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by m-i-l 10y ago
I had my sash windows refurbished a few years back, adding double glazing and draft proofing. They said the frames were the original wood from around 150 years ago, although they said the glass was from the post-war period (in common with m
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by m-i-l 10y ago
The article mentions at least one of them can't read or write. Would be an interesting challenge to build a knowledge sharing platform in that case.
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Bothy-bagging: Scotland's best-kept secrets revealed(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Don't have space for it, couldn't get it up the stairs, and got distracted reading the linked article "How to view 'The Wizard of Oz' with 'Dark Side of the Moon'... Urban legend claims that if you play Pi
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by m-i-l 10y ago
According to the BBC article "Ketchup debate: To chill or not to chill..." [0] from a few days ago, the NHS advice states eggs are "best stored in the fridge as they will be kept at a constant temperature". [0] http:&#x
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Funnily enough, I was just thinking the exact opposite this morning - how little design thought must go into some things. It was in relation to the poor user experience I'd just had from the toilets at work. As usual, the poorly design
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by m-i-l 10y ago
More on the "big lie" propaganda technique at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie .
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by m-i-l 10y ago
If the map is correct, it looks like it could be bypassed by entering through Jordan or Kuwait. I wonder if the designers know about the Maginot Line [0] (extensive and costly fortifications on the Germany / France border, which the Ge
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by m-i-l 10y ago
What I'm curious about is when he said things like "I'll pay you, you know, $50,000, $100,000, whatever. Whatever you want, all right?", was it just hot air, or did he actually follow through with these people? And if so
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by m-i-l 10y ago
According to the article, Hayes was "chief informant, who in return would receive leniency and, more importantly, an agreement that he would be dealt with in the UK. To secure this arrangement Hayes had to agree to tell the SFO everyth
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by m-i-l 10y ago
In the UK we have https://fullfact.org , an independent fact checking charity. It isn't quite the same thing, e.g. is more of a service than software, but is open source friendly, e.g. was the topic of a recent Lucene hacka
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by m-i-l 10y ago
And to quote Tracy Alloway, also Bloomberg: "you can replace the term 'distributed ledgers' with 'shared Excel sheets' in about 90 percent of talk about blockchain and finance"[0] [0] http://www.trac
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I get this too. They are slightly more regular and monochromatic geometric shapes than your example. I suspect the shapes may vary according to the loudness and suddenness of the noise, e.g. something big and heavy falling off a shelf in th
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Also available at http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ .
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Agree that its very unlikely for currently closed big datasets (e.g. those that give Google and Facebook their competitive advantage) to be opened for this. But if existing shared but siloed datasets (e.g. ImageNet and Kaggle data) were mov
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by m-i-l 10y ago
>Capitalism has already been around forever :) Much of Europe, for example, was feudalist until around the mid 17th century. To put it simply, the king owned all the land, and those who lived on it were divided into those who worked, tho
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Very interesting. A couple of thoughts: 1. How about automating harvesting? The article suggests that there is a fairly sizeable unskilled workforce, potentially involved in harvesting, packing etc. I think I read elsewhere that the costs i
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Pretty much everyone I've talked to who knows about AI (including a former Penrose student who was a classmate on my postgrad AI degree) strongly refute the claims in The Emperor's New Mind. I believe Penrose was at Oxford when he
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by m-i-l 10y ago
There's also the court case at the moment where the Prime Minister is trying to use the royal prerogative to trigger Article 50 (for Brexit) without an explicit act of parliament to authorise it: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by m-i-l 10y ago
"...Whether this reform [Criminal Finances Bill] is adopted will tell us much about who Prime Minister Theresa May really is" Well in theory Britain isn't a dictatorship, so it should be down to the elected representatives
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by m-i-l 10y ago
"...Cuarón’s most effective decision was to shoot so many scenes on the streets of London, without adding much except graffiti, litter and all-round squalor." Actually, I lived around the corner from one of the locations in the
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by m-i-l 10y ago
> I've always wondered why more tech companies and corporations don't embrace this aesthetic The Oracle Corporation's global HQ in Redwood City[0] does look a little like the Bonaventure Hotel[1] referenced in the original
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Also mentioned: "The first time it snowed, all hell broke loose!" Although later on, the article alludes to the ingenious solution to this problem which was devised elsewhere in the world - enclose it in a tunnel. EDIT: Although a
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by m-i-l 10y ago
Actually Antony Jenkins had relatively little involvement with investment banking (and only towards the end) - his main background was with credit cards, then as you say retail banking[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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The village that just wants to share(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I believe the article author is aged around 21, so the dot com boom would not have been within his living memory.
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£5 notes 'worth £20,000' in circulation(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by m-i-l 10y ago|0 comments
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by m-i-l 10y ago
As much as I love Edinburgh, and hope the technology sector and economy there (and in Scotland as a whole) thrives, it has to be said that the technology job market is currently very small in comparison to London. Some stats to put this in
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by m-i-l 10y ago
My dad worked for the Falklands Islands Dependency Survey between 1958 and 1961, setting up the ionsopheric station at Halley Bay. He then returned to work for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Antarctic Division (New Ze
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by m-i-l 10y ago
I've been putting together fanless PCs for my own use for a few years now, also disliking the aircraft-taking-off sound of many desktop PCs when they are switched on. I started with the Zalman Reserator[0] water cooling tower, then mov

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