SudarshanP

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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Suppose there was a solution where google could spend 10 billion$ on getting guys on mechanical turk to perform microtasks to organize the knowledge graph and make 20 billion worth of knowledge for google in a year's time... would it make s
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
So let us ask some related questions. I am just being curious. Are such cash piles common? Does Google's cash pile signify anything at all? Do other companies like Apple have such cash hordes? Has innovation become so cheap that we will hav
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
What Theil seems to be saying is that Google seems to have no clue with what to do with 50 billion in the bank. Can Google just hire a lot more programmers and give them something to work on? Can they just gobble up a lot of startups and wi
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
FYI: http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
How will this project avoid the fate of diaspora?
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Are yahoo pipes flow based programs? Are there fundamental differences in the way the piping happens in noflo and other flow based languages? Then we have ROS... XSLT pipelines and so on. There is something really beautiful about looking at
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
hackers learn by tinkering :). I'd personally learn as little as possible in a way suggested by the paper. I'll do it even if it takes 3x longer, because for me it is more fun to learn by tinkering. I'll learn the deep stuff after I get my
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Maybe some one would create a Bittorrent WebRTC bridge of some sort.
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2603&#... "Here lies humanity... Do not resucitate"
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Since we have free accounts on app engine, heroku etc... and even gdrive or dropbox and so on... wont it be easy for someone to write a simple web app or ipad app or something like that allows the masses to run their own wiki's without bein
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
On the top right the scripting languages() seem to be below the diagonal and the compiled languages above the diagonal. Maybe it is just co-incidental :). I have suggestion for another chart someone may be interested in creating. A time ser
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Do you really believe that spending trillions fighting for oil is somehow money better spent?? Do you have any clue how much the US blows away on airconditioning in Afghanistan? Study: Patent Trolls Cost Companies $29 Billion Last Year It s
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Unfortunately these guys are just hacking together a supplychain. So this will be very different from something like PSLV :(. They are not really doing any "innovation". If they can at least keep corruption at bay, these tablets will just i
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
"I just cannot see how spaceflight could be more important for humanity in the next, say, half-century than transportation."... 50 to 60 years is the difference between 1904 and 1956. Do you really think your models of what space "explorati
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Cheap Space Exploration is like planes or ships were for various generations in the past. It is hard for a man in the old stone age to think of the value of the ships or planes. They look like pointless "advanced technology" to go to places
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Another possible variant is: Paid users get the newest version + support + immediate patches/bugfixes. Everyone else gets it with an n month delay + GPLed source code + binaries.
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
This may superficially look like yet another standard but is highly likely to be much better "Let us set up yet another committee to cook up yet another standard". The Google I/O talk mentioned on the other thread explains how we can separ
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
How are you guys making the Explanation videos like the one on the prose website or the the substance.io website? Is it some open source tool where you can provide the strings or just low level flash tweens or some thing?
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
SpaceX, Self driving cars, Craig venter's synthesis of an entire genome, growing organs, willow garage,3d printing, udacity, coursera, edX... the list goes on... things are not too bad. But only the bold will choose the hard paths. The rest
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
People who derailed in 5th grade are probably unlikely to get back on track because education in the higher classes stands on the shoulders of the previous classes. If it not a causation, this may also mean that "non motivated students" nev
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
There is a lot of extra rigor in a random controlled study than an observational study because it is harder to "cook up data" to support the scientists own beliefs. This may even happen unconsciously.
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
And growing animal muscle for food is a good precursor to growing legs or hands or fingers for amputees.
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
I guess the whole fiasco has given more visibility to "thehackermonthly.com"... Some people say "All news is good news".
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
This is not a solution for those don't want to think. But many who would gladly think if they cared will now find the transition to algebraic symbol manipulation lot less painful. Kids have their own set of "wants"... In most situations the
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
The Military Clothing industry is a 4 billion dollar industry. Source: http://prospect.org/article/sweatshop-army-0 No wonder they want their stuff cheaper.
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Here is a wired about this topic: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/darpa-sweatshop/ and here is a 2010 paper[ http://smartech.gatech.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1853/39196... ] that discusses the Computer Vision and automation invol
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
This guy is dogfooding outsourcing. He is outsourcing Taskarmy.com which is related to outsourcing itself. So on the one hand it is an awesome exercise... On the other, he is saying "nice things" about a concept he needs to "sell". But as h
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
"My most important advice here is stark and politically very incorrect: Don't give too much weight to the social importance of the issue; instead, do what captures your intellectual interest and creative imagination. This is not to deny the
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
Unfortunately, people who have not experienced the joy of how well models work, have no clue how important they are. The GP may assume that "Advanced Technology" can get you to wherever you want. For Eg. he may look at a rocket engine and a
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by SudarshanP 14y ago
One of the videos that will be circulating around for quiet some time is http://ed.ted.com/lessons/steve-jobs-at-stanford-university-...

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