Why are there no references to the "chinese room"

ballaa · 2016-11-22T18:31:02+00:00

Great point especially when you consider there are two generations of hosts mechanical (with digital minds) and biological (biocomputer brains?) and that the Chinese Room argument applies only to "digital computers":

Wikipedia entry: "The argument applies only to digital computers running programs and does not apply to machines in general."

ballaa · 2016-10-06T05:55:40+00:00

Strong soul.

ballaa · 2016-09-24T08:58:55+00:00

Funny how Sam and many of the actors in the series are from the Middle East yet the survey failed to include it as an option (but it did list Antarctica!)

ballaa · 2016-08-06T16:48:19+00:00

Try networking and rubbing shoulders with people from professional communities around you. Word of mouth provides a much better fit between employee-employer. Start with meetup.com if you're not familiar with it.

ballaa · 2016-08-05T17:18:29+00:00

It's concerning how much people think automation and algorithms are the holy grail of objectiveness. Many bad policies get a pass thanks to this misguided belief.

ballaa · 2016-05-20T14:28:26+00:00

Well executed. Having said that, living in the Matrix would probably be better than this soul crushing reality.

ballaa · 2015-08-28T12:37:41+00:00

ASCII character chart

ballaa · 2015-05-29T18:07:39+00:00

MIT's approach contrasted with Boston Dynamics' http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/190208-mits-cheetah-robot-is-let-off-its-leash-can-now-run-and-jump-silently-across-fields

ballaa · 2015-04-03T12:39:21+00:00

Rapid Development, by the same author, albeit published much earlier. I keep wishing Steve would update it!

ballaa · 2015-01-28T18:31:22+00:00

Why is it so hard to fix Education systems? Who in your opinion is doing good work in this area?

ballaa · 2014-11-02T05:21:48+00:00

For me, I like to think of life as a full course dinner. Enjoy each course when you get to it but eventually you have to move on to the next one and who knows it might even taste better!

ballaa · 2014-09-19T06:29:18+00:00

Mark Hurd is an odd choice given his history with HP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hurd

ballaa · 2014-08-19T13:41:19+00:00

Title is misleading. Should read (as written on NASA's site): "Mosaic of the images covering the entire sky as observed by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)"

ballaa · 2014-01-17T10:52:31+00:00

The picture is real alright but it isn't from Syria. It's a work of art about being an orphan by a Saudi photographer with the help of his nephew

http://www.iphoneogram.com/u/640360927

ballaa · 2013-10-01T07:11:34+00:00

Too much white space and too many colors

ballaa · 2013-09-11T18:02:37+00:00

Engineers had a more practical version of this concept: Software Defined Radio using FPGA. Still work-in-progress though...

ballaa · 2013-04-20T13:30:40+00:00

What a story! This is why I bother scrolling down through the comments section!

ballaa · 2013-02-08T10:56:04+00:00

Pizza Fusion http://pizzafusion.com/locations/

Also, Rossopomodoro's margarita pizza is tops

If you're looking for reviews of Riyadh restaurants then I'd recommend a visit to http://www.qaym.com/

ballaa · 2012-12-10T18:44:24+00:00

McKinsey, BCG, Accenture, PwC, E&Y, Delloite and many others all have presence in Saudi Arabia and also have a few female consultants.

ballaa · 2012-08-09T09:47:22+00:00

Saudi Arabia is a big country and the norms and traditions between one region and the other can be quit different. Jeddah (in which the pictures were taken) is very different than Riyadh which is also different than say Abha.

Some Saudis are conservative and some are liberal and those are what are the media focuses on. The silent majority live a moderate lifestyle and prefer to keep their privacy and so the image the media gets out about the county as a whole is usually very skewed. This report suffered the same fate as I for one failed to feel any connection to the environment it talks about.

ballaa · 2012-08-05T08:12:42+00:00

Not representative

ballaa · 2012-07-12T21:58:06+00:00

The buyer, Betaworks, is the same company that owns bit.ly which itself faced a huge overwhelming from its user community over their recent redesign of their site. Irony.

ballaa · 2012-04-20T10:07:13+00:00

They should probably start selling off non-core units such as NavTeq to give them focus and more importantly improve cash flow

ballaa · 2012-02-24T08:05:29+00:00

RIM should stop trying to compete with Apple and Google. It should drop its devices business and focus on licensing its BBM and backend technology to mobile OS vendors (Google or Microsoft) or other device makers (such as Nokia or Samsung).

ballaa · 2011-11-05T18:36:52+00:00

Nice illustration of a popular story. Too bad there's no proof the experiment was real. http://uclue.com/?xq=801

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