It's not necessary to apply sophisticated models like random forest/neural nets to cricket. It's a sports for which humongous amount of data is kept meticulously; also we're trying to predict pretty standard stuff like who'll win the next match. Standard regression should be able to perform very well (and it does).
This is a dangerous argument. Peoples' rights over their bodies must be absolute. Suicide, abortion at any stage, voluntary organ trade, drug use, prostitution - all these should be legal as they follow from one's right to her body.
If his research is any good, then how can he not get any NIH funding? I'm skeptical that a missile defense researcher will suddenly achieve a breakthrough in AIDS treatment. Not that it couldn't happen, but it's unlikely.
I doubt that Godel was indispensable for the discovery of the incompleteness theorem. It was one of Hilbert's problems so clearly people were thinking about it. Moreover, a few years later Turing came up with his notion of computability from which Godel's incompleteness their can be easily deduced.
Clearly he is a brilliant man. Too bad that he got so greedy. This is doubly sad when he was already a legitimate multimillionaire from his job at Google.
Don't you think the engineers building self-driving cars would consider reaction times and make adequate safeguards? If your thesis requires a group of very smart people to be completely oblivious to a very basic issue for multiple years, then you should reconsider your thesis.
It's wrong for the state to declare human driving illegal. I will prefer if we voluntarily adopt self-driving cars because of its huge benefits. I think that's the likely scenario, consider that horse buggies are currently only used as tourist attractions or by isolated communities like the Amish.
We'll manage. Already a lot of critical technology (electric grids, military weapons) is connected to the internet. Civilization hasn't collapsed in spite of that.
>What gives it roughly 80 percent of the online search traffic is first mover advantage. Back in the mid-'90s[...] Google was just a little bit better than the others
This is bullshit. Yahoo! and Altavista were there before Google. And by calling Google's page rank based search algorithm "just a little better than others" the author reveals his own ignorance.
I fail to see what's the point of building space stations. What problem do they solve? It doesn't help with exploration of other planets and satellites. No major engineering application or scientific experiment needs them. They harm space efforts by taking money away from more fruitful ventures.