"Predictably Irrational" is also a good read. People aren't good at calculating value differences and will go out of their way to save $1. That's why litecoin and ethereum are skyrocketing. It's simply cheaper in total dollars per coin than bitcoin so people are buying that expecting to to rise to the same dollar value as bitcoin.
Coinbase announced they are planning to add more coins to their service next year. Besides dash and monero most of these trade at a fraction of even litecoin. Once that happens expect even more dumb money to flow in with people buying 'cheap' coins because they're 'only' a few dollar a piece.
I would actually recommend people to give amateur ornithology a try. When I was 12, my grandfather gave me a pair of binoculars and an ornithology guide and since then, every summer I go on hikes to watch birds. It's a wonderfully relaxing and fulfilling activity, my brain is weirdly active while watching birds and I end up doing a lot of reflection on those hikes. It's also incredibly satisfying to spot a rare bird.
I know you might think you will never be into it, but give it a try. It's also a great activity to keep doing well into old age.
As far as Neural Networks goes, I would really recommend reading Michael Nielsen's book (http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com). Just top notch content and free!
Thank you for the link.
A lot of the suggested resources seemed to be coursera videos in this blogpost, and I much prefer to read books rather than watch videos.
Good blog post though. I liked that it was interactive, nice touch :-)
We need some more Telecom competition here in the US to improve their services. I live in San Francisco and I've been waiting for a good while now for webpass to become an option in my building. Comcast service is really subpar. Meanwhile all my friends in northern europe have crazy gigabit connections.
> We need some more Telecom competition here in the US to improve their services
The US tried that and it didn't work. Specifically, The US Justice Dept broke up AT&T into a bunch of "Baby Bells", which spent hundreds of billions of dollars on takeovers to reassemble themselves into AT&T.
In brief: Southwestern Bell Corp (SBC) merged with Pacific Telesis, then SBC bought Ameritech, then it bought AT&T and renamed itself... AT&T. Then the new AT&T bought Cingular. Consumers paid heavily for this, and got no real benefits.
The obvious answer is to make broadband a "social good" like highways, schools, the judicial system and (in rational countries) healthcare, and build it out in the same way as Al Gore's dad built the US interstate highway system after WW2.
Unfortunately, that can't happen in the US, because politics.
Under the US healthcare system, Americans pay 2x to 3x more than the OECD average, suffer much higher rates of infant mortality, have far more sickness in the over 65s, and die younger.
Without the concept of a "social good", you'd expect the US telecoms/broadband industry to produce similar results.
Crappy broadband causes a massive loss in productivity and makes the US less competitive with many small countries, but I don't expect those costs are factored into anybody's calculations.
I never understood the point of splitting up AT&T geographically. Were they expecting turf wars to explode on the borders between them?
In some European countries, when the former telco monopolies were split, they were split vertically - so there was one "copper company", then the phone service company, etc. The copper company would generally be heavily regulation with local loop unbundling, requirements to be fair to anyone who wants to sell service over the network, etc.
The big deal was the vertical split between local (baby bells) an long distance (at&t). It then became possible to easily switch your long distance carrier, which lead to intense competition and lower prices. Local exchange service remained a monopoly, but most jurisdictions had fairly strict tariffs for rates. Later, the telecom act of 1996 opened up to competitive exchange carriers using the existing lines and buildings; would have been nice if the FCC had enforced that for internet too :(
please guys get your shit together.
I guess I would be able to figure out an alternative but a big chunk of my life as a programmer is centered around Github. It would be a major let down to see them perish.
Sweet! I saved the link. My intention is to take a look at the source code and then write my own ding-ding cli tool. It will be fun and I think it will give me a nice feeling when using it.
