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Slick, Useful Apps Put the Wow in Apple Watch(wsj.com)
4 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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The Future of Medicine Is in Your Smartphone(wsj.com)
7 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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by softdev12 12y ago
I know that NoSQL has a bunch of advantages with super large datasets, but MySQL really is a solid technology and is underrated in how scalable and robust it is. You'd be surprised how much MySQL can do and how great the documentation
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Fit for Motivation, If Not Precision(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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Google’s Cloud Loses Following Among CIOs, Survey Finds(blogs.wsj.com)
52 points by softdev12 12y ago|55 comments
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Food ‘Accelerators’ and the $10 Bag of Pasta(wsj.com)
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Virtual Reality Is Taking Its Time Becoming a Consumer Reality(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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More Startups Aim to Keep It Private(wsj.com)
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The Messy Minds of Creative People(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
The article just skims over this part: "To start off with, Goodfellow and co place some limits on the task at hand to keep it as simple as possible. For example, they assume that the building number has already been spotted and the ima
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by softdev12 12y ago
The general sentiment on this thread pretty much sums up the idea of "scraping as a service". To me, there is definitely a legitimate business need to be able scrape. Whether people realize it or not, companies have in-house teams
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by softdev12 12y ago
i've read all his work, too. I enjoyed the biography because it gave context to his interviews. He would say things in interviews that were clearly misleading because of certain things he had gone through in his past. The book highligh
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by softdev12 12y ago
I just finished Virtually Human and would definitely recommend it. It makes a very in depth analysis for why "conscious" computers of the future will eventually want human rights - the same way that certain minority groups fought
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by softdev12 12y ago
To really hit the mainstream and get huge, VR needs to address the "hype" build-up in new technologies. What I find singularly unique to VR over the last few years is the announcement of one breakthrough company leapfrogging anoth
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A New Way to Reach Mars Safely, Anytime and on the Cheap(scientificamerican.com)
118 points by softdev12 12y ago|58 comments
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Can Wal-Mart Clerks Ship as Fast as Amazon Robots?(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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by softdev12 12y ago
I think the key sentence in this post is where they mention launching the MVP with 20 companies. If these are all paying, large businesses that seems like the founders had deep relationships already established in business. For most startup
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Global Life Expectancy Increases by About Six Years(wsj.com)
1 points by softdev12 12y ago|0 comments
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by softdev12 12y ago
looks good. nice to see that people are still trying to rethink objects that have been around for years.
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The 20% Who Spread Most Disease(wsj.com)
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by softdev12 12y ago
There's a strong possibility that technology in the future could create a massive wave of unemployment - as people are replaced by smart machines. Of course, life could still be better overall as these machines could provide for all th
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by softdev12 12y ago
I'm curious on what the uptake of this product will be. The tricky thing with voice translation seems to be the high errors due to both first recognizing the speech and then the errors in translating the recognition. It's seem tha
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Single-Pilot Cockpits Floated in NASA Study(wsj.com)
6 points by softdev12 12y ago|3 comments
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by softdev12 12y ago
At first, I didn't understand what this was from the twitter page. [Note: I've used Mechanical Turk before and thought it was an odd experience.] Then I went to the tumblr and it explained it as "These are the Humans of Mecha
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When the Art Is Watching You(wsj.com)
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Artificial Intelligence Isn’t a Threat – Yet(wsj.com)
9 points by softdev12 12y ago|10 comments
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by softdev12 12y ago
These post mortems articles are really enlightening. Not so much because they serve as templates for what a start-up shouldn't do, but because they balance the scales for the typical media bias that only talk about the winners. Wheneve
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Never Too Old to Fight Cancer(scientificamerican.com)
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Giant Dunes on Saturn Moon Track Its Ancient Climate(scientificamerican.com)
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‘Bot’ Traffic Triggers 11% of Digital Ads(wsj.com)
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