Month: June 2018

Great movie! If we have been making films in the last few years that are really worth something, they are invariably about depression and decay. These include Hunt’s “KVCWLHVWDI,” Khlebnikov’s “Arrhythmia,” Zvyagintsev’s “The Return” and “Loveless,” Veledinsky’s “The Geographer Drank His Globe Away”… Well okay, “Election Day” and “Radio Day” seem like pleasant exceptions, but they were made a long time ago, and neither “Quartet I” nor Fomin with Dyachenko have managed it since then.

https://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/kak-vitka-chesnok-vez-lekhu-shtyrya-v-dom-invalidov-2017-909700/

Here’s an idea for an entirely new market: robot hunting. Take a large space, populate it with one or several SpotMini robots from Boston Dynamics. Charging stations are scattered around the territory, hidden in bushes. The robot is trained to charge itself from these stations and is also programmed to fear humans. It cannot cause harm, although if such a fool hits someone at speed by accident – it won’t be pretty. One team programs the robot: its goal is to survive and not get caught. The other team arms themselves with laser guns and goes hunting. There are options from here: a “shot” from the gun freezes the robot for a second, the number of shots is limited, the number of players is limited – these factors determine the difficulty. Overall, it would take about 2-3 years to wait for the technologies to fully mature.

Here, we have a great way of dealing with mosquitoes: they release specially trained killer mosquitoes. These marry the natural mosquitoes, and then the mosquito female realizes the deception, but – it’s too late, summer is over. Since only males must be released (they don’t bite, and the process relies on the males), they must somehow be selected from the bunch. It turns out, there are specially trained people for this.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/848108001

Does anyone know if this was just a PR stunt or did they actually spend at least a penny and get something rolling?)

https://meduza.io/news/2015/07/20/yuriy-milner-vlozhit-100-millionov-dollarov-v-poiski-vnezemnogo-razuma

Example of the last message from Skype to our guys in St. Petersburg: “replied to comments, pushed an update for merge”.

Come to the States to learn English, like I did

Amidst what seem to be more significant concerns for people, this piece of news went unnoticed. Conclusive evidence of organic compounds has been obtained on Mars, plus methane indirectly suggests. We wait for them to find bacteria.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-finds-ancient-organic-material-mysterious-methane-on-mars

Hooray!!!!! 4:3, Washington Capitals have won the Stanley Cup!

Launching right now, delivering people to the ISS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3niFzo5VLI

Today, SAP has killed the Hybris brand, and now what I am involved in is called SAP Customer Experience (or SAP CX), which is part of the SAP C/4 HANA suite. https://hybrismart.com/2018/06/06/hybris-as-a-brand-is-dead-today-welcome-c-4-hana/?linkedin

I wonder how challenging it is to develop software that understands a user interface and performs actions, even with significant changes to the interface while retaining its concept?

The software can move the cursor, click, type text, and take screenshots for analysis. It can build a knowledge base and use rules created by humans. Ultimately, the software should be able to place an order in an online store that it has never seen before, but has seen similar ones.

A terribly interesting task.