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by 2sk21 8y ago
I think Ben Evans is a lot more optimistic than I am about about how feasible to train good models from data. By the time you have considered all the caveats, the number of candidates for applying ML greatly decreases.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I completely agree with this. I subscribe to the Gary Marcus' view that what we need is the marriage of symbolic AI and ML.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
This will only happen as long as investors are willing to throw money at fracking without expecting returns. The economics of the fracking industry are dubious at best. See for example: http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/ar
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I really haven't seen much difference. I'm the designated shopper in my family and I usually shop my local Whole Foods for a few items every week. Despite having my Prime bar code scanned from my phone, I have never once received
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Pretty much every entity detector that I have used operates on a similar principle. Not sure whats new here.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Absolutely agree - Unix was ubiquitous in academia by 1986. I myself learned C on a VAX running BSD 4.2 in 1986.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
These are all good but what I really like are some of the quirky Netflix-only series like "A Very Secret Service", a French comedy that would have been very hard to discover or watch in the old days
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I agree with your assessment. GE was a conglomerate and as such the various businesses in its control operated on different cycles.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
No matter how much money I acquire, it will not help me to understand a mathematical theorem or become a master craftsman. Real wealth is what's inside you.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
This brings back happy memories for me. In the late 80s, I wrote thousands of lines of Occam for a Meiko Computing Surface made from Inmos T800 Transputers. Among the parallel algorithms I implemented was Lamport's algorithm for findin
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by 2sk21 8y ago
This is really remarkable "you can audit and modify any portion of the open source firmware on the Blackbird™ mainboard, all the way down to the CPU microcode."
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by 2sk21 8y ago
It's not as hard you might think. Other messaging services like Telegram and Signal also use phone numbers as the identifiers so it would be relatively easy to switch.
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I agree - replicating WhatsApp will not be hard. In any case, Signal and Telegram are waiting in the wings.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Its taken 30 years for high-temperature superconductivity to have a significant impact in the real world!
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Agreed - fracking only makes sense as long as its easy to borrow money
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Wonderful to see such an important piece of history brought back to life!
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A related question: if China builds battery factories, surely they would also build car factories to use those batteries. What would be the impact on Western car manufacturers? Would software increasingly become the key differentiator betwe
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Really amazed that someone found it fit to write a whole book about the humble potentiometer!
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by 2sk21 8y ago
This is terrifying - Postman is very widely used.
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I really like this. I want to have an honest relationship with a service provider. I pay them for their service and they don't steal my data or reuse it in any way.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
That pretty much exactly describes me - I never did delete the app on my phone but I can't remember when I last opened it. I just have no interest in checking it anymore.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I simply use Twitter as a news feed now and mostly ignore any replies to posts.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Love it - reminds me of the famous letter by Da Vinci outlining his capabilities :-) https://gizmodo.com/5460442/leonardo-da-vincis-resume-explai...
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Advertisers would pay me to watch the add in its entirety. Consider an example: timeshare sellers actually pay people to listen to their pitches.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Half serious suggestion: Could we somehow enable individuals themselves conduct auctions to allow advertisers to access? Imagine being able to say: "I will accept 10 ads today - you guys figure out what you want to show me".
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by 2sk21 8y ago
The craft beer market is simply oversupplied. In any of the larger liquor stores in the US, there is a bewildering choice of beers, most of which are simply undistinguishable.
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Carbon pricing is probably the only way to effect a change in behavior.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
I'm spending more time than ever listening to podcasts, most of which are monetized either by advertisements, subscription or Patreon. Podcasting appears to be a medium that actually benefits the smaller players over the bigger ones.
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Even in the late 90s, source code revision control was a dark art: either you used extremely expensive proprietary systems or else you used CVS which was very low level and completely lacked integration with any bug tracking system. Merging
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by 2sk21 8y ago
Why not rebuild railroads here in the US? On a trans-country trip by Amtrak, I was struck by the number of abandoned spurs to industries which still seem to be operating. Presumably those industries have switched to road-based transportatio

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