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pinkyand
12y ago
Thanks you!
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It sound very impressive and i'm very curious. A few questions: 1. It feels a lot like literature-based-discovery. Is it ? if so , how is watson better than current literature based discovery methods that did create some scientific hyp
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True, that's the tech behind it. Is there any reason most programmers should know any of this ? The code should look more like this(and should use a standard library): import Password_protector P = Password_protector(date_of_first_use)
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If we consider using the services of a prostitute as emotional violence - which is a reasonable case considering the mental health risks of the profession - and as violence towards weaker people - we should disallow it on a similar basis to
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12y ago
True - demand increases - prices rise. But than new factories should open and prices would return to normal.
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> and for whatever reason wanted to hobble it with the same restrictions as Airplay They want to work with the big content companies. The end game might be ads on the chromecast served through Google with the stick is access to chromecas
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It all depends on what are the powers your attackers have. If your attackers can monitor the whole web, inject packets as he wish and control every computer in the world - there probably isn't any way to offer secrecy. On the other ha
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12y ago
You're right. My knowledge is about the Buddhist traditions.
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The kind of situation(of identity loss and connectedness to nature ,etc) is kind of a goal in eastern meditation traditions. But another goal is creating compassionate people who care about others while carrying that identity-less feeling w
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Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkuO-8hfGhM
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UBER is reducing prices through both unfair and fair(ride sharing fr ex.) means.
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Valuations are about the best possible future. In that future , nobody uses a car but uses UBER to order a personal or a shared car(automated or manual). 17 Billion is nothing for that.
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I don't know. Could it be that rich angels are already investing small amounts of money into crazy tech startups ,but nobody hears about that ?
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What does YC bring to tech heavy startups except connections to funding ? because most of the risk there is technology risk , not market risk, and YC is no tech expert at those subjects.
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In general Apportable sounds great. But in reality - we see little results, relatively. Lots of IOS only apps, still. None of the big guys, who would surely be interested in offering devices/app-stores with full access to ios apps have
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12y ago
This list replaces a centralized list. Maybe with the magic of git this will work better. Or maybe we need better community building and connection around such list. But since such a knowledge source is highly useful for people, and very va
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> but in practise virtually everyone uses the dynamic typing only. Why ? is it a social thing? or a technical thing?
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I agree that Google should add more languages to android. And while Scala is a great language, it's very complex - so it won't benefit many of the less skilled users. A better language would be something with the simplicity and po
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Personally i think human curation is much better than curation by activity analytics, and it can offer better context.
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Maybe the way to judge curation is by comparing curation+search to search alone. With good curation effort, i think that curation+search is a winner , at a relatively minor cost(needing more time). Also curation has the benefit of being a u
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12y ago
>the mysterious absence of Down's Syndrome children in many places these days. could you please expand ?
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I have great appreciation for russian technology, but aren't those exaggeration ? If setun , the ternary computer was so efficient - how is ithat today we use binary machines(and that in general the russians didn't have a moore&#x
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Elizabeth Green , in her book[1] claims that this whole debate regarding teacher evaluation, free markets VS teacher autonomy is wrong. The answer lies in better teacher training. [2] Is an interesting article about that, which shows what
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There are some cases when encouraging shorter messages is very beneficial.
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V-nand is probably not a solution to scaling flash , according to memory experts : http://thememoryguy.com/comparing-samsung-v-nand-to-micron-1...
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If it's running on AWS , isn't it possible to just develop your whole system in AWS and gain the efficiencies?
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BTW ersatz has recently started to offer a deep learning cloud service, which it claims is very easy to use. Has anybody used it ? how is it ?
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The doll concept sounds awfully close to either tor or anonymous remailers(which are much more private). But anonymous remailers had much trouble with authorities so i wonder how that will work.
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for life like communication ,there's high quality telepresence that includes eye contact . does it lose the emotional element? how? and is it possible to add that element, by virtual reality ?
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I wonder: were past disruptive efforts more sucsessfull in unseating incumbents ? And is Clayton Christensen theory responsible for bigger companies' better defense against disruption ?
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