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Like shoes ? and clothes ? those are starting to move online using some interesting technologies[1][2] and there's no reason to believe that we won't find a way to help with buying other physical items. [1] using the kinect to virtually mea
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If there are so many strains of cancer for each patient, those patients do have multiple diseases and we should treat them with multiple drugs. There's a medical device that lets you test the response of the patient's biopsy to multiple dr
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MediaTek is going to bring iphone 4S features to $150 - $200 handsets. Today such phones cost around $600. Phones using it would be released in Q3-2012. They are supposed to change the whole price dynamics in the phone market. I think amaz
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Great comment. A question: in regular universities, students form learning groups. does the kind of learning you describe(somebody teaches somebody) happen inside those groups, or mostly happen only through TA's ?
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Omega-3 for adhd is one example: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20424008 Basically what is says that omega-3 combination might help some kids, we need more research. omega-3 is safe to use(except maybe for people who use blood thinner
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Remember, the people giving the reviews are stanford students. They are much better academically, and are used to much tougher courses than you're average college student. On the other hand, i've seen a review from somebody in kenya i think
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There's a huge economic imbalance between the economic resources and motivations given to prove and market traditional medicine and alternative medicine. Sometimes this leads to a situations that non-fully proven alternative treatments can
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citation needed.
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>>If you want to learn what AI is generally about, Udacity can help. But if you want to build a career out it, and become and actual expert, Isn't udacity and coursera aimed at college level education? you usually don't become a mac
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Low end micrcontrollers optimize low-power, manufacturing process support for analog blocks and flash memory and low cost per each square milimeter of silicon for low transistr count designs. You can best achieve all these using old manufa
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Nice article, but i think the way he measures packages per language is wrong: for example for php,while there are 1900 packages in the main repository, there are 20K wordpress plugins and 10K drupal modules.
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If you filter reviews, videos and comments and dig in a bit you can get a balanced view of a product. Yes, ads do influence people somewhat, but the influence is not that big , unless it's supported by a product that can support the imagina
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Browsers are a "winner take most" market because of website support and extensions. IE and chrome have rich parents, and firefox had much better extension community.
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But why should i even care about an advertising campaign , when i can look at youtube videos, reviews, and ask my friends about microsoft's products ? if microsoft's product is cool enough, or solves some specific problem i've got, i'll pro
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Owning a strong gaming platform seems like a good way to get a lot of cheap/free GPU cycles[1].In light of the recent google "cat" computer vision experiment, that showed us that the road to a big leap in AI might just need a lot of hardwar
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The Agrarian Origins of Capitalism(monthlyreview.org)
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I don't think this device alone would make this big difference. we already have phone that are able(especially with the cloud) to do augmented reality. In many use cases we don't need this immediate response. we can "take the time" and get
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>> They're more interested in expanding their back-end currently, not improving their instruction. I think the reason is simple. Khan came from india, where teacher quality is awful in many places. he want to offer good enough educa
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>> So if you can find a way to scale personal (in the social sense), and personalized education, you're going to be positioned very well. Maybe scaling personalized education is not that complicated.Basically you just create wide ar
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A github pull request shares tools with tool developers and tool users. Are teachers sharing those educational insights with students ? if not , why ? and if so , is there a problem of reaching students with good educational content ?
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"ICMR has put in Rs 25 lakh in grants over two years to develop the test." It only took $44K to develop this. wow. Maybe the best strategy to reduce global healthcare cots, is to invest in the indian healthcare technology ecosystem.
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But won't you miss the benefits of amazon prime ?
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But machine learning, signal processing, software defined networking are exactly the fields that use non intel/amd processors, and see a lot of development effort that goes into unique hardware architectures.
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The problem is that they didn't wrote in their paper :"white boxes are known to have large variability in their level of reliability. We leave it to further study to compare the reliability of white boxes built with quality components to br
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Tablets will hopefully open the system to bottom-up innovations in personalized education. then content will come, and pressure and support for teachers to use those innovations will come.
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I doesn't have to be dishonesty. It might just be bias(conscious or subconscious) not to waste time on this question. Even doctors show this kind of biases when advising people on choosing treatments(which is a much bigger moral issue).
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>> branded computers are more reliable than beige boxes. This is meaningless. The real question is how those compare to beige box that uses a decent parts. But Microsoft definitely has interest in helping manufacturers of brand comp
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Single precision is probably fine for a neural network. Neural networks are somewhat insensitive to noise and failure and single precision adds very little noise.
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Here's a fun toy project using neural networks. http://slowping.com/2012/self-driving-lego-mindstorms-robot/
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Software eating shoes(rapidreadytech.com)
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