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Calling Karpathy a YouTuber is like referring to Einstein as a Physics Teacher.

Great! That opens the door for other startups that ARE responsible with people's personal data.

GDPR is just good data protection practice.

I'm doing my OU Masters in Maths now, in my 40s. It is definitely hard, but I'm enjoying it. Personally I struggle to learning things thoroughly unless I'm working in the subject, …

Be careful with the direction of causality here. It may be that giving up his hobbies hastened his dementia, OTOH it could easily be that the onset of his dementia led to him givin…

He links to a Woodford Investment analysis that states that Brexit might not be that bad for the UK (the report is from Feb 2016). This goes against every other analyst report that…

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I'm @hitechnomad on twitter. I'll tweet once it's on github. The system I'm open sourcing is my own system for trading on my Interactive Brokers account. It should be able to handl…

I will be releasing my own algo trading system open source in Feb, if anyone is interested. I'll do a post on HN once it's released.

Agreed. You could easily argue that in an agrarian society children are an economic benefit (because your wealth is based on working the land), whereas in an urban society having c…

Me too! I was trying to get a router working, and was pinging slashdot to find out if I was routing to the net. No response from slashdot - hmmmm, must have a network problem at my…

But what I think is interesting about this story is the effects of a shrinking middle class on a society. Could this be a glimpse into what could happen in Western society if unemp…