tudorw

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   by tudorw 9y ago

   Indeed :) Me too... I'm just assuming, given they have a captive audience, the hardware chops to deliver electronic devices at scale and a huge pile of cash, they would be foolish not to be working on it, while Google Glass was a headl
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   If they can get some attractive software and prime some devs ready for their new AR device it may be worth it.
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   My store of wealth, denominated in GBP, is no more 'real' than bitcoin, however, the issuer is a large entity, with deep and diverse global assets and the military means to protect those assets. The GBP I hold is a promise that th
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   Good job the Internet is only a beta right :) I think the Meshnet will win in the end.
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   here's a paper looking at which indexes work with corn, wheat and irrigation water, it's very likely each crop will have an index that is more accurate; "The following spectral indices were examined: Difference Vegetation Ind
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   they should have just said they've not moved for at least 5999 years...
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   Fights for control have been going on in various forms since the start, '1978 the Post Office proposed to open a new service, called E-COM' from 'Mail Chauvinism: The Magicians, the Snark and the Camel' by Ted Nelson ht
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   thanks, I looked at NDWI too http://openweathermap.org/news/post/ndvi-ndwi-differences-an... "NDWI in comparison with NDVI is more accurate indicator of plant humidity. NDWI is calculated with the help of wat
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   by tudorw 9y ago

   This reminds of the 'Magic Eye' craze, while there's an impressive technical aspect, emotionally these leave me cold, in every case I preferred the raw image to the processed one.
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    this is a silly argument, no matter the medium there is room for original creativity, people didn't stop painting because they ran out of colours...
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    He should mention it's essentially reboot of the classic Dungeon Master game, that was a very popular title, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Master_(video_game)
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    If like me you are from the UK it can be hard to appreciate how well aligned our country is to starting businesses, the origins of protection for companies originates with corporate activity around the 13th Century with the http:/&#x2
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    Thanks, that's for me, your position ties with what I've read about cognition recently, that when we use a new word, it's like a shortcut for the brain, the more we use a word, the more the shortcut is reinforced. There was a
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    an aside, but an interesting one, Biophotons... was new to me, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=biophoton
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    Agreed and YouTube could do a lot better, my child does not need a library of 30 million videos, I would rather have a well curated whitelist of 10000.
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    seems like a lot of value locked away in these training sets, is there a commercial platform to buy and sell trained sets yet ?, answering my own question, yes, https://algorithmia.com/ any others ?
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    it's very IBM, the UI mock ups in particular looked very usable, no one would be fired for using this font...
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    If you're a parent, you can play this strategy on your children, instead of a simple star reward chart, where good task = reward, reward spuriously and without cue, when you reward them, tell them you know they are always trying hard t
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    some competition, that's an advantage ;)
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    strictly off-topic, but has anyone else noticed on the Yoga Book (the 'Halo' Keyboard') that they screen printed the physical locator nibs from the F and J onto the flat keyboard :)
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    Good question, how about if FB was a library, and free access was granted, but the selection of books was controlled by one person.
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    integrity being, "the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles." okay, so, I don't have hard evidence of their strong moral principles, that said, to be in the VC business that long must be a fairly good ind
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    refreshing isn't it, nothing shouts integrity louder than sharing failure.
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    indeed, "People think it was just the Nazis that operated concentration camps. Britain used them in South Africa, Ireland, Palestine, Malaya & Kenya." https://twitter.com/crimesofbrits
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    s'ok, I got it ;)
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    I agree, recycling is a veil of respectability over a sham situation.
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    No, it's a general comment that I expect higher standards in general, I cannot comprehend when a product that is made for children has lower standards than an adult product, even at the same price point it's sometimes apparent tha
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    I'm eternally disappointed that the highest quality products are usually produced for adults, it seems perverse, surely handing the most sophisticated tools to the youngest would be more productive ?
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    some kind of twisted funerary marching tune, something befitting our imminent obsolescence that strikes fear into the heart...
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    by tudorw 9y ago

    Thanks for broadening the discussion, authorities are a construct of our society that have come about usually in response to a need, they are mostly funded using our taxes and the output of the state's productivity, directed by our pol