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by sharun 10y ago
One of the first industries to see automation happen was the textile industry with the invention of the punch card and eventually the power loom. A hundred fifty years later the (manual) handloom textile industry is still the second largest
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by sharun 10y ago
If you want more blue whales you need more ocean. And if the ocean don't have its few blues, krill and algae explode and the whole system, sooner or later collapses. Nature has had a long time to find alternate ways of keeping ecosyste
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by sharun 10y ago
Probably the Israelis. Constantly living with existential uncertainties and surviving them will likely be useful down the road.
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by sharun 10y ago
For human level vision and speech (and even search) long term we might not need computational clouds and data centers. We don't see them in nature. The models/indexes will likely just come prepackaged on device.
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by sharun 10y ago
Who cares? Why do you pay attention to hardcore supporters of anything? A hardcore supporter of Facebook or Google would say we could never run our sites like Wikipedia. Don't pay attention to them either.
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by sharun 10y ago
It had a bit of the opposite effect on me as a lazy kid. It showed me that intuition only goes so far, beyond a point one has to put in some serious hard work (memorize patterns/algos etc) to see how deep one can go in any field.
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by sharun 10y ago
1. Remove the like button or limit the number of times it appears per week person post count. 2. Maintain a public bug list not on software issues but social issues being created by social networks. These cannot be solved by software develo