/sci/ - Science & Math

RACR is coming.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/02/16/computer-scientist-racr-will-eclipse-watson/

They're going to put pharmacists out of business within 15 years if their little union (or whatever) doesn't lobby congress to absolutely require a human be present to count pills.

This trend will spread to other industries.

I see so called "expert systems" being common place for most tasks and very unlike humans. Human-like robots will be necessary where the robots job is, literally, to be a human (e.g. child care, elderly care, other jobs in which emotional interaction is necessary for well being).

I recommend:
http://www.marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm

We have a long way to go, but advancing are coming rapidly. I'm excited. From an ecological prospective, an increase in robotics would mean an increased efficiency in the used of finite materials. This is awesome. I worry, though, that an increased human population and a greater demand for energy will result, which will further strain Earth's resources. I'm not sure of my solution to this problem as of yet.

>>1990755
Until the so called "Oxygen Catastrophe"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

>>1978217
The drawn on freckles are a dead giveaway.

Disregard Documentaries.
(Painting)
Acquire Peer Reviewed Papers.

Google Scholar is your best friend.

>>1499867
Even worse, those files are always trusted by Windows, so it can basically do whatever it wants. It could have done serious damage if the guy making it wanted it to.

Hold on a second and I'll directory dump an old book on ancient mammals. I just have to set it up.

(I don't care if it was meant as a troll thread; I'm commandeering it)

>>1456424
But....cannot afford $30 Data plan...

Besides, old school compass would be biologyhardcore.
I'm going to do it.

>>1432252

>>1097328
I was typing, damn it!
It takes a while to think up neat things and then type them!

>>1008392
Internal links (within 4chan) automatically convert AND you missed all the stuff before "url=".

So it's like:

http://dis.4chan.org/%64erefer.php?url=<INSERT_URL_HERE>