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by yorak 12y ago
The idea of digital assistant does not require it to be tied to any specific device. It can live in the cloud and follow you anywhere the entrypoint being any device you are using (and you are logged on). Think of Jarvis from the Iron man m
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by yorak 12y ago
I've been pondering about this for some time and even more after the introduction of Siri, Google Now, and others. I've come to the conclusion that in the near future (artificially) intelligent personal digital assistants will bec
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by yorak 12y ago
Mee too, please share in pastebin or somewhere.
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by yorak 12y ago
Automating a fleet of trucks has come up few times in these comments. Many commenters have raised concerns of difficult and special situations. I have worked with machine vision and currently I'm doing my PhD in computational logistics
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by yorak 12y ago
> the system tries every setting and graphs the results so it's easy to pick out the best setting. How would that happen? How does the system know what "good" is? In a research field of Parameter Tuning we try to answer th
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by yorak 13y ago
Also, I recently found out that Android app from Linkedin extracts your gmail contacts. From what I could gather, you cannot opt-out. I was quite annoyed by this. I also see this a more probable explanation to contact harvesting than hackin
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by yorak 13y ago
In fact I just discovered that there are Pumped-storage hydroelectricity plants (PSPS) because they were planning to build one also to Finland into a old mine (with mile long shaft). PSPS could solves the power storage problem for wind and
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by yorak 13y ago
It could be worse, you know. The car colliding with the modern day Chevy could be European car of that era. Here, see Citroen 2CV (the first car in that queue to be hit) to disappear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR0LRSLCN
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by yorak 14y ago
Perhaps could even be reutilized as one? I see it is a 50 USD off-the-self extruder for your DIY 3D printer. Add steppers with electronics, draw by hand some fixtures, add "vitamins" (nuts, bolts etc.) and and go.
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by yorak 14y ago
There is a flaw in your rationale. Creative endeavours are a high risk activity. Heck, just see how big % of startups fail. Also, we do not know how many failed projects Bellard has started (I'd suspect hundreds?). Us mere mortars have bill
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by yorak 14y ago
The question from previous discussion remains unanswered. How does he finance his production of top notch open source software? At least for me, the day to day churn of my day job leaves me too mentally exhausted to chase the crazy ideas I
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by yorak 14y ago
Ray Dalio, the founder of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates includes self-examination, honesty and introspection as one of the key ingredients in getting what you want from life. I take the article as another datapoint to support h
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by yorak 14y ago
I think some people take AVTizzles comment or, as I see it, flow of thought too harshly. My interpretation of his comment is that he is not giving a statement or preaching about the true way (tm) of doing things Right. I feel that he did a
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by yorak 14y ago
Because: Finland? We have 2 month summer vacation in elementary school (189 work days/year). The school days seem to begin around 8.30 am. And we were long time the best country in PISA rankings (currently ranked 3nd after a city state of
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by yorak 14y ago
I think one reason why dogmatic advocating is so prevalent is that introduction of new processes and methodology to a team or organization requires considerable push. You have to overcome huge amounts of resistance from the people the chang
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by yorak 14y ago
I find this a good approach for marketing interesting new (indie) games for Android. However to be honest, the indie thing is not so much of an differentiator in mobile space than it is in PC gaming? Big studio games are still rather rare o