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I think dang, the moderator of this forum decided that we should stop doing those, if i remember correctly. But there's this: http://firespotting.com/

The gender balance is equal for law/medicine mostly at the school level[1]. And with regards to school[2]: "Research finds that men engage in more abstract thinking about many topi…

With all the fake electronic parts coming from china, are those companies a trustworthy long term source for such companies ? Not sure. One common advice is to buy from authorized …

Bill Gurley's post is very interesting and in-depth. One thing he doesn't mention is the potential of UberPool(combining multiple passenger trips into a single car) to further incr…

Have you tried something like f.lux ? it can remove the black spectrum of colors from computer/tablet displays ,and they claims there's research that this is the spectrum most crit…

Maybe with UberPool(sharing rides with other people on the same route) they'll have more access ? and if you combine that with Uber's SUV service, which enables sharing rides betwe…

What's the big difference from downloading a cross-platform app using torrents ?

I'm not sure it would take the long term to determine reliability: there are engineers who specialize in that,and there are software tools to simulate the reliability of a mechanic…

Of course those are factors , but qbotix has raised investment, has managed to get some commitments for solar projects, and there's even a company using their system in the UK offe…

Yes, it's not very nice to collude. On the other hand, were programmers get very good salaries. To some, maybe even Sergey, it might not seem like an urjent and critical moral issu…

As a practical matter, especially for the robot ,it might not matter who is observing. The fact that one can observe oneself enables further capabilities like better feedback. And …

I think good understanding of conciousness comes from the meditative tradition, and their definition for it is "the part of the brain that observes the other parts". BTW we've alre…

Watson understands natural language(to some extent).That's a general capability, not a specific task.

The article ends in a non serious fashion.So the author discovers his books outside of Amazon.Does this fact has any relevance to how people in general discover books ? On the othe…

Maybe for some people, their passion lies in money/fame/etc ,but they see very clearly how attacking said opportunity would lead to those, and it gives them enough "passion" and mo…

Another sensational title. We have many "virological penicilins". We call them anti-retrovirals. We even got some for influenza(Oseltamivir ). The only difference is that this is "…

They forget that Google also own a high resolution satellite company and they're working on a drone project - all which could be very useful for real time mapping. About parking, t…

I think they're betting on software and mostly on "cognitive computing" and watson. And they're focusing on that, leaving aside businesses that won't really give them a competitive…

The cheapest node today and for a long time is 28nm. But there are many applications where people are willing to pay more for performance, like processors. Second there's a debate …

IBM had a unique process call silicon-on-insulator that gives you something like an extra step in moore's law with regards to power and speed(but not cost). They also had their EDR…

1. There are already systems that before your appointment , gather detailed data and history and display it to the doctor is a condensed and efficient manner. For more details, see…

Basically, low status leads to a lot of stress.So unless the community as a whole is educated towards non-consumer ways , everybody is in a trap.