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The level of CO2 rises dramatically when cooking using a gas stove in our house, by at least 1,000 ppm to around 1,500-1,900 ppm in the upstairs of a two-story house (kitchen on ground floor). And this is with a properly working hood above the stove.

Thank you.

I’ve sent my comments to the author by Fax.

Thanks for the link, just what I was looking for the other day. Was listening to a Steve Wozniak interview and his early tinkering with pong and the like.

Sometimes, this is all you need. I like it.

Yikes, I’m old. There was a lot of NN work and a lot of books available on NN’s back in the mid and late 90’s. ‘Soft computing’ was the all-encompassing term for NN, genetic algorithms, AI, expert systems, fuzzy logic, ALife and all sorts of nascent computational areas back then. I still have a bunch of issues to the monthly AI Expert magazine one could buy at a decent magazine stand. Small data-sets were definitely a limiting factor as well as limited computer power. I remember certain applied fields did embrace NN’s early on, like some civil engineers and hydrologists, who were finding some use for them. At the U of Toronto, I considered doing a PhD with a biologist who was using them to investigate vision (and got help from Hinton). Physiology was one area where you could generate “long” time-series in a relatively short period of time. Those were still the days when Intel 286/386/486 and lowly Pentium machines were still common currency. Computer scientists at the time didn’t yet have clear break-through commercial applications which would have attracted crazy funding. A lot of theory, little real actions.

HTML everywhere killed professional-looking GUI’s. Web devs generally are clueless about application GUI design and usability. It’s sad.

I wish high-profile tech CEO would stick to their knitting.. they usually end-up embarrassing themselves as their ‘fame’ get to their head and they feel they need to opine on topics and issues they have little understanding of.

Textbook prices in North America are just plain criminal. The racket is exacerbated by the requirement by profs to always be on the latest edition, even though there is no material change in content. It is a disgrace.

Nicely done. I enjoyed reading this.

Several times, but in each case the person was a perfect fit for a specific position. That’s key. It was more a question of introducing the two parties rather than selling their merits.

Having to upload pdf files is a non-starter for any business user.

Fantastic resource. Thanks for sharing.

Sounds like the promise of the ‘paperless office’. Not holding my breath. Accounting doesn’t take very kindly to hallucinations or doubt.

Great, but I would have to run this in >my< private cloud. no way any business is going to upload its docs into a third-party cloud, no matter what the small print says.

Microsoft eventually shits on everything, so this was predictable. The spirit of open source is orthogonal to that of corporate interests.

Ma sti’cazzi. Nothing really ever gets enforced in Italy anyway. Italian culture will survive just fine.

CS had been circling the drain for long time. The Swiss government must have been asleep at the switch.

Totally agree. And what baffles me even more is that most corporate IT is fine with that. Invest millions on cybersecurity and data protection, but never mind the spyware bloat.