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by joeyspn 10y ago
It's great that we have all these research teams tackling the cancer problem from a machine-learning/genomics/personalised-medicine angle... But do they have a common/open standard for technologies (ML, CV, etc), sharing
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The thing is they are marketing it for Spain (or European travel) in their video [0]. Maybe because Spain, France and Italy are in the top 4 travel destinations world-wide along with the US... The focus of my critique (rant?) is that the pr
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by joeyspn 10y ago
A "Travel app" that shows so many clichés condensed in its presentation video (and to top it all, a goat in a spanish street?) hints of enormous amounts of ignorance about the destination. And even feels insulting ... I'll s
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by joeyspn 10y ago
BigBang --> GRUB v12039.0.0-beta
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> ...as a subscriber to USPA magazine.. Somewhat you missed the safety section in USPA's website: "According to the National Safety Council, a person is much more likely to be killed getting struck by lightning or stung by a
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by joeyspn 10y ago
I don't know of stats that include per participation-hour . If you have them please share... I provided you with stats from trusted sources like the National Center for Health Statistics (see the link).
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by joeyspn 10y ago
Skydiving is known for being very safe . Safer than american football, boxing, scuba diving, motorbike racing, and many other sports [0] [0] http://www.besthealthdegrees.com/health-risks/
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by joeyspn 10y ago
The answer is rather simple: - Popularisation of the sport thanks to social media and silly videos with fancy dubstep music. - BASE jumpers trying to push forward the sport. - Irresponsible companies sponsoring pro jumpers in order to film
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by joeyspn 10y ago
Thanks for sharing this. This is so cool for kitesurfing and sailing. I didn't know any of these services and windyty looks really nice. Specially I like that you can zoom-in much more than in OP's globe....
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by joeyspn 10y ago
Your sarcasm detector needs to be repaired... ;)
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$22B gives you enough bang for acquihiring a team and also their moral values. The vilified philosopher Groucho Marx once said: "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Sad but very common
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> inherently trust each other Not really... I posted this before here on HN: https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAA...
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by joeyspn 10y ago
Why downvote? Care to explain? https://twitter.com/peterlbrandt/status/695006728044163072 Ok, actually it's $75T (€54T)...
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$10B = scandal $54T = "too big to fail" != scandal
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Yeah, nice insights! Direct Link to the stream: https://www.twitch.tv/bemmu
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by joeyspn 10y ago
The bitfinex hack stinks. A lot... Still waiting for a proper post-mortem/post-hack. They must be gaining precious time and lawyering up before all the details are released and SHTF...
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Also my fav. The nightmare scenario would be when particle physicist discover that we are living in a computer simulation built by AIs, and they realise that instead of building the LHC they should have studied quantum computing architectur
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React-Ionic – Create iOS and Android Apps with React and Ionic(reactionic.github.io)
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Quoting Edison here: "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
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> I mean each day 100's of Phd's... Yes, but then... "Finance novice beats hedge fund pros, winning $100k in Quantopian trading contest" https://pando.com/2015/03/05/finance-novice-bea
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A Tale of Two Chains(decentralize.today)
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With the same logic also a BitTorrent tracker should use a blockchain, but obviously it's not the case. You are distributing trust-based units (money, legal and financial instruments, etc), not files (video, images, etc).
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Encrypting Bitcoin wallets in images with the help of Steganography(bitcointalk.org)
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> It seems that people proposing them don't have any idea about when/why you'd use them over a more centralized system I think that this diagram is a good starting point... https://media.licdn.com/mpr&#x2
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> [...] the food-replacement guru—known for surviving for months on nothing but Soylent—apparently roasted a whole pig during the party [...] I guess soylent is not that cool for parties and social gatherings...
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L-Nano – Fork of Nano with line numbering(github.com)
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(ahem) Serverless v1.0 is multi-cloud and multi-language... https://github.com/serverless/serverless/tree/v1.0
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As a founder who tried to apply and build a couple of consortiums with my previous startup, for FP7 and Horizon2020 project funding, I totally understand the fears. This is the key part of the article: > Only 12% of bids for Horizon 202
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> Do you actually have olive oil in your olive oil? Yes, actually we are the biggest extra virgin olive oil producers, exporters and probably also the biggest consumers in the world. Most people here has or knows a friend that produces
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> A bank failure doesn't have to happen overnight A confirmed bankruptcy of Deutsche Bank would be followed by the collapse of 10s of banks, not in a day but maybe few weeks. Quick enough for unleashing the biggest financial armag

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