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Want to know really the only thing all of us have in common today? We're all alive. Think about it. Tomorrow for at least one or more of us, that may not be the case. Despite many great comments from those in the profession or not
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> Now, you can have a Google Apps, Slack, Trello, and Evernote alternative for your business under one subscription. Actually you made a great case for why these guys should partner, integrate their products in a clean, natural way, and
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Association football (as in football or soccer, depending on where you are), through its various leagues, has much higher combined revenues than the NFL. In fact, the European leagues alone have greater aggregate revenue than the NFL. The
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> (...) much less do any work in that time 100 microseconds is quite a long time in CPU time for a single-core these days, and proportionally longer with multi-core, or say in GPU time. However taking into account the VM runtime environ
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> The big difference is because of air conditioning and baseboard heating (...) Which makes you wonder why there is not as much high-profile attention on A/C (and to a lesser extent electrical heating) as being a problem worthy of r
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> If it wasn't for the Mac OS, I wouldn't even bother considering their lineup anymore. It's remarkable that no PC manufacturers over the past 10 to 15 years really embarked on creating their own product line specific Linu
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> (...) how the artists can survive? Let's take "survive" to mean survive financially based on one's ability to produce art with commercial value during their lifetimes. As others do, I think art is much more than tha
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> When you say "citizens of the US" you're talking about a continent that would take roughly five days to cross at highway speed, driving ten hours a day. You may as well say "citizens of Europe." I don't kn
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> If Steve Jobs was still alive, would he keep churning out industry-changers If he were alive and well, I think so. With the exception of iPad (which wasn't subpar by industry standards but certainly signaled a descent into medio
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> Reddit is the new Usenet with all the good, the bad and the silly. And none of the decentralization that was Usenet unfortunately.
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I disagree. A cyberattack that were a short/medium-term risk to lives being the exception to this. But a cyberattack that plausibly affects at most the economy (and a fraction of it at best), if it be so proved, should be responded i
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How battle-ready (that is, security-wise) is this beautiful piece of software?
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> Latency This. Also, trying to slow the loss of customers purchasing what are essentially Nvidia GPU-heavy systems with Nvidia CPUs tacked on to act as the controllers.
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> As much as I love Bob Dylan, I wouldn't have been upset had Leonard Cohen been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. I would not be surprised that one of the lesser reasons Dylan was awarded this year was to open the door to oth
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> (...) are part of the executive branch of government and report to the President of the United States. It's very likely, from what we have observed over the past sixty to seventy years, that the Executive Branch does not operate t
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> I can think you can see the point I'm making: yes, Apple has a big pile of cash, a fat amount of profit and high stock value. However, Alphabet its influence and reach is far, far beyond that of Apple. Its just not as flashy &
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Whether right or wrong, I think it's good to keep in mind that Apple has, by far the highest quarterly profit and total asset value, compared to any of these companies - it really is a giant among giants. Alphabet certainly has an exc
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If the comment split here goes 75% positive / 25% not, I think that's a healthy split. Even if it had been 50/50 I'd still consider that good. A caveat: particularly in the case of someone like Musk who already has, con
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> Basically (..) most distributions bundle Python but not Node. Also that AWS and Google CLI tools are still more Python than Node. Good ole' inveteracy. Unfortunately, it's really as good a reason as any when it comes to mana
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Is a single neuron conscious? (2015)(quora.com)
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> CNNs can be used to categorize other types of data too. The trick is, whatever data type you start with, to transform it to make it look like an image. This is an interesting point, and I assume that 'make it look look like an im
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There are resource limitations to contend with, roughly like an limit on total number of logic gates (e.g. AND, NOR,..) that can be "rewired", and also the bus speed to memory can become prohibitive for some applications. This is
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In popular discussion, Deep Learning has unfortunately become synonymous with Machine Learning, which also, as of late, has itself become synonymous with AI. Now, this might sound facetious, but to help avert another AI winter (maybe 10 yea
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> Unfortunately, this seems to be the fundamental nature of communications networks - the story isn't much different for postal mail, fax, email, usenet, facebook. Success seems to kill the network in the end. Actually, for a variet
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A quick response (so forgive the brevity): Let's say worst case, that a quantum computer does not currently exist, but its basic logical operation has been fleshed out to a reasonable extent. Now, what if a practical implementation s
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> It's a programming abstraction, to create your own "implementation" of the API you still have to use code that is identical to original. Not if you think of it like this really rough analogy: if the software product is a
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If you're interested, the Quantum Key Distribution [0] sub-field has already likely bore fruit that is a "ready in the medium-term" useful solution to a real problem. It's probably already deployed somewhere in the nati
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Is it not possible for someone to have more than one startup?
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I am not a career physicist, but have read much and thought deeply about these things. > So teleport in this case doesn't really mean teleport I would disagree with this statement. For all intents and purposes, the photon receiving
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> If you are someone who is dreaming big—really big—it helps to be in an environment where other people are dreaming big. And you would think that if you were dreaming big, it would be better to be in an environment with people who know

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