I don't mean to be rude. I just think that the self-selection bias of this study implies that we should look further into the amount of additionality that this sport brings in for CTE, and be more skeptic about the nature of the causation link.
Thank you for your insightful post! It made clear to me that there is an "organizational culture" side to telecommuting.
I'm planning to move out of the big city here in Chile (Santiago) and telecommute to my present job. My boss is very open to it, but she probably doesn't see some of the issues that may arise. I work for a small government agency where we don't do technical work, so those "missing bits of information" you mentioned could be bigger and harder to spot and therefore they might have a huge impact in my productivity.
On the other hand, promoting a more rigorous way of communicating that can accommodate telecommuting, may improve general productivity as a whole. Today we rely too much in those in-office conversations, and this has a downside too.
We just awoke our planet's soul and it's fighting back... Jokes aside, this article makes me think about how we are used to having our technological creations interfere with our complex world without much opposition from nature. If there exists something like karma, it should look like this.
Well, insightful means, according to Merrian Webster, "to show a very clear understanding of something". Therefore, an opinion may be qualified as insightful, without having to be a theory and, of course, no proof required.
How many pounds of bacon you would have to eat to get the same amount of fiber as in a lettuce?
A quick google search yielded 1,3 grams of fiber per 100 grams of lettuce. Bacon has 0 grams, so the answer would be infinite. So long planet earth...
How important is Chile in the global supply chain?
30% of world copper production, and the earthquake struck right next to one of the more important copper mines. But more important than that is the fact that we live in a planet with several hazards for living safely, and technology has to play a major role here. In Chile, we have greatly improved the building standards over the past century, to the point where the damages are negligible compared to a similar earthquake elsewhere. That's a very big triumph of technology applied to societal welfare.
In a way, we have an advantage, the earthquakes keep us prepared. But there are areas where they occur every 500 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake) and they may cause a huge catastrophe there.
As we have witnessed in several parts around the world (remember Katrina?) besides prevention and warnings, the logistics of the aftermath are very challenging as well. How can we improve this? How to help isolated people self-organize in order to improve their conditions until outside aid arrives? For example, could we include a microgrid-style strategy everywhere that interacts seamlessly with the "traditional" grid? Another thing is how to keep the communication lines open and the information flow as lean as possible, in order to help the authorities make better decisions on the spot.
Therefore, Chile may present a unique opportunity to develop and test different prevention and emergency response strategies. And this may be one of the more important things we can do for humanity in our role as responsible engineers.
Have you heard about Dr. Norman Doidge? He is a leading researcher in brain neuroplasticity and wrote a book about it titled The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. There you will find many cases of surprising recovery where traditional approaches didn't work.
I'm not a doctor and I don't have a personal account of how this approach performs, but I thought I would do no harm if I told you about this. I hope all goes well.
I've used it for the last 10 years and it's great. 5 minutes online at the SII (the equivalent of the IRS) and I'm done.
I did it a week ago and I will get my tax return deposited to my checking account on the first week of may.
Cheers,
Jaime
Imagine the possibilities it opens for elder and disabled people care. And with the current ageing of the population in developed countries, this will certainly be a huge industry.
In light of recent events -and I'm not only referring to the NSA-gate, but also to all the known ways to get your private information- it is hard for me to figure out a digital way of keeping your identity secret in a high profile incident.
I think the problem, and I find this truly astonishing, is most people here don't seem to care! The only reason to keep the items recently leaked secret is to prevent public outcry over them. Same with classifying the numbers for these programs. Any terrorist smarter than a bag of rocks would have already assumed that we have the capabilities that we found out about last week. They are not that big of a stretch to imagine.
My fear is now that it's out and the majority of people either don't care or outright support it, we have reset their expectation of what people will go along with and, thus, what they can get away with in secret.
Why was parent modded "Funny" instead of "Insightful" or "Interesting"? I'm not a native english speaker, so I may miss something, but it made total sense to me in a frightening way...
"Larry Page's advisor at Stanford, Terry Winograd, wrote a book with Fernando Flores in 1987 titled Understanding Computers and Cognition. It is a profound critique of the mental representation approach, based on biological and philosophical considerations. A must read for anybody interested in the AI field."
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Amavon!
Take a look at it and give yourself a treat.
I just did, and it's really fast. I'm sold.
As I just deleted accuweather form my phone., I'd appreciate suggestions for replacing it!
I don't mean to be rude. I just think that the self-selection bias of this study implies that we should look further into the amount of additionality that this sport brings in for CTE, and be more skeptic about the nature of the causation link.
It is an enlightening book about how we deal with ambiguity. Definitely worth reading in these days.
