The next big wave of data-driven technological innovation will connect physical devices embedded with tiny computing devices to the Internet in an effort to seamlessly improve the measurements, communications, flexibility, and customization of our daily needs and activities. This “Internet of Things” (IoT) is already growing at a breakneck pace and is expected to continue to accelerate rapidly.
This summary provides a brief explanation of IoT technologies before describing the current projections of the economic and technological impacts that IoT could have on society. In addition to creating massive gains for consumers, IoT is projected to provide dramatic improvements in manufacturing, health care, energy, transportation, retail services, government, and general economic growth. Poorly considered policies should not prevent us from reaping these enormous benefits.
It’s a shame tumblr became so popularly associated with lame geek fare, Pinterest 2.0, and horrible SJW activity, because it really was a good social blogging platform.
My trip to Nicaragua wouldn’t have been possible without this guy right here. He drove us the entire trip since the rental agency gave us a manual truck, was our Spanish translator and teacher, and introduced us to all his family there that treated us as their own
I’ve always joked with him that I want to see the hut that he is from, and it actually happened. We stopped at this random pueblocito and found the house that his grandpa once lived in. It was pretty cool to see the simple beginnings of his family. Started from the bottom now we here #100percentnicaragua (at En La Concordia Jinotega)
National, large-sample, randomized experiments on gender bias in the hiring of tenure-track assistant professors… Applicants’ profiles were systematically varied to disguise identical scholarship; profiles were counterbalanced by gender across faculty to enable between-faculty comparisons of hiring preferences for identically qualified women versus men. Results revealed a 2:1 preference for women by faculty of both genders across math-intensive and non-math-intensive fields, with the single exception of male economists, who showed no gender preference.
So scientists are all sexist, EXCEPT male economists. Props to us.
"So how can a brain perform difficult tasks in one hundred steps that the largest parallel computer imaginable can’t solve in a million or a billion steps? The answer is the brain doesn’t “compute” the answers to problems; it retrieves the answers from memory. In essence, the answers were stored in memory a long time ago. It only takes a few steps to retrieve something from memory. Slow neurons are not only fast enough to do this, but they constitute the memory themselves. The entire cortex is a memory system. It isn’t a computer at all."
Do people really not see conflict between gay identity and genderqueer stuff? What if you’re a biologically male female attracted to biologically female males?
Anonymous asked:
you should make a vlog :)
Thanks :) But it’s not 2009. And, honestly, video of a person talking is a really poor medium for intellectual communication.
Harold Ekeh is a senior at Elmont High School on Long Island, New York, and this spring his mailbox overflowed with positive offers for the future. Ekeh, who immigrated to America with his parents from Nigeria
eight years ago, was accepted to every single college he applied to — including all eight Ivy League universities,
"A Swiss genealogy company named IGENEA issued a press release based on a blurry screen-grab from the Discovery documentary. It claimed that the colored peaks on the computer screen proved that Tutankhamun belonged to an ancestral line, or haplogroup, called R1b1a2, that is rare in modern Egypt but common in western Europeans."
