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Wow, I'm surprised how functional the 3D planner is. Totally didn't realize they had taken things to this level.

I thought you were making a sarcastic joke in reference to "Web 2.0" till I saw this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/industry-4-0-its-all-about-info...

Would you say you have a disdain for the "evangelical tradition" because of their particular ideology or how they go about promoting it?

I'm not baiting you I'm generally interested.

I can't tell you whether something has you or you have it, but I think this quote by Albert Einstein is helpful:

“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”

If assembling a piece of furniture makes people attached to it, imagine how attached they would be to a piece of furniture they perceive that they have had a part in actually designing?

1) Have a set of standard template furniture items

2) Allow user to view the item through a WebGL viewer (or however its done these days).

3) Allow the user to adjust certain aspects of that piece of furniture within the viewer. IE desk surface height, depth, space between legs etc.

4) Use parametric algorithms to adjust the componentry accordingly within existing load bearing parameters. For example, "desktop needs attachment screws every 200mm". This kind of formula is already commonplace in many CAD packages [1].

5) Have the backend software export the parts as CNC cut files and create a bill of materials.

6) Package the cut parts and additional components (screws etc) and ship direct to client.

7)(optional depending on level of unscrupulousness) Have the parametric algorithms incorporate a fatigue based breaking point so they can justify throwing the crumbling desk away in five years and you can sell them more furniture "they" designed that is more in line with current trends.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GClGn1Y7bNA#t=3m58s

EDIT: formatting

The Cost Of Discipleship by Deitrich Boenhoffer. Being aware and committed to something bigger than myself rather then trying to find the next thing to make money and potentially become, as Tim Ferriss calls it, another fat guy in a red BMW.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we “have a fever” when really the fever has us. – Seneca

Totally agree. The idea that the laws of gravity shouldn't apply if you're "big enough" seems like it could throw the planets out of alignment.

Is there a name for the effect, or at least percieved effect, that people are becoming less "teachable" because we're so used to just googling stuff that we sometimes percieve ourselves as a fount of knowledge because we mistakenly attribute all the answers to ourselves and not the little gadget in our pocket?

I don't think the Flynn effect is applicable.

Currently reading The Big Short and struggling to get my head around what actually happened - now its supposedly happening again?

EDIT: I came back from reading the article a second time and was relieved to see that the speculative title had been changed.

I just read the associated article [1] and somehow, despite the fact that I've understood that neural networks and deep learning have been coming for years, it has caused some kind of explosion in my brain - like this is all coming true quicker than I thought. What struck me in particular was the notion that physical work has been revolutionised and now thought-based work will be revolutionised - removing from large chunks of humanity that must fundamental of needs - something to frantically do all day.

Can anyone recommend online courses in deep learning, neural networks and machine vision? I have kids that I need to prepare for a world that I just realised I hardly understand.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-george-hotz-self-driv...

I only make cards on the android mobile app - have never used Anki any other way.

You make a good point - small nuclear powerplants though?

Great series of videos.

Most people remember the analogy that if car engines had progressed at the same rate as computing then a rolls Royce would run at 100,000 km/h and have an engine the size of this full stop. Or something similar.

Ironically, it seems we're now at the end of the internal combustion era and the abacus makers are desperately trying to refine a soon to be redundant craft.

"When you go to an Art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires..." - quote stolen from Banksy

It would seem they could cause a lot of unnecessary damage IE: "shooting in every direction at once and asking questions later".

It would seem logical that, given their demonstrated capabilities, intelligence would feed them helpful projects; "here, break this for us" allowing them to make the difference they want to make rather than potentially damaging the efforts of coalition forces; "Sir, we were about to find the location of target X through a private chat platform we had infiltrated, however, Anons got there and destroyed the platform...."

Developed in the Netherlands, yet this is the most Kiwi use of technology I have ever seen...

In terms of mass energy storage from intermittent renewable sources, this seems like a winner - less cost means increased competitiveness for renewable energy.

However, it seems like energy density will be the winning factor in consumer battery tech which, as far as I can tell, appears to be a significant chunk of the EXISTING market. This is something that Na ion doesn't yet seem competitive at - which is not to say that it won't get better with time/investment/research.

Unless lithium gets crazy expensive, I don't see the battery being a big enough expense in a laptop or mobile phone for people to be willing to put up with more weight for an incremental price saving.

This is definitely great news for renewable energy though.

This is quite impressive: does anyone know what resolution images can be captured like this?

I'm assuming this is perfectly legal?

Its weird really, I can't do much these days without someone tracking me and using that information to target me with ads and yet whole commercial airliners and chunks of space rockets can vanish only to wash up on beaches covered in barnacles...

I would have assumed that you could calculate the approximate landing area of at least the larger debris and that there would be some legislation forcing you to at least try to locate/clean it up.

I suppose it doesn't present that much of a threat to anyone (once it has landed).

Amazing. If only I'd get my act together and do all the amazing stuff I planned when I bought my first pi - then I could justify buying this

I'm not very well informed on the markets, but is any of this related to the fact that gold is at a five year low and seems to keep going lower at I time that (I assume) people are looking for a hedge against uncertainty (what I thought gold was).

There is something revealing about human nature when you consider that Buffett gives his proven wisdom away for free while a whole industry of prognostication thrives based on a track record not half as reliable as his.

The practical implications of this will be interesting - I'm expecting to see "Google WiFi" honeypots at stations that don't have this.

Also a possibility to see folks camped up at these stations hustling on Upwork etc - particularly in areas where mobile internet is not so reliable.

Also expecting to have EVEN MORE people walk into me as they stare at their phones...

I've spent time in Gurgaon, and I hypothesize that some of the perceived successes of the city were more about marketing and social positioning than anything else.

It is "the place to be" for the simple reason that other young, wealthy up and comers are seen there too. This is a much more powerful drawcard in certain circles than whether there are proper municipal facilities or not.

similar things have been achieved across India, EG Mumbai's Bandra-Kurla complex. Property developers well understand their target market's desire to appear a certain way and leverage this knowledge extremely well.

Jevon's paradox is really interesting:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

Stuff like going for a run or sweeping the house I can easily do while listening to an audio book. But you're right, anything more cognitively demanding than that and I have to choose one or the other.

I've been transitioning to audio books as much as possible lately simply because I can multitask with it and I find I have a much faster through put.

They cost a lot more but its a small price to pay to get through the material in a way that I actually absord.

One thing I've found interesting is that, as communication tech improved, we haven't needed to travel less, but more. I would have assumed that better communication tools would result in less need to travel but it appears to be creating more need.

Perhaps we're just waiting on that "killer app" for communication that is so immersive that people won't need to meet face to face so much to do business.