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2551.
by retrac 7y ago
> An actual quote, yelled before storming off: "oh, that is just like you, trying to solve everything". Maybe they wanted comfort, and not a solution?
2552.
by retrac 7y ago
It's little more than an educated guess on my part, but I figure there's about two orders of magnitude in improvements in processing speed exploitable with current processes, if a big-budget chip were designed specifically for ML
2553.
by retrac 7y ago
Indeed. Television? Internet. Telephone? Internet. Messaging? Internet. Without the Internet, my ability to communicate here would be reduced to printed pamphlets and receiving radio broadcasts. In the great 2003 power outage in easter
2554.
by retrac 7y ago
> Some kind of physical movement Much of our thought is based on metaphor of body movement.
2555.
by retrac 7y ago
Lithium deposits are already facing depletion and the price has been steadily rising for a decade now with the new demand for li-ion batteries. Building enough battery capacity for the grid would be far more than current world demand for Li
2556.
by retrac 7y ago
> I don't recall ever having a single supporter in my claim that a person's genome is private medical data. Huh. In Canada, that's a settled question. It is, at least with regard to e.g. a medical record that contains ge
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by retrac 7y ago
Running with the argument for a bit, I'd point out that such analysis reveals considerable biomedical data. Along with timing data on who uses the restroom, invasion of medical privacy would not be very hard.
2558.
by retrac 7y ago
You're assuming free trade, which is often not what actually exists. It's hard enough to get American beef approved to be sold in Canada, let alone ship it around the world.