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I would argue that you are generalising based on looking at a particular model of how we use digital assistants. How about scenarios where organisations and individual develop digi…

I believe a large part of getting better at coding is reading about good coding practices and simply reading other developers' code, regardless of its quality. For example when I w…

I glanced at the Clive Thompson article. I disagree. I feel movements like "software carpentry" ( https://software-carpentry.org ) are a good indicator of what mass computer litera…

A problem I found with article is the talk of opacity of statistics techniques in the guise of "big data" used in social media corporations. Statistics used by individuals and comp…

Watching "Rogue One," the real-world historical parallel that came to my head was that Galen Erso was modelled after Werner Heisenberg and Nazi A-bomb programme. I was surprised, H…

I can't recall anywhere in the literature that refers to being inspired by UNIX's select(). Golang's select comes from the Bell family of languages such as select in Newsqueak or a…

Love my Pebble. Has almost everything I wanted in a watch. Found it a pity that on the marketing front, Pebble never seemed to get top of mind (or anything near there). My current'…

Although I have used both CPython and Stackless.py, the specific differences are fading from my memory. While working on a Go style select() for stackless.py I recall there were mi…

Although I am not aware of any recent development, you should look at Stackless Python which was inspired by Limbo. Stackless Python has lightweight threads (stacklets) and synchro…

I find with all the voice APIs out there, I would recommend choosing one and diving in. One of the skills is getting comfortable with the interactions between the voice API and the…

And there is Margaret Thatcher, who had a Bachelors in Science: Chemistry ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher#Early_life_a... ). Canada's former P.M Stephen Harper, i…

Well the Trudeau government just earmarked 50 million for five years to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.

@trtobe: you could ask the supermarkets. Doesn't hurt. Perhaps you would have better luck promoting this idea with grocery stores that have loyalty cards? Loyalty cards I suppose a…

Hi Mandela: By Siri, I am assuming your mean some application that understands speech and carries out commands like answering queries, or carrying out a command? Answering queries …

Case studies provide all the required information in the case itself. Do you believe this to be right? The case study is a learning tool. The required information is a starting poi…

MBAville builds games for business education. Our first product, Project Quant, teaches Accounting, Analytics and Economics in a gamified pizzeria setting. We find the classroom to…

To me, a large part of process improvement is statistics, statistics and more statistics. I don't understand how storytelling alone, just as creating Visio diagrams alone could com…

A paper log book. I like writing by hand.

This idea reminds me of the "Mr. Apology" answering machine project. Poignant stuff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Bridge

I vaguely remember discussions about flight logs and manuals when I worked at a company that made SGML tools. Aren't there certain FAA requirements that revolve around stuff like s…