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by FD3SA 13y ago
"I personally like to see the use of biological nervous tissues for general-purpose computing. Furthermore, using physical properties of devices and building hybrid analog-digital general-purpose computers is extremely enticing."
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Autonomy. If you can create a situation where you have the freedom to try new ideas with the luxury of failing fast, you will eventually have one moderate success. Establishing that baseline level of autonomy is another matter entirely.
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by FD3SA 13y ago
I enjoy seeing these introspective posts and hope they become prevalent among technical people all over the world. What technical people need to understand is that the system that we operate in is just as important, if not more so, than our
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Precisely. Information asymmetry is what allows the exchanges to be profitable. It is a continuous wealth transfer along the information gradient, with the most knowledgeable investors capturing most of the wealth from the least knowledgeab
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Is Linus familiar with memristor-based computing architecture [1][2]? It will most definitely allow Moore's law to proceed on schedule. 1. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/07/hp-memristors/
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Absolutely brilliant. Finally, Aubrey De Grey's unapologetically straightforward logic [1] regarding aging has gained traction with the crowd who has the means to tackle this grand challenge. I am sincerely proud of Page and Brin for t
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Fascinating. I constantly wonder about the psychological mindset of entrepreneurs in the US. It seems to me that being an entrepreneur is the riskiest profession imaginable in the USA. Unless you come from a family of means, failure becomes
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by FD3SA 13y ago
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." D2 was just complex enough to be extremely interesting. The incredible diversity in skills, items and stats allowed an immense variety of viable builds, leaving
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Tesla should find this team: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel... Videos here: http://rtml.ece.cmu.edu/Shuster/video.html
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Tesla should find this team: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intel... Videos here: http://rtml.ece.cmu.edu/Shuster/video.html
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The Gospel of Consumption [2008](orionmagazine.org)
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This is simply a result of the balance of power shifting ever further towards employers over the past few decades. What incentives does a short-term value maximizing employer have to give his employees paid vacation? In addition, a perfect
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This is one of the few cases where this is worth repeating: correlation is not causation. PG is definitely one of the foremost researchers in the realm of entrepreneurial success factors, but it is important to step back for a moment when a
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It is heartening to read that a small percentage of the technical community is now willing to admit that the majority of the developed world's problems are political. Specifically, the metastasising bureaucracy which is emboldened wit
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Due to the downvote, I'd just like to explain a bit further. Academia is designed with very unique economics which favor publishing over useful experimental results. As such, it can only be expected that rational actors will game the s
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I enjoy Michael's descriptions because they provide a conceptual understanding of very profound evolutionary principles. As someone who understands the difficulty in simplifying evolutionary psychology for non-experts, I sincerely comm
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It would be criminal negligence if I didn't mention Michael O'Church's seminal work on this issue [1]. There is surprising depth and complexity to the power dynamics in companies, both large and small. What you've discov
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On the matter of the academic-industrial complex, I humbly defer to Elon Musk: http://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=9m31s
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If history is any indication, mass unemployment is exactly what will need to happen. Arguably it is already happening in Europe, where a significant portion of the population have no competitive advantage that meets the minimum wage in a ma
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by FD3SA 13y ago
This post is missing the forest for the trees. Hard problems are hard. Easy problems are easy. In a world where autonomy can only be purchased by wealth, any rational actor will spend his/her time optimizing the acquisition of wealth b
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by FD3SA 13y ago
Interesting that developed countries do not implement a similar system for their own poor. Friedman and Hayek both believed such a system was superior to merit-tested social assistance programs which require massive bureaucracy and are pron
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"Something is going on in Waterloo," says Y Combinator founder Paul Graham, "because the applications we get from Waterloo students are better than those we get from students of any other university." [1] So it begins... 1. http://www.fa
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An excellent sentiment, but it must be noted that this is a very transient time, both technologically and socioeconomically. The current situation in Europe is a canary in the coal mine for the developed world, as technology fiercely marche
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The key distinction here is that travelling to those places as a successful entrepreneur is worlds apart from being born there, without any genetic or environmental advantages to help one escape such a fate. Michael is speaking from a broad
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In addition to a status signal, charities are also massive tax shelters. All around it is just a way to funnel money out of the government's hands, as most charitable donations would otherwise have been taxed by the government as excess cap
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I've thought about it and I believe this is the most likely solution. The vehicle would remain aerodynamically subsonic, but could attain supersonic speeds as the air in the tunnel speeds up. This would also allow vehicles to follow one ano
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by FD3SA 13y ago
This is exactly what I'm trying to figure out at the moment. My guess is that the walls will be just far enough to allow the reflections to not disrupt the air immediately surrounding the vehicle, and/or there will be gaps, allowing the sho
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I believe it will be encapsulated like a dedicated guideway train with walls on both sides so that a de-rail is impossible. The failure mode would likely be the craft slowing down and landing on the track if power is lost. As a result the v
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Indeed, putting the old clues together with his new hints narrows it done quite precisely. It will be a Ground Effect lifting body on an electromagnetic rail. The lift is provided by aerodynamic effects, and thrust is provided by electromag
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The concept is now fully fleshed out. His idea is a Maglev train which uses ram-air and/or a lifting body to generate lift, and electromagnets for propulsion. It's actually an excellent idea, and I don't see why it wouldn't work. It would b

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