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The only surprising thing here is that those guys at deepmind were surprised by their findings.

It's not.

If a cryptcurrency grows large enough to be the size of an economy, the value of the cryptocurrency should grow or shrink with the economy, like a stock market index. At that point…

That would be an argument against stock market and interest rate as well. If a significant number of companies waited those 3 months to invest, there would be no deflation. The def…

legalization = regulation Alcohol regulation obviously wouldn't change

There's plenty of people who does revolutionary work after their 30s. Look at current nobel prize winners in physics for example. Many of them weren't young when they did their mos…

TeX isn't that widely used outside of fields like physics, math or computer science. Academics in others field like using Word.

Where I live you need a copy of your passport to port a number, in addition the new sim can only be sent to your government registered address, I think that would be quite hard to …

"maybe in some do-gooding place like Norway they are allowed to be professional without interference" Nope, far from it. Norway might be better than most places though.

Not all kids I went to school with is alive, for example there was one guy who one day went fast down a hill on his bicycle, straight onto the road and was hit by a car. One guy I …

I think he's referring to Armed Forces Bikers, a UK-based motorcycle charity to assist former members of the armed forces.

If you're in a rich country, you're still very likely to get very poor rates through friends and family as a teenager, around 1-10% of market rate for a college graduate, at least …

Perhaps the compiler could be optimized using deep learning. Isn't basically the problem that it has to go through a search space that's too large to find an ideal solution?

Looks like there a medieval goatse there as well http://assets.atlasobscura.com/article_images/lg/41889/image...

Saw this the other day. Someone working on making Wikipedia on MaidSafe https://safenetforum.org/t/safe-drive-wikipedia-on-safe-tech... https://github.com/loureirorg/wikirofs Not s…

Huge amounts of the cost of clinical trials could in theory be cut by automating many of the tasks. A lot would be done if all computer systems across hospitals (and lab equipment)…

Objectively useless and destructive drug is quite a statement, when there is a lot of research that suggests it can have positive effects. It doesn't kill you, nor does it irrepara…

You might be interested in this http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-figured-out-how-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_erasure

I can think of ways to automate most jobs long before we have human-like AI. There might be many things that will end up being too expensive to automate before we have human-like A…

Most interviews I've been to have been the same. I was talking about the ones where you have to solve some tricky algorithm questions at a whiteboard while someone is staring at yo…

There is really no comparison. Explaining architecture, ideas etc to your colleagues has pretty much no resemblance to a whiteboard interview, where you have several people staring…

Almost. I have a five minute walk to the office from the train station. While uber might be door-to-door for now, the streets around my office will probably soon be closed for cars…

Damn Uber is cheap where you live. For me to go to work it would be Uber: $1000 a month, 15 minute drive. Train: $75 a month, takes 5 minutes

I've had similar experiences, but I don't think they're anything other than internally generated by the brain, especially since I've also been able to morph what I've seen into oth…

I don't disagree with that, but I do think there's massive improvement waiting to be done on scientific search engines. Not sure if there will be any big breakthrough until compute…