Word: lateraling
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...Comeuppance will arrive sooner or later, though. If our targets don’t turn the drones back on us—more than 40 countries are working right now to develop drone technology—the robots themselves may have their way. The Air Force just released its Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Plan, which estimates that autonomous aerial bots will replace all manned aircraft in the country by 2047. And in June, leading figures in the artificial intelligence community convened at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Monterey Bay to discuss the dangers of technologies like drones for humans. Sitting...
Three months after Cambridge resident Justin Cosby was shot to death in the basement of Kirkland House in what prosecutors say was a failed “drug rip” (he was found with $1,000 and one pound of marijuana near his body, and The Crimson later reported that he may have been involved in drug sales to Harvard students), police have apprehended all three suspects they believe were involved in the shooting...
...course we are.” My preference is to think of the school as a metaphor for excellence. Some things at Harvard are not the best. I remember developing a seemingly brilliant chemistry equation and discussing it with a graduate teaching fellow. He liked it. Later, I found that there were two things wrong: The equation was incomplete, and the correct formula had been discovered a century previously...
...After one week, I went to the airport with the letter given by the Ministry of Defence. I paid a fine and the arbitrarily calculated tax. Interestingly, the cashier did not return my balance. An accompanying air force officer volunteered to get me the balance. Later, I found out that it was standard practice for the cashier to keep the balance for detained items...
...steeplechase. At a national meet in Bangalore in July 2005 she won the 800 m, 1,500 m and 3,000 m. She won the silver medal in the 800 m at the Asian Championships in Incheon, South Korea, in 2005, and repeated that feat a year later at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. (See pictures of Caster Semenya in action...