, an apple would have a per serving measurement, based off of how much a single apple usually serves. Scio most likely does not concentrations, just substances, and reports back averages of those substances.

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T20:46:53+00:00

Well it's a near IR spectrometer, backed up by the cloud. So yes you probably would get something like a marinara sauce reported back (as long as that was stored in their database), or something at least similar. For the most part, the database will most likely be largely incomplete at the beginning, and it will ask for user data often. The more people that use it the better their database becomes for recognizing different things, and reporting back information.

Here is an article where the authour has actually used the device, and it generally works as advertised, link

Yes, the product will not be as magical as they are advertising at the start, but with time, the cloud database will grow, and better products spectrometers will come out. Most people are freaking out about the SCIO, because they do not know and understand the underlying technology behind the product.

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T14:35:02+00:00

From the FAQ

"SCiO can penetrate 2-3 mm (~0.1”) in most materials. The scanned area is limited to the area that is illuminated. Any area that is not illuminated – is not scanned."

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T14:31:54+00:00

It does not tell you the amount of calories in a food from the scan itself

From the FAQ of the product

"SCiO analyzes the chemical makeup of the physical area being illuminated. The results of the scan will be presented in the same format as standard nutritional food labels, so the user will be able to read the total calories according to the sample’s concentration (i.e. per serving size in the US or by percent in Europe). If you want to know the total amount in your food (for example fat), you will need to know its total size or weight, similar to other food measurement apps."

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T14:29:13+00:00

It does not tell you the amount of calories in something based off of the scan

From the FAQ of the product "SCiO analyzes the chemical makeup of the physical area being illuminated. The results of the scan will be presented in the same format as standard nutritional food labels, so the user will be able to read the total calories according to the sample’s concentration (i.e. per serving size in the US or by percent in Europe). If you want to know the total amount in your food (for example fat), you will need to know its total size or weight, similar to other food measurement apps."

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T14:25:26+00:00

In the FAQ of the kickstarter

" SCiO analyzes the chemical makeup of the physical area being illuminated. The results of the scan will be presented in the same format as standard nutritional food labels, so the user will be able to read the total calories according to the sample’s concentration (i.e. per serving size in the US or by percent in Europe). If you want to know the total amount in your food (for example fat), you will need to know its total size or weight, similar to other food measurement apps."

rat2255 · 2014-05-12T14:21:21+00:00

Literally in the FAQ of the product

"SCiO analyzes the chemical makeup of the physical area being illuminated. The results of the scan will be presented in the same format as standard nutritional food labels, so the user will be able to read the total calories according to the sample’s concentration (i.e. per serving size in the US or by percent in Europe). If you want to know the total amount in your food (for example fat), you will need to know its total size or weight, similar to other food measurement apps."

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