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by ippisl 15y ago
I meant that if we lived in the environment of 1900(most people living in villages in the u.s.?) and use current health and sanitation technologies , we would live even longer.
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by ippisl 15y ago
Life expectancy of a white male at 20 yrs was 62.1 in 1900 , 76.7 in 2004[1]. that's 14.5 years. And that's under somewhat harsher health conditions: more stress, bad diets, pollution and chemicals. And don't forget what medicine for quali
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by ippisl 15y ago
|Still, it'll be hard to argue with the economics of how cheap it is to grow a cow. There's some interesting work being done on manufacturing food elements using synthetic biology[1]. they think it will cost one tenth of cheapest foods we h
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by ippisl 15y ago
Why are they paying if they can get illegal copies ? and why watch broadcast tv when they can get on-demand content ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
I'm not sure that's the case. One example of a teacher scaling is khan academy. I think that something like khan academy could have been done even before the internet, even with VCR's. And automated practice(in math) using computers was ava
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by ippisl 15y ago
And don't forget groovy++ to easily achieve java like performance.
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by ippisl 15y ago
There's the intermediate step to 3D - 2.5D. it's when you lay all you dies side by side, on another chip, instead of a pcb. It makes relatively easy to manage heat and you can get much more bandwidth at much lower power(much shorter wire d
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Why amazon bought kiva?(canadianmanufacturing.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
If amazon wouldn't have offered EWS to netflix or have stopped offering it to netflix, netflix could have easily use some other cloud competitor. Maybe netflix would had to pay a bit more , but i don't think it would have been a big differe
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by ippisl 15y ago
I'm not sure 106.6/105.2 is the correct way to look at it either. Intuitively, every point you got in a test corresponds to a micro-subject. So before the class , you knew 100 micro-subjects(which probably took a few years to teach). And yo
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by ippisl 15y ago
The class only took 5 weeks (24X2 hours sessions).
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by ippisl 15y ago
6.4/5.2 = 1.23 . Is 23% improvement considered that small(assuming it's statistically significant) ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
Google released hangouts (it's group video chat) in mid january. it might be a feature teens would really like and one that facebook would have hard time to copy. So it's probably too early to tell if teens will use google+.
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by ippisl 15y ago
GE recently announced a faster natural gas based generator. 61% efficiency and can ramp up supply at 50mega-watts per minute. http://www.fastcoexist.com/1678064/ges-jet-engine-inspired-f... So there can be a decent enough complement to ch
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by ippisl 15y ago
There's some interesting innovations in infrastructure-less transport: 1. low cost UAV's - have been used in africa to transport blood samples and meds between hospitals and cities. the MATTERNET is a project that on scaling a UAV transport
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by ippisl 15y ago
How robots will affect employment in the u.s. depends on many unknown factors[1]. Since we cannot know those factors today, the best we can do is draw a number of different scenarios. Let's simplify this to 2 scenarios. One scenario is your
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by ippisl 15y ago
5 million jobs doesn't sound like a lot, for such a total makeover of the economy. it's something like 4% of the working population. On the other hand, powerful robots would destroy many jobs.
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Who Will Control the Green Economy?(etcgroup.org)
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by ippisl 15y ago
But what about servers ? memory bandwidth is the biggest problem facing servers, and stacking solves it nicely. And when you put chips side by side like xilinx's new chip, the heating issue is solvable.
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think that with a relatively cheap kit, one do many EE lab experiments at home. witness the arduino movement.
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The human service pack(groups.google.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
And they forgot to mention the numbers the "app economy" destroyed/will destroy.
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In the future, even coffee shops will be online(damonkaswell.com)
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by ippisl 15y ago
I think Amazon goal is to control the customer.You can see that in prime, the kindle fire and the zappos purchase. From the shipping side , with it's prime program they're so much better then other e-commerce competitors, that they won't ga
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by ippisl 15y ago
One can get pretty close to the coca-cola formula using chemical analysis. i think it would be a good documentary show to do this in CSI miami style, and i bet funding wouldn't be that hard to get :)
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by ippisl 15y ago
In a world when a unique soc design using the new processes is becoming more and more rare(because it costs a lot), most of those designs have large programmable components , to enable many uses and many chips sold. Now, if you make the bes
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by ippisl 15y ago
How does fpga+scaled integers compare with a gpu ?
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by ippisl 15y ago
According to asymco(and apple's data), the average selling price for iphones is around $650(Q2-2011). http://www.asymco.com/2011/10/09/the-new-iphone-portfolio-an...
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by ippisl 15y ago
There are two kinds of bets we're talking about. You're talking about the bet: will our products would be successful? That's the kind of bet you have to take when you develop products, no way around it. And apple is pretty good at those gam
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by ippisl 15y ago
I have some doubts that's that the case. why? 1. The IPAD might did some cannibalization to the mac market but in general, it brought much more profits.It was a pretty good bet that this what it would do(esp. considering apple's supply chai

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