After a (too brief) discussion with Liz Perreau today, we decided that it would be really cool to arrange a get-together for chatbot/AI enthusiasts and other online friends while I'm in the area. Liz is working on possible venue locations, and I'm in charge of getting the word out. Anyone and everyone who reads this is certainly invited, and if you can arrange to be in London in early April (tentatively scheduled for the 6th, which is a Sunday), you're more than welcome to join us. Details are still a little sketchy, and we're not sure how many people can come, but we would surely love to see a lot of folks attend.

If you have preferences for dates (March 27th to April 9th is the time I'll be in England), or locations, please let me know here.

Dear Mr Data and everyone else,

What's a good 2GB+ graphics card at the moment ?

I'm looking to upgrade mine to play ESO in Spring and am aiming for the recommended specs and above.

This one looks good :

Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Card with Boost (3GB, GDDR5, PCI Express 3.0, HDMI, DVI-I, 2x Mini Display Port, 384-Bit, AMD HD3D Technology)

Cheers


Below are the system requirements....


PC RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit or Windows 8 64-bit
Processor: Quad Core 2.3GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 4GB System RAM
Hard Disk Space: 60GB free HDD space
Video Card: Direct X 11 compliant video card with 2GB of RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 Ti / ATI Radeon™ 6950 or better)
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card

PC MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating System: Windows XP 32-bit
Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
Memory: 2GB System RAM
Hard Disk Space: 60GB free HDD space
Video Card: DirectX 9.0 compliant video card with 512MB of RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 / ATI Radeon™ 2600 or better)
Sound: DirectX compatible sound card

Sierra Nevada Corporation to launch it's mini shuttle dream chaser:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25878042

Trap Doors in Time and Space : Teleportation, Time Travel, and Escape from Black Holes.

Quote...these are good days for teleporting out of here, traveling through time, and escaping from black holes. Hard as it is to bend our minds about such non-standard forms of transportation, the laws of physics allow and even encourage them. The secret lies in a feature of quantum mechanics called entanglement.

Thought this was interesting.

Full story here...

And you thought my 200mb was quick

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25840502

Hershel comes up trumps:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25849871