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Re:Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Are Near: Meet a Teen Who Rides One Every... on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:41PM (#17655832)
In the article it talks about how the app has been displaying trip prices for the test users (even though they don't pay). No dates given but that's a positive step.
Re:U.S. Files Criminal Charges Against Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes, Ra... on Friday June 15, 2018 @07:27PM (#17324636)
Shkreli's crimes had nothing to do with the drug prices. Unless you think the jury/judge was biased due to it.
Re:Machine Learning’s ‘Amazing’ Ability to Predict Chaos on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @07:53PM (#16872294)
I was going to comment in here about how the Simons Foundation runs Quanta. Glad other people have mentioned it. Simons is an amazing guy.
Re:Twitter Soars After Surprise Sales Gain, First Real Profit on Thursday February 08, 2018 @09:27PM (#16337433)
Twitter can be a very valuable resource if you follow the right people.

No matter what industry you are interested in, there are leaders worth following on Twitter.

One example for finance, Cliff Asness. He's a billionaire quant hedge fund guy, but he tweets every day.

There's a ton of investors, businesspeople, reporters, programmers, researchers, etc. that are very active on Twitter, not to mention the plethora of comedy accounts that I find hilarious.

Re:Claude Shannon built a machine to game roulette (2017) on Monday January 29, 2018 @12:42AM (#16255555)
I've always thought Shannon has been a bit underappreciated as a scientist
Re:Bitcoin hits $10,000 on Tuesday November 28, 2017 @10:17PM (#15804268)
I vividly remember when it crashed down from around 900 a few years ago and the /r/bitcoin subreddit literally had suicide hotlines pinned.
Re:Norway Idea to Exit Oil Stocks Is ‘Shot Heard Around the World’ on Sunday November 19, 2017 @10:06AM (#15734163)
It's quite obvious they're doing this to diversify. It's not exactly a shock.
Re:An Interview with Stanley Kubrick (1969) on Monday October 16, 2017 @02:01AM (#15481177)
2001: A Space Odyssey is the greatest movie ever IMO.
Re:Europilot: A toolkit for Euro Truck Simulator to develop self-drivi... on Saturday September 16, 2017 @11:15AM (#15264987)
Here's a YouTube playlist where a guy made a self-driving vehicle in GTA V using Python.

https://youtu.be/ks4MPfMq8aQ

Re:Google Drive Becoming “Sync” and “Backup” on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:27PM (#15196708)
This is misleading. They are only changing the desktop app. For me, not much changes.
Re:You See Sneakers, These Guys See Hundreds of Millions in Resale Pro... on Sunday September 03, 2017 @02:00PM (#15162820)
What about "creps"?
Re:Papers I like on Saturday August 12, 2017 @10:18PM (#15001135)
I wish I could read faster
Re:SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Secu... on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @08:52PM (#14853020)
I'm sure those that work at the SEC are under pretty tight monitoring for insider trading.
Re:Jamie Dimon blows up at DC's dysfunction on Friday July 14, 2017 @12:05PM (#14770864)
Apple, and many other companies, are not going to "just pay" billions in taxes.
Re:Beipanjiang Bridge, suspended 565m above China’s south-west mountai... on Sunday July 09, 2017 @12:39PM (#14730539)
Wall Street bailouts were necessary to keep our country and economy intact. Most if not all of the money has been paid back. Agree on the war part though, it sucks that we spent so much on it.
Re:RED is making a $1,200 smartphone with a ‘holographic display’ on Friday July 07, 2017 @12:16AM (#14715995)
http://www.red.com/hydrogen

Looks pretty interesting. I'm not a photographer/videographer but I'm familiar with RED due to its use on YouTube. I'm pretty excited to see more of this phone. I'm not sure how they'll use Android. I obviously expect an amazing camera, and hopefully support for high quality audio. Price point makes it even more interesting.

Re:A.I. vs. M.D. on Monday April 03, 2017 @09:06PM (#14028720)
I posted this comment about 15 minutes after I discovered Hacker News. Wasn't sure on the culture here compared to places like reddit. It seems to be similar to the more specialized subreddits.
Re:A.I. vs. M.D. on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:03PM (#14019958)
I read the book Complications by Atul Gawande a while back and it touched on this issue. He mentioned how a computer was more accurate at detecting heart attacks than an experience doctor. He also talked about how if the computer is better than the doctor at reading things like these, it really doesn't make much sense for the doctor to have to evaluate/approve the results. Kind of reminds me of James Simons' thought process on quantitative trading at RenTech.

Sorry about the lack of technical knowledge into the CS stuff, first post here and I haven't really put in the time to learn about CS and AI yet.