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- The UI to look as good or better than the UI on Mac OS X. I'm not willing to compromise on looks.

- The library to be cross-platform. I want to deploy the software on Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. I don't care about mobile right now.

- I want it to be possible and easy to (a) develop new features on my own and (b) change existing features. I'd rather reimplement a textbox from scratch if it's the only way to change a control. If this means I need something more like GLib instead of GTK+, so be it.

- I won't use the web. No HTML, no CSS, no Javascript. Sorry.

The end goal is to build the best, easiest UI environment to write software with. If it's not possible to build this with existing UIs and I have to write one from scratch, so be it.

One of the bad things about open-ended growth, growing faster than exponentially, is that open-ended growth eventually leads to collapse.

How do you avoid that? Well, how have we avoided it? We've avoided it by innovation.

There's a theorem you can prove that says that if you demand continuous open growth, you have to have continuous cycles of innovation.

Theory says, sure, you can get out of collapse by innovating, but you have to innovate faster and faster.

The question then is, is this sustainable?

They're not.

Why?

Want to be bitchy? Sure, just pay for it.

I wonder if it'd make a difference if the pen was horizontal in the participant's mouth, touching both corners of the lips. That's the mental image I walked away with when I read "Thinking, Fast and Slow".

The only officially sanctioned stores of the smallpox virus are held at heavily secured facilities at the CDC in Atlanta and at a Russian facility in Siberia. Some researchers contend that the samples should be preserved for use in the development of future vaccines or treatments.

The big result here is the 15,000x speedup compared to a neural network, and which increases as the size of the dataset increases. But this doesn't mean neural networks are worthless. From the paper:

Although deep neural networks have in theory much higher representational power than shallow models, it is not clear if simple text classification problems such as sentiment analysis are the right ones to evaluate them.

Why does this happen?

Many of their most ardent fans are women who grew up with them.

This can't be the only reason. Why do people have such a hard time letting go?

The male Guinea worm dies, but the female worm incubates in a person’s body for a year, where it grows three to five feet long. It forms a horribly painful and itchy blister until it erupts through the flesh of the legs, arms or even chest

I thought the Linux kernel was preemptive. Isn't this enough to configure the kernel to be real-time?

Who wants it?