clvcooke

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Human Terrain: Visualizing the World's Population in 3D(pudding.cool)
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by clvcooke 8y ago
I'm sympathetic to the worries of a local population about being exposed to a nuclear disaster. The thought of radiation effecting you, your friends and family is horrifying. Where I diverge from the article is the opinions of the anti
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by clvcooke 8y ago
I was pretty excited to try this out (there is an online demo linked), however after some playing around I found the experience lacking. Not that things sounded _bad_ persay but that I found it incompatible with actually playing anything th
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by clvcooke 8y ago
I really like where this is going, it seems a bit rough around the edges right now (which is totally fine!) but functional enough to be useful. Really happy it's free, open source and offline first (I can just sync through Drive or Dro
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by clvcooke 8y ago
The headline indicates that forgetting someone's name is bad, however the article treats that as forgetting someone entirely. I'm curious what the impact of the inbetween would be; that is "I remember I've met you befo
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by clvcooke 9y ago
As I cannot reply to squeegee5 comment I'll reply here: So, because I don't have the right experience I shouldn't voice my opinion, in a way that suggests I am willing to be proven wrong? I never said I was correct, I said th
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Just citing one example, there are many reasons why I may or may not want to work in China. This one just came to mind first as it was a major reason one of my employers didn't do buisness there. The human rights abuses are a whole dif
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I have never thought of myself as understanding people well, so thats no surprise. I guess what was interpreted was that I said "Chinese people are not creative", rather than the more moderate "Authoratian governments do not
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by clvcooke 9y ago
So I cannot critize elements of a goverment style without being racist? I am not saying that "Chinese people are not creative", I am simply saying that I do not thing this style of government fosters creativity. And I am very open
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I think we have a lot to learn from the human brain still. I am continuosly fascinated by our ability to learn quickly and use previous experience to bootstrap learning. I think the next breakthrough has a high chance of being a collaborati
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by clvcooke 9y ago
My frame of reference is actually the Canadian education system, not the american one. I like to believe we are slightly better than the american's in terms of providing an better baseline education (this might be due to us being &quot
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Thanks! I probably have a biased view so maybe I need to step back and look at what other people are saying. I'll look into Hoftede's research when I have the time.
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I am very sorry if I came across that way at all. I have nothing against chinese people, I am talking about the government here. If this style was prevelant in, say Russia, or the USA I would hope I would have the same opinion. I could be w
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Perhaps I phrased my point wrong. To me critical thinking/creativity and questioning authority are all intertwined. I see those attributes being emphasized very strongly here (in Canada), and from an outsiders point of view, less stron
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Thanks for the reply, I guess we can agree to disagree on some points ha. I tried to keep my answer diplomatic and open to being told I was wrong so glad someone took me up on that :). In terms of your question on education, I have only exp
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I hadn't thought about talent pool and very good point. In my mind even if China did want to take advantage of this they may have issues due to their reputation (I for one would not want to live/work in china due to their blatent
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Although not explicitly what the report is focussed on, this resurfaces my, perhaps mislead, hope that AI will be the field to prove that the Chinese style of eduation will prove unfruitful. As someone attempting to work in this field right
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Perhaps life/health insurance? I'm not sure the average costs of injury associated with earthquakes but it could be substantial
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I see your point, my mistake. However there are still many arguments to be made for this strategy. First of all, in terms of carbon capture it is much easier to capture carbon at a factory then on a boat, or any mobile vehicle for that matt
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I believe comparing engines to batteries is misleading. As you are comparing _capacity_ to _energy_, and although the units are the same the meaning is very different. The emissions to produce the initial capacity may be similar (200g vs. 2
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Seems like they were launched around similar times (both came out in 2011) so that a definite possibility. However from what I know about Waterloo's design projects (as this was a final year design project) this project was most likely
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by clvcooke 9y ago
Looks like Amazon picked up the buffer box [1] idea. Such a shame Google bought them and shut them down, it had such potential. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox
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by clvcooke 9y ago
I forget where I read this (somewhere on HN most likely), but there is a major difference between what Google/Waymo is doing and their competion. It all goes back to the DARPA days; The waymo approach is a hybrid one, its terrain detec
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by clvcooke 10y ago
Nest actually recently moved....there are about 6 new buildings over two campuses, all in use.