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The Huawei Watch(droid-life.com)
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I'm surprised that he didn't talk about the last decade of US science funding. The US has radically cut back on research support. In theory, it shouldn't matter where the science happens. Publication means anyone can read it.
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A little bit of LaTeX can bring a lot of authenticity to what is basically a corporate blog post. How about some of the actual data used to make this claim?
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You could modify a Manta Ray[0] to accommodate the over-one-shoulder position. But it seems like to problem isn't well defined. There are a lot of problems that shoulder poles solve. "Moving stuff cheaply under human power" c
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
When I think of a minimum viable autonomous corporation I think of a bot that crawls twitter for trending slogans; puts the trending slogans on shirts; sell the shirts on Amazon; place manufacturer orders for shirts only after they sell on
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The US digital Service should also make and maintain a framework that state and local governments can implement. Paying a parking ticket in Los Angeles is a trip to the 90's.
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Yes! There are so many DMV things I'd like to do online.
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It would be really great to fix the IRS's digital presence. Make TurboTax obsolete. I hate TurboTax.
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I know a lot of ER doctors. They all hate the software that they have to work with; especially the "resource control" software that stands between them and the drugs and tools they need to treat people. This seems like another too
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Oil futures for 2020 are trading at $67/barrel. If you think that's low, maybe you should buy some. If you think that's right, maybe this will last more then a few months.
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and Junger v.Daley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junger_v._Daley http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1342657?sid=2110509888...
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by tdaltonc 12y ago
They've done a good job keeping up PlanOut. https://github.com/facebook/planout
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I started thinking about the sensory transduction in the right pinky that culminates in the prediction of a class of visual gestalt in the temporoparietal junction.
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What if Google says, "no"? What if they choose to implement a service that they don't have keys to?
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Define "need." Science is funded by governments. Certainly there are more smart passionate people then can be supported by the current funding level. So how much science do you want? I want more then we're getting. I think we
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I would expect that most grad students have plan-B options that can beat minimum wage.
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Google's legal department might be a fun place for a machine learning expert to spend some time teaching machines to detect bogus DMCA takedowns.
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I grew up in Orange County CA which was an early adaptor of water reclamation technology. Every kid in the county took at least one field trips to the water reclamation facility in elementary school. Typically the field trip would be groupe
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Hate is love; War is peace; and everything is marketing.
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You can use a bitcoin-like system to build an agent that holds money in escrow and then automatically delivers it when a condition is met[1]. This is the simplest form of a "Smart Contract." Most contracts are credible because the
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Four Areas of Legal Ripe for Automation Automating these aspects of legal practice wouldn't disrupt the way that industry functions. It would just make a lot of paralegals and young lawyers obsolete (and make legal services a lot che
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This list isn't actually about disruption. It's about automating the stasis quo. Smart contrasts would be genuinely disruptive.
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It's known to be impossible to create a consistent and axiomatic set of knowledge [1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_t...
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That question (and the survey it's a part of) are usually interpreted to be a measure of impulse control and ability to self monitor.
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Some people value autonomy and freedom from obligation more than money and influence.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot’s Reach(nytimes.com)
4 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|0 comments
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You mean " . . . deregulated labor market ." Other parts of the economy would still need to be regulated.
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I don't think that the engineer in the story about the radio actually understands the radio. He could reproduce an identical radio, but he doesn't understand what's really necessary for a radio. He doesn't understand rad
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The tale of the neuroscientists and the computer: why mechanistic theory matters(journal.frontiersin.org)
2 points by tdaltonc 12y ago|1 comments
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>Why is the catholic church panhandling in this way? Surely they can afford to do it themselves. For the same reason funded startup's use crowd funding. It demonstrates that this is something a lot of people care about and builds co

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