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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 keeping money in the cryptocurrency should be similar to keeping it in an index fund.

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 deflation will be the same as the increase in a stock market index.

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 most important work. I read an article about this some time ago, but I wasn't able to find it at the moment.

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 game.

Even so, hackers can still use SS7 to hijack phone numbers.

"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 know let his four year old play outside, just for a short while without supervision, he fell into a pond and drowned.

I always felt safe when I was five years old playing outside by myself though, even though I sometimes went several kilometers into the forest. There was no cars there and I was already a good swimmer, so I can't really imagine anything could have happened though.

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 that's my experience, but maybe I just sucked at marketing myself when I was a teenager.

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 sure how far along it is, but it looks interesting.

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) could seamlessly talk to each other, medical records were completely standardized and contained all necessary information in machine readable formats etc, not that I see this happening in the near future though.

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 irreparably alter your personality in a completely senseless way. There are studies that suggest people who has tried LSD has their personality altered in a positive way, in that they're more open to new ideas afterwards. It is true though, that some people get very enthusiastic when they first try LSD, some overly so.

I know a lot of people who do LSD now and then and the vast majority of them are successful upper middle class people who's had no ill effects and lots of positive ones.

There are also many people who's successfully used LSD as a problem solving aid http://archive.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/01/70...

That's not to say people don't have negative experiences though and I don't think LSD is for everyone. Some people freak out completely by even small changes in their perceptual experience for example, though usually not if they know the basic of how LSD works and how the mind works. A very useful thing to know is that what we experience as reality is basically just one view of the underlying data from a set of sensors (our senses), there's a neural net with multiple layers that starts with simple things like edge detection or whatever and builds up the 3D model we consciously experience from a mix of the external data, but also internal data, etc., there's no right or wrong view of this data, we could have evolved to experience it completely different and we can make computer program to visualize data in numerous different ways and on psychedelics you can experience things a bit differently from what you're used to. The reason it's useful to know some of this is because if you experience something strange when doing psychedelics, you'll know you're not being kidnapped by aliens, going insane, talking to god or whatever weird thing that some people sometimes seem to think.

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 AI though, we'll see.

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 you. I have no problem doing that in front of my colleagues, but find it difficult to do at a job interview.

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 at you and judging you. One is a discussion the other is a test, they compare like having a beer with a colleague is like holding a speech in front of a bunch of stranger.

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 that doesn't deliver goods or workers doing construction or maintenance work, so then it wouldn't even be any different from the train.

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 other objects at will.

I've also been able to see objects in more detail on LSD, like I was wearing extra glasses or something, but again I suspect the extra details were just created by my visual system, though it would be interesting if there were more scientific studies of this stuff.

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 computer can read and understand the content of scientific papers to a much higher extent than today though.

As for automation, I think that flexible automation solution shouldn't become outdated so fast. I think automating a lab to a large extent would be the same as automating a kitchen. You need to take thing in and out of storage, in a lab this would usually be different types of freezers, refrigerators, incubators etc., then you do stuff like mixing, slicing, dicing, heating, cooling, shaking, transferring liquids and solids between different types of equipment.

Smaller labs often don't have much automation. There's plenty of labs that don't even have lab robots, even though they do plenty of pipetting. Automated storage solutions are also rare as far as I know. Just deploying existing solutions and making them cheaper would help.

The only way to make thing really programmable though, is to automate everything. One challenge is that most machines and equipment only have interfaces for humans. If you were to place all your equipment in a kind of rack you could have a mix of conveyor belt for moving materials and robot arms on tracks in the roof to do manipulation tasks. Still it would be challenging to operate much of the equipment unless it is rebuilt to have standardized interfaces, but perhaps improvement in computer vision etc could eventually mitigate this. Another challenge is to make lab equipment communicate and compare data in completely different formats etc. There's lots of challenges but building a lab robotics system that can completely replace humans in doing the lab work should be possible even without hard AI and the hardware wouldn't necessarily have to be extremely expensive either.

I don't know how meta works, but currently there is no quick way to do queries like: Find all studies which test compound X in concentrations between A and B sorted by organism, much less tools that use machine learning to extract the relevant information from thousands of papers and make simple summaries.

What would be much more useful that making logistics of labs simpler is cheaper and more flexible lab automation to make all tasks in a lab programmable and automated.

I learn new skills at the job, but at the same time I find that it's not enough. What works best for me to really get into new areas and update my skill set is to regularly take MOOCs and then try to find ways to use the new skills at my job.

At the moment I'm taking this course in Deep Learning

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/creative-applications-of-dee...

Are they suggesting black holes can be used as quantum computers?

I'm in Europe and my Chinese friends thinks a lot of stuff here is too sweet.

Buy a grinder and an aeropress. It's a quick way to make coffee and it's way better than nespresso.