choonway

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by choonway 9y ago
wait till he plays against alphazero...
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by choonway 9y ago
A Singaporean here. The real revolution in transport happening here is NOT electric cars, NOT autonomous cars, NOT Uber/Grab, NOT the bike sharing scourge the likes of ofo. It is the e-scooters that has been zipping around the walkways
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by choonway 9y ago
Their situation sounds very familiar here in Singapore, the country with the lowest fertility rate in the world.
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by choonway 9y ago
The push came most likely from the pressures of the cold war. Now that it is long over, threats like Russia/Syria/ISIS/North Korea/China don't provide the same level of urgency to compete as before.
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by choonway 9y ago
There was a magical crystal that blessed the land with bountiful harvest every year, until civil war broke out in the country. Mysteriously the crystal shattered into a thousand pieces and parts of it fell all over the continent. Some parts
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by choonway 9y ago
I wonder what would happen when quantum computers manage to break Bitcoin.
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by choonway 9y ago
More students = more $. Do you really think they care about whether you pass or not?
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by choonway 9y ago
> Villiers (the leader of the defenders) had ignored the many warriors who told him the same (that the city was no longer defensible), but listened to the engineer (Tadini). This made my day. :)
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by choonway 9y ago
5:26 "and we found that with any work we do in VR, we always end up on the floor at some point..." Looked as if they were high on drugs on something... but then when bluetooth handsfree headsets first came out, I thought they were
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by choonway 10y ago
Everything had to fit into a 100mm diameter pipe leading into the containment vessel. https://youtu.be/rQVT9beES08?t=27s
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by choonway 10y ago
Are there any startup robotic companies that are doing robots that can deal with hard radiation? It seems that they are trying to wash off some melted gunk that is blocking their way into the area beneath the vessel where the core is suspec
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by choonway 10y ago
That's because they're easy to test and makes the interviewer think that they're smart. i.e. boosts their ego.
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by choonway 10y ago
Why not universal basic housing. universal basic internet. universal basic food. universal basic computer. Make it illegal to sell them on the open market. Anything except universal basic income. You want cigarettes / alcohol? do some
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by choonway 10y ago
For the droughts, in desert regions today desalination is a way to reliably produce water, not depending on mother nature. For the roofed cities, we have built airconditioned megamalls / underground shopping malls, so we do not have to
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by choonway 10y ago
Shouldn't it be phonons?
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by choonway 10y ago
Where we are now is similar to the era where nuclear weapons were theoretically possible, but the practical implementation was still elusive until ww2 provided the impetus. Similarly, at this juncture self-production needs more effort at th
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by choonway 10y ago
What about actual inventions that weren't inspired from Science Fiction?
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by choonway 10y ago
Problem is, it's optimized for tearing down iPhones and nothing much else. I think this fits the bill better. Deep Learning + Robotics. Only problem is what is the energy costs going to be like? https://www.youtube.com/
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by choonway 10y ago
It's the cat. In other words, it would seem like the robots are pandering to our desires, but in reality they're using us as their toy launcher. We would be amused into slavery.
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by choonway 10y ago
The election result was real feedback from the people. I hope the tech people don't ignore this and think about creating stuff that will help the 'forgotten'.
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by choonway 10y ago
If you were to build commercial space stations around earth/mars, how would you do it as compared to the ISS?
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by choonway 10y ago
I would have left the company at red flag #6, inability to tell a compelling story. And I am looking at this from a software developer's point of view.