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davemaya | 12 years ago | on: Elon Musk took the futuristic gesture interface from Iron Man and made it real

This idea is very old and there is nothing new here. The first interface allowing to move object on screen using gesture or touch screen were abandoned. Why? because maintaining your arms in the air to manipulate object is exhausting. You cannot work more than a few minutes at a time. Much more promising are brain-computer interface.

davemaya | 12 years ago | on: Text-based terminal screencasts

agreed. This is a dangerous utility akin to a key logger.

davemaya | 12 years ago | on: Live on C-SPAN now: NSA Chief Testifies at Cybersecurity Hearing

Grand-ma Milkuski seems to have a good understanding of what she is talking about...

davemaya | 12 years ago | on: Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’

This is a rule in every governmental agency.

davemaya | 13 years ago | on: The most useful thing in bash

just use oh-my-zsh https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh this feature is enable by default.

davemaya | 13 years ago | on: Comparison of Matlab, R, and Julia for data analysis (2012)

I also have the impression that the research that went in this article is a quite light. R, ML, Python serve different purposes. Julia is cool but brand new and feel kind of out of place compared to the heavy weight that are the other three. The point the author makes about ML and R being black boxes is misleading. At least, R is open source and you can always look at the gut of the software, nothing is more easy.

davemaya | 13 years ago | on: On Scale of 0 to 500, Beijing’s Air Quality Tops ‘Crazy Bad’ at 755

"Crazy Bad" is not exaggerated... http://brainchronicle.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/air-quality-ana...

davemaya | 13 years ago | on: Police concerned with Apple iOS 6 mapping system

They misplaced the main hospital in Cambridge, UK.