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by kpil 8y ago
No it can't.
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by kpil 8y ago
Spintronics. It's possible to build compact neuromorphic devices using spintronics... Denser and more energy efficient.
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by kpil 8y ago
It's still in use in silent (Einstein) refrigerator units. One reason might be that we had to evacuate our office when our small refrigerator in the pentry popped and vented all ammonia. It took a while to get sorted, and it can't
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by kpil 8y ago
This is either just very misinformed or selling things to misinformed people. The fundamental problem is the inherent complexity in all but the simplest information systems. The skill set required for managing that complexity is basically t
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by kpil 9y ago
The law is somehow always flexible in only one direction. If a government body says it can store a train full of shit just outside your backyard indefinitely, and you disagree, then oh, ah, no - sorry, there seems to be absolutely no legal
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by kpil 9y ago
+1 for the Microserfs reference!
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by kpil 9y ago
They can offer a more convenient payment method. Apple pay and Samsung pay have contact free payments, and it's also more secure than signatures. But as new payment infrastructure is expensive they will just move if they have to. Perha
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by kpil 9y ago
I think it was almost 20 years ago when I expectantly started the robot algorithm that had slowly been evolving for weeks. I had already realized that I had to adjust the fitness function to give points for killing, not just surviving, sinc
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by kpil 9y ago
My first job involved a 6 hour compile caused by that someone desperately had tried to beat a braindead homemade interpreted language into submission using a c preprocessor stage. Function calls where largely macro expansions... All errors
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by kpil 9y ago
I think it's a French proverb.
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by kpil 9y ago
I think this is fundamentally NOT how humans remembers things - I think we are masters in "geospatial" memory compared to abstract unrelated concepts, and "geospatial" memory is probably organised in hierarchies. Worse,
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by kpil 9y ago
I guess that Apple would have the resources and knowledge to create an extended ARM architecture that could match x64 in the same power envelope, if they really really wanted. The market segment isn't that large though so it seems toug
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by kpil 9y ago
I liked that feature, especially so for office "luggables" that stays on the desk charging most of the time. That really seems to spare the battery compared to keeping it at 100%. I've replaced the battery in other laptops mu
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by kpil 9y ago
I'd say it's patent law, not copyright law, that make the licences possible to enforce. Most of the patents are the result of a lot of research and cleverness. Some of the patents are the equivalent of looking in another drawer if
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by kpil 9y ago
Ask a COBOL programmer about this...
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by kpil 9y ago
It's a bit of a wishful thinking now is it? We don't really know if there will be any safety benefits at all, and while I believe we might get to that point, it's a bit farther away than some tech-giants would like us to beli
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by kpil 9y ago
I agree that buyers typically deceives themselves due to their limited understanding of highly complex large systems, and that their incompetence is amplified by a sub-optimal procurement process. It's obvious that there was zero actua
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by kpil 9y ago
The idea that allergies somehow are caused by our sterile lifestyle is suspicious at best. It's might just be an appeal to nature - "all natural ingredients" fallacy. I claim that an individual has never before - in the his
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by kpil 9y ago
It wouldn't be particularily expensive for USA or EU, to fund research or create economical incentives for commercial initiatives. You could say that it might even be the very purpose for which democratic states exists; to protect it&#
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by kpil 9y ago
I've stopped buing books aswell. If only Netflix could buy over Jeremy Clarkson then all would be well.
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by kpil 9y ago
No. I'm living in Sweden. The cultural elite and the whole country behaves like a insecure high-school class where everyone is anxiously watching what everyone else is doing, what's 'right' and what's 'out&#x27
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by kpil 9y ago
I happened to see a YouTube blind-test of a flute, and the next to cheapest flute won. But blind testing is also hard, maybe you need to listen or taste for days,not just a few minutes. I suspect a lot of sugar and artificial flavours are
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by kpil 9y ago
Especially since a 3-star restaurant is a $30 chocolate bar, not a $300 bar. Maybe there are some restaurants for russian oligarchs and other people with bad taste and too much money, but unless you go crazy on the wine (which they keep aro
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by kpil 9y ago
So, I tried but failed to find how they came up with the first graph. It must be a model as I doubt the Vikings had sophisticated satellite coverage set up for measuring the arctic ice in the open sea?
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by kpil 9y ago
A savings account without a fixed term requires that the bank balances that with reasonably short instruments. If it's a huge sum they will get nervous since they need a certain amount of liquidity as reserves and that's expensive
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by kpil 9y ago
First, I think there is no other reasonable way to run a company than to assume that everyone is acting in good faith. Most people are. Weed out those that consistently are not. Trust but verify. The other remarks are all good responses to
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by kpil 9y ago
Spot on. If the captain and the navigators are incompetent, and the shipping company send you to the wrong port, then no crew can save the company. The places were "Agile" goes bad, are the places where just about every management
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by kpil 9y ago
I'm not convinced that 250,000 neurons is capable of much self reference at all, so the psychological suffering must be negligible. But sure, electrical stunning is probably preferable.
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by kpil 9y ago
If you put that kind of money in a savings account, the bank will call you twice a day until they have made you move the money into something more profitable (for them.)
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by kpil 9y ago
It's a too good story not to be told...

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