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by ci5er 7y ago
So... One superbowl ad?
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by ci5er 7y ago
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/harvard-professor-char...
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by ci5er 7y ago
If I forget, within 48 hours please bump me - I do have it around here somewhere! :-) Besides, we're moving into a weekend; This is the time for clearing off decks.
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by ci5er 7y ago
I did and so much was going on (US politics-wise, and Brexit-wise), I was kind of sloppier than I generally am. I will try to recover and post within a day. EDIT: Because it was me hypothecating (generating hypotheses), it will be more than
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by ci5er 7y ago
Oh. Sorry. I was too embedded in the context of the Chinese-funding of US University/Academic research story. In this context here: - "We" == "US Research Programs, funded by the Chinese, but not disclosed according
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by ci5er 7y ago
Given the rapidity with which the Harvard chemical-biologist was arrested after we received a sample and sequenced it (~36 hours), I think it is possible (possible! not likely!) that we engineered it , and they paid a researcher to give the
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by ci5er 7y ago
If you say so (and I am not saying that you are wrong), but the cost of mining coal and oil and the cost of digging and refining those Li-whatevers, can not be ignored. Pease and love
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by ci5er 7y ago
That's interesting. I only "follow" (or whatever they call it) a few people on Quora, and Quora sends me an email of what some of them have said over the last two or three days, and I pop over to see what the opinion is about
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by ci5er 7y ago
Thermal packaging!
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by ci5er 7y ago
> "Paulestinians" Ha! Never heard that one. It is by far more clever than any of the half-dozen or so that I did.
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by ci5er 7y ago
I would be shocked if IAFIS didn't have that stored in South Carolina strip-mall hosted database like all the other biometrics they can get from birth, disease, criminal activity, police, federal and military service. The feds do love
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by ci5er 7y ago
Well, yeah, in the sense that a chimp and a human are about 98.5% similar. But from that point of view, humans are 99.9999% similar. The other point-of-view is that a male and a female of a species will end up with approximately 50/5
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by ci5er 7y ago
Seems (to me) to be similar to the Ron Paul bots (fanatics, I should say, because they certainly weren't mechanical war-bots; They seemed like what the right calls NPCs these days, but they were just so ... into it! 24/7! It'
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by ci5er 7y ago
I was at Motorola Tokyo Design Ops, back in the day and the General Magic people and the old Mac people and the Next people were frequently coming through. I learned the 56K on the NeXT (and it saved my butt when I had to emulate a slow sma
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by ci5er 7y ago
I always loved the clever phrasing: "NeXT bought Apple for a negative $430M and 1.5M of Apple Stock Shares in 1997."
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by ci5er 7y ago
Lots. It wasn't catastrophic at the time -- in most cases. (There were a few!) I remember when HP was trying to test their DC in Germany, they rolled the computers (and the VMs) up, and then back, but the DC locks, well, locked, and th
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by ci5er 7y ago
Slow the definitional ticks down to be independent of (slowly but increasingly divergent from) Planck time and we can morph it to create as much time as we "need".
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by ci5er 7y ago
What is the proper value of human life? Does it change over time? And is the budget-wise national-healthcare-system administrator qualified to make that determination for you? And, if they do not want you to get better while waiting on line
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by ci5er 7y ago
I too, like commenter above, find it fascinating how various concepts are quickly accessible (or not!) for different people. Usually I blame it on the teacher's presentation (for my part, I am completely unable to explain pointers in (
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by ci5er 7y ago
I'd be interested to also see material talking about the social basis for belief formation. We are primarily emotional and social creatures, and our brains seem to be adapted to forming beliefs that may or may not match the world, but
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by ci5er 7y ago
I can't speak to regional banks or credit unions, in the US, but the major US national banks ALL have options to be able to be SMS'd, email'd or in-app instantly notified for a wide variety of events on or related to a card (
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ok - thanks. I'm not sure there is a bright-line distinction, then. I use a set of chat-bot related APIs to implement CLIs for various EHR-related and clinical-related applications (Navigating kajillions of options in EHR menus require
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by ci5er 7y ago
Given the success of Alexa and Siri (and various voice->NLP interfaces in varous settings) - why do you say that chat-bots have failed? (Maybe you are using a different definition than I?)
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by ci5er 7y ago
The handset business is mouse nuts economically and nobody cares at any level of national security what idiot consumers do to themselves. The "National Security" concern (economically, technologically, capability and integrity-wis
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by ci5er 7y ago
There is a long and storied reason (going back to the greek city-states) about why direct democracy is a really bad idea.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Ha! This is awesome! I did something similar in 2016, and called it something silly like SaaS-in-Box, but after integrating security, and Blueprints and multi-tenancy and caching, and ... (I do think I ran into some problem with blueprints,
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by ci5er 7y ago
Assuming you mean 5V or 3V DC, there will have to be a baseline level, then it will have to be upconverted or downconverted from the wall AC is (to whatever their baseline standard is in DC), then converted back to AC by X-converting then c
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by ci5er 7y ago
I consult some (maybe a lot). My work product belongs to the client. I am not legally allowed to share. Some of it I would like to share (and some of it not!), but it really isn't my choice. (Also - because I am fairly cross-disciplina
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by ci5er 7y ago
That is certainly one hypothesis that has not yet been eliminated.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Yes, now. But I don't know how one would finance the build-out of a public utility like this.

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