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Google advances AI with ‘one model to learn them all’(venturebeat.com)
2 points by bdcs 9y ago|1 comments
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by bdcs 9y ago
Wikipedia says the Trinity test was 20 kilotons. With Fermi estimating 10 kt, he was off by a factor of only two. Of course Taylor got an estimate within 2 as well, using photographs published in Life magazine. https://thatsmaths
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by bdcs 10y ago
Btw the liquid in a can of garbanzo beans works great as a plant derived eeg replacement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquafaba
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by bdcs 10y ago
On a related note: When I was vegan, I said I exclusively ate things made from plants. It was better received and understood. Also I would antagonize friends by giving them vegan pb&js, vegan pickles, vegan French fries, vegan Coke, etc
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Disruption is not a strategy(reactionwheel.net)
5 points by bdcs 10y ago|0 comments
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by bdcs 10y ago
All nonprofitability means is they expect ROI on dollars spent today. In other words a dollar spent today will, in their model, increase their future (discounted) free cash flow. In even more words, profit is when a company runs out of inv
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by bdcs 10y ago
If you have Google Fi for your main phone (20$/mo + 10$/GB) you can add up to 9 data-only SIMs for 0$/mo + 10$/GB. The per GB is really fair (I think it rounds to the nearest MB and everything left over rolls over to the
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by bdcs 10y ago
What you describe is almost exactly what Pebble is offering: one of their new watches + the Pebble Core (GPS + Cellular + headphones jack)
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by bdcs 10y ago
I'm going to join in since I've been using a pebble for years with great enjoyment. I treat it as a secretary. I think of different communication media as having different urgencies / time constants. Emails are a daily report
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by bdcs 10y ago
Google cache link if you hit the paywall: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.t...
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by bdcs 10y ago
I had the same thought: try pressing enter to respawn. Your snake is orange-brown.
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by bdcs 11y ago
I agree with you that AI is a well-funded area of research, although if you take the view that traditional forms of research, eg private or academic, come with crippling problems -- short-term horizons, corrupting influence of profits, publ
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by bdcs 11y ago
This is awesome, however I don't understand their motivation to opensource or their business model following this. Any speculation or comments are welcomed.
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by bdcs 11y ago
Yes, Europe has no conventional sales tax, but VAT is a tax on sales, to be sure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sales_tax
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by bdcs 11y ago
To bypass the paywall you can search for the title in Google, or click here: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Hot+Startup+Theranos+Has+Struggled+With...
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by bdcs 11y ago
Courtesy of the Chicken Tax, yes you read that correctly. "The chicken tax is a 25% tariff on potato starch, dextrin, brandy, and light trucks imposed in 1963 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariff
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by bdcs 11y ago
Wireless charging was a great feature for in the car. I would set my phone down and it would play music over BT while charging. C'est la vie.
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by bdcs 11y ago
Yes the 5X and 6P work with Project Fi, according to CNET. http://www.cnet.com/news/googles-new-nexus-phones-to-work-on...
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by bdcs 11y ago
>An extremely progressive tax policy Except for the fact that effective tax rates on "money received" (income + cap gains + net carried interest) is extraordinarily regressive, with people paying <10% on tens of millions ear
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by bdcs 11y ago
It's about $4 per charge, at 7cents per kWh... Comes out to $250/yr. I guess they should include it if you live in HI or somewhere else with high-priced electricity, but realistically it is much, much less than, say, sales tax, wh
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by bdcs 12y ago
I think Patrick sums it up quite well. Perhaps the interesting thing is imagining how this would go down 15 years later in 2015: Patrick asks if the bet is available; it is. They enter into a 2-of-3 bitcoin transaction with 3rd-party escrow
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by bdcs 12y ago
FYI, the S&P500 is weighted by float (market cap available for public trading) and not market cap, per se.
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by bdcs 12y ago
Usually S&P500
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by bdcs 12y ago
I believe the latter. FWIW, Qualcomm's marketing demo/presentation was very impressive.
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by bdcs 12y ago
There are three things for me (this is just my subjective account): 1) Ease of receiving texts. Reading a text went from 7 seconds to 1.7 seconds for me. Really nice while driving (I can keep my eyes near the road and not be mentally distra
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by bdcs 12y ago
>Of the things you mention, my _guess_ would be that only energy prices are a significant factor stopping AWS pricing from following Moore's law. Ah, but this is subject to Moore's Law too: As transistor density increases, perf
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by bdcs 12y ago
Good to hear they're working hard in the Department of Redundancy Department.
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by bdcs 12y ago
Supposedly you can go to Walgreens and get a test from Theranos.
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by bdcs 12y ago
>Has anyone else ran into this problem? So many people did that this very practice is now banned in the state of California.
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by bdcs 12y ago
Steel is 36 cents per pound. Assume you can move it up and down 300ft (30 story building). This will get you 1pound * g * 300ft of energy storage. This comes out to 300,000 USD/kWh, about a 1000 times more expensive than Li-ion batteri

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