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by RachelF 9y ago
The Register has probably the best analysis on this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/12/20/magic_leap/
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by RachelF 9y ago
Fake reviews are mostly 5 star, and people reading the reviews want confirmation of their purchase intent. Amazon has an incentive in showing positive reviews first, as this makes a sale. Look at an Amazon listing and the 5 star review is a
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Return on AI – Hedge funds embrace some machine learning(economist.com)
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by RachelF 9y ago
I agree. As an engineer or programmer, you tend to get immediate and pretty conclusive feedback about whether the system you are building works. You can iterate and fix your mistakes. My experience with the world of medicine is that it is w
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by RachelF 9y ago
Goldman is probably secretly buying bitcoin while trying to keep the price down so they don't have to pay too much for it.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Also please hire someone who can write/document better. The author of this article may be a good coder, but is not a good writer.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Yes, this is the key issue, but it is broadly ignored. In the old days you needed to walk into a bank with photo-ID and talk to a teller to open an account, let alone get credit. The big banks have saved money by closing many branches. Thes
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by RachelF 9y ago
My opinion is that information about you should belong to you. Other entities should not be allowed to keep or trade information about individuals without paying them directly. That way people will realise that their personal info is worth
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by RachelF 9y ago
As someone who started with Z80 and 6502 assembler, I think that in some ways the old days of programming were better, as there were just fewer libraries and APIs. You were working close to a bare-metal machine. These days you can get a lot
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by RachelF 9y ago
and Thinkpads also didn't have a glossy, reflective screen.
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by RachelF 9y ago
The matte screen is a must have for me. I dislike seeing reflections and find matte screens have way less eyestrain.
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The extraordinary silliness of American college grading(1843magazine.com)
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A tool for making justice swifter too often snares the innocent(economist.com)
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by RachelF 9y ago
Britain had concentration camps for Boers (Dutch settlers) in South Africa during the Boer War 1899-1902. Around 30,000 died of disease in these camps.
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Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries for Scarce A.I. Talent(nytimes.com)
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by RachelF 9y ago
Humans did the same thing, causing a mass extinction of around half the large mammals in Australia and many other species when they reached the continent around 40,000 years ago. Not only did we hunt large animals, but we burned the forests
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by RachelF 9y ago
The cost section is Interesting. I see the iPhone 7 cost of materials is $237. No wonder Apple makes so much money!
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by RachelF 9y ago
Perhaps it is co-incidental, but disclosing the results at 4pm EST on a Friday afternoon helps "bury the bad news". This ensures it falls outside the news cycle for most journalists and gets the minimum of coverage.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Me too - the whole family actually, cost around $50 for great lenses service and frame.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Egan is very original and his novels are definitely "hard sci-fi" in that they make you think. However, I regard him as a bad writer, as his dialogue is very bad, his characters hollow and his plot progression is rather jumpy. Rea
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Standing is good for your mind as well as your body(economist.com)
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by RachelF 9y ago
Read his first non-finance book, "Fooled by Randomness". It is actually well written, easy to read and briefly contains all the ideas in his later books. His writing quality has decreased hugely since then, but his ego has not.
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by RachelF 9y ago
True. Software is easier to fix than hardware, though. Stopping programmatic cache flushes, or adding timing jitter to them is an easier solution.
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by RachelF 9y ago
Intel had an ARM chip division for Phone CPUs called XScale from 2002 to 2006 when they sold it to Marvell to focus on the more profitable x86 series.[1] He may have believed the x86 Atom chips could replace the XScale. Xscale was widely us
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by RachelF 9y ago
There are other solutions being pushed in Hong Kong, called BlockStack. It looks very similar to ZeroNet http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/economy/article/2113521/n...
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The Economist: Take back control of ownership in the digital age(economist.com)
2 points by RachelF 9y ago|1 comments
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by RachelF 9y ago
A lot of simple uses I see being put forward for blockchains could just as easily be done by a simple signing certificate. Perhaps, for a new generation, certs are too old fashioned, or many have never heard of their uses?
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by RachelF 9y ago
You are correct, the "light" is the transmitted radar pulse from Goldstone, not from the sun. They do all sorts of fancy signal processing to get this sort of resolution. Because radar power received goes down with 1/(distanc
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by RachelF 9y ago
Environmental impact. However, thus far only the programmer at VW has been prosecuted and sentenced to jail. His "following orders" defense did not work. All the high-level executives will probably walk away with VW paying a fine.
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by RachelF 9y ago
I don't know about Apple, but Sony is an excellent example. They removed the ability to use Linux on the PS3. This is probably one reason they have been consistently targeted by hackers.

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