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Exactly. I worked in Business Intelligence and having both an accountant and a programmer background, whiteboard coding never comes up in interviews. Its more domain knowledge that's important, which is mostly about finance/accountancy.

Really grateful for the work you put into this. Thanks.

I like the images. What was used to create that?

I should wish to die while still at work, knowing that others will carry on what I can no longer do and content in the thought that what was possible has been done.

I fear death because I fear no one will look after the things that I cared about in the same passion and in the same way that I do. I guess I am too sentimental for what I've done to the things I love.

99% of the time? Where did you get that?

GPS is better than human only wherever it has better data. Bring it to a place where it has no data and its useless. Meanwhile, humans can easily adopt to find themselves in places they've never been before.

That's the problem isn't it? A language is assumed to be a dialect of another language just because it uses the same script, regardless of its origins or how mutually intelligible it is.

Is that really the reason? Does it follow then that Vietnamese is a Chinese dialect before it adopted a modified Latin script?

I think origins does matter, apart from shared script.

I've tried this trick as well before, but it does not work all the time for me. Maybe I am just not disciplined enough in refocusing my attention to breathing. I discovered this trick when I was reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" where parts of the book teaches about proper meditation.

I already have sleeping problems before, as I like to be occupied with something before going to bed at 11 or 12 pm. Normally, I would either program, write a blog or a chapter, or read an interesting book that I have been putting off for a while. My problem then was sleeping for only 6 hours, and I wanted to sleep 7.5 ~ 8 hours.

So I decided to switch it, by sleeping earlier (8 am) and doing these other things after I wake up at 4 am. This only worsened, as now I am having issues falling asleep. Tricks that I tried that worked only initially were counting, listening to music, having a hot shower, meditation, etc.

The first time I tried counting, I fell asleep before the count of 10, but on the second night, I was still awake past 30 and getting worried as it getting higher and higher and I am not asleep yet. So I changed it on the third night by repeating "one" until I fall asleep. That worked, but the following night, it was not as effective, as my thoughts just drifted on what happened during the day.

I've tried listening to music. Norah Jones' songs really worked for me for a few nights, but afterwards, the songs became a distraction, as I am now just listening to them and waiting for sleep to fall for hours.

I've tried to clear my head of racing thoughts, but after the thoughts are gone, I hear something like bubbles popping inside my head, which carry on endlessly and keeps me awake. Same with taking hot showers.

Later on I learned that my sleep problems is due to timing, since starting sleep at 8pm is within the "forbidden zone". It also does not help that my gym time is from 5 PM to 7 PM and have dinner afterwards.

I've move my bed time to 9 ~ 10 PM but my sleeping problems persisted. I think it has now become akin to performance anxiety.

I've tried 4-7-8 technique last night, but I find myself gasping for breath trying to hold it for 7 counts, plus the swooshing sound on 8 counts is too distracting when I exhale.

I am still looking for a technique that will work every time. I think I should have a log of my sleeping habits and what worked and what didn't and what things I did preceding the sleep. I'm considering purchasing a sleep tracker like Dreem just to automate sleep quality logging, and see if I could come up with something that works for me.

Turkey is an Asian country. Just because they own a slice of land in Southeastern Europe does not make them European. Otherwise, Spain would be African, France would be Latin American, and Egypt would be Asian.

What are the implications of this? Does it mean the speed of light is not constant after all? Does it mean relativity theory needs to be revised?

The researchers also expect that this method can be used for other types of waves besides light, such as acoustic waves.

They should try it on gravitational waves next time.

In the Philippines, it's "cha-a" or "tsaa", which is a counter-example for "cha" being spread across land. The Philippines was consecutively under Spanish and American rule and 99% of Chinese there speak Hokkien/Min-nan yet do not use "te".

Seems the same applies to Guam as well.

I take no offense. People feel threatened if their deep held beliefs (or beliefs they are invested in) are questioned.

I agree with you on that one, a scientific idea does not necessarily imply its correct, and a correct idea may not be scientific.

But what I'm saying it that evolution is neither scientific nor correct.

Have we observed fruit flies evolve? By evolve I mean macro evolution.

A theory is an educated guess, which does not make it "fundamentally right". For a theory to be scientific, it needs to be falsifiable. Is it and in what way?

What's most incredible about Darwin is how readable and essential (and fundamentally correct) his two major treatises, Origin and Descent, have remained.

Fundamentally correct? Evolution is neither demonstrable nor falsifiable, so it's not scientific.

Disclaimer: I'm an atheist.

Personally, if we're talking GIANTS among the Giants the list goes something like: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Sartre, Wittgenstein. (I am of course, limiting myself to Western thought).

I would drop Sartre and add Heidegger instead in that list. And I favor Suarez over Aquinas.

Following your logic, any person speaking any two languages from English, Dutch, Icelandic, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and lives in Northern Europe (smaller in land area than India or China) are not bilingual.

English ≠ Computerish

but:

English = C || English = Pascal || English = SQL .......

Really? In simple terms, explain how this works concisely.

Don't disrespect the clowns.

s/first/first smart enough to invent science/.

To claim something as first, there must be others in reality to have followed it. If there is no second, there would be no first. Is there a second intelligence to have invented science, or we are the only ones?

When an AI has a mind that is more general purpose than ours, I think its fair to call it a general purpose AI.

Can you give an example of an intelligence that is more general purpose than human intelligence?

DeepMind, on the other hand, was created as a "blank slate" with no more hard-wired instruction than "create optimal algorithms to achieve the winning state, given the inputs." Critically, its learning phase is completely self-directed. Essentially, the box is given access to the controls and the video screen content and then sent on its way.

Have you seen DeepMind algorithm to be able to say this ? Are there other people outside of Google who have seen the algorithm and can confirm Google's press release?

The human brain is only the very first intelligence to evolve.

What other intelligence evolved, and in what sense human brain is first in evolution?

Are you implying time travel is certainly possible?

"Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible." - Stephen Hawking

In fact, I can almost go as far as to state the opposite: the only people who can clearly explain things, are people who are completely wrong about them. (This is an extreme position and I probably am going a bit too far in this direction. I may not actually believe the sentence I Just wrote.)

If you don't actually believe this, why state the above?