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by julianpye 9y ago
People with ADHD think less in silos and can form quicker parallels between different verticals. That's the formula for much of creativity, problem-solving and stand-up comedy. The main challenge in daily life is a hard time with takin
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by julianpye 9y ago
Yearly lecture (past five years) at DLD. Breakup argument starts at 8:30.
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Scott Galloway: Breaking Up Amazon, Apple. Facebook and Google(youtube.com)
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Google's Sundar Pichai reckons AI is 'more profound' than electricity or fire(theinquirer.net)
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by julianpye 9y ago
So the singularity is approaching even faster!
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I found this out with elderly relatives, too. They know it's a computer, but they like the interaction. When my father said 'Alexa, good night', she replied 'Sleep Well'. Several of his friends then wanted an Echo a
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by julianpye 9y ago
One more argument: When I turn on the Xbox and the PS4, all they seem to do is download gigabytes of updates that I missed over the last months. I don't play often, so that annoys me. The Switch does not do this. It turns on and off ri
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by julianpye 9y ago
Most traditional Japanese companies were set up like this. The overseas branches are basically distribution companies who make a percentage of their revenue. They are just like any other reseller. Their only leverage is that they can make c
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Implementing religion in AI life-simulations(medium.com)
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The online business has really migrated from a long-tail exploration business to one where people just go with the masses and buy the 'No. 1 in Category' product. Now giving companies the chance to take such a top spot and provin
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That's an interesting point. Never let a good crisis go to waste (cf. Naomi Klein's 'Shock Doctrine'). I guess it's also an opportunity for Govtech startups (that said they need to develop solutions for ~5 different
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Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?
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Well, my blog-post is half-serious. The bigger question from it would be why the hell the Universe would be implemented in Java :)
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Regarding AI and God and religion - here is a blog post that I wrote that suggests that being in a simulation actually increases our chances for a religious afterlife. https://medium.com/@photodiary/implementing-religio
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Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009)(ru-submarine.livejournal.com)
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Impact of implementing religion in AI Simulations(medium.com)
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Implementing religion in AI life-simulations(medium.com)
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Implementing religion in AI life-simulations(medium.com)
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Implementing religion in AI life-simulations(medium.com)
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by julianpye 10y ago
Haven't found a better translated source yet, but this is trending in Germany. According to some other sources, the system overrides driver controls one second after a collision has occured.
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Automatic braking system prevented further deaths in Berlin attack(translate.google.com)
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Mitigating the risk of geoengineering(news.harvard.edu)
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by julianpye 10y ago
Spot on! At the core of the bot trend is the fact that users do not want to navigate through menus anymore. They are tired of searching for that one icon on screen after screen so they can enable a function. So they just want an interaction
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by julianpye 10y ago
Much better article about this at the Economist: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171121...
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The Breakthrough prizes attempt to upstage the Nobels(economist.com)
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I worked together with many Japanese CE companies during the transition to MP3. At first I was surprised why they were so slow to adapt and were happy to work with the music industry who tried to ban unprotected MP3s and planned to sell MP
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Example Coding/Engineering Interview(youtube.com)
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The Diamond Rio was amazing because it was seen by IT companies and the record labels as an illegal product. It spawned a lawsuit "Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. Diamond Multimedia Systems, Inc.". Without DMM winning
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by julianpye 10y ago
The key quote in this article is 'The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record labels, declined to comment on the iPod.' Until the iPod 'recordable' audio devices were Asian products a
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by julianpye 10y ago
Panasonic suffered so much by its committee based product decisions that it had to leave the consumer space as its core business. The decision to let high-risk Tesla lead a Japanese electronic giants manufacturing power as visionaire is cur

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