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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 topics—using categories, generalizations—while women are more disposed to context-specific thinking—in terms of concrete situations and relationships. This is evident, for one thing, in how some psychologists contrast the moral reasoning of males and females. Males’ moral judgments tend to be governed by abstract principles of justice, duty, and fairness that apply to all people and situations (e.g., whether a law is broken, whether justice is served). Females’ moral judgments give more weight to specific relationships between people and extenuating circumstances in a given situation; moral judgments are made through subjective feelings (e.g., whether someone feels betrayed or harmed) rather than abstract principles."

And we know from other research, that people who fail in introductory programming classes, fail on that point exactly - they have problems with working with programs that manipulate variables without some meaning.

Add to that that in many fields of study women choose, there's relatively a lot of human interactions, and the goals are towards helping humans,one would see why CS doesn't have the biggest appeal for females ,and why the story of other professions evolved differently.

And that might guide us to some changes in CS curriculum - like maybe teaching in a more concrete way. But one wonders , isn't good CS mostly about abstraction ?

[1]http://onlinelaw.wustl.edu/women-law-infographic/

[2]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-roles-and-seei...

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 sources, and looking through octopart[1], arrow is the only distributor of anadgim, with 1000 units minimum quantities.

[1]http://octopart.com/partsearch#!?q=anadigm&sortby=avg_price%...

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 increase demand. I wonder why is that ?

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 critical for messing up with sleep.

With regards to eink web-apps, don't forget you'll also have to fight the keyboard if you'll even get one. So it's hard to design to that medium. On that note, there's the onyx eink phones/tablets that have a version of the play store, but their only unique apps are rss reader and google calender. But maybe sniffing around onyx and their users will let you discover usable apps.

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 between up to 6 people, you'll get to something more accessible to poor people.

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 mechanical systems.

Whether this company did this or not is unknown, if they are offering this system on a per month basis, it makes sense they did some reasonable level of analysis of costs, because it would reduce their risk greatly.

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 offering to finance projects on a long term electricity purchase basis, claiming it's much cheaper than current providers:

http://castillium.co.uk/tracking-solar/tracking-250kw/

So qbotix might have good solutions for the issues you mention. And that is of course without having concentrated solar power, which makes a qbotix a more attractive offer.

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 issue,in the way that saving lives is.

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 by the way i think this observing robot has(or can have) an internal definition of self, and an observer beyond the self. It seems possible.

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 already implemented consciousness in a robot: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/automaton-robots-b... and it's useful. But AFAIK, i don't think it's used in any commercial system, although that's the kind of thing a commercial company won't advertise.

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 other hand, Amazon is Google's biggest threat in general product search(and probably discovery). So surely Amazon is even stronger in books.

And i'm sure Amazon does play with search/recommendation ranking, and publishers see the effect on sales, or else they wouldn't have bothered with this fight.

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 motivation?

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 "natural" ,which appears to matter to some people.

But it's a good discovery, another drug is always useful.

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, this is less important for a taxi company.

And the incentives for self driving cars are huge , even as regional taxi companies, so connecting the traffic lights into the net(read only) as backup doesn't seem like a big problem.

The real interesting question is: does it really need "generalized intelligence" , or all the examples the article mentioned could be coded decently enough on a case by case basis, to a point where self driving car is much safer than a car ? We don't yet know the answer, but the current safety of Google's car are promising in that regard.

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 advantage, like their fab.

If they can achieve what they promise, they'll regain their place in the history books.

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 whether SOI is more expensive once it reaches volume. The claim vary between 10% more expensive , to cheaper , to something in the middle. We'll see.

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 EDRAM technology , which is much more efficient memory type for cache.

This enabled them to build a huge(100MB) and fast(3TB/sec) L3 cache in their processors. This is something that could give a huge boost for many kinds of applications, for example databases d\and machine learning.

While intel has some edram capability, i haven't seem them release an integrated edram with the processor, not sure why.

And let's not forget, IBM now licenses the design for it's beast of a processor, the power8 ,in a modular format, enabling chip companies to easily add accelerators and innovate.

So it would be very interesting what intel's competitors will build with all those capabilities. I'm getting the popcorn.

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[1]. In general : " history taking in this manner is more efficient than the traditional method and allows more time for discussing the assessment and plan. Best of all, it is also associated with better clinical outcomes."

But they aren't commonly used. It's probably because of medical conservatism coupled with business and status reasons.

And in some cases it does help to have the medical interview with a person. But wouldn't a cheaper nurse armed with a great software tool, offering a 20/30 minutes appointment is better than 7/10 minutes of a doctor's time? In some places in the british system that's what happens and research says the results are comparable to a doctor , with patients being happier.

2. There are crowd sourced solutions like you specify. The one i know is a ycombinator company called crowdmed.com . At least according to the media they do bring something very good to the table, but they're very new so it'll probably some mote time to see how they function and scale.

As an aside, there's an an expert system by a company called isabel healthcare, that in the hands of a regular family physician ,can enable regular physicians to diagnose rare and complex diseases at the level of top diagnosticians.It's available via cloud.I'm sure almost no physician of anybody in this thread will have it.

3. Not sure who is to blame, but i think many of those problems are common globally to some extent. Maybe the british system is somewhat better with the policy of employing lower level providers across many roles.

[1]http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2007/0700/p39.html

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.

> I have ever confidence that the TOR developers are trying to do something about it.

The basic architecture of TOR is limited theoretically with regards to some types of attacks it can handle.TOR developers probably cannot do anything about that.

And in some sense , supporting TOR is taking funding and attention from better anonimity technologies , that might be able to do the job , with enough development. That's another reason why the US government is investing in TOR.

Many businesses today have a relatively strong network effects of some sort.With that kind of business , growth is what's needed to achieve competitive advantage.

> to try to find the best prices and to find competing products. Most often, that leads me to Asia.

The problem with the Chinese goods is that it's very hard to locate high quality goods. The review systems are useless(full of junk) , and there's little reliable data about quality in english. So amazon becomes the default.

There's something wrong with the claim of "1Watt idle when connecting to a network", since the maximum power of that module is 1Watt at full performance.

Maybe the person who measured this hasn't used sleep modes properly?

Wouldn't something that uses consensus on multiple servers, at the price of more bandwidth , possibly also with replaceable IOT card on your device - to give you more options in case of something suspicious happens ?

> My opinion is that once you meet someone that really clicks, then it works out quickly and well.

Usually that feeling of "click" passes after 2 years and transforms into a mellower , longer lastin kind of love. So if you stay longer, you see how you both fit together under this new kind of love.

But what if you've got a parcel machine on your regular route ?

And don't forget, the costs can be much lower when using parcel machines. For example in latvia ,it costs 2 euro to send a package from a postal machine to a postal machine, versus 3.6 euro from a postal machine to someone via courier.

And e-commerce users really hate to pay for shipping.

Sounds interesting. Do you mind sharing how did you trained your machine learning algorithm ? It seems like an awfully hard task, since in a sense you are competing with the Google algorithm and the order it offered you.