November 2010
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Where's the literature of this lost generation?
This caught my eye in the NYT today, because it sounded like a preamble to a review of a a host of books from left-behind, trodden-on, excluded authors:
The United States grew more quickly than Europe in recent decades, but many of the gains flowed to a small slice of the population. Median household income, adjusted for inflation, actually fell from 2000 to 2007 — and has fallen more since the...
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Cloud Robotics - faster than the human nervous...
Chatting with some robotics experts, asking about the potential for centralizing robotic intelligence. One points out that the r/t time from a robot’s sensor to a data center on the other side of the country is on the order of 100ms. That’s just a tiny bit faster than the time it takes you to react to touching a hot object.