As I said before, this time around exams have most of me. It’s tough but it's going pretty well and I am halfway there. Four more to the end!
And it’s not all that bad. The sky looks like this when you go out to eat around 5pm:
On another issue, I really don’t have the time to manage the free server I have from the ~okeanos to host the archive site for The HeadScratch. I just clicked destroy on my VM dashboard and that's it. I also don't think I need to have another url for that email or a different archive page. As simplicity is something I like and this email is destined to be personal, I am going to move all of this on my Posthaven hosted personal website. I think it is the right move and looks fine. What do you think?
Pitch to eat! That’s what startups do, you are saying. But hey, people can be startups too! That’s why Y Combinator is going to fund a study on basic income,
Many people believe, me included, that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, there would be people that will not need to work to have a great life.
What remains to be seen is if people are going to spend their money as startups do.
Mommy is home! It looks like the world is getting better as more companies treat the different people appropriately. Look what happened when Google increased paid maternity leave.
In the same spirit The Economist on us young people: “In some respects the young have never had it so good. They are richer and likely to live longer than any previous generation. On their smartphones they can find all the information in the world. If they are female or gay, in most countries they enjoy freedoms that their predecessors could barely have imagined. They are also brainier than any previous generation. Average scores on intelligence tests have been rising for decades in many countries, thanks to better nutrition and mass education." Yet they are twice as likely as their elders to be unemployed. Are the elders holding them back?
"Chandler: Well, I proposed to my shoe…" What do you know about neural networks? I was discussing about them with a couple of friends building their own and as a miracle this sprang on my twitter feed. A guy fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate new scenes. The results are awesome (sometimes)!
There are new Barbies in town! The almost 57 years old Barbie, finally has curves like a real woman. That was the right thing to do. Keep in mind that changes in big corporations like Mattel take time. So it will take a while before we get the invisible Barbie. I can't wait.
How Challenger blasted off. Popular Mechanics has an oral history of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster with interviews from people on the field.
And it’s not all that bad. The sky looks like this when you go out to eat around 5pm:
On another issue, I really don’t have the time to manage the free server I have from the ~okeanos to host the archive site for The HeadScratch. I just clicked destroy on my VM dashboard and that's it. I also don't think I need to have another url for that email or a different archive page. As simplicity is something I like and this email is destined to be personal, I am going to move all of this on my Posthaven hosted personal website. I think it is the right move and looks fine. What do you think?
Pitch to eat! That’s what startups do, you are saying. But hey, people can be startups too! That’s why Y Combinator is going to fund a study on basic income,
Many people believe, me included, that at some point in the future, as technology continues to eliminate traditional jobs and massive new wealth gets created, there would be people that will not need to work to have a great life.
What remains to be seen is if people are going to spend their money as startups do.
Mommy is home! It looks like the world is getting better as more companies treat the different people appropriately. Look what happened when Google increased paid maternity leave.
In the same spirit The Economist on us young people: “In some respects the young have never had it so good. They are richer and likely to live longer than any previous generation. On their smartphones they can find all the information in the world. If they are female or gay, in most countries they enjoy freedoms that their predecessors could barely have imagined. They are also brainier than any previous generation. Average scores on intelligence tests have been rising for decades in many countries, thanks to better nutrition and mass education." Yet they are twice as likely as their elders to be unemployed. Are the elders holding them back?
"Chandler: Well, I proposed to my shoe…" What do you know about neural networks? I was discussing about them with a couple of friends building their own and as a miracle this sprang on my twitter feed. A guy fed a recurrent neural network with the scripts for every episode of friends and it learned to generate new scenes. The results are awesome (sometimes)!
There are new Barbies in town! The almost 57 years old Barbie, finally has curves like a real woman. That was the right thing to do. Keep in mind that changes in big corporations like Mattel take time. So it will take a while before we get the invisible Barbie. I can't wait.
How Challenger blasted off. Popular Mechanics has an oral history of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster with interviews from people on the field.
I'm really excited about this movie! It's based on a real story.
Live like Harry Potter. A group of fans in Polland live in a castle pretending they are wizards!
Darth Vader baby bodysuits recalled… For choking hazard. Ok, that was a weirdly funny force choke.
Darth Vader baby bodysuits recalled… For choking hazard. Ok, that was a weirdly funny force choke.
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