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by axiom 19y ago
The product spec for this thing says it's automatically stabilizing, but I've never played with one so I can't vouch for it. I've seen some demo videos and it looked really impressive. In any case, you can always buy one of these for a mere
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by axiom 19y ago
Here's a toy that's close enough. A group at Waterloo made one of these things autonomous, and had it navigating GPS waypoints. http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/rc/79c7/
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by axiom 19y ago
There is definitely some of that. After all the book is targeted towards a popular audience. But that being said there are a couple of remarkably original ideas. For example, going from least to most intersting: 1. Statistically speaking a
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by axiom 19y ago
Freakonomics is a great book because it introduces fundamental principles of economics on intuitive grounds. So you're not talking about incentives with respect to society or some other abstract entity, but with respect to specific cases.
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by axiom 19y ago
It's pretty tragic how little most people understand about basic economics. Not just with respect to how societies function, but basic concepts like incentives and the law of supply and demand. Oh, and of course No Free Lunch. So in that s
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by axiom 19y ago
Russia, China and India are some of the worst polluters. So are many countries in Africa. The problem is that when you're absymally poor, you don't have the resources to worry about how clean your wealth production is. Which is why they cle
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by axiom 19y ago
What's always bothered me about the global warming debate is that everyone seems more concerned with who to blame, rather than how to solve the problem. One side is spewing absurd doomsday scenarios completely out of touch with reality, and
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Powerset labs to offer natural language based search(businessweek.com)
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Greenspan's Britney Moment(fool.com)
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Scientists to implant artificial cerebellum in robot(cordis.europa.eu)
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Carnegie Mellon Red team (of DARPA Grand Challenge fame) to enter Google moon landing competition(cmu.edu)
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A Business Idea for Anyone Who Wants It(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
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