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My grandparents #throughglass
My grandparents enjoying their great-grandchildren #throughglass. I may have to get an extra pair…
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PDLBKBR Part II
A little over two years ago, I attended an event and listened to Brad Templeton speaking about the Google driverless car and how hard it would be for society to adapt to this new method of transportation. I’ve stumbled upon a recording of him lecturing about the topic at “Driving Innovation: A Speaker Series Powered by Nissan…
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PZ Myers does not understand Ray Kurzweil
PZ Myers wrote an essay claiming that “Ray Kurzweil does not understand the brain”, which has some good points, but is entirely based on the premise that Kurzweil says we will reverse-engineer the brain from the genome, that contains 25 million [relevant] bytes, or a million lines of code (second-hand comments on erroneous press reports, taken out…
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Tracx Dashboards in Times Square
Next month marks the 8th anniversary since the registration of the tra.cx domain name. Words can’t describe the way I feel right now, after reaching yet another peak in this amazing journey, with my five partners and a dream-team of amazingly talented people making Tracx a global leader, a family and a home. For the…
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My grandmother at Auschwitz-Birkenau
This is a photo of Jewish women from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for forced labor at Auschwitz-Birkenau, march toward their barracks after disinfection and headshaving (source, probably appearing in this book). One of these women is my grandmother (marked here) who is celebrating her 86th birthday soon. /u/Eclectix did an amazing job of cleaning up and…
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Thermodynamics
Brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space. – Bruce Schneier
