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Mine were:

77 Olympic Destroyer 78 Knaves out 86 The LinkedIn Incident 97 The Pizza Problem

Same thoughts here on the downward trend. It feels like a good concept, luck and good timing re Twitch exit. A bit less about the product per se.

You read my mind! I was just going to post this -

So here's a real application than Snap and kiddie jokes (not saying they are not fun!) - a scramble suit to protect witness/whistle-blower identity

How possible is it for users to have haptic gloves for typing instead of using controllers? I remain positive on VR productivity tools in future but think we have to get flexible and creative on hardware. Personally, I would love to have collaborative meetings with my colleagues worldwide, even just to demo my modelling ideas on a whiteboard which I think would be tremendously helpful (I believe FB keynote last year also voiced the same sentiment). I fully agree with the hardware limitations at the moment but certainly don't think investment and work now is a waste of time. To push this area forward, we also need to find compelling experiences that are unique to VR, like remote presentation rehearsal, collaborative white board brainstorming sessions for 3D design etc. Wearing a VR headset to work 8 to 10 hours straight is not the answer I look forward to, at least not for now. What VR is strong about to me todate are: minimising limitations resulted from physical distances and fading memories of past experience, as well as its ability to create limitless imaginary worlds, boosting multi-dimensional communication.

I too feel I couldn't pass the $190m cost in the first place. Granted, I can see where the cost ramps up as explained by @morei. Could someone explain whether this is for the 10-year contract or a license of some sort for each year?

If it is annually, they got 17m tickets over 7 years so for 10 years, assuming they issue just over 19m tickets, that means each parking ticket needs to be at least $10 to cover the cost, even at $100 per ticket, IBM is banking on 10% share? That seems excessive to me but I never worked in government so could someone enlighten me on this?

By any chance there's a conflict of interest for government to be willing to make improvement and cut down parking tickets or any other similar source of income? Or maybe that's what public audit is for?

I'm half way through Google's crash course on ML which I think is helpful. As a machine learning field guide, I also find Andrew Ng's short paper series Machine Learning Yearning helpful. I watched the first FB video and didn't feel like they added anything particularly interesting. It's almost like they feel obliged to put something out there under the FB name.

This is actually how I select books in a book shop. I admit I was ruined by all things tech with very limited attention span. In fact I only read the first paragraph over about a dozen books on the website and finally decided on one which turned out to be The hitchhacker's guide to the galaxy.

My suggestion here is not necessarily putting out the first page but a page the author feels most representative of the story/view/idea. Personally I would either draw to a unique plot or some really smooth/beautiful verse. In both scenarios, I don't think the first page may necessarily be representative enough, leaving me the shame of missing a damn good book.

Love the idea though! Thank you.

This looks pretty neat! Thank you.

This is just personal experience. I have both google home and alexa (plus a dot). My observation for my use:

1. Google responds more to my command with slightly (not much) more natural tones;

2. Google recipe for cooking (I tried only once) is tremendously more helpful with waits and timers automatically added on;

3. Alexa has better sound for music although I only listen for working background not for serious music listening;

4. If you ask Google to say hi to Alexa it does whilst Alexa would say a long blurb about your contact skill is not available blah blah. But she responds to Google's greetings;

5. Calling "Alexa" is just easier than calling two words "hey google";

6. When Alexa skills work, they are awesome but it really is annoying to remember all the cues for skill names which i don't.

Overall, they are both very limited still. Right now I use Google a little bit more. It probably also helps that Google knows everything about me given I work in front computers all day but not so much with Amazon.

maybe I wasn't making it clear. I didn't mean they should be different. I'm merely saying their customer facing staff don't seem to be as brilliant in customer service as their engineers in engineering. But reading it twice, i realise it can be interpreted either way. I don't disagree with you.

I remain neutral on the story's truthfulness but I think there's a difference between the quality of Google's engineers and the customer facing employees they hire.

Isn't it ironic whilst Google's engineers are mass protesting against military contracts, Uber already signed a whole bunch without any moral dilemma whatsover. Tells a lot about the company ethics there.

On a separate note, could someone enlighten how stacked co-rotoring (moving towards the same direction) may make the aircraft silent and not noisier?

As a Londonder, I regular switch between black cab, uber and gett (hailing service for black cab). I wouldn't say the 'trade is dying', the quality and reliability of London taxis are far more superior than Uber drivers (with occasional exceptions). Also I've seen and known of these little green 'sheds' but never approached them. Always thought they were a "little cult" themselves in an endearing way.

It seems cheap to me. I did some digital marketing course there. The classes are more on the basic side but certainly a good intro for some basics in programming and digital business.

Think that's deliberate.

PS; you need to consider the context, the author is an heir to Samuel Johnson and was active in late 1800 to 1930s. For that period, I think his entries were probably considered 'plain' English.

Years ago, I walked into a pharmacy in London. The Indian owner was having a chitchat and told me they invaded China with no troops using Buddhism. The ignorance and arrogance were just unbelievable.

Thank you! I've fished around a bit without success.

Judging from the photos, I'm not sure how well off these patients are. Bargaining from $25k to $8k was impressive but if you need to bargain that hard for a lift machine, how much is it to have a battery backup? and how difficult is it to have a proper hook up? or find someone who can do it properly?

What I never understand is under open source license of any sort, do people generally expect credentials? Fame or money or both, do you think you should get at least one? Just a question, no opinion on Mr Tanenbaum's letter per se.

I just want to point out the grammatical error here in the title. I mean I get it - he's busy but this is a core concept and it's in the title.

Oh nice. So your work will allow programmers to work in vr? Or more generally to have a VR office for collaboration.

I definitely clicked a couple more just by looking at the screenshots than reading the plain text index. I wonder if there's psychological lure in graphics. Thank you!

Incidentally, I was just visiting Liscannor in County Clare, Ireland over the weekend. Our driver passed JPH's museum there. This should probably count as a Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (aka frequency illusion).

Echo most what mentioned - add:

The Economist audio version - to cover a broad view of world affairs for general awareness but not in-depth analysis

Pocket - I use Pocket app which recommends based on articles I saved into it. Their AI seems good for relevancy.

Google/trends - hit and miss but occassionally useful stuff Medium digest - even less hit and miss but occassionally Project Syndicate - again, occassionally https://www.project-syndicate.org/

+HN of course - this is daily must

It is an English language and writing style classic. Recommend for sure but not sure abt the relevance here.

The point is the 'perceived' dignity by barristers not touching money but only dealing with their clients on the cases. There is indeed a point that barristers are often 'academically brilliant and emotionally fragile' and incredibly eloquent I should add. It is not an optimisation issue or machine learning issue. It is almost the core of humanity - emotions that we will and do not want AI to replace. Well, at least for my part.

Nice work!