While there's no doubt that technology does play a part in the success of that school, MHO is that it is wrong to attribute all the success on technology alone
The fact is that school got so much attention from so many people, so much so that the inventor of the 3D printed limb, Richard van As was present at that school
Or, in other words, it was Hawthorne Effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... ) that has contributed to the dramatic improvement on the performances of the students of that school
So are these foreign thai places actually "bland" or is "real" thai food simply overly spiced?
While I do not know how you would define that "overly" in the "overly spiced" description of yours, real Thai food (and yes, I have been to Thailand many times on business trips) are certainly much more tasty than what you get from those "Thai Restaurants" on your main street in Europe or America
I have great doubt that the robot could do a decent job identifying a real tasty Thai food from a bad one
Sure, the bot can judge the level of spiciness / sourness / sweetness by measuring the level of glucose / acid / capsaicinoids, but that still doesn't mean it can ascertain how tasty the food is
Actually, BOTH !!
... when it becomes the reality
I find discussion in this thread a little bit wanting as not everyone is the same
Some had an "early start" while others may be "late starter" because not everyone had their insights straight from the start
Those who had early insights can hone their mastery very early because they already had a "road path" drawn up for them (as long as they do not give up, that is), and all they need to do is to gain enough knowledge to put their insights into words, or in scientific terminology
Others may be late starters because their "insights" took quite some time to "gel"
I happened to know people from both camps. Neither camp can claim to be more smart than the other
Indeed it is an all around too bad for the millions of _screen lookers_ everywhere --- by focusing on that little lighted panel all the time they never know how much they have been missing out
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