Theres a new IVF technique that creates a dozen embryos, lets them grow a few days, then selcts most vigorous one. At this stage losing one nucleus to testing is not a problem. If one could sequence and analyze in hours, then this may become part of IVF.
I'd rather they'd be safe than rush. Plus a major recession intervened. I heard a talk from a person who took the Virgn Galactic boot camp in 2011. That is supposed prepared you for the high-G ride and weed out doubters.
There were several frontier demos of how to use gaze tracking for video games and variable resolution rendering . I think this is facilitated by turnkey table top boxes that can track your gaze.
24% of China's population will be over 60 in 20 years while just 17% of the US. The US has both a higher birth rate and immigration rate than most other developed or semi-developed countries. Each "only child" in China may be supporting two living parents and up to four living grandparents.
Dot.com 1.0 in the 1990s. A.I. and Pen computing in the 1980s. COBOL in the 1960s.
It reaches this point when pundents say "eveyone should be a programmer". "It should be taught to 8 year olds and English majors." I've even heard some politicians say this in the last year. Not everyone has the temperment, motivation, special creativity to be a good programmer.
The field turns into a bubble, it collapses and compuer science departments shrink. Inevitable.
My nephew has gone through two of those buyouts. The purchasing company abandons the previous product and puts the developers to work on their pressing needs. At least he gets a nice purchase bonus out of it. But I would be a little psyched out after writing years of stuff with no one ever using it. At my company I find that having customers wanting to buy and use your stuff to be a psychic reward.
Its only a matter of time before the IRS starts nosing around about crowdsourcing money. After about a decade it was decided that aution sites like Ebay and Amazon has to issue 1099-Ks for more than 200 transactions or 20K cash flow during the year. Then it is up to the recipeint to minimize the net income this represents on a tax return. I predict they'll do this for crowdsourcing too.
Better Gittip should have said "talk to tax accountant".
The receiving entity would have to be set up as a non-profit to avoid taxes, which not be feasible or worth the trouble. A small project and donation could be set up as a personal 1099 business. The business could write off a lot of expenses before the rest of the donation became income to the recipient.
Consultants and small partnerships do this all the time. And there is lots of web and book literature on how to do this.
He would say we should intervene if there is a US national interest is involved. Intervention should not be a matter of emotion, i.e. compassion or revenge. Currently the Syrian regime has little strength to hurt the US directly. Or an ally like Israel. Even the 2003 Iraq war claimed WMDs that might hurt the US, though the evidence then was extremely exaggerated.
In fact before 1948, the word "computer" meant a human clerk who used paper and a mechanical adding machine to perfomr long calculations. These included log tables, missle hyperbolic trajectories, celestial orbits, and the occasional discrete differential equation. Feyman has a chapter on this in his "Surely you arent joking" book. In the late 40s the word computer was subsumed into the analog and digital machines that did eleaborate calculations. The early "programmers" were often some of these female computers from the war years. They wired the computer, if it was wired programming, or figured out punch cards. The males did the hardware and math. The transpfrmation to males happened in the 19650s - 1960s for unclear reasons to me.
I suspect that "taint" of being a femine discpline delayed the recogniztion of computer programming as a bonafid college degree at schools like MIT and Stanford. At MIT where I matriculated, it was not recognized as a full major until 1980. Before that is was a submajor of EE, math or business. (There were other taints too including its appearance as trade school skill rather than academic discipline/)
Theres no "restart game" button when you f*ck around with governments and spy agencies. There are lifelong jail sentences and potential assassinations. We've seen a half dozen of these "hacker-martyers" in recent years.
More food calories are available for less labor to much of humanity than ever before. This is a result of of modern capitalistic system with its emphasis on technological development. Obesity is an unintended negative consequence. For 99% of human history, people lived in societies where obtaining food was the major daily chore And food shortages were a periodic occurrence.
It is part of the human nature and capitalism system to think we are not really really wealthy and could get more. But realtive to previous eras we are extremely wealthy. The top 80% in the USA live btter than aristicrats 500 years ago.
Another truism is that in absolute numbers there have never been as many underfed people as there are now. But again that is relative to the huge population growth in recent centuries. If the the world's agricultural wealth could be more evenly distributed around the world, probably everyone would have more than enough calories and the opportunity beome fat. But society hasnt figured how to do this yet on a world-wide scale despite trying all kinds of political and economic systems.
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I suggest for many people it would be better just to buy a $199 Chromebook rather than to try do both hardware and high level software at once.
Huge 60-foot panels. I think there was concern about the cost and shortage of plutonium. Just enough for 4-5 more generators in the civiilian stocks.
According to a presentation I heard at SIGGRAPH this year.
I was working on that megadose of natural reservatol.
Mandarin is Chinese mangled by for foreign rulers like the Mongols.
Theres a new IVF technique that creates a dozen embryos, lets them grow a few days, then selcts most vigorous one. At this stage losing one nucleus to testing is not a problem. If one could sequence and analyze in hours, then this may become part of IVF.
