eatmorekale

> 1. Apparently everyone in Santa Cruz goes to bed early and gets up early.

What I'm guessing is that people in areas of higher population density stay up later and get up later on average. The 25-50 and 50-75 mile bands seem to contain the big urban centers, while the 0-25 and 75-100 bands are more the suburbs, small cities and rural areas.

He lived in San Marino which seems at least as expensive as the bay area. http://www.zillow.com/san-marino-ca/

More on technology in farming from an Atlantic piece from last summer:

Continuous technological improvements have resulted in a system of crop farming that someone who left the countryside 20 years ago would be hard-pressed to recognize, and certainly couldn’t operate

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/the-triu...

It probably depends on the task, but from the videos I've seen Baxter seems an order of magnitude slower than a human worker. It looks like Baxter takes several seconds to manipulate an object, but the workers sorting fruit in this video, for example, are doing several manipulations per second.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6dKf8MZ-RM&feature=playe...

I agree Microsoft is a strong contender given their resources and the fact that they've probably been working on some kind of VR/AR for use with XBox for some time.

And also there's Amazon maybe going at it as the next gen reader or video viewer.

The article does seem like bait for distasteful programming paradigm jokes. I still think it's important in other contexts to consider the killer's motivations though.