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self-selecting group who would join the military

"being there in the moment" = dopamine squirts

13.5 TB - that is pretty huge!

Great to get some truly "Big Data" sets out there. I consider "Big Data" to be data that can't be conventionally processed on a commodity machine, else it's just analytics

Yahoo must be applauded for supplying various data sets and helping progress machine learning research

this paper is 10 years old

is this the same thing as awareness?

> She lives on a farm in Wisconsin and homeschools her sons

More power to her, her professional success has allowed her to pursue her passion. I think the lesson then is that to pursue your passion you first need to earn it.

> Grad school on your resume is a formal announcement of a mistake [if not working in the field]

Success is working forward, and not worrying about or admitting to mistakes

salivating to know what the number is.. enough to retire, apparently

I applaud your nod to empathy

Literature has been shown to increase empathy

There was no literature included in this list (am counting the two SciFi novels as fiction, but not literature)

To anyone looking for an edge, read more literature

> ... I tried to make my students ask constantly: “What does it communicate me?”

I am pretty sure there is a word missing here, but am still letting it sink in, with regards to the rest of the article :)

Great article though that makes a strong point

is that all it's good for?

according to John Martinis, the quantum computing era is coming, but it is a slow and gradual process like most research