I'd rather they'd be safe than rush. Plus a major recession intervened. I heard a talk from a person who took the Virgn Galactic boot camp in 2011. That is supposed prepared you for the high-G ride and weed out doubters.
There were several frontier demos of how to use gaze tracking for video games and variable resolution rendering . I think this is facilitated by turnkey table top boxes that can track your gaze.
Cleaning, adminstration, maintenance, safety. The older schools, which were probably the ones closed, were not deigned for modular(partial) use.
24% of China's population will be over 60 in 20 years while just 17% of the US. The US has both a higher birth rate and immigration rate than most other developed or semi-developed countries. Each "only child" in China may be supporting two living parents and up to four living grandparents.
A compuer app to help peole who spend too much time on computers and video games.
I bet plenty
Dot.com 1.0 in the 1990s. A.I. and Pen computing in the 1980s. COBOL in the 1960s.
It reaches this point when pundents say "eveyone should be a programmer". "It should be taught to 8 year olds and English majors." I've even heard some politicians say this in the last year. Not everyone has the temperment, motivation, special creativity to be a good programmer.
The field turns into a bubble, it collapses and compuer science departments shrink. Inevitable.
Just a few more classes or methiods away from utter chaos, unless its refactored.
My nephew has gone through two of those buyouts. The purchasing company abandons the previous product and puts the developers to work on their pressing needs. At least he gets a nice purchase bonus out of it. But I would be a little psyched out after writing years of stuff with no one ever using it. At my company I find that having customers wanting to buy and use your stuff to be a psychic reward.
Its only a matter of time before the IRS starts nosing around about crowdsourcing money. After about a decade it was decided that aution sites like Ebay and Amazon has to issue 1099-Ks for more than 200 transactions or 20K cash flow during the year. Then it is up to the recipeint to minimize the net income this represents on a tax return. I predict they'll do this for crowdsourcing too.
Better Gittip should have said "talk to tax accountant".
The receiving entity would have to be set up as a non-profit to avoid taxes, which not be feasible or worth the trouble. A small project and donation could be set up as a personal 1099 business. The business could write off a lot of expenses before the rest of the donation became income to the recipient.
Consultants and small partnerships do this all the time. And there is lots of web and book literature on how to do this.
Only one of their products- Ad Sense- makes over 90% their revenues. Maps, mail, cars, android, glasses etc dont pull their own weight.
It was not that IRS had any "hate" for this kind of activity. It was just a series of sloppy club treasers failed to file the necessary paperwork.
He would say we should intervene if there is a US national interest is involved. Intervention should not be a matter of emotion, i.e. compassion or revenge. Currently the Syrian regime has little strength to hurt the US directly. Or an ally like Israel. Even the 2003 Iraq war claimed WMDs that might hurt the US, though the evidence then was extremely exaggerated.
And cellphone coverage spotty. The teenagers nightmare. You have to talk to the peole you are traveling with then or read a[n] [e]book.
In fact before 1948, the word "computer" meant a human clerk who used paper and a mechanical adding machine to perfomr long calculations. These included log tables, missle hyperbolic trajectories, celestial orbits, and the occasional discrete differential equation. Feyman has a chapter on this in his "Surely you arent joking" book. In the late 40s the word computer was subsumed into the analog and digital machines that did eleaborate calculations. The early "programmers" were often some of these female computers from the war years. They wired the computer, if it was wired programming, or figured out punch cards. The males did the hardware and math. The transpfrmation to males happened in the 19650s - 1960s for unclear reasons to me.
I suspect that "taint" of being a femine discpline delayed the recogniztion of computer programming as a bonafid college degree at schools like MIT and Stanford. At MIT where I matriculated, it was not recognized as a full major until 1980. Before that is was a submajor of EE, math or business. (There were other taints too including its appearance as trade school skill rather than academic discipline/)
Especially at google , We will see more Marissa Meyers, Yahoo CEO from google, as long as the three men block the top at google.
Theres no "restart game" button when you f*ck around with governments and spy agencies. There are lifelong jail sentences and potential assassinations. We've seen a half dozen of these "hacker-martyers" in recent years.
More food calories are available for less labor to much of humanity than ever before. This is a result of of modern capitalistic system with its emphasis on technological development. Obesity is an unintended negative consequence. For 99% of human history, people lived in societies where obtaining food was the major daily chore And food shortages were a periodic occurrence.
It is part of the human nature and capitalism system to think we are not really really wealthy and could get more. But realtive to previous eras we are extremely wealthy. The top 80% in the USA live btter than aristicrats 500 years ago.
Another truism is that in absolute numbers there have never been as many underfed people as there are now. But again that is relative to the huge population growth in recent centuries. If the the world's agricultural wealth could be more evenly distributed around the world, probably everyone would have more than enough calories and the opportunity beome fat. But society hasnt figured how to do this yet on a world-wide scale despite trying all kinds of political and economic systems.