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The Larch

Quote from: Hamilcar on October 23, 2019, 06:42:37 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:38:41 AM
Ok, different subject then. Are you familiar with HBO's Silicon Valley show? If so, could you imagine yourself on it?

At least some conversations and events have been eerily similar.

:lol:

Can you expand on that?

Grey Fox

Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:26:55 AM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 23, 2019, 06:07:22 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 05:29:11 AM
Good to see you back, Hami. :cheers:

If you're able to talk about it, what is it exactly that your startup do?

I don't want to be too specific. Pretty high tech stuff.

Give us some meaningless buzzwords at least, or the broad sector in which it'd be applied.  :P

Neural networks? Quantum computing? Thingamajigs?

Fucking Neural networks.  :mad:

I do that.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

celedhring

Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:45:03 AM
Quote from: Hamilcar on October 23, 2019, 06:42:37 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:38:41 AM
Ok, different subject then. Are you familiar with HBO's Silicon Valley show? If so, could you imagine yourself on it?

At least some conversations and events have been eerily similar.

:lol:

Can you expand on that?

The business school I work for has used some Silicon Valley clips in class. The business side of it is pretty realistic.

Valmy

Does it involve thera-magnetic wave signatures interacting with parabolic radiation?
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

The Brain

Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 22, 2019, 11:32:40 PM
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VC. It's already plural. You wouldn't say Chineses.

Charlie?

Probably squats in the bush, getting stronger.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

celedhring

Quote from: mongers on September 24, 2019, 05:42:47 AM
Quote from: celedhring on September 24, 2019, 05:27:50 AM
The Spanish Supreme Court has given the green light to moving Franco's remains from his self-built mausoleum to a private graveyard, denying Franco family's appeal.

About time.

Excellent.

Is there a decent amount of time they need to wait before taking jack-hammers to it and bulldozing the rubble?

And off he goes!



I wish they had gone full Dolce Vita and have the coffin being carried outside the helicopter.

Valmy

It is nice to have confirmation that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

grumbler

Quote from: Valmy on October 23, 2019, 10:08:19 AM
Does it involve thera-magnetic wave signatures interacting with parabolic radiation?

Probably more of the "bouncing inverse tachyon beams off the main deflector dish to overcome enemy cloaking device" kinds of stuff.  Boring and old hat, but still profitable.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Valmy

Quote from: grumbler on October 24, 2019, 08:29:00 AM
Quote from: Valmy on October 23, 2019, 10:08:19 AM
Does it involve thera-magnetic wave signatures interacting with parabolic radiation?

Probably more of the "bouncing inverse tachyon beams off the main deflector dish to overcome enemy cloaking device" kinds of stuff.  Boring and old hat, but still profitable.

Ah. Well that makes sense. Sometimes it is best to rely on the basics.
Quote"This is a Russian warship. I propose you lay down arms and surrender to avoid bloodshed & unnecessary victims. Otherwise, you'll be bombed."

Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Josquius

Cutest news ever?

BBC News - Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812
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Malthus

Quote from: Tyr on October 24, 2019, 11:59:45 AM
Cutest news ever?

BBC News - Rats taught to drive tiny cars to lower their stress levels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50167812

Then the scientists cruelly created little rat car traffic jams, sending rat stress levels skyward ...
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Sheilbh

I, for one, am looking forward to rat Falling Down.
Let's bomb Russia!

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: Hamilcar on October 23, 2019, 06:42:37 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:38:41 AM
Ok, different subject then. Are you familiar with HBO's Silicon Valley show? If so, could you imagine yourself on it?

At least some conversations and events have been eerily similar.

That show is a fucking documentary.

Baron von Schtinkenbutt

Quote from: Grey Fox on October 23, 2019, 07:48:55 AM
Quote from: The Larch on October 23, 2019, 06:26:55 AM
Give us some meaningless buzzwords at least, or the broad sector in which it'd be applied.  :P

Neural networks? Quantum computing? Thingamajigs?

Fucking Neural networks.  :mad:

I do that.

Deep learning on a quantum blockchain.

Admiral Yi