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(This is just for kicks.)

Assuming the space required to run watson halves every two years and v:: of the human brain is v1 = 1500cm³, and Σv of Watson's servers = v2 = 90 x (17.5cm x 44.0cm x 73.0xcm) = 5.05e6 cm^3.

So Watson will be the size of a human brain in t = - ln(v1/v2)/ln(2).

We're looking at 11.7 years. So, 2023.

* Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_%28artificial_intelligen...

"Watson is made up of a cluster of ninety IBM Power 750 servers..."

* Source: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/750/specs.html

"175 mm x 440 mm x 730 mm"

"Comic dogs don't talk in Times New Roman." - Creator of Comic Sans.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qefD5YHPeEM

Touche, but then lawyers, doctors, police officers, senatorial aides, and cancer researchers shouldn't be talking in Comic Sans.

A good way to catch up on what's new while we wait on the Mozilla / P2PU course to start up.

Landing Page: http://p2pu.org/webcraft/html5

Course syllabus: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Drumbeat/p2pu/courses/html5#HTML5.2...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1104350651/tiktok-lunati...

Here's Scott Wilson's update form China in which he walks through the process of getting the watches manufactured.

Integration with nike+ and perhaps a good set of bluetooth headphones make this the ideal running "watch".

I'd love to see this technology applied to augmented reading / writing (i.e. look up any word/person/place on a printed page).

You have misunderstood me. It doesn't matter if Tim is wrong, if we don't know what is right. If you substantiate your criticisms by finding counter-evidence or disputing his evidence, you add value to the conversation by pointing people in the right direction.

Every Tim Ferris thread I see on HN, has nigh 10 - 20 posts that all essentially say:

"Tim Ferris is a charlatan. He's relies on spin and marketing to sell his products. His methods encourage people to be lazy and not make a genuine effort to reach their goals. His advice is counterproductive."

But while Tim makes every effort to support his claims using facts, anecdotes and citations these sorts of comments are rarely supported by anything other than the commenter's opinion. I'm not saying people shouldn't post Tim-hating comments, to the contrary I'm asking for Tim-haters to form a strong argument against his ideology by citing studies and literature that clearly contradict what he preaches.

One of the things I appreciate about HN is that when people shoot something down, they provide an intelligent and well-researched rationale to support their arguments. With that in mind:

* Have you read the book?

* Do you have thoughts of your own about why Tim Ferris's methods cannot be applied to exercise?

If so, I would be genuinely delighted to read them.

Someone needs to write a "Frodo Baggins and The Methods of Rationality".

1. The world is full of idiots who ruin the lives of others, both at the micro level of domestic abuse and the macro level of dictatorships, because of this principle.

Self-defense isn't the same as aggression, it's an act of self-preservation which is still very much a principle of civilized society. The author of the article failed to make this distinction clear. When you stand up for yourself or a friend you're sending a clear message that says "I'm not going to take this laying down."

"We must begin by acknowledging the hard truth: We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations -- acting individually or in concert -- will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified."

-Barrack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech

2. I do not consider it a valid way to solve problems.

The smart solution to bullying is to make it socially unacceptable.

When you're in a confrontational situation where the other party is about to beat you to a bloody pulp you can't take a time-out to establish a social stigma. Furthermore that wouldn't work. Most bullies are deviant by nature so making something socially unacceptable would just make it more alluring.

3. We live in a civilized society, where intelligence can triumph over brute strength.

But hitting back only works if you're stronger than them.

By the former statement it appears that you exclude violence categorically from the realm of "intelligent things to do." Violence, just like any other human interaction, is a language with its own inflections and subtleties. Without training and practice how do you expect to be fluent or successful in getting your point across?

Someone needs to write a chrome extension to make whitewalling and super-logoff more convenient. If users are able to forgo the annoying questionnaire that is coupled with deactivation and batch delete posts after an expiration date, these techniques become a whole lot more attractive.

Top Gear did a series of experiments a few years back to find out how indestructible the Hilux really is: http://goo.gl/WI7l

See for yourselves.

prgmr.com is often out of space. check every day or so, they're bound to offer more VPSs pretty soon.

Dr. Albert A. Bartlett is fully cognizant of that point. He says in part 8 of that video:

  "Except for the petroleum graphs, the things I tell you are
  not predictions of the future. I am only reporting facts and
  the results of some very simple arithmetic." (1:22)

  "Please you check the facts. Please check my arithmetic. if
  you find errors, please let me know. But if you don't find
  errors, I hope you take this very very seriously."

"Nature, not content with denying to Mr — the faculty of thought, has endowed him with the faculty of writing."

The name was left blank in the original, but was intended to be filled in and used when a suitable subject should turn up.

On Writing, Stephen King

The Teenage Liberation Handbook

very funny. very very funny.

Thanks for the advice guys. I looked through the projects suggested by Drupal and some of the other organizations and found what I was looking for.

This is probably what you were going to do anyway, but here goes:

1. Reduce the price by a dollar. Track for a week, see if profits increase. If they don't jack the price back up.

2. If they do, reduce the price even more, track the profits. If this causes profit to decrease, jack the price back up.

The idea is to figure out where the ideal market price is. It might be lower than you expect.

i laughed for like 5 minutes straight.

A man being able to run a super-marathon through a desert within months of switching to their diet and exercise regimen is hardly orthogonal. =)

There probably isn't a single business owner out there that feels comfortable with the existence of an online directory where disgruntled customers can collate and publish their opinions. I'm sure a good deal of them are willing to lie to rid themselves of the nuisance. Just because Yelp is creates a large headache for lazy business owners doesn't mean it's evil. It's creating an environment where business strive to provide quality service. It does so by creating incentives for doing so (good reviews) and disincentives for failing to do so (bad reviews).

There are no facts in this article. Just allegations.

A survivorship bias would not explain the effects of the diet and exercise regimen on the author, a seemingly average American male of Irish-Italian descent.

i found the narrative essential to the information he was conveying. it was a story of evolution rather than a fact sheet.

No, no. I think the man is on to something, let's try it with kids.

1) I like the full screen format of the application. It really lends to memorizing words without distraction.

2) I like the way you've implemented multiple choice rather that a "flash card" approach.

that being said, i've seen several apps like this. the most prominent in my memory is http://quizlet.com which has more than one way of memorizing list, classrooms groups, and the ability to create your own lists. and it's free. that's tough to compete with.