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by Draco84oz
Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:34 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 6
Views: 2604

Re: The Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Are you referring to the Turing test? Because didn't someone develop a program complex enough to pass that a couple of years ago?
by Draco84oz
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:53 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: The Nature of Artificial Intelligence
Replies: 6
Views: 2604

The Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Please note that this is not supposed to be a debate on the ethical or moral questions surrounding AI (personally, I subscribe to the Azimov model as being preferred), but more a question as to what AI actually is. So yes - what do you guys think Artifical Intelligence actually is - or what the term...
by Draco84oz
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:38 am
Forum: Official Lore Talk
Topic: The nature of Commanders
Replies: 4
Views: 15626

The nature of Commanders

So, the nature of player characters in sci-fi games is sometimes a little...interesting...In Eve Online, for example, PCs are not technically human - they're brain-scan copies of real people who have been uploaded into cloned bodies. When your pod gets breached, the brain is immediately scanned just...
by Draco84oz
Mon Jul 03, 2017 10:22 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Started watching the Expanse
Replies: 10
Views: 3677

Re: Started watching the Expanse

Watched the first season on netflix myself, and then introduced my dad to it as well. We both agree that its good, hard science fiction, although the storyline is a little convoluted in the early episodes. Will have to look for the books now. Although from the synopses I've read, it kinda goes off t...
by Draco84oz
Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:25 am
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer
Replies: 8
Views: 3379

Re: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer

Thanks for the link on the 65k list. My application is on p23, but I'm on a list!

Oh, and also, route so far (again, sorry for the gaps in the logging).

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by Draco84oz
Sat Jun 24, 2017 12:21 pm
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer
Replies: 8
Views: 3379

Re: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer

Made it to Beagle Point - finally...

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by Draco84oz
Sat Apr 08, 2017 11:30 am
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer
Replies: 8
Views: 3379

Re: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer

I gotta stop listening to my gut - in retrospect, its probably been running on the same ration of protein for the last six months, and is probably wrong in most respects. ...and that is why you don' t try to think about what your food synthesizers are doing whilst on long-haul trips like this... One...
by Draco84oz
Wed Mar 15, 2017 6:51 am
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer
Replies: 8
Views: 3379

Re: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer

Well, waypoint 14 reached. 54k Ly from Sol, and five waypoints to go.

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She's looking a little worse for wear...
by Draco84oz
Wed Mar 01, 2017 8:32 am
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: The Wanderings of a crazy explorer
Replies: 8
Views: 3379

The Wanderings of a crazy explorer

http://i.imgur.com/0ZcMtHu.png So, current location: Blooe Ploe CL-Y G4 ABC 1, somewhere on the nothern hemisphere. Current action: trying to determine if this O-class star I'm looking at is so bright that its in the Ultra-Violet range of the light band. Current musing - I'm nearly 50,000 LY from S...
by Draco84oz
Sat Feb 25, 2017 8:02 pm
Forum: Explorer Exchange
Topic: Farthest Distance travelled?
Replies: 12
Views: 6409

Re: Farthest Distance travelled?

Currently somewhere up the Sagittarius Arm, about 25k LY from Beagle Point. with my current distance from start as being 48,840 Ly. Total travel distance of 312k Ly.

And I'm still considering if I should do a complete circumnavigation...

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