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I'd like to know how heavy your browsing is in terms of the number of tabs and windows that are open. In my experience chrome blazes it's competition when it doesn't have as many t…

One satisfactory solution that had existed in the early days of Firefox was the use of group tabs that you could access at a click of a button. They were an excellent solution that…

Perhaps it's more to do with the stock of people who learnt CS. In the older generation, CS was a relatively obscure and difficult skill with little to no easy-guides that it filte…

Thanks for the link

Interestingly, When you think about it, the filters in a Convolutional neural net aren't too different from your setup and they provide similar, if not better, performance.

The only thing is that, when this presentation was given, it seems they hadn't worked much more than MNIST (so the new thing now would be the toys-recognition net). The paper howev…

If you roll your own VPN on AWS or the like, don't you lose the benefit of sharing the VPN with thousands of users I believe there is the alternate option of setting up your own VP…

As a layman, I'd be grateful if you could enumerate on this line: It is still just exiting the "computer scientist" stage, not at that "Crappy AI College" level yet

The question is where must the solution be applied ? Is it at the companies where they taken in under-representes groups ? Or Is it at the grassroots level such as by teaching pare…

Agreed, bias would and does plague us in every field. We can however strive to reduce its influence by being conscious of the bias in our decisions specific to the task. However to…

Albeit I can't disagree with your point. There seems to be significant evidence to support the hypothesis that a minimal degree of socialising helps prevent mental decline. For ins…

Yes, thanks to shorter distances and the horse-cart. I assure you it's more expensive to own a horse in an urban environment.

As for what might explain the near-extinction humanity apparently once experienced, perhaps another kind of catastrophe, such as disease, hit the species. It may also be possible t…

Our genetic homogeneity implies that anatomically modern humans arose relatively recently (perhaps 200,000 years ago) and that our population size was quite small at one time (perh…

I came across this CMU presentation on why the purported ubiquity of power laws must be taken with a grain of salt: https://goo.gl/23PP7v Check from slide 32. As someone who doesn'…

I cannot disagree with you but the fact is and remains that the field is a budding one and this is but a building block towards better understanding the nature of using sets of geo…

I believe carbon capture is a newer innovation whose development had been stalled due to its prohibitive costs. The first carbon capture experiments were scheduled to be conducted …

Given the level of economic and educational disparity that persists in the population it's an obvious consequence that you'd have a country that can send an unmanned mission to Mar…

Such individuals are often chosen to be on the board for their experience and networking prowess. It's quite true that testing their mental faculty would be a challenge. Therefore …

We could try and replicate the degradation processs or find a similar one in the lab. Nature has often been an inspiration for new inventions such as burrs for Velcro.

Could you state reasons to support your assertion that a nonagenarian shouldn't be on the board of an innovative tech. Company ?

Silicon is a close contender to Carbon as evidenced by the creation of a bacterial enzyme that efficiently incorporates silicon into simple hydrocarbons[1]. [1] http://www.sciencem…

I believe the definition of Streisand effect requires an addendum stating that it applies only when a large audience is involved. Customers or clients are individuals who're bereft…