Bill Gates Warns of Pandemic That Could Harm 33 Million: Bill Gates says the U.S. and other world governments are falling short in preparing the world population for the “significant probability of a large modern-day pandemic…
When Steve Jobs first came up with the idea for the iPod, it wasn’t actually a machine he had in mind, but “a thousand songs in my pocket.” It was, at the time, an impossible idea, because hard drives of that capacity and size just…
Ethan’s summary dismissal of stellar-mass primordial black holes as comprising the dark matter is not accepted by all scientists.
If you read the paper linked in the piece below, you will see that the opposite conclusion can be reached…
I returned home from a short vacation. I was vacationing some 4000 miles away, and after skipping a couple of time zones when I reached there, I had to move my watch 4 hours forward. The body clock was still running behind; it would take couple of days to match. Anyhow, by the time I came back, my only…
The Earth is not round, I mean it’s not a perfect sphere. In fact it’s more like a potato or a pear. It’s flattened at…
For optical transceiver, dispersion also is the factor not to be ignored. Maybe many people are unfamiliar with this term, and have little knowledge of what impacts it has on optical transceiver module. Then Gigalight will…
What I read
With the news of DNA being used to discover the Golden State Killer, the articles have been pouring out from different sources, essientially trying to spread fear and paranoia about all these different DNA kits.
Past, present, and future. This is the model of time that general society has been conditioned to accept. And it works — if only to keep things simple. Einstein offered a groundbreaking perspective with the Theory of Relativity, but time is still more welcomed as a linear…
Medical Examination
Why are we scared of routine examinations? Medical examinations are important because they aid in the detection and possible prevention of various diseases, ranging from simple cases of influenza to the most severe cases of cancer. Some of the procedures involved include recording of one’s age, weight…
If you could put two terms together to suggest elements that triadic thinking needed to contemplate, they…
To be clear, I never said that we need to “experiment using shock therapy and liberalization”. I said that we need to scientifically test and compare different economic systems. The example I gave, which you didn’t address, or even acknowledge, was Netflix subscribers using their subscription dollars to rank the content. This would transform Netflix…
You can learn to see with your tongue (using a grid that transforms b/w image data into low voltage impulses), rats learn to use legs, that are reconnected to opposite sides of their brain and a toad can be implanted with a literal third eye. This paragraph is false and ignores the fact that neural nets have been developed as an approximation of all…
Dear Mr Chollet,
Are you saying there is no such thing as general-solving-problem abilities? What can be a more general problem than biological life’s survival as species or an individual organism’s differential reproductive sucess itself. Is not the selfish gene the arch general problem solver? Are you saying that if they…