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Yes. You can still visit the area, in what is now mostly Chinatown, though one of the main feature of Five Points, The Collect Pond is now gone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_…

Canada seem to have imported the tipping culture and default tipping amounts (a la Square Register) from the US. The explanation for tipping in the US has been the lack of national…

Thanks for links. I had no idea. I tried flying an RC copter some time ago (piston engine) and getting it to hover was a nerve-wracking triumph. These folks and electric motors hav…

S3X DRIVE could be a cheeky pun along the lines of The Boring Company.

Apparently climate change is hard to reason about due to our cognitive biases. I know that Kaheman has lost a little luster of late I still buy this: "Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel p…

I suspect you are being slightly tongue in cheek about the bandwidth for ads (yay 5G ;-).) With that said, I think a key benefit of on-device learning is the privacy angle. The Pix…

>How long until the next big idea? The last "AI winter", after expert systems, was 15 years. Oddly enough neural nets languished in the frozen tundra for 50+ years if you take it b…

This phenomenon is known as Risk Compensation[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

Rugby has also included head injury assessments (HIA) into its laws. They sports governing body introduced HIAs in 2012 and they have been getting more stringent over the years. At…

Morgan Stanley has a history of languages in the vein. MS was a big APL shop in the 80s. Arthur Whitney[1] worked at MS and developed the languages A, and A+. He later wrote J, and…

Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They a…

I love the teamwork and mutual understanding. I'd have a hard time making a circular object like that out of clay, yet these guys collaborate to make this massive thing with very l…

I'm guessing it won't be long until someone uses this technique to computer and apply perturbation masks to pornographic imagery and make NN-based porn detectors/filters (like the …

I'm not sure if this is "correct" but "Eats, shoots & leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation"[1] is a fun read on an adjacent topic. It too gets berated by some but I e…

With respect to Iran it's worth reflecting on the fact that the US engineered a coup in Iran to depose Mosaddegh in 1953[1]. At that time the UK and US did not like the winner of a…

Reminds me a little of Doug Lenat's Eurisko [1] fleets for Traveler TCS in 1981: lots of cheap, defenseless, and heavily armed boats. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurisko

I programed in Smalltalk-80 from 1990-1995. I used it at Morgan Stanley to build a derivative trading system that was distributed between London and NYC. It was running on networed…

I am pleasantly surprised to hear that him speaking in terms of the metric system.

Are there any translations of Borges that our local aficionados would recommend over others?

Lisp was defined in the 50s and implemented in the 60s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)

Another solution to look at: https://guardianproject.info/apps/chatsecure/ Android-only right now but open source.

I'd be interested in a similar chart for rugby union where my guess is that the increase in height and weight has happened more quickly. It's just a hunch but I am guessing that ov…

Another new player that looks promising is Pelias ( http://mapzen.com/pelias/ ). Early days but it's open source ( https://github.com/mapzen/pelias ) and it seems to be improving a…

Samsung seems to understand that TVs get upgraded at a slower rate than the TV's smarts evolve and that software updates can only get you so far. They have started to ship somethin…