legolassexyman

I work in this industry and there are a lot of bad UI choices all around. The picture of the California board looks like a good example and uncluttered. They have the budget out there to do that.

It doesn't have to be this way. There are standards for high performance HMI design where nothing is colored in unless it is an alarm condition.

I usually have to end up designing things the "bad way" because of customer expectation/demand. Some guy designed a screen back in 1989 and that became what they expect.

Wait before you make rash judgments: he also worked on Bitcoin.

How many times are they going to write this article?

It can't. For example if you target a certain level of money velocity people could just spam large fake transactions and cause inflation.

Bitcoin does enable some interesting monetary ideas like demurrage, or constant recycling of the money supply. It also runs "open loop". This is implemented in some super small cryptocoins like Freicoin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_(currency)

> The $79 price point is attractive. I wonder how much power can be packed into such a small form factor? It's surprising that a lot of power isn't necessary for deep learning applications.

It runs pretrained NN, which is the cheap part. So this is a chip optimized to preform floating point multiplication and that's it.

> Movidius's NCS is powered by their Myriad 2 vision processing unit (VPU), and, according to the company, can reach over 100 GFLOPs of performance within an nominal 1W of power consumption. Under the hood, the Movidius NCS works by translating a standard, trained Caffe-based convolutional neural network (CNN) into an embedded neural network that then runs on the VPU.

This is sure to save me money on my power bill after marathon sessions of "Not Hotdog."

I am very biased because I know the people at Blockstream have been thinking about this problem longer than the developers of Ethereum.

Please see this article to get an idea of the personalities involved:

http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/08/17/gregory-maxwell-vitalik-bu...

You should ask yourself what the Bitcoin developers are doing while Ether takes their market share. The answer is the exact same thing, at https://elementsproject.org

Now why hasn't there been as much publicity about this? Is it because Vitalik Buterin is a wunderkind genius who simply beat them to market? Nope, the Bitcoiners are simply being more responsible and making sure they get the formula right before rushing to market.

As I said here last week "Also the lead developer is some kid who believes very much in moving fast and breaking things. This philosophy may work for a social network site but not for other people's money."

This philosophy permeates the community of Etherum development.

Bitcoin disabled most of the smart contracts op codes for a very good reason.

I wouldn't recommend putting anything of value into an Etherum smart contract and find a project with more responsible developers who take a more "wait and see" approach.

I don't think JP Morgan is going to give you the private key to your bond. This is a slightly more decentralized version of holding securities in street name. It's less painful than direct registration, it's publicly auditable, and faster to settle.

It's a big deal imo, but a major blow for Bitcoin, because it's nowhere to be seen.

Have you ever purchased a bond? Ever wanted to sell one on the secondary market? Ever heard of the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program? You will if you try to trade bonds in the conventional way, which is a huge pain in the ass.

There is a lot of room for improvement by implementing the blockchain.

Ethereum's main selling point is it lets you issue illegal unregistered securities. Why would a real company want to associate with that?

Also the lead developer is some kid who believes very much in moving fast and breaking things. This philosophy may work for a social network site but not for other people's money.

How many terrible bugs have been discovered in Ethereums short history? Too many. Additionally the size of its blockchain has already passed Bitcoin. It's file size is growing so fast and will pose a serious technical problem.

The "jobs" this technology replaces were computerized in the 1960s and 1970s. The application of the blockchain only speeds up settlement because there is a single ledger between multiple parties.

This is the main application for Bitcoin IMO: custody and trade settlement in securities. I have wanted to do this exact thing, issue bonds on a blockchain for some industry or government, since I found out about Bitcoin. Unfortunately, I do not have the kinds of connections necessary to be in the same room as major corporate bond sellers.

Between this news and the DTCC using blockchain for CDS it seems to me that Bitcoin is going to get left behind by the old world companies it sought to replace. Blockstream seems too happy to sit on their hands while the speculative value of Bitcoin increases, not realizing that the chance to actually matter in the world of finance is slipping through their fingers.

Bad news for Bitcoin: http://m.nasdaq.com/article/dtcc-to-launch-blockchain-credit...

You'd probably be better off with something like a casio fx-115es plus (non graphing scientific calculator). For example: You'd have to remember your integration tables better on not rely on the graphing functions to pull you out of the bog.

Seems like an exaggeration. I really doubt there's anyone taking realtime notes in LaTeX.

You typeset all your lecture notes? I'm not sure this would benefit a student. Something I wish I did when I was in school is download the solutions manuals and work problems. I considered that cheating when I was in school but now I think it is just being time effective.

Are you a Marx Brother? Sheesh.