From my perspective, it was the difficulty in creating authentic VR environments that held back this technology. But it seems that that issue is about to become a non-issue. AI is on the verge of allowing creation of authentic VR environments by artists, which can jump start the VR arena. I hope Apple reconsiders, or someone else will pick up the torch.

def my_cmd(val=None): if val is None: val = [] --- Python has its share of warts, for example, changing the default value of `val` from `None` to `[]` will make the value of `val` shared between all instances. Python got one thing right, which is the indentation sensitive syntax.

Netscape Navigator had the What's Related button in 2001.

The unfortunate thing is that what they want could have been easily accomplished by requiring smaller p values, and also effect sizes (or the confidence intervals). Instead, it seems that the consensus is on using bayesian tools, and the standard ways of using the bayesian equivalents of t-tests[1] typically requires a smaller number of samples than frequentist methods depending on their prior. [1] http://www.sumsar.net/blog/201...

What you don't get, is if this succeeds, what is to prevent our employers from insisting that each of us wear it while we work? If your argument is that we will somehow restrict it to cops, what differentiates cops from other government employees (facing similar flak - either for not working full time, or inefficiency and such) Is raising the bar on cops worth it to lose this freedom? You may want to read this short story which has such a thing as its premise. http://marshallbrain.com/manna...

Sci-Am is not an innocent bystander. The wired article claims that it is one of the partners of Sci-Am network (I dont know how they got that information.).

Cancer is a tough disease and, sometimes, the treatments are rougher on the patient than the cure. Chemotherapy impairs your ability to think coherently. You're like the dog in the movie "Up!" ('Next quarter we'll release the Uber Widget to prepare out markets for... SQUIRREL!!!'), I don't know if Steve Jobs availed himself of chemotherapy toward the end, but you can rest assured that he laid out his vision for the management team before he shuffled off this mortal coil; he was too much of a control freak (in the great sense) not to.

I had the same reasons as you have, though in my case, it was a disillusionment due to solving the same problems over and over again, with the solid knowledge that the kind of problems asked of me would be very similar in future too. I started with a bachelor's, and stayed in the industry working at one of the large behemoths for 10 years. When I realised that I am getting disillusioned, I took my masters via one of the universities offering remote campus, which gave me some confidence that I actually liked what I was planning to do. Once my masters was complete, I resigned, and got into a university for my Ph.D. in my chosen field. I am on my third year now, to hopefully finish in another three. I hope to either join a research institution or stay with academics as a professor after completion. What I can offer you advice is that, be sure of what you want, and where you want it. Life in gradschool is very different from life in the industry, with different demands. I particularly feel that a Ph.D. feels like working in a startup, with you on the look out for opportunities, and once realized, having to move very fast to do the research before it is taken up by others.

So, while we're running out of fossil fuels, and nuclear plants are closing due to told age (and new ones aren't getting built in the US), we're creating an excuse for people to leave their TVs on??

We had an ice storm when I was a kid; we were later told that we could have powered the thermostat or furnace solenoid off a car battery, and since the gas furnace was in the basement and the registers were in the floors, the heat theoretically would have risen up into the living space via convection.

We also had a gas stove/oven and iirc a gas/wood fireplace.
And the water heater ran on gas.

IRS too; look up "1031 Exchange".

Hot / Smart / Sane -- Choose TWO

and SuperCapacitors.

And extreme changes to the thermostat settings, refusing to lower the burner on the stove because somehow boiling water at a rapid boil cooks faster than a moderate one, ...

Did you know that similar to the previous study, another effect found was that expert programmers rarely if ever look at code comments. On the other hand, novices spent majority of their time on comments if they are available instead of looking at the code. I can find the citation a little later since I don't have access to my bib db right now.