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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I'd rather wash my hands than have some chip implanted in me.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
We aren't making any more land though - property prices just seem to grow and grow and millenials have little hope of owning a house at the same age or with the same quality that their (often poorer) parents did.
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He was amazing - probably one of the greatest British living scientists before his untimely death. I read his book on Sustainable Energy in my Physics degree and later his book on Information Theory when studying Machine Learning. Truly imp
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I live in BCN now and I think Airbnb is really the biggest issue - the other things don't really affect you if you stay out of Las Ramblas, Barceloneta etc. I moved from Sagrada Familia to Guinardo and its much nicer and not yet affect
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
He's growing up in a future that will be better than today by almost any measure. The news just like to report bad events more and it biases our view. 'Enlightenment Now' by Pinker really explains it - we shouldn't be so
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
How can you change the setting? Everything I looked at says it's not possible.. unless you mean the Kindle Fire?
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Also I wonder if this means TV and Video Games etc. aren't as bad for eyesight as they should have the same visual statistics as natural scenes (as they display natural scenes more or less) despite TV being demonised as bad for eyesigh
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah - my eyesight is already really bad, but hopefully there will be something like a Kindle Paperwhite with dark theme so my future children won't have to suffer the same.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
"One would therefore expect that dark text on bright background would stimulate myopia development and bright text on dark background would inhibit myopia." Another reason to use dark themes.
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I was expecting a bot using Deep Reinforcement Learning or something. This was amazing.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I think they had cafes and restaurants etc. in the 70's... Also Netflix is really, really cheap and my computer cost me approx 800 USD and has lasted 5 years. Housing (and in the USA, healthcare and college I suppose) are by far the mo
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Other public (near) real-time data streams include London TfL Traffic Data: https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/open-data-users/ And many others listed here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/225352
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
The problem is that before you bought stuff largely from Amazon. Whereas now it's more akin to eBay which always suffered with scam problems (and responded by giving buyers far more power - which then resulted in buyers scamming seller
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Maybe try to meet people in non-professional contexts - I met my girlfriend via a language learning group, for example. We were already friends before she knew what I did and certainly very good friends before she had any idea of my salary.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
I read A Splendid Exchange which I believe was also on his list and it was one of the best books I have ever read. He has a good taste in books.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
It redirects to a 'Not Found' page.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
But the problem is that even if you measure an increase in KPIs you can't accurately attribute that success to the different team members and in the end the manager tends to get disproportionate credit. It's the credit assignment
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
But the older people own property - which has exploded in value and is now out of reach of many younger people. Doesn't matter how much you can earn if you have to spend most of it in rent.
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The Fall of Communism too.
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I guess he means relative to left-wing parties in Europe etc.
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I think there are a lot more regulatory hurdles when going from a normal car to a self-driving one than from a horse to a car. In a sense a horse is somewhat 'self-driving' in that an accident could be entirely due to the behaviou
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down? That's not my department!" says Wernher von Braun
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Doesn't it have the crazy unfolding hexagonal mirror thing? I guess the increased complexity will increase the risk of failure.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah - it took like the first paragraph to realise he was taking the piss... people should really read beyond the title.
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Yeah - but it's on the student to seek out those additional resources, just like it is at College for students to seek out extra textbooks, use office hours etc. Ultimately, it just comes down to how much the student wants to learn the
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
>In general I think MOOCs are doing themselves a disservice by trying to copy college courses. I agree completely - it seems almost 'cargo cult' - they are just copying colleges assuming it will be successful rather than examin
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
Isn't mostly automated, high-wage work what we want though?
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> Being broke certainly limits the type of opportunity you can invest in, but there's always something. Always? It's not a law of physics...
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I think the general complaint is that MBA's have very little knowledge about the businesses they run. So an MBA might promise a new feature to a client without really knowing if it can be delivered in that timeframe or even if it is te
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by alexgmcm 8y ago
He isn't a 'Cern scientist' - he worked at CERN, not for CERN. Thus CERN have little, if any, control over what he says. It's a shame the media can't cover the actual science that takes place there rather than s

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