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by tassl 11y ago
The atrocities committed during these periods were not made in the name of atheism, which is the main difference with ISIS or inquisition. Whatever they did, it was not consequence of their atheistic beliefs.
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by tassl 11y ago
Just to be precise, while his feat is incredible, you can't really make this correlation with the WR in 200m (any age), and even less use the absolute difference. The main reason is that the pool of people able to participate is way sm
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by tassl 13y ago
Thanks for your answer! I guess I would have to be more precise :) My intent is to have a technical role in the space, not a management one. I can imagine how most of the problems facing require machine learning and statistics, so I am more
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by tassl 13y ago
I have always been interested on life-extension with a focus on healthy life. My background is mainly engineering (computer science, mechanical engineering) with focus on machine learning and statistics. I was thinking on taking some gradua
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by tassl 13y ago
>It saddens me that modern scientists are such cynics. History has proven that "impossible" is just a point of view and that many things widely believed to be impossible in the past are completely doable. Science is based on sk
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by tassl 13y ago
I would add "The cleanest race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters" ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Cleanest-Race-Themselves-ebook/dp/... ). I have been reading about North Korea for a while,
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by tassl 13y ago
I think it is a pretty fair question, even though I am not entirely sure of what is the definition of minority on this matter. What is the percentage of people that the system should take care of? There are always outliers for which this (o
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by tassl 13y ago
I think he was being sarcastic on how buying somebody drinks is considered socially ok (even expected on some countries).
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by tassl 13y ago
> more about the fact that a huge amount of human potential is being wasted in India. I think your text would make more sense by using "the world" instead of restricting to "India". I have thought multiple times about
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by tassl 13y ago
These numbers are highly exaggerated. For example, the largest christian church has more than 1 billion members (member=baptized) and I don't think that currently there is any way of officially leaving the church after being baptized..
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by tassl 13y ago
I find it (a bit) ironic that the WikiLeaks lawyer that is giving legal advice to Snowden is Baltasar Garzon, who was suspended for improper eavesdropping. *As a clarification, this suspension was mostly political, being Spain one of the mo
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by tassl 13y ago
Can you point to some (respected) publications on the field that can prove cognitive enhancement?
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by tassl 13y ago
After studying in both Spain and US, I can only say that this is correct (even though I did undergrad in Spain and grad studies in the US I think I have a pretty good idea of how the undergraduate studies work in the US). Spain has a (more)
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by tassl 13y ago
I am not going to argue against vaccination (which seems to be the target of a lot of conspiration theories), but I am really interested on where are the limits of this logic: are we going to "use" only vaccination or any factor that might/
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by tassl 13y ago
Not really commenting on your appreciation (I don't really know the details of Clinton-Bush-Obama's politiques on electric/hydrogen automobiles) but in the university where I studied some of my department-mates were working on fuel cells an
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by tassl 13y ago
It has always puzzled me why a professor would be willing to repeat the answers from previous years. Some account that people that work "harder" would be solving previous exams, but this is given that the exams are available to all the clas
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by tassl 14y ago
The same thing than purchasing something at 3am. Those are only behaviors associated with higher chances of fraud. With the models they work p(fraud|prepaid_card) > p(fraud|!prepaid_card)
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by tassl 14y ago
Humans lifespan was that low since the high mortality rate the first months of life. After the first years, the expected lifespan increased dramatically. A humans need a few years to be able to reproduce and those who were able to have a lo
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by tassl 14y ago
> I love to re-examine common knowledge we all take for granted as much as anyone, but there are good, scientific reasons people say "eat lots of whole grains" Most of the studies you would find are observational studies made comparing
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by tassl 14y ago
10K years hasn't been enough for cats, apparently. Plus, the lifespan of a dog is ~7 times shorter than the lifespan of a man, which will give them at least 7 generations more to adapt. Obviously there has been some adaptation to the change
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by tassl 14y ago
Our habits, the way of living, having computers, cars, houses, roads... is killing more animals in quantity and variety (and in a more cruel and irremediable way) than they're killed for food. Everybody in this thread, giving the "right" co
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by tassl 14y ago
I don't think you can't really establish a correlation between animal and human diet, and how a specific "balanced" diet might affect them. The difference in diet and life span are two important factors that might affect any study.
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by tassl 14y ago
Whilst I understand your point, that's a matter of choice (or needs). You can perfectly buy, cook and eat 3 times/day without wasting too much time. Of course, if you want to have a gourmet experience in every meal it would be complicated.
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by tassl 14y ago
I have always thought that Universities should offer self-contained courses, with original homework and practice, specially in technical courses. Books should be considered as reference/reinforcement materials, never a requirement for anyth
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by tassl 14y ago
I tried lucid dreaming a few years ago. Initially, the main problem that I was having was to wake up as soon as I realized I was in the middle of a dream. It took me almost no time to go back to sleep but I "was missing" the dream every tim
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by tassl 15y ago
The "Robotic Car" is nothing else but a way of attracting people to the course. Reading the contents of the course, we could easily substitute "Programming a Robotic Car" by "Artificial Intelligence for Robotics". I would like to see a bit
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by tassl 15y ago
Precisely my point here (as I mention in the last paragraph) is that knowledge is becoming widely available and new ways of learning are arising. You are no longer an autodidact and you are studying the topics the college is telling you to
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by tassl 15y ago
During my "learning" life I have been in both sides; in different fields but definitely in both sides. While I have learn most of my knowledge in the university (2 undergrads, 2 masters and finishing a phd) there have been other topics besi
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by tassl 15y ago
Humans love to classify and compare. Most of us compete to demonstrate we are better and the intelligence is not different. Having a way to measure this human parameter precisely is a normal consequence. Plus, from a more useful perspective
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by tassl 15y ago
Any reason on why they are compacting the courses during the Fall quarter? It could be interesting to have AI and ML separated in Fall-Winter quarters. Anybody knows if they plan on doing something similar in future quarters? I love the ide

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