sharun

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by sharun 9y ago
Agree. Also just like in India, if you are crawling around in a traffic jam most of the time what's the point of all that safety? Local cars are designed for local conditions.
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by sharun 9y ago
I never understood why the Gigafactory is viable with China around. Does this have to do with location of the mines?
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by sharun 9y ago
How do you know what my corrective ideology is? Without even knowing that or expressing any kind of curiosity about it, just look at the assumptions you are making about me. Social media is just conditioning us to keep reacting to one anoth
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by sharun 9y ago
Yes. Misguided ignorant people are surrounded by misguided ignorant people. If they are supplied bad info on youtube or on a social network, there is no corrective mechanism. It's not complicated to understand. You don't have to b
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by sharun 9y ago
You mean anyone whom you have interacted with can. If you visit India, I can introduce you to people who spend many hours a day on YouTube without knowing how to read. It's not complicated to imagine if you have been around kids. Kids
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by sharun 9y ago
Most of the underdeveloped world can't and don't get on twitter and make a noise about things they are seeing on YouTube that they might find offensive. The reactions and consequences only once in a while get into the press. I am
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by sharun 9y ago
What has changed is speed and scale. If you want to understand what the implications are you need to spend time not with technologists but with ecologists. In nature there is a reason the apex predator doesn't evolve predatory advantag
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by sharun 9y ago
Visit a good library. There are really great ones with lovely reading rooms still all over the place. Totally under used and under appreciated imho.
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by sharun 9y ago
You could call it version 1.0 of the system Neo uses to learn everything about everything in the Matrix :) I don't think NLP is necessary though. If you take a look at the stackoverflow data dump sooner or later every possible variatio
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by sharun 9y ago
Well Zuckerberg in his infinite wisdom is trying to tell you to be a little more like Kim Kardashian or Trump.
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by sharun 9y ago
It's like the Engineering teams at Google and Facebook have never heard of Microsoft or Sun or Adobe. There are so many lessons (learnt the hard way) in the evolution of .NET, Java and Flash that these guys seem to be completely oblivi
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by sharun 9y ago
My comment is not about eliminating the feedback loop. It's about delaying gratification. This is a core feature of any educational system that has arisen across any culture anywhere in the world. Instant gratification does the opposit
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by sharun 9y ago
The fix is easy. The root cause is the like/retweet/upvote/view count and the instant gratification it produces. The social networks like FB/Twitter/Youtube benefit greatly from all their users being addicted to the
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by sharun 9y ago
People have been conditioned now for a decade to attach value to their like/retweet/view/karma counts. It's the core piece of the architecture producing the instant gratification high that everyone is addicted too. It re
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by sharun 9y ago
I don't know about corporations having all this wrapped up. There is a lot of pressure on them since 2008 plus one leak after another - Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Panama, Switzerland etc hasn't made it easy to be tax haven. If the
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by sharun 9y ago
> people will admit they don't know something Trump is working hard on changing that misconception.
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What should Wikipedia look like in 2030?(blog.wikimedia.org)
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by sharun 9y ago
It's a long list. Google Paul Kennedy.
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by sharun 9y ago
Rather than heads rolling what will happen is doubling or tripling of budget requests to safeguard the crown jewels, setting up new battalions of watchmen to watch the watchmen and so on. History tells us as these budgets grow uncontrollab
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by sharun 9y ago
Stone degrades faster than bone? Stone tools have been found that are 2-3 million years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool
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by sharun 9y ago
What goes through the minds of the people at the Pentagon who release such info? Do they see this as some achievement?
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by sharun 9y ago
The craziest story to me is the building of the Colditz Cock - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_Cock
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by sharun 9y ago
I mostly use it for offline stackoverflow. Open ended offline wiki journeys have happened but I personally think much less. When online there are many more triggers to send one off on these random walks.
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by sharun 9y ago
For devs who want to go offline for a bit I recommend Zeal (offline docs) + kiwix (Offline Wikipedia app that also parses stackexchange/stackoverflow dumps) Check their github page. The entire stackoverflow dump is about 10 Gig.
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by sharun 9y ago
Centaur chess has been a thing since Deep Blue. I think the problem their future of ai stuff is having is most orgs have no idea which of their zillion problems actually needs this tech. Hopefully this will raise more awareness.
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by sharun 9y ago
Agree. I think of cancer as the consequences of "bugs in our code". Saying we are going to cure cancer is on par with saying we are going to produce bug free software. That said having spent time around cancer hospitals, things ha
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by sharun 9y ago
As an Indian all I can say is don't even bother addressing western delusions about themselves. Time will be the judge on the quality of innovation a culture built on celebrity worship, instant gratification and mindless consumption can
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by sharun 9y ago
Another fascinating read is Talking Hands by Margalit Fox about an Arab village in Israel where the deaf are a disproportionate part of the population. A sign language emerged that within a couple generations every hearing member of the vil
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by sharun 9y ago
The solution has been known for a long time. Dismantle the military industrial complex.
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by sharun 9y ago
Engineers overengineering things when they have no new ideas. That's the entire convergence story

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