Thanks again!
Thank you for your insightful post! It made clear to me that there is an "organizational culture" side to telecommuting.
I'm planning to move out of the big city here in Chile (Santiago) and telecommute to my present job. My boss is very open to it, but she probably doesn't see some of the issues that may arise. I work for a small government agency where we don't do technical work, so those "missing bits of information" you mentioned could be bigger and harder to spot and therefore they might have a huge impact in my productivity.
On the other hand, promoting a more rigorous way of communicating that can accommodate telecommuting, may improve general productivity as a whole. Today we rely too much in those in-office conversations, and this has a downside too.
Any thoughts are welcome
We just awoke our planet's soul and it's fighting back... Jokes aside, this article makes me think about how we are used to having our technological creations interfere with our complex world without much opposition from nature. If there exists something like karma, it should look like this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
Well, insightful means, according to Merrian Webster, "to show a very clear understanding of something". Therefore, an opinion may be qualified as insightful, without having to be a theory and, of course, no proof required.
I've found Zoom to be pretty good. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it here.
How many pounds of bacon you would have to eat to get the same amount of fiber as in a lettuce? A quick google search yielded 1,3 grams of fiber per 100 grams of lettuce. Bacon has 0 grams, so the answer would be infinite. So long planet earth...
I went to the download section of gimp.org, but it shows 2.8.14 only...
How important is Chile in the global supply chain?
30% of world copper production, and the earthquake struck right next to one of the more important copper mines. But more important than that is the fact that we live in a planet with several hazards for living safely, and technology has to play a major role here. In Chile, we have greatly improved the building standards over the past century, to the point where the damages are negligible compared to a similar earthquake elsewhere. That's a very big triumph of technology applied to societal welfare.
In a way, we have an advantage, the earthquakes keep us prepared. But there are areas where they occur every 500 years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake) and they may cause a huge catastrophe there.
As we have witnessed in several parts around the world (remember Katrina?) besides prevention and warnings, the logistics of the aftermath are very challenging as well. How can we improve this? How to help isolated people self-organize in order to improve their conditions until outside aid arrives? For example, could we include a microgrid-style strategy everywhere that interacts seamlessly with the "traditional" grid? Another thing is how to keep the communication lines open and the information flow as lean as possible, in order to help the authorities make better decisions on the spot.
Therefore, Chile may present a unique opportunity to develop and test different prevention and emergency response strategies. And this may be one of the more important things we can do for humanity in our role as responsible engineers.
Cheers from Santiago, Chile
Have you heard about Dr. Norman Doidge? He is a leading researcher in brain neuroplasticity and wrote a book about it titled The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science. There you will find many cases of surprising recovery where traditional approaches didn't work. I'm not a doctor and I don't have a personal account of how this approach performs, but I thought I would do no harm if I told you about this. I hope all goes well.
I've used it for the last 10 years and it's great. 5 minutes online at the SII (the equivalent of the IRS) and I'm done. I did it a week ago and I will get my tax return deposited to my checking account on the first week of may. Cheers, Jaime
https://xkcd.com/538/
Look at this: New 3D Printer by MarkForged Can Print With Carbon Fiber Definitely more companies are going to develop products like these...
Imagine the possibilities it opens for elder and disabled people care. And with the current ageing of the population in developed countries, this will certainly be a huge industry.
And this makes it worse...
http://xkcd.com/1174/
They use the same math behind the Vista file copying progress bar to judge its distance.
Related obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/612/
... in the rest of your digital life.
In light of recent events -and I'm not only referring to the NSA-gate, but also to all the known ways to get your private information- it is hard for me to figure out a digital way of keeping your identity secret in a high profile incident.
I think the problem, and I find this truly astonishing, is most people here don't seem to care! The only reason to keep the items recently leaked secret is to prevent public outcry over them. Same with classifying the numbers for these programs. Any terrorist smarter than a bag of rocks would have already assumed that we have the capabilities that we found out about last week. They are not that big of a stretch to imagine.
My fear is now that it's out and the majority of people either don't care or outright support it, we have reset their expectation of what people will go along with and, thus, what they can get away with in secret.
Why was parent modded "Funny" instead of "Insightful" or "Interesting"? I'm not a native english speaker, so I may miss something, but it made total sense to me in a frightening way...
I'll repeat what I said in a related thread:
"Larry Page's advisor at Stanford, Terry Winograd, wrote a book with Fernando Flores in 1987 titled Understanding Computers and Cognition.
It is a profound critique of the mental representation approach, based on biological and philosophical considerations. A must read for anybody interested in the AI field."
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