Totally agree with this. Especially with younger kids, they learn to handle tools better by taking apart than by trying to put together. I keep a stock of junk printers, scanners, vacuum cleaners, etc on a shelf and let the kids salvage parts while I'm working on something else. I'm amazed how often this kind of play leads to good questions and interesting finds.
I don't know if it has anything to do with machine learning, but I'd love an intelligent tool for searching within previously viewed pages. Like a private spider that walks my history tree and returns search results. I know it would be slow, but it can't be any slower than the manual searching I do now.
A personal gripe I have is with auto dealerships. They install an white light fixtures at a density that is so excessive as to be obscene. The glow from a single dealership in my area (central texas) is visible at least 12 miles away. The arguments for doing this usually include security and safety. If this were true, I bet a full time on sight guard would be cheaper. I suspect the real reason is that any sane car buyer browses when the place is closed to avoid the sales people. Dealerships want them to look so they burn the lights all night.
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Totally agree with this. Especially with younger kids, they learn to handle tools better by taking apart than by trying to put together. I keep a stock of junk printers, scanners, vacuum cleaners, etc on a shelf and let the kids salvage parts while I'm working on something else. I'm amazed how often this kind of play leads to good questions and interesting finds.
I don't know if it has anything to do with machine learning, but I'd love an intelligent tool for searching within previously viewed pages. Like a private spider that walks my history tree and returns search results. I know it would be slow, but it can't be any slower than the manual searching I do now.
A personal gripe I have is with auto dealerships. They install an white light fixtures at a density that is so excessive as to be obscene. The glow from a single dealership in my area (central texas) is visible at least 12 miles away. The arguments for doing this usually include security and safety. If this were true, I bet a full time on sight guard would be cheaper. I suspect the real reason is that any sane car buyer browses when the place is closed to avoid the sales people. Dealerships want them to look so they burn the lights all night.
I, for one, would like to know when I'm close to some place that I can buy an X10 camera.
Did anyone notice the similarity of the concept (and name) to this episode of Star Trek: http://www.thelogbook.com/log/toslog2.html#tos54 ?