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by ippisl 17y ago
One of the bigger factors that differentiate between average teachers and great teachers is the ability of great teachers to give a lot of personalized feedback to every student. Also if other fields of learning like music, sports , compute
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by ippisl 17y ago
"The foregoing explains why open source has nothing to teach literature or indeed any artistic creation" Literature or arts has usually been done alone or in small groups. Science , engineering and software development is much more of a co
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by ippisl 17y ago
While this article seems pretty strong on economics(can't really judge , not an economist) , it fails to mention technology's impact , and the fact that today we have many industries being disrupted which was never the situation before the
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by ippisl 17y ago
Alan kay might not be correct in this case . The correct factor between 1979 and today's computers is not 1000x , is something between 10x-50x. and with the right compilers you get a factor of 3x-10x[1]. [1] http://lists.canonical.org/piper
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by ippisl 17y ago
It doesn't have to be more expensive. if they cooperate with the companies that the deliver the profitable part of mail, the gain access to those economies of scale.
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by ippisl 17y ago
from research: First-year medical students prefer multiple learning styles[1]. If you give students only 1 learning style choice , more students prefer book based learning "5.4% preferred visual (learning from graphs, charts, and flow diagr
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by ippisl 17y ago
doesn't the trend to outsourcing many governmental services makes governments simpler?
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by ippisl 17y ago
I think it's more enduring because complexity is recognised as the core problem of software development , and a lot of smart people work on this problem. Also it's much easier to change a complex piece of software than a complex organizatio
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by ippisl 17y ago
This also doesn't make sense. 57.9% of "food, beer and wine" are bought online? doesn't seem right. EDIT: a quick google search shows the forrester says that online sales are 6% of retail sales(2009). http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/ar
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by ippisl 17y ago
Regarding 3: don't you think happiness should be optimized? don't you think that happiness/pleasure vs sadness/pain is the main motivating mechanism for human beings(at the biological level) , and that the big reason why individual choice (
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by ippisl 17y ago
Regarding accreditation: there's accreditation for distance education in the department of education. the online learning institutions also have their own body of accreditation. But this doesn't give a strong brand like leading universities
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by ippisl 17y ago
The measurement is based on the work of some academics. while academics certainly make mistakes , usually academic research and debate is one of the best ways we as a society have to learn about truths.
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by ippisl 17y ago
Assuming a certain ideology(personal freedom) increases total societal happiness is just an assumption. if you don't measure it , you can't tell if it's helping or harming the happiness target. Bhutan at least tries to measure happiness whe
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by ippisl 17y ago
Could you please explain why ? doesn't the web based software providers have economies of scale?
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by ippisl 17y ago
I think technology is taking diagnosis from doctors , but not in the way thought by MYCIN ( diagnose using a list of symptoms). A better way to diagnose is using improved molecular tests, and new imaging methods. those have a few benefits:
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by ippisl 17y ago
In web based software the software providers have economies of scale and can connect many systems, and then offer them to single doctors. Does the integration problem steel exist for web based software?
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by ippisl 17y ago
Those "doc in a box" clinics, after doing simple treatment for a few years , start moving to treating chronic diseases. Chronic diseases account for 75% of the healthcare costs. A big fight is going to start between physicians and "doc in a
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by ippisl 17y ago
I think you overestimate the ability to self diagnose objectively. i heard that medical students , while learning about medical conditions , start to see symptoms in themselves , and believe they have all kind of illnesses. So collaborating
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by ippisl 17y ago
I think the best way to work , is dependent by the type of knowledge has about a specific disease , and the quality of the doctor. When the knowledge(and tools) on how to diagnose and treat a certain condition gives better results then th
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Remote work and professional isolation(middle of page)(leadingvirtually.com)
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by ippisl 17y ago
What: Journal of Applied Psychology article about teleworking and professional isolation ... Bottom line: The authors surveyed 261 professional-level teleworkers at a large corporation (80,000 workers) to study the effects of professional i
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Demos of automated customer service using artificial general intelligence(smartaction.com)
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Technologies that will disrupt traditional legal practice(legalcurrent.com)
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by ippisl 17y ago
From the reviews on the Nexus-one , it seems that there's no big difference between iphone and android. and since switching costs are much lower , this is a totally different market.
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by ippisl 17y ago
the important thing here for google is opening a channel for unlocked phones. For them it really doesn't matter if they sold 100,000 or 1,000,000 devices. their goal is an unlocked smartphone for everybody. they let the hardware companies
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I think the way to determine if the word "design" should be used here , is to see if before this robot , the word design was used in this context. otherwise will be doing the same "it's not AI" fallacy all over again.
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by ippisl 17y ago
Where the nobel prize goes is an interesting question. let's say that some robot discovers an important discovery , that deserves the nobel. let's also say the methods of operation of the robot are standard practice at the time of building
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by ippisl 17y ago
If we assume the robots cost money , and research funds are limited , and the robot's research is important, there's no reason why it won't "replace" biologists.
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Health Care: The Simple Solution(businessweek.com)
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by ippisl 17y ago
reliability data for consumer products. while the internet brought great transparency for the whole purchasing process, this is really the missing piece for good buying decisions.

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